Location: Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Toronto, ON
Description: One of 42 windows for the Sanctuary, Narthex, Chapel, Reconciliation Room & Entryways
“To the religious person, everything is religious. God can be sensed, discerned and somehow found, in all created things. God’s first words in creation were: ‘Let there be Light.’ But light, the revealing creature, can also be contemplated in itself.”
PETER LARISEY, SJ
Location: Scioto Ridge United Methodist Church, Columbus, OH
Description: 20 Sanctuary, Clerestory & Narthex Windows
The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein.
PSALM 24
Location: St Catharine of Siena Church, Columbus, OH
Description: 54 Windows – Sanctuary, Nave, Transepts, Sacristy, Baptistery, Shrine, Porch and Narthex
“Stained glass captures sunlight and heightens our experience of it. Like clay that goes through the fire, light that passes through stained glass is transformed. Light itself becomes a tangible presence, as concrete as the walls and furniture. It also transforms the space within, giving it subtlety and poetic luminosity. If sunlight is what gives a building its soul, then it is stained glass that reveals the soul of sunlight.”
PETER COFFMAN
Location: B’nai Keshet Synagogue, Montclair, NJ
Description: Entryway, Clerestory and Sanctuary Windows
“B’nai Keshet is never the same. Coloured light streams in, patterns form on the walls, glass takes on a sudden glow —and in a moment, all of the colour, patterns and glow have disappeared or changed with the movement of the sun or a cloud. The windows possess a beauty that helps us to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. There is a strength to their geometric structure which invites our own quiet. And there is a playfulness to the windows which makes us want to sing in response.”
RABBI DAN EHRENKRANTZ
Location: Immaculate Conception Church, Woodbridge, ON
Description: One of 38 Sanctuary and Chapel Windows
“Her most uncompromisingly modern designs nevertheless show scrupulous regard for the essential reality of her medium as two-dimensional design in transparent colour and opaque line.”
K. COREY KEEBLE
Location: Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, ON
Description: 2 Narthex Windows
My image of the ‘the Kingdom’ encompasses both heaven and earth. The heavens spiral downwards. The sun warms the land and wheat grows joyfully and abundantly. Streams and water flow through the base of the windows.
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Location: Immaculate Conception Church, Toronto, ON
Description: 25 Choir Clerestory Windows
“Sarah uses colour and line in architectonic harmony much as choreographers blend movement, music, and the bodies of individual dancers into unified, complementary compositions. In Sarah’s work, the blend includes the subtle interrelationships between glass as window, glass as design, and glass functioning in concert with architecture.”
K. COREY KEEBLE
Location: Thomas a Becket Catholic Church, Canton, MI
Description: Sanctuary & Tower Windows
“Colour is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.”
KEITH CROWN
Location: St. Paul the Apostle Church, Burlington, ON
Description: Narthex Entryway & Chapel of Reservation Doors
“Stained glass has an immediate appeal to us, by reason of its emotive power, so much akin to ours, and its impassioned crystallization.”
ANDRE MALRAUX
Location: First Unitarian Congregation, Toronto, ON
Description: Tower Window and 3 Library Windows
The tower rises through the building like a crystal prism in its natural stone matrix with the glasswork adding a mystical, totemic presence. The stained glass design was inspired by the Unitarian’s flaming chalice symbol which represents Revelation. This sinuous, golden spiral of flames passes through a soft, white, veil moving upwards without end.
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