2025 visiting artist and designer fellowship

The UrbanGlass Visiting Artist and Designer Fellowship will provide one artist or designer the opportunity to develop a new work using the medium of glass. To explore the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium, fellows will have access to the UrbanGlass studios, instruction, technical support, fabricators, an unrestricted honorarium as well as a budget to cover material costs. UrbanGlass’ 17,000-square-foot state-of-the-art glass studio offers a complete glassworking studio with a hot shop, cold shop, flameworking studio, neon shop, mold shop, and kiln shop.

The fellowship is a combination of experiencing glass directly as a material of expression and a proposal driven exploration by pairing with glass artists to craft objects. Fellows also share their ideas and practice with the glass community by presenting a lecture, attending events and in being a visiting artist or designer for a day with our university classes held at UrbanGlass.

The fellowship time frame is from October, 2025 to March, 2026. There is an introductory session for planning and learning about the different methods of working with glass. It is possible to complete your proposal or expend your budget before the end of the fellowship period.