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Paul Stankard photographed at WheatonArts, where he was honored for his 80th birthday in 2023. photo: andrew page

Wednesday October 7, 2026 | by Andrew Page

In Memoriam: Paul Stankard (1943 – 2026)

Master glass artist Paul Stankard passed away on the morning of Tuesday, October 6, 2026, surrounded by family at his Mantua, New Jersey, home tucked away on several wooded acres. Just next door stands the modest studio building where Stankard spent more than half a century redefining the American botanical sculpture, crafting startlingly lifelike flowers from flameworked glass, then encasing them in various clear glass forms ranging from orbs to standing rectangles. Where the paperweight historically had been a production item, Stankard took a different approach, making one-of-a-kind depictions of American wildflowers, complete with roots and accompanied by berries, insects, and nuts. These variations came later in his long and productive career, which began after he started experimenting with creative expression in flameworked glass, eventually leaving his first career as a scientific glassblower behind in 1972 to work exclusively on his artwork.

An undated portrait of Paul Marioni. photo: kim zumwalt

Friday July 24, 2026 | by Andrew Page

IN MEMORIAM: Paul Marioni (1941–2026)

Paul Marioni, one of three brothers with successful art careers, died at his home in Central Mexico at the age of 85. The father of Marina and Dante Marioni, he was born in 1941 and graduated in 1967 with a degree in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati before moving to the Bay Area when it was the center of a countercultural shift in the late 1960s. A pioneering artist working in glass, Marioni's aesthetic was shaped by everything from the personal meditations of the Beat poets, who originally drew him to San Francisco, to the earthy forms and tactile textures of the California Funk Movement in ceramics.

UrbanGlass Executive Director Katya Heller at the 2025 gala.

Tuesday May 12, 2026 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Katya Heller on how the May 19, 2026, UrbanGlass Gala will be both familiar and brand-new

The fundraising gala is to arts nonprofits as water is to plants—without it, they wither. In a capital of arts and culture like New York City, galas happen almost every night of the week, so there is no shortage of competition driving nonprofits to come up with new ideas of how to attract new supporters while keeping loyal gala goers happy at their annual celebrations of their favorite philanthropies. This is one reason why UrbanGlass is changing some things up for 2026, such as moving the seated dinner into the glass studio, itself, which has been the site of lively after parties and glass demonstrations. To find out more about what's in store for those lucky enough to have acquired a ticket to the May 19th event, the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with UrbanGlass Executive Director Katya Heller.

Tuesday April 14, 2026 | by Andrew Page

In Memoriam: Paul Gumbinner (1942–2026)

The chair of the UrbanGlass board from 2001–2005, Paul Gumbinner died at his home in New York City on April 3, 2026, surrounded by his wife, Amye Price Gumbinner, and his children Liz and Jeff. A father and a husband, Gumbinner was also a glass collector, an ad-man, and a recruiter of advertising talent. He was active in the New York City-based Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group. Fellow glass collector Fred Sanders credits Gumbinner for recruiting him to the UrbanGlass board after the two met at the collector's group.

Lino Tagliapietra poses with the gold-medalist Italian skater Arianna Fontana, the most decorated Italian female athlete with 13 medals to her name, and the "Drop of Fire" vessel he made for the Olympic flame.

Tuesday April 7, 2026 | by Andrew Page

The story behind Lino's Olympic Torch project

When the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies took place last month at the 2,000-year-old Verona Arena, Italian culture was on prominent display alongside the athletes from around the world. Appropriate for the city Shakespeare chose as the location for Romeo and Juliet, the ceremony included Italian ballet, Italian opera, and, for the symbolic carrying of the flame, an Italian glass vessel artfully designed and hand-blown by the most famous Italian glassblower in the world,

Friday March 13, 2026 | by Andrew Page

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.

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