Location: Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, Milwaukee, WI
Description: Tabernacle Screen in the Chapel
“Sarah focuses on the whole environment, the quality and movement of light. There are always layers and layers of different ideas and glass contours. Hundreds of different experiences each time you see her work. I would call what she does sculpting with light.”
JOHN MACADAM
Location: Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, Milwaukee, WI
Description: 4 Windows – Foyer / Narthex Windows
“The windows reflect and dissolve the architecture and create all manner of different understandings. When you enter the space and get an impression of the windows, it isn’t an impression of storytelling. It is ambiance, mood and a certain amount of mystery and other-worldliness.”
PILLIP MARKWOOD
Location: Massey College, U of T, Toronto, ON
Description: 9 Windows for the Upper Library
“Light teaches discernment, and nowhere more convincingly than in the observation that too much light on an object as well as too little can hide essential details. It is no wonder that the boundaries between zones of darkness and places of light —the transitions, shadows, and eclipses — have provided and continue to provide the most profound insight.”
URSULA M FRANKLIN
Location: Our Lady of the Bay Secondary School, Collingwood, ON
Description: Main Chapel Window
A vivid sun, taken from Champlain’s 1617 Map & New World sketches, is the anchor for the window, its sweeping rays of light encompassing all of Creation. Radiant light passes from the heaven sat the top of the window to the shoreline of Collingwood’s Georgian Bay.
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Location: St. Teresa of Calcutta Elementary School, Cambridge, ON
Description: 2 Rosette Windows – Foyer and Library
A speeding comet and the emblematic blue and white bands of Mother Teresa’s headscarf remind us of her famous quote “Come Be My Light”.
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Location: June Callwood Centre for Young Women, Toronto, ON
Description: 10 Optical Glass Windows for the Nursery
“The stained-glass window Sarah Hall did for Jessie’s should be part of tours of this city. They are, literally, stunning. Made up of prisms and bits of iridescent glass, they shatter sunlight into dancing colour that mesmerizes us. The effect is delight: people always smile when they first see the windows. I call that art at its finest – creating not only beauty but a message about the human spirit.”
JUNE CALLWOOD
Location: Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC
Description: 3 Glass Facades for the Bell Spire – 204 panels
The new glass bell spire at Christ Church Cathedral is a lantern for the community. The message of the Cathedral is expressed as a meeting place of land, sea, sky and bell chime within a spire of windswept candlelight.
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Location: Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Retreat Centre, Pickering, ON
Description: Retreat Room Windows
“It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.”
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Location: Embassy of Kuwait, Ottawa, ON
Description: Staircase Window details, North Corridor Window
At the end of a long passageway is a turquoise gem evoking the azure colour of the Sea of Kuwait. The delicate windblown reeds draw us towards the corridor’s transparent veil.
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Location: Embassy of Kuwait, Ottawa, ON
Description: Reception Foyer/Staircase Window
This expressive glass façade frames a white marble staircase in the Embassy reception room. Gold and copper leaf are applied in a gestural, calligraphic abstraction that floats across a sandy, coral landscape. Columns of geometric, screen-printed Islamic design are interspersed in the moving sea. The combination of colours and textures cast ever-changing light patterns on the marble and glass balustrade.
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