Press coverage from November 17, 2015 by Simon Slater for DNAinfo New York - Link
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Need some Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or other non-specific holiday gift ideas? Instagrammers and amateur photographers can learn about the origins of lens technology and see a flameworking demonstration in this UrbanGlass collaboration with Prospect Heights education group Brooklyn Brainery.
Press coverage from November 16, 2015 by Allegra Hobbs for The Brooklyn Paper - Link
The Soul Man gets illuminated.
A stained glass artist has enshrined “Shaft” singer Isaac Hayes and other pop culture icons like President Obama and Ricki Lake in a series of old-school portraits, available for inspection and veneration at the UrbanGlass gallery in Fort Greene on Nov. 18. The glass-worker says that he loved giving the historically clerical medium an unexpected modern spin.
Press coverage from November 6, 2015 by Mark Gillespie for Whiskycast - Link
As part of Auchentoshan’s “Art of Auchentoshan” project, a group of whisky writers was given a chance to hand-blow our own whisky glasses at Brooklyn’s UrbanGlass – with supervision!
Press coverage from November 3, 2015 by Hanneke Weitering and Lauren J. Young for ScienceLine - project of nyu's science, health and environmental reporting program - Link
Scientific glassblowers work directly with engineers, chemists and scientists to create everything from solar panels, microscopes and CAT scan machines. In the video below, we visit a troupe of glassblowers at work at UrbanGlass, an open-access art and glassblowing studio.
Press coverage from September 23, 2015 by Barbara Eldredge for Brownstoner - Link
Glass is everywhere in our lives — from eyeglasses to screens to windows — but we’re usually looking through it instead of at it. Not so at UrbanGlass, a glass-obsessed non-profit offering studio space in one of the country’s largest glass-making studios, located at 647 Fulton Street in the heart of Fort Greene’s emerging Cultural District.
Press coverage from May 26, 2015 by Sam Blum for Brooklyn Magazine - Link
Musical instruments aren’t typically made of glass. Glass is the stuff of impending mishaps, of dropped objects that explode and splatter into jagged little shards when someone isn’t careful. But when used in a homespun and improvisational way, glass can lend itself to music–think of the empty jug you blew into as a kid, or the way your Mom’s fine crystal used to ping when you tapped it with chopsticks.
Press coverage from January 28, 2015 by EdLab Studios for New Learning Times - Link
The flick of a striker lights a hot blue flame while the roar of blowtorches resonates through the cavernous workshop.
Press coverage from December 1, 2014 by The Cut for New York Magazine - Link
Neon Classes
At UrbanGlass’s Neon Weekend workshop, students get their Tracey Emin on.
Online and in print.
Press coverage from November 19, 2014 by Rima Suqi for The New York Times - Link
Davide Fuin, a master glassblower on the Venetian island Murano, was not amused to receive a box of plastic water bottles fromManuel Gorkiewicz.
Press coverage from October 8, 2014 by nyc.gov for NYC Careers - Link
The Urban Glass Episode of our Inform-Career Series Has Aired! You can now watch it on NYC Life on Channel 25, in NYC Taxis, and on our Video-on-Demand player.
