Glass Art for Educational Space

Educational

The Nursery Windows

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

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Heaven Sent

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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Lights of Heaven

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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The Wisdom Windows

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

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Four Doctors Window

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

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Garden of Eden

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

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Tree of Life

Location: Western Theological Seminary, Holland, MI
Description: Prayer Room Window

The art committee offered thoughts about inspiration, exploration, and the continuum of memory, making it clear that the artwork for the new seminary was meant to inspire spiritual meditation and to generate discussion, not copy well-known images. The idea that resonated the most was “continuum of memory,” which opened the door for symbols and visual impressions to be imprinted in the glass.

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City of God

Location: Western Theological Seminary, Holland, MI
Description: Narthex / Foyer Window

The window design draws on strong connections between the seminary, human and religious history, the local community, and the surrounding landscape. They include local imagery: Lake Michigan, trees by the lake, sand dunes, and even the town plan of Holland framed by white trees, based on scriptural text from Revelations.

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Singing the Light

Location: Greenwood College School, Toronto, ON
Description: 5 Floors of integrated Interior Glass Screen

Singing the Light is an integrated artwork continuously spanning 60 feet and five floors at Greenwood College School. The trees, root systems, spirit house colours, birds and light are an allegory for the school community. On each floor, I created an interplay of transparent, translucent, and opaque glass — giving a sense of layered depth and mystery.

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Singing the Light

Location: Greenwood College School, Toronto, ON
Description: 5 Floors of integrated Interior Glass Screen

Symbolically, the trees speak to the role of the teachers with their grounded outreach and sheltering branches. Moving around and through the branches are the birds in eight spirit house colours, creating a connection to students. The richly coloured root system celebrates the founders of the school.

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