Press coverage from September 27, 2022 for Architectural Digest - Link

How a Master Glass Blower Makes Huge Abstract Vases

You may recognize Deborah Czeresko as the winner of season one of Blown Away on Netflix. Today, she lets Arch Digest into her studio for an up-close look at how she fashions molten glass into massive abstract vases. “Glass is very elemental, and some of the tools we use are also very elemental. Heat, water, air, gravity, centrifugal force - a lot of people don't think of those as tools. But they are for the glass maker."

The Flora collection installed at Schloss Hollenegg, as seen in AD Photo: William Jess Laird

Press coverage from September 16, 2022 by Hannah Martin for Architectural Digest - Link

The Wizardry Behind Sophie Lou Jacobsen and In Common With’s Latest Collab

Urban Glass, a 17,000-square-foot glass making facility in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is something of a cave of wonders. Filled with confections in progress—think In Common With pendants, Lindsey Adelman chandeliers, and tableware by Anna Karlin—the site is the birth place of many of Brooklyn’s most loved glass designs. (Emerging talent Dana Arbib, who usually works in Murano, was recently spotted there exploring local production options.)

Press coverage from July 15, 2022 for UrbanGlass

Brooklyn-Based Arts Nonprofit UrbanGlass Announces Newly Instituted Scholarship Fund in Support of Under-Represented Youth Artists

The kick-off contribution of $25,000 by Fred and Susan Sanders will sustain the Studio Futures Scholarship Program and create entry-points for students to explore glassmaking methods in the UrbanGlass studios

Press coverage from April 20, 2022

Brooklyn-Based Nonprofit UrbanGlass Celebrates 25 Years of Cornerstone Program,The Bead Project, with April 27 Celebration

The evening’s festivities will celebrate The Bead Project’s longstanding presence as an artistic and entrepreneurial space for women, femmes, and nonbinary creatives

Press coverage from January 7, 2022

UrbanGlass awarded $10,000 by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)

UrbanGlass announced today their receipt of a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Recovery Fund award totaling $10,000. The grant will be utilized to ensure safety and further COVID-19 protocol within the organization’s studios, offices and gallery spaces.

Press coverage from October 29, 2021 for UrbanGlass

Meet Our New Board Members!

Brooklyn, NY—UrbanGlass announces the addition of three new Board Members: Vinay Adenwala, Rob Cantave, and Olivia Moss.

Press coverage from September 14, 2021 by Emily Watlington for Art in America - Link

How Carly Mandel Blows Up Self Care

Mandel’s current show at UrbanGlass in New York reimagines numerous wellness and home gym products that embody the idea of self-care.

Press coverage from August 21, 2021 for BROOKLYN READER - Link

New Art Installation in BK ‘Reclaims Trauma’ of Private Healthcare System

A new exhibition at Brooklyn’s UrbanGlass has artist Carly Mandel reclaiming the traumas brought on by privatized healthcare and the consumer wellness industry, while looking at how people and objects are medicalized in late capitalism.

Press coverage from June 30, 2021 for New Haven Independent - Link

Nine Awarded NXTHVN Fellowships

Seven artists and two curators have won yearlong fellowships at the Dixwell-based art center NXTHVN.

Press coverage from June 1, 2021 for ICFF - Link

KEEP: Fire & Ice

Adam Holtzinger and Susan Spiranovich are the husband-and-wife team behind Brooklyn-based glassblowing studio KEEP. Both graduates of Cleveland Institute of Art, Holtzinger discovered the art of glass after visiting the school’s glassblowing studio, where he immediately fell in love with the craft. Years later, Spiranovich is also obsessed with the ancient craft, and together they have a team that operates out of UrbanGlass in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

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