2025 Studio Residencies
Exemplifying the spirit of UrbanGlass' mission, the residency fosters experimentation and advances the critical understanding of glass as a creative medium. The program offers three artists a $5,000 budget to be used for scheduled studio rentals and classes, $500 of which may be allocated for materials. At the end of their residency, the artists will present their work, discuss their practice, and connect with the greater UrbanGlass community with an artist-talk or similar public program.
UrbanGlass’ 17,000-square-foot state-of-the-art glass studio offers a complete glassworking studio with a hot shop, cold shop, flameworking studio, neon shop, mold shop, and kiln shop. Residents may make use of any or all of these areas of the studio. Previous residents include Tomoko Abe, Deborah Czeresko, Josefina Muñoz, and Denzel Russell, among many others.
We invite artists to submit proposals this August for a residency that will be completed by the end March 2026. This year's residency will run from October 2025 - March 2026.
Eligibility
- Residents must be able to work independently in glass.
- Artists who work independently or as a collaborative pair (no more than two) are eligible to apply. Collaborative applicants should submit one application and a joint biography and resume that demonstrate a history of collaboration.
- Please note this residency does not include assistants, room and board, or travel.
- Participants cannot be enrolled in a full-time degree-granting program or its equivalent.
- Current UrbanGlass board members, artists who have participated in the UrbanGlass residency or fellowship programs in the last two years are not eligible.
- As part of our continued mission to ensure space for underheard voices and perspectives in the field, we strongly encourage individuals that have not been historically represented in the arts sector to apply.
How to Apply
Please submit your proposal through Zealous
Deadline: Friday, September 19th by 11:59pm est
Required Materials
- Your resume
- A one-page proposal including the nature of the work you would like to create and how your time at UrbanGlass will benefit your career and artistic development
- One image or sketch to aid in understanding your new proposed work
- Five examples of previously made work; images, video or sound files can be submitted. For time based work, edit to a max of 2 mins per file.
You will submit a total of 8 files.
Judging Criteria and Notification
Applicants will be chosen on the basis of past work and on a new project as described in their proposal. An outside jury, consisting of experts in the field of art and design, will review all applicants through the online platform and then meet virtually to select the finalists.
Applicants will be notified by September 30th.
For further questions, please email Kate Dowd at kate@urbanglass.org.
