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Caroline Woolard

Press coverage from July 21, 2017 by Producer: Nick Ravich. Director: Nick Ravich. for Art21 - Link

Caroline Woolard’s Floating Possibility

What if the ocean was your studio? Artist Caroline Woolard and a group of collaborators embark on Carried on Both Sides, a research-based sculptural project that reimagines the past and future of a once ubiquitous object, the Roman amphora.

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Amy Lemaire History Of The Present Moment

Press coverage from July 12, 2017 by Alina Cohen for Gallerie Magazine - Link

See Inside this Legendary Glassmaking Studio

In the 1980s, New York glassblowers befriended the mafia. At least, that’s the story UrbanGlass executive director Cybele Maylone heard at the organization’s 40th anniversary benefit in May. The founders initially established the glass studio (originally called the New York Experimental Glass Workshop) on Great Jones Street in 1977.

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Aaron Pexa The Spoils Of Annwn

Press coverage from May 22, 2017 by MICHAEL ANTHONY FARLEY for Art F City - Link

This Week’s Must-See Art Events

This week you’re in for a weird ride. From Aaron Pexa’s installation inspired by faeries from Welsh mythology (opening Wednesday at UrbanGlass) to a show of fake John Waters memorabilia Thursday night at La MaMa, there’s a lot of idiosyncratic happenings to partake in. 

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Press coverage from May 18, 2017 by Cultured Magazine for Cultured Magazine

URBANGLASS’ 40TH ANNIVERSARY

On May 16th, UrbanGlass marked its 40th anniversary at its annual Gala and Auction, held at their building in Ft Greene, Brooklyn. A celebration of this important milestone, the evening also honored the contributions of artist Thaddeus Wolfe and gallerists Katya and Doug Heller to the organization and field at large.

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Urban Glass Brooklyn Jeffrey Beers Daniel Trupiano

Press coverage from April 10, 2017 by Annie Block, Zoe Kaplan, Athena Waligore for Interior Design - Link

UrbanGlass Counts Four Decades as a Thriving NYC Workshop

It was 1977 when three art-school graduates, Erik Erikson, Joe Upham, and Richard Yelle, transported a glassblowing furnace in the back of a car to a downtown New York warehouse, thereby launching the first artist-access glass center in the U.S. 

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