{"title": "HOW WE MAKE: BIOGLASS WITH FAN KONG", "start": "2026-11-05T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "A hands-on workshop at the design museum exploring the language of materials through bioplastics and bioglass. It is led by Fan Kong, an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Queens, New York City, whose practice includes biomaterial experimentation, installations, and public programs. Inspired by Gaetano Pesce's Nobody's Perfect chair, the session looks at how designers and scientists have reimagined materials as active, transformative systems. Participants learn to make kitchen-friendly bioplastics, visit the galleries, and create their own stained bioglass samples.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-52198/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-11-05-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e848d246f256dd5d74f18686a8c6e2da119fe27d8efb4a49df1c14b5b90247b-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Hot Glass Hangout & Studio Sale: Flameworking Edition with Molmol Kuo", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Urban Glass", "address": "Fulton Street 647, 11217", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/glass"], "description": "Hot Glass Hangout & Studio Sale: Flameworking Edition with Molmol Kuo is a free monthly demonstration series at UrbanGlass Studio in Brooklyn, held on first Fridays. Visitors can watch the skills and teamwork involved in shaping molten glass, meet local artists, and shop a pop-up Studio Sale of glassware and jewelry made by the community. Soft drinks and snacks are provided at no charge. This edition features the studio's team of technicians, administrators and teaching artists, with flameworking artist Molmol Kuo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hot-glass-hangout-studio-sale-flameworking-edition-with-molm-57329/", "official_url": "https://urbanglass.org/events/detail/hot-glass-hangout-studio-sale-flameworking-edition-with-molmol-kuo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c00a3c7e786b529ea366ce802eb1d2218ac455961f838fe7c0d0b1c993ed3800-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Confluence", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Urban Glass", "address": "Fulton Street 647, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Confluence is an exhibition of sculpture and installations made from recycled and repurposed glass, with an opening reception from 6 to 9 PM. It was created by artists Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen, born during a 2024 international artist's residency at WheatonArts in New Jersey. Their collaborative research covers 300 years of regional glass history, from colonial era wares to contemporary scientific apparatus, and its relationship to local waterways, area ecology, and the changing climate. Working in atypical combinations of methods and materials, they use the fluid and non-fluid duality of glass to transform hard-edged scientific glassware into forms evoking the soft-edged natural world, curated by Dr. Ferris Olin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/confluence-57324/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/441a3f9ca345d2513c6da88874a8934a95477c02e0fc1f7e0202c8a2bae078f9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Free of charge, advance reservation required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/01a03aad-3714-8448-e931-f348e80b508a", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures is a clay sculpture workshop for participants in the ASL Community at the Jewish Museum. Visitors will explore the exhibition 'Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte' and create their own works inspired by the sculptures on view. The workshop is led by artist Youmee Lee, a Korean American artist whose work draws on Asian folklore and American Sign Language poetry. All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation; ASL students will not be admitted and no voice interpretation will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-studio-afternoon-clay-sculptures-75692/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110826-asl-studio-afternoon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e05f82760b86e04de25a4a89bb8f6e339908329665e57f44d5d8d9a9e6622959-1200.webp"}]}