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.

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.

Thursday March 27, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Sarah Traver on leaving Downtown Seattle for Traver Gallery's new waterfront location

If these walls could talk, they'd speak of the buzz of some of Lino Tagliapietra's biggest exhibition openings here, as well as the anxious anticipation at some of the Northwest Coast debuts of artists such as Martin Blank, Sonja Blomdahl, Dante Marioni, and Preston Singletary. After 32 years and hosting over 100 exhibition openings, the second-floor space overlooking Union and First Avenue stands eerily empty. At an intimate farewell party, the Traver Gallery's founder William Traver poured champagne while the staff gathered to toast this Downtown Seattle location where glass art had been elevated (literally and figuratively) for more than three decades.

Rago/Wright partner Suzanne Perrault. photo: bernard cortet

Tuesday February 4, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Suzanne Perrault on the state of the secondary market for contemporary glass

Since Rago/Wright formed a network with other auction houses such as Toomey & Co.and LA Modern, Rago partner Suzanne Perrault has seen a major increase in the volume and quality of glass art that she can gather to put up for auction. This is one reason that glass is no longer sold as a subset within marathon two-day design auctions, but has been given its own dedicated auctions, such as the one coming up on February 6, which will feature work from the collections of Dale and Doug Anderson, Morton and Rhea Mandell, and Mimi Livingston. The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet spoke with Perrault about the decision to reschedule the upcoming sale, which had originally been announced as taking place in January, and asked for her observations of the glass field.

An informal photo Ginny Ruffner shared with Glass Quarterly in 2020.

Friday January 24, 2025 | by Andrew Page

IN MEMORIAM: Ginny Ruffner (1952 - 2025)

Ginny Ruffner, whose exuberant embrace of art, technology, and the power of imagination defined a life of overcoming obstacles and expanding the possibilities of expression through glass art, died at the age of 72 at her Seattle home earlier this week. Ruffner studied drawing and painting at both the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Georgia (BFA 1974, MFA 1975), where she became intrigued by glass as an art medium after encountering Marcel Duchamp's paint-on-glass work Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (1915) in an art history class.

Friday January 17, 2025 | by Andrew Page

IN MEMORIAM: Zora Palová (1947-2025)

Leading Slovakian glass artist Zora Palová died on January 11, 2025, at the age of 77. Born in Bratislava when it was part of Czechoslovakia, Palová studied with Václav Cigler in the architectural glass program he led at the Academy of Fine Arts. There she would meet her husband, fellow student Štěpán Pala, with whom she had three sons.

Jacob Patrick, the founder of Amalgamation Pictures in Los Angeles, served as director, producer, and cinematographer of SONO LINO. photo: ivan lizarde

Friday October 18, 2024 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: The director and producer of "SONO LINO" shares his fresh take on Maestro Tagaliapietra

The New York premiere of SONO LINO ("I am Lino") is scheduled for this coming Sunday, October 20th, as part of the Chelsea Film Festival, and, if you think it's one more love letter to the genius of the maestro, you might be surprised. The filmmaker, Jacob Patrick, is not a veteran documentary maker about glass, but instead is a wide-ranging producer, director, and cinematographer, who brings a fresh perspective to his subject. Sono Lino is not another compendium of luscious shots of colorful sculpted forms emerging from the smoke and fire of the hot shop, though there are plenty of artful compositions of Lino in action. But at its heart, the film is a character study, an investigation into who Lino is, and engages how he has impacted so many lives around him. Of course, any film about someone as skilled and visionary as Lino would have to explore his level of finesse and skill, and there are plenty of gorgeously composed shots at the bench, but it's the interplay of personalities that most interested Patrick. The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with the filmmaker to discuss this project a couple of days before its New York debut.

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