Bridging Utility & Creativity: Rethinking Professional Glass Art Education

Lecture with Dr. Lyudmyla Smakova held at UrbanGlass with virtual option to attend

What does it look like when glass education gets the balance right – between applied skills and artistic practice? Lyudmyla Smakova visited four U.S. glass programs to find out. In this talk, she shares what she observed at RISD, UW–Madison, Temple University, and MassArt, and reflects on how those approaches might inform glass education in Ukraine and beyond – including insights drawn from the experience of the Lviv National Academy of Arts itself.