The Eye’s Have It

Nov 22nd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

With the expansion of a new building for the Dean McGee Eye Institute (DMEI) in Oklahoma City, Okla., came the need for an accompanying piece of public art. The Oklahoma Health Center Foundation and DMEI announced the results of an international call for artists competition in early April 2008. The team of Shan Shan Sheng [...]



WSU Preserving Joan Miro’s Only Glass Mosaic

Oct 3rd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

Wichita State University (WSU) is in the process of deinstalling a 26-by-52-foot glass mosaic on the facade of the Ulrich Museum of Art. The WSU Foundation is launching a $3 million public fundraising campaign to preserve every piece of the campus and community icon and, according to the announcement, the mosaic is a world masterpiece [...]



Art Glass Wall Brings Positive Thoughts to Light

Aug 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

Personal experience played a key role when it came to designing the 30-by-30 foot art glass window in the Nixon Meditation Room of the new Norton Cancer Institute, part of the Norton Hospital Complex in Louisville, Ky. Inspired by his brother’s five-year fight and ultimate survival from liver and pancreatic cancer, Kenneth von Roenn, Jr., [...]



Decorative Glass Companies Feature Innovations at NeoCon

Jun 20th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

NeoCon 2011 took place this week at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Several companies in the decorative glazing industry exhibited, showcasing a range of products. Watch the video below for more of what the show had to offer.



Decorative Glass Shines During AIA Show

Jun 9th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content, Video

A number of companies offering decorative glass products exhibited during this year’s AIA National Convention. Watch the video for a glimpse inside the New Orleans Convention Center where the show took place.



Local Artists Create Glass Panels for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport

Apr 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

Majestic eagles, soaring clouds, historic quilt patterns and our major river paths are just some of the inspirations for a series of art works that will be permanently displayed at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Four Art Glass Screens are being installed in Concourses A and C with five more screens to be installed by late [...]



Rhode Island Glass Artist Selected for Princeton University Installation

Jan 6th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

Jamestown, R.I.-based glass artist Paul Housberg has been selected to create six art glass walls for a new chemistry building on the campus of Princeton University. London-based Hopkins Architects collaborated with Boston-based Payette Associates and selected Housberg to create the decorative glass as his “work as a glass artist would befit the culture of the [...]



Mattress Store Gets Decorative Glass Makeover

Jan 4th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Content

An upscale mattress retailer in Los Angeles received a facelift by installing Modono glass tiles throughout the building. The orange and red dichroic tiles were used throughout the store to give an upscale feel for the interior and exterior while incorpating the company’s colors. The unique effect of using dichroic tiles is that the color [...]



Decorative, Dichroic Glass Featured in New Louisville Arena Pedway

Nov 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Content

Located on Main Street in downtown Louisville, Architectural Glass Art (AGA) recently completed its latest design project on the pedway, which connects the existing Galt House Hotel & Suites and the new KFC Yum! Center. The project was designed by AGA president and lead designer Kenneth F. von Roenn, Jr. The pedway allows pedestrians to [...]



New Stained Glass Window for New York’s Eldridge Street Synagogue Culminates 24-Year Restoration

Oct 14th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Content

The Museum at Eldridge Street, which is based in the 1887 National Historic Landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York, now features a new stained glass window created by artists Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans. The new window caps a 24-year restoration. The site of the commissioned window served as the focal point of the [...]