Tuesday June 10, 2025 | by Andrew Page

UrbanGlass welcomes new director of development Haley Andres

UrbanGlass has announced that Haley Andres (she/her/hers) has rejoined the organization as director of development (she previously had been on staff from 2017–18). Among her goals will be deepening the arts nonprofit's relationships with donors while also pursuing new funding opportunities through foundations as well as corporate and local/state government partnerships. Andres told the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet she plans to focus on diversifying and growing UrbanGlass's contributed revenue streams to support the Brooklyn non-profit's various programs, which include publishing, small business development, science and technology, youth education, women's economic empowerment, material studies, and other activities at the intersection of art, design, and craft. (UrbanGlass publishes Glass Quarterly magazine and the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet).

Sunday June 8, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Recording of the Summer 2025 edition of "Glass Quarterly LIVE" now available for streaming

Thursday June 5, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Glass Quarterly LIVE debuts June 6th with an in-depth Zoom interview with Bri Chesler, whose work is on the cover of the Summer issue

Glass Quarterly LIVE is a new way to experience the in-depth feature articles, incisive reviews, and back-page essays only available to subscribers to Glass Quarterly. Join editor Andrew Page and Glass contributor Ellye Sevier for a video podcast about the just-published Summer 2025 issue of Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#179). The first edition of our new video podcast will feature a live discussion with this issue's featured artist, Bri Chesler, whose mixed-media installations have transfixed the Seattle glass community with works that celebrate sensuality and the body, while never losing sight of the complexities that accompany intimate relationships.

William Morris, Raven with Skull, 1998. Hand-blown and sculpted glass, steel base. H 17 7/8, W 16 1/2, D 8 in. courtesy: rago arts

Thursday May 15, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Notable works by William Morris, Preston Singletary, Lino Tagliapietra, Yoichi Ohira, and Toots Zynsky coming up for auction

Artwork is something a collector never completely owns. Instead, they are all temporary stewards, that is, until time or circumstance necessitate a changing of the guard, so to speak, and it gets passed on to a new owner. On Friday, May 16th, a number of important works will be moving from carefully assembled glass collections displayed for years in Utah, North Carolina, and Connecticut, to new homes, which will be determined in Lambertville, New Jersey. There, on Friday, May 16th, at the Main Street location of Rago Auctions, over 100 works will go up for auction, among them a number of rare examples from some of the most important artists working in glass from names like Morris, Tagliapietra, Vallien, Ohira, Zynsky,and Chihuly.

Swan wine glass. Charlie Larouche-Potvin. Blown glass. H 9.5, D 2.5 in.

Wednesday April 30, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Applications now open for the 2025 RBC Award for Glass, which recognizes emerging talent in Canada

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 RBC Award, presented annually by the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery to an emerging glass artist in Canada. The criteria allows for any province and for a variety of disciplines, from blown to stained glass, but an emphasis is placed on the winner's status as an emerging artist and not as an established creator. The RBC Foundation, which supports the CC&GG in bestowing this award, donates large sums of money each year to not only craft art endeavors but a number of artistic fields including literature and theater.

Thursday April 17, 2025 | by Sponsored Content

The UrbanGlass Spring Gala on May 5th honors artist Layo Bright, auctioneers David Rago and Suzanne Perrault

At 6 PM on Monday, May 5, 2025, guests will begin arriving at the first-floor Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn. This nonprofit arts center sits at the epicenter of a major arts hub of New York, with gleaming new high-rise residential buildings springing up in all directions as the neighborhood attracts legions of new residents drawn by all the buzz, but UrbanGlass has been at this location since the early 1990s as an outpost for glass art in the cultural capital of the U.S.

Exterior of recently expanded Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Thursday April 10, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

HELP WANTED: Corning Studio seeks Programs Manager

The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York is seeking a new programs manager for the recently renovated and expanded art-making space. The former programs director, Megan Mathie Jack, is leaving to pursue another opportunity after 7 years in the position, according to the Studio’s director Amy Schwartz.

Karol Wight, president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, plans to retire once her successor has been found. courtesy: corning museum of glass

Thursday April 3, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

Corning Museum of Glass executive director and president Karol Wight announces plan to retire when successor found

Karol Wight, the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass since 2011, announced on April 2nd that she is planning to retire once a successor has been found. The Corning Board of Trustees is undertaking an international search, according to the museum's official announcement of imminent changes at the top of the museum acknowledged to hold the largest collection of glass in the world.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for … David Schnuckel

Artist, educator, and associate professor of glass at the Rochester Institute of Technology, David Schnuckel brings a unique work ethic, upbeat energy, and dedicated fastidiousness to most of the things he does. Be it a slide deck at a conference or an art project, there’s usually more time, energy, and work invested than what might have been required (and you might have expected). His solo exhibition at the Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts, set to open tomorrow, April 3, seems to be no exception. To find out more about this still event that seems to be still taking shape (the opening reception is planned for sometime in June, and the exhibition is running until the end of 2025), the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet reached to Schnuckel with three questions to help shed more light on this project.

Formose (Formosa) Vase, designed by René Lalique (French, 1860–1945), made by Lalique et Cie, in France, designed in 1924. Gift of Elaine and Stanford Steppa. 2011.3.430.

Friday March 28, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

EXHIBITION: Tracing the evolution of glass color chemistry across the centuries

When Corning Museum of Glass curator Amy McHugh first walked through the Museum’s ongoing exhibition "35 Centuries of Glass," she expected to see changes in what colors could be achieved in glass as technology and knowledge expanded. As the years progressed, aesthetics and designs varied, as did coloring, but a pronounced shift in color around the late 19th century was enough to give her pause. Why were the colors suddenly so vivid? Why did they look so different from what had preceded them? A deep dive into Corning’s collections resulted in the upcoming exhibition, "Brilliant Color," an attempt to showcase the creative techniques of the golden age of glassmaking. Four curatorial groupings, ranging from “Spectrum of Color” to “Color Today,” invite visitors to view wall displays and interact with a variety of color techniques as they gain a new appreciation for the historical experimentation that brought us the vibrant hues we come to expect today.

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