Located in the Halsey Arts Village in downtown Newark, NJ
 
Office/Studio: 973-353-9555
  
 
 
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Instructors

James Blake

James Blake graduated from Boston College with a bachelor in studio art focusing on drawing, painting and ceramics and a minor in education.  He has worked with middle and high school students in Brighton, MA, and exhibited at The McMullen Museum of Art in Boston, MA. He has also attended intensive glass classes at The Pilchuck Glass School in the summer of 2011.  James is a kilnforming and drawing instructor at GlassRoots.

 Julie Landgraf

Julie graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Art Education (K-12) and a minor in crafts. She focused on non-loom fiber arts and experimented with many knotting techniques for jewelry. While student teaching, Julie learned basic stained glass assembly and flameworking at Goggleworks in Reading, PA. She pursued glass arts by taking private flameworking classes.  Julie combines her glass and fibers skills to further her interests in jewelry making and beading.



Kate Dowd

Kate graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Art with a bachelor in art. She has exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), The Frame Gallery (Pittsburgh), City WithOut Walls (Newark, NJ) and The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts (Long Branch, NJ). Kate has completed intensive courses at Urban Glass in  Brooklyn, NY, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME  and Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA.  Kate is also the assistant program director at GlassRoots.

 

Jason Minami

Jason graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a bachelor of fine art . While in school he worked at the Punahou School and assisted professional glass artists throughout Hawaii. Jason continued his education at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA, and The Studio of the Corning Museum Glass in Corning, NY. He received his master in fine arts from Alfred University in New York, where he taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Glass Department.   Currently, he teaches in the art department at Hudson County Community College.   Jason is the lead glassblowing artist/instructor at GlassRoots.

Kate Haigney

Kate Haigney attended the University of New Hampshire and has been pursuing the glass arts since 2007. She has completed intensive workshops in glassblowing at Scanlan Glass in Brooklyn, NY, and DuckBill Studios in Atlanta, GA, along with volunteering in the hotshop at Maho Bay Camps in the U.S. Virgin Islands. During the summer of 2010, she attended Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA. Kate is an assistant glass blowing instructor at GlassRoots.