School celebrates new SPARK Park (US-TX)

Six weeks of heavy rain delayed the dedication ceremony for Meadow Wood Elementary School’s new SPARK Park, but principal Robye Snyder said it was worth the wait.
The focal point of the park — which was designed by parents Tom Read, of Prewett, Read & Associates, and Tom Marrow of Tomorrow Planning Inc. — is a [...]

Creating a gift for someone you love: brilliant smiles, shining art! (Canada)

“Their smiles shine as brilliantly as their art work!” said Elizabeth Hoadley, about the children who participated in a Mini-Masters Fine Arts Program pedagogical day workshop she conducted before the holidays for children of Genesis Elementary School.
Mrs. Hoadley, accomplished artist, art teacher, and mother of three, is also the founder and director of the [...]

Students get the chance to learn age-old craft of making stained glass (UK)

A BUSINESSWOMAN is taking her expertise to the classroom after signing up to teach a stained glass course.
Bryony Benwell, 39, who has worked on stained glass windows for Chequers, Westminster Abbey and the Wren Library in Cambridge, will be trying her hand at teaching with a 10-week Introduction to Stained Glass course at West Cheshire [...]

Stained glass artist creates works for charity (US-OK)

Sue La Lond has created enough stained- glass pieces to fill several houses — her house, her children’s houses, her grandchildren’s houses.
“I enjoy it very much, but there’s only so many windows in my home, and you only need so many dust catchers,” she said.
When your hobby and occupation are one and the same, there [...]

NY- Soho- Sicis Christmas Windows 2007

A NYC Blog with pictures of the Christmas Display at Sicis in Soho Here

Windows Worth Waiting For

When Eugenie Tung waits at Myrtle Avenue for the J train every morning, she often peers into the windows of the apartments that border the tracks. “I like to speculate on the lives of the people inside,” she said recently, shivering in the cold at the New Lots Avenue station of the L train, which [...]

Stained-glass chic is really, really old

For centuries, glassblowers tried to get the imperfections out of their handblown stained-glass windows. Then technology made perfection possible.
“Now homeowners seem to want the imperfections back,” says designer John Everage of Santa Monica, Calif. He’s one of many architects and designers who say their clients increasingly ask for handmade stained-glass windows that are designed, built [...]

Eastern Cape heroes remembered (South Africa)

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu travels the world as a peace advocate, but he now has a permanent reminder of his endeavours in South Africa — an almost life-size sculpture in East London in the Eastern Cape.

The sculpture, part of the Sunday Times’s Heritage Project, evokes Tutu’s humility and power.
The pigmented, concrete depiction [...]

New Group Seeks to save art in Portland Schools (US-OR)

A  new nonprofit organization on Monday launched to preserve art in Portland Public Schools. Not in the form of teachers, but literally the art on the walls.
Friends of Art in the Schools, a group of parents, art historians, educators and conservators, aims to preserve the historic works many local school buildings were decorated with [...]

Really? It’s All Made of Glass? (US-NY)

“Is that glass?” gulped the young girl to the docent taking a group of schoolchildren through “Shattering Glass: New Perspectives,” at the Katonah Museum of Art. “Yes,” the docent replied, “every single thing you see in this exhibition is glass.”
 Some of the displays don’t look like glass, and the exhibition is so rich in stylistic [...]