Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...

Many artworks commissioned by the rich and powerful for their final resting places have rarely been seen by the living for the last century. The mausoleum of Henry Herman Westinghouse at Woodlawn ...

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Talk to David Graves for an hour, and it’s easy to imagine him hiking a mountain in Alabama and stopping to soak in the sunrise. You can picture him admiring a cityscape in Birmingham, sizing up a ...

I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...

Stained glass, an art form of light and memory, is at the centre of a global conversation about heritage, conservation, and ...

Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity – Percy Bysshe Shelley I often find peacefulness in a soaring stone church, a cool open place to sit and contemplate.