Urve Manuel is a Canadian glass artist, based in Newfoundland and Labrador. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she created around 1,000 sun catchers to raise funds for Ukrainians; she ultimately collected about $46,000.

Manuel has Estonian heritage through her grandfather.^[1] She attended university in Toronto before moving to Newfoundland and Labrador in around 2003.^[2] She was a firefighter and a sea kayak guide,^[3] and became a glass artist after becoming self-taught in around 2004 after attending glass work classes in the evening.^[4] She attended the United States for graduate classes in art.^[2]

Her glass work was exhibited in Toronto's One of a Kind Christmas show in 2013.^[2] She moved to Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2015, where she founded a glass shop.^[5] As of 2022, she continues to work there.^[6]

One of her pieces is a recreation of an ice-fishing shack, which is made out of several panels of stained glass.^[5] The piece—which depicts the northern lights and the animals of Canada, including polar bears and fish—was inspired by her childhood; she, her siblings, and her grandfather would often go ice-fishing together.^[5] It took several months to create, and was first displayed in 2022.^[5] In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to a large number of refugees fleeing Ukraine, she began creating sun catchers to fund-raise for charities in Ukraine.^[7] She said her family's personal history of fleeing Estonia during Soviet occupation was similar to Ukrainians fleeing their own country.^[8] She initially planned to create 25 sun catchers a day, but a rise in demand led her to create more.^[6] In May 2022, after about two months of working on the fund-raising project, she sold about 1,000, and raised about $46,000 for various nonprofits.^[6]