Cybele Maylone discusses UrbanGlass’s Brooklyn facilities. Oral history interview with Cybele Maylone, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:00.

Cybele Maylone: Yeah, so it looks like nothing else, and I think that’s always a joy for us to bring new people and artists into the studio because most people have never seen anything quite like it. So in some ways—kind of our origin story is still very much the story of the organization. UrbanGlass still serves this very basic need in New York City of making a material that is otherwise totally inaccessible, accessible to a really broad range of artists and the public. And—so our studio is 17,000 square feet. It is on the third floor of a former theater in Fort Greene or downtown Brooklyn, and then we also have about a 3,000 square foot gallery and store on our ground floor. And the studio has designated spaces that serve artists making work and really variety of—wide variety of glassmaking techniques. So we have a very large studio and a very large portion of that is dedicated to glassblowing. Of course, glassblowing is the type of making that has the greatest physical barrier for entry and some of the other things that artists do in our studio can be done in private studios more easily. So we have a professional glassblowing studio which has two—I can get super technical, you tell me when this gets boring—two thousand-pound furnaces and six glory holes, and then we have a student glassblowing studio, which has four glory holes and about a 700-pound furnace that uses recycled glass. We have a flat shop, which is home to artists making work in stained glass, imagery, any sort of kind of two-dimensional form of making. We have a cold shop with a wide variety of equipment dedicated to finishing, polishing, and engraving. We have a kiln studio with 11 kilns of a variety of shapes and sizes. We have a mold making studio with lots of equipment for plaster and wax mold making. We have a flameworking in neon studio, which supports artists doing everything from bead making to sculpture and neon.