Auction supporting Black Glass Artist Series is Thursday, Oct. 20
An auction to raise funding in support of Alfred University’s Black Glass Artist Series will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20, beginning at 5 p.m., in the Turner Gallery, Harder Hall.
ALFRED, NY -- An auction to raise funding in support of Alfred University’s Black Glass Artist Series will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20, beginning at 5 p.m., in the Turner Gallery, Harder Hall.
For the second annual Black Glass Artist Series, glass artists of color will come to the Alfred University campus for one-week residencies throughout the spring 2023 semester. The inaugural Black Glass Artist Series was held during the spring 2022 semester, when visiting glass artists of color presented artist talks and gave demonstrations of their practice in the Alfred University School of Art and Design’s Hot Glass Shop.
The series is the brainchild of senior B.F.A. student Adeye Jean-Baptist from Scarsdale, NY. In 2021, Adeye proposed to host a series of visiting glass artists who hail from the afro diaspora and led efforts to gain funding to support the series, including organizing an auction.
Organizers sought donations for Thursday’s fundraising auction of artwork to support the 2023 Black Glass Artist Series. All funds raised from the auction will support artists’ residencies. The series is also supported by the School of Art and Design and its Sculpture Dimensional Studies Division, Student Senate, the Institute for Cultural Unity, and Olympic Color, a glassblowing supply company in Seattle, WA.