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Julianne Swartz, Sound Vessel, 2015
2023 Studio Resident
Since 2004 Sarah Vaughn has used glass to create sculptures and installations that pause to consider pivotal moments, the blurred line between reality and memory, and the precarious balance maintained throughout life.
2023 Studio Resident
Aullar is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with Pâte de Verre glass to examine and honor their non-binary, trans identity. Originally a painter, Aullar incorporates a brushed visual to their work with the intentional layering of glass and ofttimes the addition of enamel paints to the inside of their pre-fired molds
2023 Studio Resident
Marcy Chevali is an artist based in New York. She often uses the net or grid in her work because of its ability to expand and for its ambiguity, it can be threatening like a fishing net or reassuring like a safety net.
2023 Studio Resident
Terri Sigler received her MBA from UCLA and a BA from Howard University. A devoted student of glass, Terri’s artistic expressions are interpreted through vessels and sculptural art. She’s studied at the Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Crafts and Pilchuck, among others. She is currently a studio artist in the New York area.
Visiting Artist: 2023
Braxton Congrove is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She creates playful yet nostalgic accessories for the home and body, working at the intersection of sculpture and design.
Visiting Artist: 2023
Jessie Rose Vala (born 1977, Madison, Wisconsin) is an artist working in drawing, ceramic, and video. She received an MFA from University of Oregon and a BFA in ceramic sculpture and painting from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Her work explores non-linear narratives and environments through an ongoing investigation of the shifting relationships to ourselves and our surroundings.
Visiting Artist: 2023
Layo Bright’s sculptural practice explores migration, inheritance, legacy and identity through hybrid portraits, textiles, and mixed media works that highlight natural forms and ancestral memory. Employing a range of materials such as glass, clay, wood and textiles, these forms mirror fragile yet complex relationships with the personal, natural, and built environment.
Visiting Artist: 2023
Patricia Ayres (b. New York), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2019; received an MFA from Hunter College, 2018; BFA from Brooklyn College and an A.A.S in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Visiting Artist: 2022
Michael Haddy & Gosia Pawlowska, are architectural designers and fabricators based in Brooklyn, NY. Their project "Experimental Mold Workshop" will utilize digital tools from the architecture and manufacturing industries, applying CNC and robotic fabrication to make blow molds for glass.
Visiting Artist: 2022
Nooshin Rostami is an artist, designer, and educator. They work with a glossary of materials and terms: light, shadows, reflections, structures, landscape, space, and place.
Visiting Artist: 2022
Tanda Francis is a Brooklyn based artist with a primary focus of creating monumental African heads and masks for public and personal spaces. She is inspired by ancient customs and rituals as a significant means of understanding and addressing our contemporary condition.
Visiting Artist: 2022
Dolores Furtado (b.1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in New York. She investigates relations between the body, form, and history through a physical and spiritual process of direct engagement with matter.
Studio Residency: 2022
The artist Jes Fan lives and works in Hong Kong and Brooklyn. Originally trained in glass making, Fan expanded his practice to encompass diverse mediums and approaches.
Studio Residency: 2022
Grace Whiteside is a performance artist, glass fabricator, and educator known for orchestrating comedic performances that utilize the amorphous and trans properties of hot glass.
Studio Residency: 2022
Ghislaine Sabiti is an interdisciplinary French/American Congolese-born artist, painter, ceramist sculptor, costume designer, and glass artist who was raised on the outskirts of Paris and is now based in New York.
Studio Residency: 2022
Ann Weathersby (born New Orleans, LA) is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Yale University Art Gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Museo Tamayo in
Mexico City, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, the Cinema Texas International Short Film/Video Festival, and most recently at Fortnight Institute and Foley Gallery, both in New York, Winterstreet Gallery in Edgartown, and F in Houston.
Studio Residency: 2021
Charisse Pearlina Weston is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist and writer whose practice is grounded in a deep material investigation of poetics and the autobiographical to explore the delicate intimacies and reticent poetics underlying black life.
Studio Residency: 2021
Leo Tecosky works at the intersection of cultural exchange, craft traditions and the pursuit of knowledge of self. He blends glass making techniques with the elements of hip hop.
Studio Residency: 2021
Rae Yuping Hsu is an artist and educator from Taipei, Taiwan, currently based in New York, United States. Her practice is research-based and materially-informed, spanning across multiple disciplines and materials; from hot glass to fibroblasts, passports to fecal sports.
