Wheaton Conversations with 2025 Spring Fellows: Danielle Brensinger, Andrew Bearnot, Liesl Schubel

Wheaton Conversations with 2025 Spring Fellows:
Danielle Brensinger, Andrew Bearnot, & Liesl Schubel

Join us via Zoom on April 17, 2025

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Meet WheatonArts 2025 Spring Creative Glass Fellows Danielle Brensinger, Andrew Bearnot, & Liesl Schubel! Together, they will discuss their unique, individual experiences and creative processes. Join us as we consider technique, approach, and problem-solving with these dynamic artists as they share what they have been exploring during their Fellowship at WheatonArts.

Closed captioning is provided.
This event is part of “Wheaton Conversations,” a virtual series highlighting a diverse community of Artists!
To see the full schedule of conversations, Click Here. 

Wheaton Conversations is generously presented by PNC Arts Alive! and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass.

Grayscale image of Danielle Brensinger. The image shows Danielle sitting at a glassblowing bench with a metal rod across the the sides of the bench. The top of a large piece of hot glass is pictured in the image at the end of the metal rod. Danielle has light hair, is wearing glasses, and is looking at the hot glass.

Danielle Brensinger
Los Angeles, CA
Throughout her artistic career, Danielle has explored her voice through various techniques involving glass and mixed media. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2012, she immediately became immersed in the world of glass lighting and production. Danielle previously lived in Brooklyn, New York where she worked as a freelance glassblower, artist assistant and educator out of UrbanGlass. During this time, Brensinger also taught as an adjunct professor at Salem Community College in New Jersey. Currently living in Los Angeles, California, she recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at California State University at San Bernardino, and has run a fabrication studio called Second Best Studio with her partner making work for other artists and designers since 2020.

Grayscale side profile portrait photo of Andrew Bearnot. Andrew has short hair, glasses, and facial hair. The image has a wavy streak effect to it.


Andrew Bearnot
Chicago, IL
Andrew Bearnot (b. 1986, New York) is an artist and self described “materialist”: Informed by a background in glassblowing and materials science, they think with and through the substance of things. Bearnot’s work explores moments of queer phenomenology in the everyday. Their sculptures, prints, drawings, and videos are invitations to calibrate oneself and to be calibrated by the world.

Grayscale image of Liesl Schubel sitting at a glassblowing bench. There is a metal rod across the sides of the bench and a small mass of hot glass at the end of it. Liesl is using a large pair of metal tweezers to shape the rod hot glass. Liesl has dark hair, glasses, and is looking towards the hot glass.

Liesl Schubel
Trenton, NJ
Liesl Schubel was born in Ontario, Canada in 1990, and currently lives in Trenton, NJ. As a queer person, the complexity of identity, home, and familial histories and relationships inspire their practice. Liesl is trained as a glassblower, having worked with glass for over 13 years. They are a founding member of the art collective Flock the Optic, a group formed to explore the meeting place of glass, performance, installation, entertainment, and happening. 

Liesl received their BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. They have since continued traveling, pursuing opportunities to expand their understanding of art and craft at institutions such as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA, and Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI. Liesl has worked extensively as an arts administrator in glass-focused, non-profit organizations, and from 2019-2023 held the position of Education Director at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. They currently live in Trenton with their wife and dog.