GlassBall 2024
Check out this year’s highlights!
GlassRoots held its GlassBall 2024 at The Newark Museum of Art on June 5th, 2024. A celebration of glass art, local artists and creativity in vibrant Newark, NJ, the GlassBall is GlassRoots’ largest fundraising event of the year. The evening started at GlassRoots studios as our Teaching Artists demonstrated the ancient art of glassblowing and continued at The Newark Museum of Art where guests enjoyed cocktails, curator-led tours of the newly restored Ballantine House, dinner and the presentation of our Sparking Change Awards.
Our GlassBall 2024 Honorees were Linda Morgan, Executive Vice President, RBH Group and fayemi shakur, Arts and Cultural Affairs Director, City of Newark!
HONOREE
fayemi shakur
fayemi shakur is a writer, interdisciplinary artist and arts advocate residing in Newark, New Jersey. She currently serves as Arts and Cultural Affairs Director for the City of Newark. She has held appointments as Visiting Lecturer at Rutgers University-Newark, Department of Art, Culture and Media and Artist Advisory Council Member for Newark Arts. As a cultural critic and interdisciplinary artist, her writing has been featured in national and international outlets including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, CNN Style, VICE, The International Review of African American Art, Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, HYCIDE magazine, and MFON: Women Photographers in the African Diaspora among other publications. In 2019, she founded A Womb of Violet, a project-based collective of Black women writers, poets and interdisciplinary artists. The collective published an anthology and also created a 10-story mural, “Magnitude and Bond” in partnership with The Four Corners Public Arts Project and muralists Layqa Nuna Yawar and Kelley Prevard. She has served as a leader in the Newark arts community for over 15 years, previously as Executive Director at City Without Walls gallery; Marketing and Public Program Manager at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art; and co-founder of The Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival. fayemi is committed to cultural organizing, mentorship, and engaging programming that explores art that challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves and each other.
HONOREE
Linda Morgan
Linda Morgan is Executive Vice President at the real estate development firm RBH Group, LLC located in downtown Newark, NJ. She leads predevelopment, public relations, and project management of the firm’s Teachers Village projects and other social impact investments in Opportunity Zones across the country. Ms. Morgan has over 25 years’ experience in urban planning, brownfields redevelopment, and project management of complex redevelopment initiatives in the New York-New Jersey region and nationally. Representative projects in New Jersey include the Teachers Village and AeroFarms/Makers Village, and Rutgers-Newark Honors Living-Learning Community projects in downtown Newark, and the Jersey Gardens Mall and Bayonne golf course brownfield redevelopments. In her former role as Director of the NJ Office of Regional Plan Association, Ms. Morgan spearheaded creation of the Newark Downtown District business improvement district and the Lincoln Park Arts District.
Ms. Morgan, AICP, holds a BA in Government from Smith College and an MPA in Public Affairs and Urban Planning from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. She is active in community affairs and serves in leadership roles on several advisory boards promoting arts, education and placemaking in the urban environment.
YOUNG ARTIST HONOREE
Oluwadunbarin Balogun
Thank you to our Sponsors!
$25,000
- Paula Gottesman
$15,000
- Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
$10,000
- Meg and Howard Jacobs
$7,500
-
Edison Properties
$5,000
- Allstate Interiors of New York
- Phil Haws and Linda Morgan
- Dena and Ralph Lowenbach
- MCJ Amelior Foundation
- New Jersey Children’s Foundation
- Ken and Eva Press
- RBH Group
- Roger and Sheryl Tucker
- Nina and Ted Wells
- Carmen Rita Wong
$2,500
- Anonymous
- Centrim Electric
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
- Lori Lesser and Daniel Shuchman
- Rutgers University Newark
- Joel and Shelley Siegel
- Rosemary and Robert Steinbaum
- Wet Dog Glass
$1,000
-
Sue Alipanahi
-
Anonymous
-
ARTISIN, LLC
-
LaToya Battle-Brown
-
Stephanie Beling
-
Sherri-Ann Butterfield
-
PJ Calello
-
Marc and Roslyn Collins
-
Andrew Coombs
-
Ulysses Dietz and Gary Berger
-
Global Gateway Advisors
-
Michael Handler
-
Jamie Harris and Rachel Fishman
-
Sharon Karmazin
-
Jennifer and Mark Markovitz
-
McManimon, Scotland and Baumann, LLC
-
Meyner and Landis, LLP
-
Nancy Morgan
-
Diane Moss
-
Judith and Kenneth Peskin
-
Gardy St. Fleur
-
Susan Stucker
-
Julie Sward
-
Teknogrid
-
Alexis Tucker and Evol Greaves
-
Laura Wangerin
-
Ralph Weaver
GlassBall 2024
Check out this year’s highlights!
