GlassRoots Announces Board Leadership Change, New Board Members

This year marks GlassRoots 17th year serving the greater Newark community and the organization is making an unprecedented push to plan its future and meet community needs by honing and expanding its offerings.

On Saturday, June 2, 2018, GlassRoots Board unanimously voted to elect Sheila Kenny, Esq. as its Chairwoman and to add two new members to its Board of Directors to help guide the Glass Arts Non-Profit's mission to "ignite and build the creative and economic vitality of greater Newark, with a focus on under-served youth and young adults, through the transformative power of the glass art experience." The new board members are Dr. Sherri-Ann Butterfield and Will Simpson.

The organization also announced that its immediate past chairwoman, Kathryn Markel, will chair GlassRoots Campaign 20/20 to raise capital funds as the organization renovates the first floor of the old St. Michael's Hospital - an abandoned historic building - into a creative hub that will serve youth and adults throughout Newark and throughout New Jersey. The re-imagined site will connect community members with arts and education and drive economic growth towards revitalizing a once blighted neighborhood. GlassRoots is planning its move from its current location at 10 Bleeker Street in Newark to the new Newark Arts Common at 111 Central Avenue in the early spring of 2019.