Glass City                      
Exhibition dates: May 31 – July 27, 2006

Opening Reception: May 31, 4 – 7pm

 

What cracks and crumbles, cuts and shines, and is evidence of luxury and chaos?

Spirit catchers, unwanted grains of it on the city streets, which represent our hopes and dreams, our triumphs and our failures. Like it, we too are fragile
but capable—the raw material that can add up to beautiful things.

Glass City recycles the most potent symbol of urban blight and ancient wealth into monuments of hope.

—Willie Cole

 

A collaborative project between GlassRoots, Inc. and the Paul Robeson Gallery, Glass City features a crystal city created by Newark-area youth, under the guidance of renowned New Jersey artist Willie Cole. The youth, ages 10-18, are part of GlassRoots, Inc., a studio in Newark which provides glassmaking training and business-skills development to urban teens.


For more information on GlassRoots, Inc., contact Pat Kettenring, Executive Director, 111 Washington Street., Newark, NJ 07102 or visit www.glassroots.org.


In conjunction with Glass City, a series of workshops with students from the Ironbound Educational & Cultural Center are being planned, culminating in an exhibition at the Paul Robeson Gallery in July.

Paul Robeson Gallery will be open to the public for the months of June and July on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10am – 3pm. Admission is free.

 
 
 

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