We are a group of practicing artists acting in response to what we see as a certain discomfort of glass.

As artists coming from a glass background, we do not fit comfortably into glass, sculpture or new media, but draw from all of them. Our interests and practices are simultaneously too specific and plural to exist comfortably in any one space. Consequently we hover in a state of superposition, between disciplines and media, with infinite possibility and little actual opportunity—i.e., the discomfort of glass.

We seek to support a longer view of where glass is headed—where the identity of glass may be intermingled with the larger world of contemporary art.

Our efforts are also a direct call to action for our peers to continue paving this path—dissolving and redrawing our boundaries along the way.

CURRENT TEAM

Helen Lee is an artist, designer, and educator based in the California Bay Area. She holds an MFA in Glass from RISD and a BSAD in Architecture from MIT. She has taught at RISD, CCA, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the MIT Glass Lab. She is currently an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, and works as a freelance graphic designer for Celery Design Collaborative in Berkeley, CA.

Alexander Rosenberg is an artist and educator in the Crafts Department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design’s Glass program and has been fascinated with the material ever since. After a period of freelance fabrication and assisting several established artists with studio work and research, Alexander went on to MIT to study in a 2-year MS program in visual studies. Here, he continued his investigation of glass as a material, in conjunction with an interdisciplinary artistic practice that crossed over into many other media. Since earning his masters degree, Alexander has continued his artistic practice with various artist residencies, public performances and exhibitions. He now lives and works in Philadelphia.

Born in Rhode Island, Matthew Szösz has received a BFA, a BID (Industrial Design), and a MFA (Glass) from Rhode Island School of Design. He has worked professionally in art and art related fields in Rhode Island, New Mexico and California for the last twelve years. Recently he has received the Pilchuck Scholarship, a Stein Fund Grant, and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Studies from RISD. He was an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck in 2007, and a Wheaton Fellow in 2008. He has won the 2009 Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award, becoming the second American ever to do so. This spring he was an artist in residence at Nagoya Institute for the Arts and taught a workshop at Toyama Glass Institute. In the last year he has been the Craftsperson in Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Proctor Fellow at Australia National University.