All At Once, Reflected Through Glass showcases the artistic practice of glass as a medium of resistance. Utilizing the medium for critical and transformative storytelling, the artists’ works reflect on social issues and inequities while connecting with personal and collective histories, creating a space for dialogue within a complex multicultural world. Together, these textured expressions invite viewers to engage with their respective messages, consider their broader social context and challenge the traditional, predominantly white narratives of glassmaking.

This exhibition revisits the industrial legacy of New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood, centering on NXTHVN’s campus. Once home to H. Puddicombe & Company (a manufacturer of art and leaded glass from 1920 to 1945) and the Macalaster Bicknell Company (a key producer of laboratory equipment and glassware from the 1940s to 2012) this building is a relic of Dixwell’s manufacturing past, before its adaptive reuse and establishment as an arts incubator in 2019. Blending the history of glass production with NXTHVN’s mission to disrupt the art world’s status quo, this exhibition highlights resistive and radical art-making through glass.