We offer many ways to become involved with UrbanGlass through fellowships, scholarships, internships, employment and volunteer opportunities, and open calls for artwork for exhibition and display in our store. Please visit this page often for current opportunities, or subscribe to our email newsletter at the bottom of the page.
UrbanGlass offers scholarships to support merit and need based access to our classes.
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UrbanGlass instructors bring knowledge and expertise to our students, sharing a passion for creative expression in glass.
We are currently accepting proposals for week-long intensive classes, taking place each year in January, July, and August.
UrbanGlass is seeking a part time assistant in the Agnes Varis Art Center (AVAC) to help maintain and support our programming in this storefront and gallery space. AVAC is seeking individuals with flexibility to help cover shifts.
The Bead Project is a unique scholarship program designed for economically disadvantaged women, femmes, and gender non-conforming individuals in New York City to learn the art of glass beadmaking while gaining an education in entrepreneurship. Over 10 weeks, scholarship recipients take part in both studio and classroom coursework where they develop skills in a variety of glass bead techniques, jewelry fabrication and design, product marketing, and practical strategies for launching a successful small business.
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Present your designs to sell at the UrbanGlass Store during our Open Call for New Products!
We are seeking handmade products that reflect the creative, glass community of Brooklyn and beyond. Each submission will be reviewed by a panel of art, design and retail professionals.
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The UrbanGlass Visiting Artist and Designer Fellowship provides four artists or designers the opportunity to develop a new body of work using the medium of glass. To explore the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium, fellows will have access to the UrbanGlass studios, technical support and instruction, as well as a budget to cover material costs.
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Exemplifying the spirit of UrbanGlass' mission, the residency fosters experimentation and advances the critical understanding of glass as a creative medium.
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Studio Futures: The UrbanGlass Scholarship Fund aims to foster diverse voices in the field of glass art. The fund supports full scholarships for BIPOC identifying students ages 15-24 who want to learn glassmaking processes and build skills to use in their art practice moving forward. Recipients will explore glass techniques of their choice through classes and individual studio time. The scholarship program will run from September 2023 to August 2024.
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The Window Gallery space consists of the western-facing windows in the Agnes Varis Art Center-- the triangular window space on the corner of Rockwell and Fulton and the large windows that are parallel to Rockwell Place.
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Attention glass educators, scholars, artists and designers! UrbanGlass is seeking proposals for the 2023 UrbanGlass Academic Symposium.
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