Bits and Pieces: Art Purchase Award

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Art Purchase Award

I'm thrilled to announce that my mosaic table, with a scene from the Chalmette Monument, has been chosen for a Purchase Award by the St. Tammany Arts Association. The piece will be displayed in a public place - thanks to all who have made this possible.

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Student Comments

Laura - Mosaic class Sept '09 -

"What I enjoyed about the class were these things - to name a few: your joy in sharing glass art with us, the wonderful assortment of glass to choose from, the care you took in organizing everything for us so that we didn't waste time in class, the extra mile you took showing us how to cut glass with a glass cutter; the extra project you offered us to do in independent time, the beautiful art studio, the website references so we can get inspiration and supplies by computer - and last but not least, your encouragingt of each of us in our individual expressions of beauty."

Carroll - Stained Glass & Mosaic student June '09 "We shared a lot of laughs. Rose is a really good teacher... Stained glass is wonderful and I'm glad that I had the opportunity to try my hand at it,...but I felt much more at ease with mosaic - which I plan to do more of."

Anna - Stained Glass class June '09 "I totally loved learning something so new and so utterly not feminine... You are always there, but don't hover. You suggest, but don't preach and you let me make my own mistakes. For me, that is a priceless gift."

The Students Appear

A Buddhist Proverb states "When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Appears." In this case, when the Teacher was ready, the Students appeared. And this teacher realized that her students were, in fact, her teachers. I received a grant from the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation to teach stained glass and glass mosaic classes in the summer of 2009, and this blog is the result of our ongoing classes.

I've worked in stained glass since 1980, and this art form became a sort of therapy for me then and over the years. The timeless appeal and the intrinsic beauty of stained glass has enriched my life as an artist and I hoped to encourage others to enjoy glass art through these classes.

When volunteers helped gut my warehouse in Chalmette after the storm, I was amazed to learn that they'd found and cleaned many sheets of glass that were stored there. They also found the first panel I'd designed and completed in 1980 – a rose entwined in the letter “G.” That piece now hangs in my post-K kitchen; it used to hang in my pre-K dining room.

The fact that something as seemingly fragile as glass had survived that wreckage, and that something so valuable to me was found by those volunteers, gave me hope. I'd like to 'pay it forward' with these introductory level classes. If you are interested in studio time to work on advanced stained glass panels or mosaics, I'd be happy to work with you.

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