Through a Glass Darkly: Baltimore’s Stained-Glass Makers
Curated by Linda Rabben, Through a Glass Darkly: Baltimore’s Stained-Glass Makers features works by local stained-glass makers and the launch of the first illustrated book on the social history of stained glass in Baltimore.
These accomplished artists combine creativity and technical virtuosity to design, fabricate, repair and restore art-glass windows, sculptures, mosaics and other objects for installation in homes, churches and public buildings in Baltimore and beyond. Inheritors of this traditional art form, they are also highly skilled innovators. This exhibition of their work is meant to inspire the next generation of stained-glass creators and promote the preservation and advancement of the craft, whose future is unclear.
Stained glass has been an important decorative element in Baltimore’s built environment since the mid-nineteenth century. The windows’ design, fabrication and distribution were connected to the development of racial, religious and ethnic segregation as the city expanded. Many of the windows have been lost, but today the beauty of those that remain brings pleasure to diverse viewers. The exhibition features works by works by Len and Sherry Berkowitz, Wesley Bull, Loring Cornish, Alan Fittig, Mary Ann Henderson, Dan Herman, Shannon Katona, Reva Lewie, and Jeff Meyers.
Curator Linda Rabben is an author, a human rights activist and an associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park. Since moving to Baltimore in 2021, she has researched stained glass in and around the city. Through a Glass Darkly: The Social History of Stained Glass in Baltimore is her eleventh published book. For more information about the book and where to purchase it, visit Linda Rabben ’s website: https://wordworker.net.
A grant from the Maryland State Arts Council partially supported the book’s production and this exhibition.
Details
Date: November 18, 2023-February 4, 2023
When: Open during regular hours, plus after-hours special events
Location: The Peale, 225 Holliday Street, Baltimore
Collaborators
Curator: Linda Rabben
Featured Artists: Len and Sherry Berkowitz, Wesley Bull, Loring Cornish, Alan Fittig, Mary Ann Henderson, Dan Herman, Shannon Katona, Reva Lewie, and Jeff Meyers
Donations
Cost: Free | Donations Welcome
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