Peter Bowles awarded the 2025 Tom Malone Glass Prize

Australian glassblower Peter Bowles has been awarded the 2025 Tom Malone Glass Art Prize. The 23-year-old annual award recognizes the most important work in glass by an Australian artist. As part of the prize, Bowles's work is on exhibit through April 6, 2026, at Linton & Kay Galleries location in Cottesloe, Australia, along with the other 23 short-listed artists. Bowles has been a frequent finalist for major glass prizes, and he currently lives and works from his studio in Northern Tasmania. The longest-running Australian contemporary art prize that includes buying the work, the Tom Malone Glass Art Prize provides $20,000 (roughly $14,000 in USD) as well as the exhibition of the winning artwork first at Linton & Kay before moving into its final home at a state art institution.

Friday March 6, 2026 | by Andrew Page

CALL FOR ENTRIES: University museum seeks applicants for a juried exhibition of artwork involving light and translucency

"To See Through" is the title of a brand-new national juried exhibition curated by Katherine Gray. It explores light, translucency, and "all the ways we look beyond the surface," she says. Widely known as the "resident evaluator" of five seasons of Netflix's Blown Away reality program, Gray is chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of California, San Bernadino, and interim co-director of the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA), which opened in 1996 and has become an important cultural landmark in the region, known for its extensive holdings of Egyptian antiquities.

Tuesday March 3, 2026 | by Andrew Page

Hot off the Presses: The Spring 2026 edition of Glass (#182)

A luscious nebula of colors—pale tangerine, soft celadon, diffuse chartreuse, and intense purple—radiates off the cover of the just-published Spring edition of Glass. This chromatic universe is actually a close-up photo of a glass sheet handmade by glassblowing virtuoso Elliot Walker, who took top honors in the second season of the Netflix reality show Blown Away in 2021. Walker has been busy building his business in the years since, but a recent fascination with artisanal hand-made sheet glass was sparked by his discovery the skill had been deemed "extinct" in his native England. As the author of the cover article, Sahana Ramakrishnan, discovered in researching the article, Walker is just one of many top glass artists who have been exploring the fabrication of their own sheet glass, and she includes interviews with David King, Jocelyne Prince, Liesl Schubel, and Romina Gonzales.

Thursday January 22, 2026 | by Andrew Page

The latest Glass Quarterly LIVE!, with Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, is now available

In the latest episode of Glass Quarterly LIVE!, available on YouTube and Spotify , Glass Quarterly editor Andrew Page leads an in-depth discussion of the Adele and Leonard Leight Residency and exhibition at the Speed Museum with its first-ever recipient, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, along with the author of the feature article about the project, William V. Ganis, on the sixth edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE!

Thursday January 15, 2026 | by Andrew Page

Corey Pemberton and Norwood Viviano share their thoughts at being named 2026 United States Artists Fellows

Artists Corey Pemberton and Norwood Viviano were both named as 2026 United States Artist Fellows. The award provides an unrestricted grant of $50,000, as well as a range of services such as financial planning and legal advice. Each year, an anonymous nomination process is conducted, polling a selected group of "arts professionals"in a process that produces a list, which is then reviewed by 30 panelists in a process that develops a list of finalists. The final step is approval by the Board of Trustees.

A 2018 photo of Vaclav Cigler

Tuesday January 13, 2026 | by Andrew Page

IN MEMORIAM: Václav Cigler (1929–2026)

The family of Václav Cigler have announced the acclaimed Czech artist passed away on January 8, 2026. He died in Prague at the age of 96 after a career of exploring pure geometry and light using the optical clarity of glass in an approach that influenced generations of artists.

Thursday December 4, 2025 | by Andrew Page

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: The WInter 2025 edition of Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#181)

A triangle of crimson orange glass meets a vertical rectangle of pale emerald, which, when you look closer, you realize also features bisecting layers of clear glass, adding to the geometric complexity. There's a reflection, but you can also see through the different layers of glass. The time it takes to figure out what you're looking at in the detail of Larry Bell's 2025 Cantaloupe but Honeydew on the cover of the Winter 2025 edition of Glass is the point. Much, if not all of Larry Bell's glass sculpture is concerned with light, space, and perception. In this issue's cover article, Bell shares his journey from dropping out of art school to discovering the power of glass while working in a frame shop, to becoming one of the most important American artists and a pioneer of the Light and Space Movement. For quite possibly the first time, Bell shares the details of his discovery of the multi-dimensional interactions of glass and light, as well as his journey to mastering thin-film coatings and how he embraced this industrial technology to create artworks that interacted with light in ways the art world had never seen.

Friday November 28, 2025 | by Andrew Page

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: The Glass Quarterly Holiday Bundle is the perfect gift for the season—and all of 2026!

For a limited time only, Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly is offering a holiday bundle that is the gift that keeps on giving, literally.

Sunday November 23, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Applying to the next New Glass Review? Don't miss our must-watch in-depth interview with New Glass Review editor and curator Tami Landis for pro tips on how to improve your chances.

Each year The Corning Museum of Glass receives approximately 1,000 submissions from 50 countries around the world from artists aspiring to be selected for New Glass Review, the annual exhibition-in-print that has been continuously in print since 1980. Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass Tami Landis was featured on the fourth edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE!, a recording of which is available for viewing at our YouTube video podcast page. In the hour-long episode, Landis discussed the origin story, history, and latest edition of New Glass Review. She also answered questions about how applicants hoping to be included in the 2026 edition, New Glass Review #46, can put their best foot forward.

Tuesday November 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Some facing a total loss of artwork and tools in massive Brooklyn studio fire, glass artists vow to persevere

The first calls to the fire department came in just before midnight on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Soon after, urgent texts about the blaze rocketed among the dozens of artists who had studios in the 19th-century warehouse building at 481 Van Brunt Street in the waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Here, in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S., rare affordable rents had made the building a destination for glass artists as well as woodworkers, furniture designers, and painters, who often subdivided their spaces, creating a communal space for art in all media.After a sleepless night of worry, artist and educator Dean Erdmann and their partner, Grace Whiteside, arrived to a chaotic scene at 7 a.m. As they made their way past the fire and police lines, Erdmann and Whiteside were stunned to see a fireboat pumping a massive plume of water onto the roof, which had partially collapsed onto their shared Sticky Glass studio space on the fourth floor. Even more devastating than losing the tools and studio space they had occupied for the past three years was the total loss of completed work destined for three important exhibitions in 2026 and 2027.

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