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Tami Landis1

Sunday November 23, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Applying to the next New Glass Review? Don't miss our must-watch in-depth interview with New Glass Review editor and curator Tami Landis for pro tips on how to improve your chances.
Each year The Corning Museum of Glass receives approximately 1,000 submissions from 50 countries around the world from artists aspiring to be selected for New Glass Review, the annual exhibition-in-print that has been continuously in print since 1980. Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass Tami Landis was featured on the fourth edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE!, a recording of which is available for viewing at our YouTube video podcast page. In the hour-long episode, Landis discussed the origin story, history, and latest edition of New Glass Review. She also answered questions about how applicants hoping to be included in the 2026 edition, New Glass Review #46, can put their best foot forward.

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Red Hook Fire3

Tuesday November 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Some facing a total loss of artwork and tools in massive Brooklyn studio fire, glass artists vow to persevere

The first calls to the fire department came in just before midnight on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Soon after, urgent texts about the blaze rocketed among the dozens of artists who had studios in the 19th-century warehouse building at 481 Van Brunt Street in the waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Here, in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S., rare affordable rents had made the building a destination for glass artists as well as woodworkers, furniture designers, and painters, who often subdivided their spaces, creating a communal space for art in all media.After a sleepless night of worry, artist and educator Dean Erdmann and their partner, Grace Whiteside, arrived to a chaotic scene at 7 a.m. As they made their way past the fire and police lines, Erdmann and Whiteside were stunned to see a fireboat pumping a massive plume of water onto the roof, which had partially collapsed onto their shared Sticky Glass studio space on the fourth floor. Even more devastating than losing the tools and studio space they had occupied for the past three years was the total loss of completed work destined for three important exhibitions in 2026 and 2027.

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Symposium Collage 1

Sunday October 26, 2025 | by Andrew Page

The upcoming 2025 UrbanGlass Academic Symposium (Nov 6–8) will offer high-level presentations and discussions on the theme of "Crafting Mastery"
Founded in 2013 as the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Academic Symposium at UrbanGlass, the 2025 UrbanGlass Academic Symposium is readying for its latest iteration, which is coming up from November 6–8, 2025, in the world art capital of New York City. The event which draws educators and students in glass from around the world for lectures and workshops discussing this year's theme of "Crafting Mastery", will kick off with a Thursday night gallery tour to visit contemporary art galleries showing work in glass. The four-gallery tour will culminate in a reception in the Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca at Cristin Tierney Gallery, which is exhibiting mixed-media work by Judy Pfaff, much of it featuring neon.

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Corning Martinez

Thursday October 16, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Corning Museum of Glass taps Cornell University art museum director to become its next executive director and president
Jessica Levin Martinez, currently serving as the director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, has been officially announced as the next president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass. Martinez will take over from Corning's Karol Wight, who announced her retirement in April 2025. Martinez's start date at Corning, February 2, 2026, gives her several weeks of overlap with Wight to help her get up to speed.

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Tuesday October 7, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Alexander Rosenberg on his move from WheatonArts to the newly-built Glass Center at the University of California San Diego
In 2022, when Alexander Rosenberg was named as the new director of the WheatonArts Glass Studio, he came on just as the Millville, New Jersey, art center was reopening after COVID-19, and he helped lead a reset for this important outpost for creative glass within a couple hours drive from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. This past Saturday, October 4, Rosenberg ended his New Jersey chapter as he bid adieu to WheatonArts, heading west to the newly built Glass Center at the University of California, San Diego, where again he will be tasked with leading a glass program as it ramps up. WheatonArts executive director Susan Gogan told the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet the organization "has been extremely fortunate to have worked with Alex over the past four years," and credits his "tremendous spirit of collaboration and positive leadership" as keys to his effectiveness. Glass also reached out to Alex, himself, for more details about both his previous and upcoming positions.

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Cocktail Table Fire

Jessica Jane Julius (far left) and Erica Rosenfeld (far right) with their "Cocktail Table" installation at an early Burnt Asphalt performance.

Tuesday September 23, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius discuss how their sold-out "madeline moment" takes the Burnt Asphalt Family into new terrain
Is it a dinner party, performance art event, or interactive art exhibition? The 5-course food event titled A Madeleine Moment is all of the above. Referencing the way a culinary experience can trigger vivid childhood memories, as Marcel Proust described in the novel Remembrance of Things Past, the event is just the latest in a long line of Burnt Asphalt Family performance-art happenings. It blurs the lines between performer and audience, art and food, and ultimately seeks to erase the boundary between art and life, itself. Among the few things one can say for sure about the proceedings set to take place at the Agnes Varis Art Center this coming Saturday, September 27, is that it is curated by longtime collaborators Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius, supports the Brooklyn arts non-profit UrbanGlass, and will involve a large community of creative friends. It will also exhibit artwork by artists such as Jen Monroe aka Bad Taste, Deborah Czeresko, Einar and Jamex De la Torre, Andrea Dezsö, Cedric Mitchell, Leo Tecosky, Jessica Tsai, among many others. After the opening, the exhibition will remain on view through November 8, 2025. (One more detail: tickets are completely sold out though Rosenfeld and Julius will return at the end of the exhibition in early November for a closing event that will be part of the UrbanGlass Academic Symposium, and open to all attendees of that three-day event.)

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Rago Exterior

Thursday September 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

In a down market for art, Rago readies for "world-class offering" in auction that brings together three notable private collections
While its main activities take place at its headquarters in Lambertville, New Jersey, Rago Auctions also maintains a showroom in Chelsea, one of Manhattan's most important art gallery neighborhoods. Considering its prime location, the first-floor gallery at 501 W 20th Street is usually dedicated to high-profile paintings or contemporary photography, but recently it has also been showcasing its Contemporary Glass Sale coming up on September 19th, which partner Suzanne Perrault says is an indication of the work's importance.

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