Studio Residency: 2021
Born in 1982 in Moline, Illinois, Dorie Guthrie was first exposed to the medium when she stumbled upon a small glass studio in her hometown. Since graduating from Illinois State University in 2008, Guthrie has continued her studies, being awarded scholarships, at Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Craft, and Pittsburgh Glass Center, where she furthered her technique.
Studio Residency: 2020
Tomoko Abe lived in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, before settling in the greater New York area. Abe obtained BA with first class honor in painting from the Edinburgh College of Art, during which she received an ERASMUS scholarship to study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Salamanca, Spain. She has been working with translucent materials such as porcelain, paper and glass with her interest in creating artworks that are suggestive of objects that lie behind what can be visibly observed.
Studio Residency: 2020
Deborah Czeresko is an artist living and working in New York City. Czeresko’s art invokes a range of approaches and techniques, including performance and collaboration.
Studio Residency: 2020
Sara Greenberger Rafferty has exhibited widely since 2001, including solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Massachusetts; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas; and a commissioned sculpture for the Public Art Fund. Gloves Off, the first traveling survey of her work with accompanying fully illustrated catalogue published by SUNY Press, completed a three-venue tour at the end of 2017.
Studio Residency: 2020
Pamela and Alison work across studios to create glass forms, sculptures and
installations. Their multiple, labor intensive methods allow many opportunities to affect the outcome of the finished work from several angles and two distinct perspectives, giving the final work an effervescent, animated quality.
Visiting Artist: 2019
Carly Mandel is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY. The artist grew up in St Louis, MO, and received her degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR in 2015. Her work highlights the experience of being augmented by medicine and synthetic capital objects, including sculptures that focus on capital representations of survival; commodities illustrating the inability to thrive independently, and the subversion of existence.
Visiting Artist: 2019
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation echoing the history of colonialism.
Visiting Designer: 2019
Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is an art collective established in 2011 by Alexander Groves (UK) and Azusa Murakami (JP).
Visiting Artist: 2019
Dean Erdmann's work addresses the politics of place, class, and the body. Erdmann uses still and moving images from found and original footage, and often creates or uses archives as source material.
Studio Residency: 2019
Liesl Schubel was born in Ontario, Canada in 1990. She moved twice while she was young: first to British countryside, then American. Life in England brought Liesl close to her mother’s upbringing, as Canada had done for her father’s. The memories and landscape of these homes hold deep, sustaining importance in Liesl’s life and practice. As a queer woman, an artist, and a city dweller from rural roots, the complexity of home and of familial histories, relationships, and disputes remain a constant source of inspiration in her practice.
Studio Residency: 2019
Originally from Nebraska George Dielman started blowing glass as a teenager. Over a decade later, he now spends time fabricating glass and helping manage a glass production line based in Brooklyn while also pursuing his own art work. Using glass as his main medium George makes sculpture as well as functional wares.
Studio Residency: 2019
Systems based installations, survival, biological awareness and new media research intertwine in the artwork of Robert C. Beck.
Studio Residency: 2019
Sarah Max Beck’s body of work builds on symbiotic, closed-loop human nutrient systems; redefining waste as resource; and comments, often wryly and self-consciously, on the parallels of current elective human influence on the planet and a parasitic infection of a host.
Studio Residency: 2018
Anna Riley is a visual artist whose work emerges from a strong desire for material research.
Studio Residency: 2018
Wil Sideman received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Through glass and mixed media Sideman investigates ideas dealing with Identity, Location, Community and Time.
Studio Residency: 2018
Denzel Russell is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Alfred University and has also studied at the Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik. His current work explores issues about identity and shelter.
Visiting Designer: 2018
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has focused on a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing machines, producing a wide range of functional and sculptural objects. He has built a formal vocabulary and studio practice that engages his varied interests in architecture, spatial and landscape formation, commerce, and fundamental human technologies.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Monica Cook received her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. She further studied in the off-campus program of the Savannah College of Art and Design, in New York, the Studio Residency Program of the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Katherine Hubbard uses photography, writing and performance to plumb photography’s continuing significance. Considering analog photography as a mimesis of the body, Hubbard asks how its procedures might be called upon to investigate social politics, history, and narrative.
