Stained Glass Enters Another Dimension

 During the first few days of Winterim, students in Stained Glass Creations have cut pieces of colored glass, ground pieces of glass down and fitted pieces together as they have worked on their projects. The Winterim has been led by Randy Gagne, who works with stained glass professionally and who is the owner of The Glass Menagerie.

The students started off today (Wednesday) by working on creating a three-dimensional hummingbird made entirely of stained glass. To make the hummingbirds, students took pieces of glass that they cut during the previous two days and ground them down until they matched the pattern for the bird's wings, tail and body.

While doing this, students had to grind each piece of glass down carefully and accurately so that once the bird's pieces are finally assembled and combined, they will fit snugly against each other.

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