About

For nearly two decades, The Burnt Asphalt Family has developed community-centered projects for galleries, public performances, celebrations, and fundraising events, using food and glass as connective materials that foster dialogue around ritual, cultural tradition, social structures, labor, and belonging. Their practice approaches art as a lived and communal act, where process remains visible and embodied, and where the shared table, studio, and hot shop become metaphors for community and transformation.

As an artist collective composed of independent artists, designers, makers, and educators their work is rooted in the cultural histories of glassmaking, cooking, and craft, to explore themes of labor, transformation, memory, and collective experience. Utilizing techniques including blown glass, neon, mixed media, food-based sculpture, and performative installation, to construct interactive works that invite audiences to become active participants in the making and unraveling of the piece itself. Often incorporating shared meals and edible sculptures, their installations evolve through acts of gathering, collaboration, deconstruction, and consumption, leaving behind sculptural remnants that function as artifacts of the experience.

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Performances and Exhibitions 

2025 A Madeleine Moment, The Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Food Party, Berlin Glas, Berlin Germany

2018 How Shall We Dine?, Rockland Center for the Arts

2017 Around the Campfire, The Studio at the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

      Sweet Collision, Wheaton Arts at The Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ 

2016 Birthday Party, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Performance in Glass, Museum of Arts and Design, NY, NY

2013 The Act of the Table, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

2012 The After Party, BAGI, San Jose, CA

2011 Glass in the Senses, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT

         Food Lab, The Studio at The Chrysler Museum

         Food Lab, Pittsburgh Center for Glass, Pittsburgh, PA

         Food Lab, Glass, Wheaton Arts at The Museum of American        

         Glass, Millville, NJ

2009 TV Dinner, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

         TV Dinner, The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass 

         Cocktail Party, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn NY 

2008 BBQ, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

         Holiday Special, The University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2007 Turkey Dinner, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY

         Turkey Dinner, Wheaton Arts at The Museum of American            

         Glass, Millville, NJ  

Publications

2025 Glass Quarterly Magazine

2023 Glass Quarterly Magazine

2013 Blouin Art Info 

         Brooklyn Rail 

         Glass Quarterly

2009 GAS Journal

         Glass Quarterly Blog 

         Glass Quarterly Magazine

Lectures and Workshops 

2024 Penland School of Craft

2023 Berlin Glas

         Bowling Green University

2022 UrbanGlass

2018 Pilchuck School of Glass

2017 Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

2016 Pilchuck Glass School

2015 Smithsonian Museum, Ideals and Practice Symposium, Panel for “Performance and Craft”

2012 San Jose State 

2011 The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass

2008 The University of Louisville