GlassRoots held its GlassBall 2024 at The Newark Museum of Art on June 5th, 2024. A celebration of glass art, local artists and creativity in vibrant Newark, NJ, the GlassBall is GlassRoots’ largest fundraising event of the year. The evening started at GlassRoots studios as our Teaching Artists demonstrated the ancient art of glassblowing and continued at The Newark Museum of Art where guests enjoyed cocktails, curator-led tours of the newly restored Ballantine House, dinner and the presentation of our Sparking Change Awards.
Our GlassBall 2024 Honorees were Linda Morgan, Executive Vice President, RBH Group and fayemi shakur, Arts and Cultural Affairs Director, City of Newark!
HONOREE
fayemi shakur
fayemi shakur is a writer, interdisciplinary artist and arts advocate residing in Newark, New Jersey. She currently serves as Arts and Cultural Affairs Director for the City of Newark. She has held appointments as Visiting Lecturer at Rutgers University-Newark, Department of Art, Culture and Media and Artist Advisory Council Member for Newark Arts. As a cultural critic and interdisciplinary artist, her writing has been featured in national and international outlets including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, CNN Style, VICE, The International Review of African American Art, Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, HYCIDE magazine, and MFON: Women Photographers in the African Diaspora among other publications. In 2019, she founded A Womb of Violet, a project-based collective of Black women writers, poets and interdisciplinary artists. The collective published an anthology and also created a 10-story mural, “Magnitude and Bond” in partnership with The Four Corners Public Arts Project and muralists Layqa Nuna Yawar and Kelley Prevard. She has served as a leader in the Newark arts community for over 15 years, previously as Executive Director at City Without Walls gallery; Marketing and Public Program Manager at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art; and co-founder of The Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival. fayemi is committed to cultural organizing, mentorship, and engaging programming that explores art that challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves and each other.
HONOREE
Linda Morgan
Linda Morgan is Executive Vice President at the real estate development firm RBH Group, LLC located in downtown Newark, NJ. She leads predevelopment, public relations, and project management of the firm’s Teachers Village projects and other social impact investments in Opportunity Zones across the country. Ms. Morgan has over 25 years’ experience in urban planning, brownfields redevelopment, and project management of complex redevelopment initiatives in the New York-New Jersey region and nationally. Representative projects in New Jersey include the Teachers Village and AeroFarms/Makers Village, and Rutgers-Newark Honors Living-Learning Community projects in downtown Newark, and the Jersey Gardens Mall and Bayonne golf course brownfield redevelopments. In her former role as Director of the NJ Office of Regional Plan Association, Ms. Morgan spearheaded creation of the Newark Downtown District business improvement district and the Lincoln Park Arts District.
Ms. Morgan, AICP, holds a BA in Government from Smith College and an MPA in Public Affairs and Urban Planning from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. She is active in community affairs and serves in leadership roles on several advisory boards promoting arts, education and placemaking in the urban environment.
YOUNG ARTIST HONOREE
Oluwadunbarin Balogun
Thank you to our Sponsors!
$25,000
- Paula Gottesman
$15,000
- Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
$10,000
- Meg and Howard Jacobs
$7,500
-
Edison Properties
$5,000
- Allstate Interiors of New York
- Phil Haws and Linda Morgan
- Dena and Ralph Lowenbach
- MCJ Amelior Foundation
- New Jersey Children’s Foundation
- Ken and Eva Press
- RBH Group
- Roger and Sheryl Tucker
- Nina and Ted Wells
- Carmen Rita Wong
$2,500
- Anonymous
- Centrim Electric
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
- Lori Lesser and Daniel Shuchman
- Rutgers University Newark
- Joel and Shelley Siegel
- Rosemary and Robert Steinbaum
- Wet Dog Glass
$1,000
-
Sue Alipanahi
-
Anonymous
-
ARTISIN, LLC
-
LaToya Battle-Brown
-
Stephanie Beling
-
Sherri-Ann Butterfield
-
PJ Calello
-
Marc and Roslyn Collins
-
Andrew Coombs
-
Ulysses Dietz and Gary Berger
-
Global Gateway Advisors
-
Michael Handler
-
Jamie Harris and Rachel Fishman
-
Sharon Karmazin
-
Jennifer and Mark Markovitz
-
McManimon, Scotland and Baumann, LLC
-
Meyner and Landis, LLP
-
Nancy Morgan
-
Diane Moss
-
Judith and Kenneth Peskin
-
Gardy St. Fleur
-
Susan Stucker
-
Julie Sward
-
Teknogrid
-
Alexis Tucker and Evol Greaves
-
Laura Wangerin
-
Ralph Weaver