stained glass windows

Yesterday, on a super hot summer afternoon, I led another workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s ArtLab. We made stained “glass” windows, which, in the spirit of a bright July day, were ultimately all about the energy of the sun.

Using recycled frames, colored tissue paper and contact paper, people of all ages worked side-by-side to create unique, personal, illuminated vignettes…

The creative process began with selecting colors and cutting shapes.

Compositions were built

and shapes were refined

until small stories emerged…

Finishing touches were carefully added.

And then each work was held to the light. At that moment, there were real oohs and ahhs from everyone in the room, as they watched the windows light up and glow with the sun…

So how cool is it to create your very own window?

Well… you can make one that reminds you of that hammerhead shark you just saw at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

  You can make one with your family in mind, to hang somewhere in your home.

You can make a window that you plan to take to your Grandmother in Lithuania

Or you can make one while working across from your mom…

so you’ll have both the experience and the works

which are pretty cool things for you to share…