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“Tapping in my Converse”
ft.ASHA
We’re crazy in love with making mosaics! Register now to create art, listen to Beyoncé, and sip lemonade in our first ever Musical Mosaics Workshop!
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#glassrootsinc #beyonce #beyhive #ivypark #ivyparkxadidas #ivyparkbeyonce #glass #mosaic #glassart #newarkartist #lemonade #beyonceknowles #beyhive #thecarters #newark #music #musicappreciation #create #talent #icon #linkinbio (at GlassRoots)
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Valentine’s Day is a month away! Get a jump on purchasing gifts for your sweetheart. This glass charm bracelet is available in two color options get them before they are gone!
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#glassrootsinc #newark #valentines #valentinesday #jewelry #heart #charm #charmbracelet #sweetheart #love #forhim #forher #gifts #2020 #2020vision #holiday #love #anniversary #anniversarygift #purple #red (at GlassRoots)
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Our first Art of Beadmaking 2 class of the year is happening Sunday, January 26th! Expand your knowledge of beadmaking with other glass art enthusiast! Our Teaching-Artist will teach you more advanced shaping and design techniques to create unique glass beads. Register now with the #linkinbio
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#glassrootsinc #beadmaking #flameworking #glass #glassart #creative #creativity #artist #sundayfunday #newark #art #class #datenight #hobby #newyearsresolutions #2020vision #newark #newarkarts #learn (at GlassRoots)
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Artist Dean Allison (@mold_school )is a studio artist working with portrait sculpture and the figure with glass. His studio is in Pittsburgh PA. Dean is working on a commissioned sculpture for our new space in the Newark Arts Common. Follow Dean as he works to create this new significant work of art by visiting our website to see his next blog post!
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#glassrootsinc #deanallison #newarkartscommon #deansblog #blogger #glasscasting #molding #casting #portrait #talent #sculpture #newark #pennsylvania #moving #movingforward #glass #art #collaboration #commission #alumni #students (at GlassRoots)
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Visit Dean Allison’s blog on our website to view and understand his process of creating the glass casted sculpture for our new home. https://glassroots.org/deans-blog
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#glassrootsinc #toptenmoments #topten #deanallison #deansblog #glasscollab #newark #newspace #moving #art #casting #glasscasting #alumni #glass #glassartist #joshtoler #yazziegraham #2020 #2020vision #bestof2019 (at GlassRoots)
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Before we step into the new year GlassRoots would like to take a moment to acknowledge all the wonderful people and occasions that happened during the year of 2019 with our Top Ten (+1) Moments of 2019 countdown! Check back tomorrow to see number 10!
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#glassrootsinc #toptenmoments #2019highlights #thankyou #support #prubono #prudential #board #erinsweeney #newark #gala #tedwells #ninawells #glass #bestof2019 #2020 #2020vision
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Have you ever heard the joke about when Chewbacca-DarthVaider, Stitch, a babycow and a Milk Man walk into an glass studio? #happyhalloween
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#glassrootsinc #costume #starwars #liloandstitch #newark #joke #halloween #flameworking #kilnforming #glassblowing (at GlassRoots)
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Getting ready for our GlassRoots Fall Soirée: #MovingForward tonight!!! Have you bought your tickets yet? LINK IN BIO
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#glassrootsinc #gala #artauction #glassauction #newark #newarkart #nonprofit #tickets #rsvp #staff #artist #teachingartist #support #donate #benefit (at Livingston, New Jersey)
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Fred Wilson (b. 1954, Bronx, New York) challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display with his work. Known for his politically charged work that explore issues faced by Africans and African-Americans in past centuries, Fred Wilson makes sculptures that are, first and foremost, beautiful. His Murano glass mirrors (2009), made from onyx Murano glass (a color never before used for decorative objects), are glossy and ornate, while Regina Atra (2006), Wilson’s version of the Diamond Diadem, the celebrated crown worn by Her Majesty the Queen of England, is as delicate and opulent as the original. Each is a commentary on the African experience, a theme that is occasionally met with great resistance, as in the case of Wilson’s thwarted efforts to erect a sculpture of a freed slave in Indianapolis, which was to be titled E Pluribus Unum. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives. Since his groundbreaking and historically significant exhibition Mining the Museum (1992) at the Maryland Historical Society, Wilson has been the subject of many solo exhibitions.
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Renee Stout grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. She looks to the belief system of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, as well as to the world and her immediate environment, for the inspiration to create works that encourage self-examination, self-empowerment and self-healing.
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Congratulations to our 2018 GlassRoots-Penland Fellows! We admire your hard work, perseverance, and the beautiful art that was created from your effort. This is only the beginning! We can’t wait to see where your talent and ambition takes you next.
(Here are some photos from the Art Show and celebration in case you missed it - Enjoy!)
Here is a SNEAK PEEK of a Mosaic Residency that is currently in progress with First Avenue Elementary School. The project was entirely designed by the students of First Avenue and with the instruction and guidance of Teaching-Artist Amira Rogers it should be completed in the next couple of weeks! Stay tuned for updates!
And if you’re interested in GlassRoots helping you or your school along with a project click here!
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“Sakia, Sakia, Sakia, Sakia” is a mural I completed earlier this week in Newark, NJ. #SakiaGunn was a teenage girl who was stabbed by a man after her and her friends refused him on the street. She was 15, black, a girl, and gay. This month marks the dates of her death (May 11) and birth (May 26). It felt really appropriate and important to paint her portrait. However, I was nervous because I had trouble getting in touch with her family to get permission before starting the mural. But a few days into it, through social media, we found each other and there was nothing but love.
This mural is a part of a mural of project called #GatewaystoNewark to spans over a mile on McCarter Hwy and features dozens of amazing artists. Because the murals are off of a highway, we had to work over night for only a week. 9PM - 4AM everyday.
I’m not from Newark. I didn’t know Sakia personally. But she was a young black queer girl and deserves to be seen and her story heard. While painting, many people drove by a yelled out her name. A few people got out of there cars to tell me they knew her.
This is the stuff that public art is good for.
#sayhername
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Celebrating Legendary Jazz Vocalist Sarah Vaughan for #JazzAppreciationMonth (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
In continued celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth, today we drop in on virtuoso vocalist Sarah Vaughan, who hailed from Newark, New Jersey, and was dubbed “Sassy” for her salty conversation and “The Divine One” for the heavenly and serene singing feats she accomplished with her three octave range.
To read about Vaughan, read on. To hear about her,…
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#suburbanlife #suburban #suburbia #california #newark #eastbay #bayarea #playground #swingset (at Newark, California)
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