Thursday October 16, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Corning Museum of Glass taps Cornell University art museum director to become its next executive director and president

Jessica Levin Martinez, currently serving as the director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, has been officially announced as the next president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass. Martinez will take over from Corning's Karol Wight, who announced her retirement in April 2025. Martinez's start date at Corning, February 2, 2026, gives her several weeks of overlap with Wight to help her get up to speed.

Tuesday October 7, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Alexander Rosenberg on his move from WheatonArts to the newly-built Glass Center at the University of California San Diego

In 2022, when Alexander Rosenberg was named as the new director of the WheatonArts Glass Studio, he came on just as the Millville, New Jersey, art center was reopening after COVID-19, and he helped lead a reset for this important outpost for creative glass within a couple hours drive from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. This past Saturday, October 4, Rosenberg ended his New Jersey chapter as he bid adieu to WheatonArts, heading west to the newly built Glass Center at the University of California, San Diego, where again he will be tasked with leading a glass program as it ramps up. WheatonArts executive director Susan Gogan told the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet the organization "has been extremely fortunate to have worked with Alex over the past four years," and credits his "tremendous spirit of collaboration and positive leadership" as keys to his effectiveness. Glass also reached out to Alex, himself, for more details about both his previous and upcoming positions.

Jessica Jane Julius (far left) and Erica Rosenfeld (far right) with their "Cocktail Table" installation at an early Burnt Asphalt performance.

Tuesday September 23, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius discuss how their sold-out "madeline moment" takes the Burnt Asphalt Family into new terrain

Is it a dinner party, performance art event, or interactive art exhibition? The 5-course food event titled A Madeleine Moment is all of the above. Referencing the way a culinary experience can trigger vivid childhood memories, as Marcel Proust described in the novel Remembrance of Things Past, the event is just the latest in a long line of Burnt Asphalt Family performance-art happenings. It blurs the lines between performer and audience, art and food, and ultimately seeks to erase the boundary between art and life, itself. Among the few things one can say for sure about the proceedings set to take place at the Agnes Varis Art Center this coming Saturday, September 27, is that it is curated by longtime collaborators Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius, supports the Brooklyn arts non-profit UrbanGlass, and will involve a large community of creative friends. It will also exhibit artwork by artists such as Jen Monroe aka Bad Taste, Deborah Czeresko, Einar and Jamex De la Torre, Andrea Dezsö, Cedric Mitchell, Leo Tecosky, Jessica Tsai, among many others. After the opening, the exhibition will remain on view through November 8, 2025. (One more detail: tickets are completely sold out though Rosenfeld and Julius will return at the end of the exhibition in early November for a closing event that will be part of the UrbanGlass Academic Symposium, and open to all attendees of that three-day event.)

Thursday September 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

In a down market for art, Rago readies for "world-class offering" in auction that brings together three notable private collections

While its main activities take place at its headquarters in Lambertville, New Jersey, Rago Auctions also maintains a showroom in Chelsea, one of Manhattan's most important art gallery neighborhoods. Considering its prime location, the first-floor gallery at 501 W 20th Street is usually dedicated to high-profile paintings or contemporary photography, but recently it has also been showcasing its Contemporary Glass Sale coming up on September 19th, which partner Suzanne Perrault says is an indication of the work's importance.

Friday August 29, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Glass Quarterly LIVE (September 5, 2 PM EST) will take a deep dive into the just-released Fall 2025 (#180) edition

Join the Fall 2025 edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE (via Zoom on September 5th, at 2 pm EST) where we will take a deep dive into the chalk drawings of Walter Lieberman. These colorful artworks do more than diagram the complex techniques being used in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop, where he is a beloved emcee.