Studio Residency: 2017
Spiranovich and Adam Holtzinger are the founders of KEEP hand blown glass lighting company.
Studio Residency: 2017
Michiko Sakano, was born and raised in the culturally rich city of Kanazawa on the West Coast of Japan. Her family has carried the tradition and business of Kimono making that dates back generations.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Inna Babaeva (b. 1961, Lvov, Ukraine) creates surreal sculptures that engage themes of mass production, uniformity, and function.
Studio Residency: 2017
Diana Drake is an artist working in many disciplines including sculpture, photography, video and painting. Her work is an exploration of intangible information in a physical form.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Martha Friedman (b. 1975, Detroit, MI) lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2003.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Carlos Reyes (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) is a New York-based artist. Reyes is interested in exploring the weight, volume, and structure of ephemera and movement.
Studio Residency: 2017
Celeste Wilson is an artist, writer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Wilson received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Pilchuck Glass School and the School of Visual Arts.
Visiting Artist: 2016
Matthew de Leon is a visual artist, drag queen, and graphic designer. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut and his MFA in visual arts from Parsons the New School for Design.
Studio Residency: 2016
Doreen Garner is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Philadelphia, PA who holds a BFA in Glass from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and an MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design. Garner is a 2015-2016 Artist in Residence at Abrons Arts Center, NY and a 2016 Van Lier Fellow at Wavehill.
Studio Residency: 2016
Josefina Muñoz (RISD MFA’13) is a multidisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile. Muñoz shows her work, lectures and develops independent research internationally.
Studio Residency: 2016
Brett Swenson is an artist working with mixed-media sculpture, video, and installation. His work attempts to position an anthropomorphic presence within natural processes and geologic location, spaces where man and material are intertwined. He is based in New York.
Visiting Artist: 2016
Since the late 1980s, Suzanne McClelland has exhibited her work extensively in the United States and abroad. Her practice includes both large-scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.
Residency: 2016
Jeanine Oleson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in materiality and language, which she forms into complex and humorous objects, images, films and performances.
Visiting Artist: 2015
Tauba Auerbach is a visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture. Her work operates in the gap between Conceptual Art, abstraction and graphic art. She lives and works in New York.
Visiting Artist: 2015
"I make large-scale drawings and sculptures in and on paper: massive, fragile structures prone to inundation and erosion. These works build out uncomfortable, unstable edges, where fragile lines stand in for the immensity of experiences, people and emotions that overwhelm us."
Visiting Artist: 2015
Glenn Goldberg was born in the Bronx, studied at the New York Studio School and received a MFA from Queens College. He was named the 1996 Heilman Artist and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Visiting Artist: 2015
Julianne Swartz is a New York-based artist who works with sound, kinetics, and other materials to make sculpture, installations and photographs. Swartz uses lights, mirrors, magnets, periscopes, and the concepts of space and time in her body of work, which has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, New Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the 2004 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Her awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2008) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Art (2010).
Visiting Artist: Fall 2014
Brooklyn resident Sonya Blesofsky studied studio art at UC Santa Cruz before going on to receive her Masters of Fine Arts in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Sonya has shown her work around the country including a 2013 Residency at the Webb School in Knoxville, TN. With a focus on site specific work, she wants “ to capture remnants and traces, and memorialize the resourcefulness of the ever-changing city.”
Visiting Artist: Spring 2014
Shari Mendelson is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn and upstate New York. She has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, three New York Foundation for the Arts Grants, and is a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. Currently, she is working on a series of sculptures that are inspired by ancient vessels and artifacts and created from found plastic bottles.
Visiting Artist: Fall 2013
Jessie Henson received her BFA from The Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has exhibited her work in several galleries and instutitions including the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Milan Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, and the Bronx Museum in New York City. Her past residencies have included the Vermont Studio Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Visiting Artist: Fall 2013
Virginia Poundstone, a New York City based artist with an MFA from Columbia University, is the recipient of the inaugural Agnes Varis Fellowship, which provides time, space, and technical support for emerging artists to explore working with glass. Poundstone was selected for the residency by a panel that included Director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program Sara Reisman; Art in General Curator Courtenay Finn; Art critic Lilly Wei; artist Deborah Czeresko; and glass scholar Susie Silbert.
