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Due to inclement weather, the UrbanGlass studios will close at 5pm on Sunday 2/22 and the Agnes Varis Art Center will be closed for the day.

Grace Whiteside

Visiting Artist

Studio Residency: 2022

Grace Whiteside is a performance artist, glass fabricator, and educator known for orchestrating comedic performances that utilize the amorphous and trans properties of hot glass. Their work dismantles mainstream entertainment platforms, replacing binary consumerism with homoeroticism and queer space. Whiteside currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and has exhibited their work at venues such as MAD Museum, Urban Glass, and The Museum of American Glass. They were also a contestant on the third season of Netflix’s Blown Away.