Instructor, Current
Amanda Ladd
Amanda Ladd has been working with flowers professionally for over 15 years.
Instructors
Instructor, Current
Jeffrey Close
Jeffrey Close is a maker, designer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY whose work explores an inclination towards fine art, architecture, and functionality within the context of 21st century design.
Visiting Artist, Current
Studio Swine
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, Current
Katherine Hubbard
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.
Visiting Artist, Current
Aki Sasamoto
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.
Instructor, Current
Danielle Brensinger
Throughout her young artistic career, Danielle Brensinger has explored her voice through various techniques involving glass and mixed media.
Staff, Instructor, Current
Emily Craddock
Emily Craddock received her BFA in Sculpture from Alfred University in 2014, and an Associate’s degree in Glass Art from Salem Community College in 2009. She now resides in Brooklyn, NY where she works as a freelancer, neon technician, and teacher/teacher’s assistant at UrbanGlass.
Instructor, Current
Beth Lipman
Beth Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI. She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.
Instructor, Current
Susan Spiranovich
Susan Spiranovich and Adam Holtzinger are the founders of KEEP, a Brooklyn-based lighting company.
Instructor, Current
William Couig
William Couig is a New York City based artist and designer. He was introduced to glass after seeing a number of demonstrations in various locales as he backpacked around the world after college in 1995.
Instructor, Current
Erica Rosenfeld
Erica Rosenfeld lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has an art, design and teaching practice. Using glass, found objects, food and mixed media she creates sculptures, installations and performative works that investigate themes of fear, nostalgia, new growth, memory distortion and material association. She also has a limited edition line of glass jewelry.
Instructor, Current
Amy Lemaire
Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. An explorer at heart, her work reveals an interest in currency systems, material language poetics, and the production of histories.
Instructor, Current
Kenya Chester
Kenya Chester is a New York City - based artist who comes from a background of Industrial and Accessory Design.
Instructor, Current
Lenny Castillo
Lenny Castillo is the artist Psychotique. She is a Native New Yorker, based in Brooklyn. Lenny is also a Bead Project Alumni, and was Bead Project Artist in Residence 2016
Instructor, Current
Kellie Krouse
Kellie Ann Krouse was born and raised in Southern California and is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Having attended New York University, she has developed a practice based in mixed media - with an emphasis on ceramics, textiles, and glass.
Instructor, Current
Starr Eaddy
Starr Eaddy is an artist, educator and administrator who holds degrees in Public Health and Nursing.
Instructor, Current
Emily Repp
Emily Repp grew up in Springboro, Ohio and graduated from Miami University in 2010 with a BS in Art, majoring in Art Education.
Instructor, Current
Alison Siegel
Alison Siegel has been working with glass since 2007. She makes both utilitarian and sculptural glass, as well as working for several New York based designers.
Instructor, Current
Anders Rydstedt
Anders' relationship with glass is deep-rooted. Continuing the tradition, Anders has worked with glass for over 20 years, since age fifteen, in numerous production and artistic studios throughout the Northeast.
Instructor, Current
Valerie Shusterov
Valerie has instructed and assisted neon glass bending at both Brooklyn Glass and UrbanGlass. She has shown her neon works in both Los Angeles and New York City. Currently living back in New York City, Valerie fabricates neon for clients and her own personal work.
Instructor, Current
Elizabeth Cote
Elizabeth is native New Yorker, born and raised in the big city. She spends her days walking her dog, teaching, and making sculpture.