Walter Lieberman Russell Johnson Martin Janecky

Walter Lieberman draws an elaborate chalk image on the floor of the Museum of Glass hotshop during a Martin Janecky residency making work inspired by the Day of the Dead. photo: russell johnson

Wednesday August 27, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Walter Lieberman on his Museum of Glass chalk drawings featured in the Fall edition of Glass (#180)

Walter Lieberman has always loved to draw. Though he initially decided to study tech at university, art would prove to be his calling. After a friend showed him the glassblowing process, Walter left Carnegie Mellon and his plans for a computer-studies degree to study under Dan Dailey at Mass Art. His mother's graduation gift of a Pilchuck summer course in 1978 sparked a connection to the glass school and the dynamic community of the Pacific Northwest. Though he grew up in New York City, Walter settled in Seattle, where he became a fixture in the glass scene, supporting himself by selling his artwork, and enjoying regular exhibitions at Traver and other galleries for his own work and his frequent collaborations with Dick Weiss.

John Kiley, Crystal Horizon, 2025. Optic glass. H 10 1/2, W 25, D 11 in. courtesy: traver gallery, seattle

Sunday August 3, 2025 | by Oscar Bembury

John Kiley moves his evolving language of broken glass forward with his latest exhibition: "Horizons" at Traver

Artist John Kiley has made a career out of intervening in the geometry of glass sculptures, whether with cold-shop tools to cut away sections of blown vessels, or with blunt force to fracture it, and then rebuild it, always with great precision to detail and innovative creative processes.

Friday July 11, 2025 | by Oscar Bembury

Coming off strong gala fundraising results, GlassRoots is hopeful expansion plans can finally move forward

Since 2001, GlassRoots has been working with underserved teens and young adults to offer skills training in glassmaking and business development in the Newark, New Jersey, area. The nonprofit art center has faced hardships in the past with a long-delayed building expansion and a series of executive directors. The April 13, 2025, passing of Dena Lowenbach, the nonprofit's longtime champion, board chair, and Lifetime Trustee (an honorific title given to honor her life-long commitment to to serve on the organization's board), has been an especially difficult challenge to this organization dedicated to uplifting youth. Against this backdrop, it was uncertain how the organization's annual GlassBall would fare, but the successful June 5th event could signal a turning point for GlassRoots and its current management team, which is led by executive director Carol Losos, who, together with the GlassRoots Board of Trustees, oversees the nonprofit through strategic leadership.

Brian Clarke in his Studio. photo of Brian Clarke in 2007

Friday July 11, 2025 | by Oscar Bembury

IN MEMORIAM: Brian Clarke (1953 - 2025)

Sir Brian Clarke, the fearless stained-glass artist who was always looking for new ways to incorporate emerging technology in his ground-breaking work, passed away July 1, 2025. Born on July 2nd 1953, in Oldham Lancashire England, Clarke showed his talent for stained-glass early, completing his first major commission of 20 windows for the Church of St. Lawrence in Longridge, at the tender age of 22. He also developed a colorful public profile in the London art and fashion scene, once described by The Daily Telegraph as "the rock star of stained-glass" for his frequent appearances in the gossip pages of newspapers.

Monday June 30, 2025 | by Oscar Bembury

The Fuller Craft Museum welcomes Jennifer Chrzanowski as its next executive director

On July 1, 2025, a new executive director will take the reins at The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. When Jennifer Chrzanowski takes over from interim director Beth McLaughlin, she will arrive with expectations of bringing her fundraising prowess with her. In her previous role as deputy director of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, she helped to manage a $1.7M operating budget, $7.4M endowment, 24,000 square-foot building, and 1,700 object collection. Among her accomplishments at the AAM, which describes itself as "the cultural hub of the Eastern Shore for art, music, and educational programming," Chrzanowski launched a successful 3-day craft show. In addition to this she helped AAM grow its social-media presence, achieved record-breaking fundraising results, and more than doubled exhibition funding through key partnerships. (Charlotte Potter Kasic, known to Glass readers for her tenure at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio and Barry Art Museum, was named director of AAM in September of 2024).

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