I may be headed to Maryland and Virginia this week, weather permitting, to visit Anna Croyle and my brother.  

Anna and I worked together in my Stained Glass Studio in Baltimore Maryland and we are going to chat about whether or not we are going to share a booth at Artscape, which is a 3 day arts fair in Baltimore held each year in mid July.

There are a lot of things to discuss, like signage, what product to have displayed, advertising etc, but it will be fun to visit Anna and her family.

Then is off to Virginia to visit my brother and his family for 2 - 3 days...will be fun.

Have a great day.

Joe

PS - Don't forget if you are looking for a custom made Stained Glass Window, or Leaded Glass Window I'm your guy.  Let our Stained Glass Studio create just the perfect piece of Stained Glass for your home, business or place of worship.

I have been receiving a lot of calls and emails lately for pricing on stained glass repair projects.   I find this happens every year in last Winter as people look forward to Spring and taking care of projects that have been sitting for a while.  Currently, I have four repair projects in my studio.  One I need to install, when it gets warmer, so I can glaze the outside of the window, two are parts of a nine piece skylight and one was just dropped off the other day, which dropped from it's chain and broke several pieces.  

I find it interesting that I get so much repair work through my website and I'm not complaining, but I also like people to know that I do custom one of a kind Stained Glass Windows.  We do the work from design, to color choices to making each window by hand to installation.  

My studio is located in Bennington, Vermont, which is in Southwestern Vermont, in what they call the "Shires of Vermont".   I'm located less than an hour from the Capital Region of Albany, New York and only 15 minutes North of the Massachusetts border and the Berkshires.

So, if you are looking for custom made, one of a kind stained glass window, no matter where in the world you live, let me be the one to make it for you.  

Thanks for reading.

Joe

Bennington, Vermont weather today is snow flurries.

We are having a juried art show offering 100 pieces of artwork for $100 each.  It's a great event, and this year our entertainment is  the local jazz band Blueprint.  Should be a fun time.

Joe

PS - If you are looking to have a custom made stained glass window, let me know, I'd love to chat about your project.  I also do repairs and restorations.   

I'm hoping that they will be more marketable as a set, rather than having to purchase the items separately.  I missed the submission deadline for the one hundred for $100 art show happening in Downtown Bennington at the end of March.  I was hoping to have a quiet January, so I would have time to make some new work for the show, but it's been a crazy month and I didn't get to make any new work so exhibit.  I want to get ahead of the game for any further shows that may come up.  I need to be ready, how else does an artist make his money!  

I own a stained glass and fused glass studios in Bennington, Vermont.  I offer custom stained glass and leaded glass windows along with design and stained glass repairs.  I also create and sell utilitarian fused glass items.

View and buy my work on Etsy.com  Look for my Glass Fusion Studios of Vermont store.

Thanks for reading.

Joe

My vision of an even greater arts community would be to see  an old building renovated into artists lofts and working studios.  Offering classes, gallery walks, open studios and the like.  

Thanks for reading.

Joe

Bennington, Vermont is a great  place to be an artist.....email me and I can tell you why.

It's a great way to add interest to a window.

I hope to add photos soon.

Joe

Bennington, Vermont weather today was cold but sunny

I'll have new patterns, and keep the classes small, probably no more than 4 students at a time.  

I'll have both a beginners and an intermediate class, where students can pick their own projects (with my approval). 

I'm looking forward to teaching again, as it's been over a year since I held my last class.

Enjoy the day!

Joe

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I have decided that it's time for a new website presence.  Troy has found me a software product where I can make my own website, update myself and as often as i like.  I'm hoping that it will give me the look that I want.

My current website, designed by a professional, doesn't allow me to update it myself, as I don't know HTML, so I have to shell out $60 an hour to have someone else update it for me...nice gig.  

I hope to add a classes page, a for sale page and it will be easier for me to add new windows I've done, or rotate all the windows I've done over the years, just to keep the site fresh, and show what I can do.

So, I hope to have my new site done by Spring 2010, keep and eye out for it.

Have a happy 2010!

Joe

Bennington Vermont weather today - cold, chance of snow.

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After last years event, we had hundreds of people attend and most of the artwork was sold!

One Hundred for $100 basic premise is there are 100 pieces of artwork by varied artist that sell for $100 each.  It's a great event.  We plan to have at least 100 pieces of artwork, food, and music. 

If interested in this event as an exhibitor, let me know and I'll send you the prospectus.  If you just want to attend this free event, the location is still TBD, but I'll get you the information I currently have.

Just let me know.

Thanks,

Joe

PS - Don't forget, I can do custom stained / leaded glass windows for anyone anywhere...so don't let my location here in Bennington, Vermont scare you off.

Well, we here are Glass Fusion Studios of Vermont are missing the big blizzard that is hitting a lot of the East Coast today.  It's bittersweet as I would love to have a blizzard to stay home and work on some glass projects, and snowshoeing, but I won't miss the shoveling.

I have a couple new projects in the works.  One is a repair for one of the student housing homes at Bennington College.  It's a repair of a damaged leaded glass window, and should be a fairly easy repair.

The other project is a small lamp shade made out of discarded optical lenses I came across.  Each lens is wrapped in aluminum and I spent some time copper foiling them to get ready to build the lamp.  

I'll blog about each project separately as I get to them...hopefully in the next few days.

Hope all is well.

Stay warm.

Joe

Bennington, Vermont weather - change of snow (1 inch) and cold.