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Liesl Schubel & Grace Whiteside

Teaches at UrbanGlass

Liesl Schubel was born in Ontario, Canada in 1990, and the memories and landscape of that place hold deep, sustaining importance in her life. Liesl moved twice while she was young, first to British countryside, then American, following her father’s job opportunities. Life in England brought her close to her British mother’s upbringing, as Canada had done for her father’s. Family stories, pastimes, and disputes remain a constant source of inspiration in her practice. As a queer identifying artist, Liesl is drawn primarily to mediums of dualistic, shifting, or unusual properties. Her main technical training lies in glass, but she has incorporated this training into a conceptual based, interdisciplinary practice. Liesl is a founding member of the art collective Flock the Optic, a group formed to explore the meeting place of glass, performance, installation, entertainment, and happening. Their work focuses on cyclical experience, audience interaction, and creating works with abundant creative energy. Liesl received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, majoring in Glass. She has since continued traveling, pursuing opportunities to expand her understanding of art and craft at institutions such as WheatonArts and Cultural Center in Millville, NJ, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA, Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI, and UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. Liesl currently lives in New York City maintaining a varied art practice, and works as a freelance maker.


Grace Whiteside is a Brooklyn, NY based interdisciplinary artist working in performance, experimental theater, video, and glass fabrication. Grace’s work pulls from her relationships to reality television, the “Do It Yourself” craft culture, and absurd dystopian fantasies. Her performances are often carried out by an impulsive alter ego (previously known as Stacy Wallman) who consciously inhabits a feminized role of a multifaceted entertainer. Sifting through veils of performativity and lived experience allows Grace to explore internal conflicts around womanhood, queerness, gender binaries and self-identity.

Whiteside received two BFA’s from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017 where she studied sculpture and glassblowing. She has exhibited her work at venues such as Black Iris gallery (Richmond, VA), Recess (Brooklyn), Westbeth Gallery (NYC), Present Company (Brooklyn) and has been published in the Corning Museum of Glass’s New Glass Review. She was also a participating artist in the 2018 Art In Odd Places performance festival along 14th St. (NYC), and has worked in collaboration with the traveling Genderfail Archive Project. Currently, she is working towards her first solo show at the UrbanGlass Agnes Varis Art Center that will open in September, 2019.

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