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Auction Preview Exhibition Fête Auction Preview Exhibition @ Chashama 217 E. 42nd Street (btw 2nd &3rd Avenues) New York, NY 10017 Open to the Public Tuesday, March 22 - Saturday, April 9, 2011 Hours: Tues-Fri 12-8pm, Saturdays 12-4pm Exhibition Opening Reception Thursday, March 24 6-8pm Featuring artists: Jill Allan, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Lisbeth Biger, Jane Bruce, Moshe Bursuker, Victoria Calabro, Nicole Chesney, Dale Chihuly, Amber Cowan, Deborah Czeresko, Matthew Eskuche, Floating World Projects, Jamie Harris, Paula Hayes, Robert Hickman, Deborah Horrell, Alison Kinnaird, Beth Lipman, Jessica Loughlin, Justin Mckenney, Elizabeth Ryland Mears, Martie Negri, Joseph Pagano, Marlene Rose, Maret Sarapu, Femke Schaap, Ben Sewell, April Surgent, Lino Tagliapietra, Roger Thomas, Patrick Townsend, Emma Varga, Rob Wynne, Hiroshi Yamano, Carol Yorke and Jeff Zimmer Exhibition jury:Jane Adlin, Associate Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Katya Heller, Heller Gallery; David McFadden, Chief Curator and Vice President, Museum of Arts and Design; and Claire Oliver, Claire Oliver Gallery. This Saturday: Your Last Chance to visit UrbanGlass for Free Tours and Demos Saturday, March 12 This is our last Open House before we move into an interim space while our home is being renovated. Tours begin at 12 noon, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 pm. Each tour is limited to 25 people, please call ahead or arrive early. Try working with glass with a Sandblasting workshop for $15 per person. Design your own glass or vase. Sandblasting is great for kids and families. Reservations are required for most workshops, please call 718.625.3685 x 0 or to make reservations. FIRE SALE UrbanGlass is moving to an interim space in mid-2011, so join us for a fire sale of glass objects made by artists as well as a selection of beads and jewelry made by the ladies of The Bead Project, an entrepreneurial scholarship program for women. Spring Master Classes - Sign up now! Image: Matt Eskuche Vessels and Form Conciousness with Matt Eskuche April 12-15 • 10:00–4:00 4 Sessions • Tuesday-Friday • $700 This class is designed to provide a solid technical and aesthetic base from which a persons work can progress. With jacks, and diamond shears aiding them, students of all levels experiment with borosilicate tubing and colored rod. Shape, scale, and proportion pass through a technical “strainer” in order to create form conscious pieces of varied scale and difficulty. Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 22   Glass Synthesis with Katherine Gray April 26-29 • 10:00–4:00 4 Sessions • Tuesday-Friday • $700 In this class, students explore “traditional” glassblowing methods and tweak them to their own artistic ends. We examine iconic forms and functions of glass through history into the present day, and tease out unique and relevant meanings. This process starts by looking at prosaic, functional forms but ends by synthesizing myriad influences into a coherent, personal vision. Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 29 Blowing Glass with Chris Taylor April 5-8 • 10:00–4:00 4 Sessions • Tuesday-Friday • $700 Blowing glass into long, impossible molds. Blowing glass into impossibly thin walled vessels. Blowing glass that looks a lot like other things. Blowing glass that creates a unique choreography. Blowing glass that defies impossibility. Registration deadline: Wednesday, March 16 Illuminating the Vessel with Jason Chakravarty March 15-18 • 10:00–4:00 4 Sessions • Tuesday–Friday • $700 This class explores the use of Neon and Light and encourages students to think of art making as a multi-step, multi-media process. Students create blown glass forms in the Hot Shop that are filled and illuminated with noble gases such as neon, argon, krypton, and xenon. Students gain an understanding of neon and discuss the different gases, gas pressure, and the different effects achieved through various blown glass forms. Only two spots left; call today to register The Spring Issue of GLASS hits newsstands and mailboxes this week! In this issue’s cover article, GLASS contributing editor James Yood investigates Mark Peiser’s wide-ranging body of work that is unified in its celebration of the engineering challenges of teasing creative expression out of the material of glass. Other features include an examination of the earliest glass bead sculptures of Liza Lou by art critic Peter Schjeldahl in an excerpt from a just-published monograph titled simply Liza Lou (Skira Rizzoli). Regular GLASS contributor Annie Buckley offers an intriguing look at the atmospheric trompe l’oeils of Mary Temple, whose latest installation at the Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, Texas, fills viewers with a peaceful ambiance of dappled light flooding in through a window and across the floor and wall. Finally, GLASS editor Andrew Page presents a look at the large-scale work of Nikolas Weinstein Studios, that creates architectural glass installations in which the material swoops, billows, and otherwise transforms hotel lobbies, bars, and cafeteria spaces. Elsewhere in the issue, you will find incisive reviews of exhibitions including Jean Wells at David Richard Contemporary in Santa Fe; the new stained-glass window project by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans at the Museum on Eldridge Street in New York City; and April Surgent’s solo museum exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue Washington. New Glass Review to be bundled with GLASS this summer This June, GLASS Quarterly Subscribers will be delighted to discover the 2011 Summer issue of GLASS will be bundled together with New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass’s annual publication. Each year, New Glass Review features a juried selection of 100 new works of glass art from around the world. Renew now to make sure your subscription is current when the summer issue of GLASS is mailed, and you’ll receive a complimentary copy of New Glass Review. UrbanGlass is a leading resource for both aspiring and established artists wishing to create with glass. We foster innovative art and advance the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium. www.urbanglass.org   647 Fulton St., 3rd Floor, Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Entrance at 57 Rockwell Place) B, M, Q, R to DeKalb; C to Lafayette; 2,3,4,5 to Nevins St  info@urbanglass.org || 718.625.3685   This e-mail was sent from UrbanGlass Immediate removal with ® Secure. 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