Broken Glass Turns into Fine Art

Over the first half of Winterim, the Stained Glass Creations Winterim has worked on learning the techniques necessary to create different pieces of stained glass art. Students worked by cutting pieces of glass, grinding the pieces down to fit each other, and then connecting the pieces to form their final products.

Some of the types of projects that the group worked on during the first week were: light-covers, or window type pieces, such as the pieces with the dolphin and the teddy bear, which are meant to have a light shined through the back of them; three-dimensional hummingbirds, which are made of different colors of glass and are meant to hang in mid-air; and color wheels, which will eventually go on kaleidoscopes.

For the rest of the week, students will be continuing to create their own stained glass pieces using the same techniques they learned by creating their first required projects.