Press coverage from September 12, 2014 by Jeremy Winograd for Time Out New York - Link
The coolest classes in NYC
Ready to get schooled? New York City offers classes in every topic that you can think of—and a few you can't.
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Press coverage from June 17, 2014 for Cooper Hewitt - Link
Design Dictionary: Glassblowing
See how glassblowing works in this short video. Partner glassblowers Romina Gonzales and Edison Zapata demonstrate how to blow a simple drinking cup. They are working in the new studios at UrbanGlass, in Brooklyn.
Press coverage from May 17, 2014 by New Museum for New Museum on Tumblr - Link
David Horvitz’s “Gnonoms”
David Horvitz’s most recent untitled project, on view as part of “Gnonoms,” consists of a number of hand-blown glass objects. Traveling to numerous beaches in and around New York, Horvitz collected small pieces of sea glass. Though difficult to remelt because of the difference in densities and fast congealing when hand-blown, the amazing folks at UrbanGlass (big thanks to Slate and Isaac!) helped to create a number of new pieces.
Press coverage from May 5, 2014 by The Wall Street Journal for The Wall Street Journal
Italian Glass Artist Celebrates 80 Years With a Demo and New Gallery Show
Press coverage from April 30, 2014 by Anne Hellman for Design Brooklyn - Link
Mary Wallis at UrbanGlass: Sculpting in Neon
The Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Fort Greene has put forth a beautifully concise exhibit focused on the role glass plays in lighting. “Illuminate: Design in Light” features nine New York-based designers, including three featured in Design Brooklyn (Mary Wallis, Bec Brittain, and Jason Miller). The designers in the show have either created glass pieces in the UrbanGlass studio or have had elements of their designs fabricated there. For Mary Wallis, UrbanGlass was where she first learned how to bend neon.
Press coverage from April 18, 2014 by Anne Miller for Ozy - Link
Gaga for Glassblowing
How to cook dinner, the Burnt Asphalt Family Way: Prep the molten glass. Set a lot of things on fire. Try not to burn the place down. Eat.
Back in 2007, glass artists awarded fellowships to the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in New Jersey brainstormed a performance piece using glass to cook a turkey. Since that retreat, dinner performances with anywhere from 20 to 40 artists have scorched live audiences around the country...
Press coverage from April 10, 2014 by Time Out editors for Time Out New York - Link
Would you take a class in Miley Cyrus? We round up NYC’s most ridiculous (but more useful) courses
Yes, New Yorkers, you can now take a class in Miley Cyrus. Wait—not literally. As in, a class about her,at Skidmore College. Pointless? Quite probably. But it’s pretty on-point compared to some of the courses we’ve seen on offer in the city. Try a gift-basket workshop for size (“Contact us today to schedule an intensive 1:1 learning experience”), or how about an eye-gazing party? It’s not all niche nonsense, however. We’ve rounded up a handful of venues that offer weird but useful courses, for all you intrepid learners (or bored freelancers). Here are our faves.
Press coverage from January 30, 2014 by Monica Khemsurov for Sight Unseen - Link
Exerpt: Exhibition, Constantin Boym at UrbanGlass
For anyone like us who “grew up,” professionally speaking, in the New York design world in the last few decades, it was always with a sense of awarenessof and deference to the scene’s elder statesmen. Constantin and Laurene Boym, for example, set up Boym Partners back in 1986, and by the time we started circulating in 2005, they still felt markedly omnipresent, both critically and physically speaking. We suppose that’s why it felt so surprising when these New York stalwarts up and left town in 2010, after Constantin accepted a two-year tenure as director of graduate design studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. They disappeared from New York design events, parties, exhibitions, and talks, only occasionally sending dispatches to their mailing list about life on the other side of the globe.
They returned to New York a year ago, but we hadn’t really heard from them until now — with the launch of Constantin’s new exhibition at Brooklyn’s UrbanGlass, “Learning From the East,” which opens this Saturday. There, he’ll exhibit a series of gorgeous Pyrex incense burners he created based on the ones he discovered and collected throughout his time in the Middle East, merging his New York practice with the ideas he brought back from his time abroad. We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Constantin about the project, from his discovery of the incense burners to whether his future work will continue to bear a Middle Eastern imprint. Read on below.
Press coverage from December 13, 2013 by Janet Upadhye for DNAInfo.com - Link
Bloomberg’s Drinking Cup Joins Others to Shape Glass Tree Exhibit
FORT GREENE — Glass-blowing studio UrbanGlass' new exhibit, "A Tree Grows," by glass artist Katherine Gray, includes a host of stained green and brown glass cups donated by people including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
Press coverage from December 10, 2013 by Barclay's Center TV for Barclay's Center - Link
Where Brooklyn At: UrbanGlass
BCTV takes a tour of UrbanGlass on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. A beautifully renovated space that offers an innovative studio, classes and an art center dedicated to furthering the use of glass as a creative medium.