“I enjoyed making the chalices included in this show because they allow me to step back in time and imagine how this style of work was made hundreds of years ago when this type of glassware was in fashion."

Matthew began his art career at University of the Arts in Philadelphia as an Industrial Design student. In 1997 he received a scholarship to The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York to study with Master Gianni Toso. After that workshop he changed majors to glass and has not looked back. Since 1997 he has been on staff at Pilchuck Glass school, and taught at The Corning, Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, and the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. Matthew has been a resident artist at The Corning, Penland, Tyler School of Art, The Melting Point in Sedona, Arizona, and Art Glass in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Matthew worked as a gaffer for GlassLab at The Corning. For the last 20 years he has owned and operated Furnace Urbini Glass Works in Normal, Illinois, where he makes his production line and commissioned works for artists and designers.