Yes, you read correctly. FREE GLASS. With your purchase of $40.00 and more, you receive 4 FREE CLEAR TEXTURES that range in size between 6×6 and 12×12. We choose the textures, but you get FREE glass! Here’s the catch…this offer is EXCLUSIVE to YOU. If you come in the store, mention you saw this blog. You will only receive this SPECIAL OFFER if you mention it.

ONLINE ORDERS: Please select the following item if you have purchased $40.00 or more. Please include SKU18054 in your order. Thanks!

SGE

ATTENTION LEAD AND METAL WORKERS!! Stained Glass Express has a new product for you! Clean-All Heavy Metals Hand & Body Soap allows workers to eliminate toxic heavy metal residue from their skin while reducing the need for harsh scrubbing! Check on our website to purchase. Just type in the SKU 14668 on our website, or give us a call at 207-872-9305 if you have any questions!

Just letting you know SGE will be doing a clean up of the studio soon. We would like it if you came by to pick up your finished/unfinished work by June 15 because we are cleaning the shelves OFF. If you can’t pick it up before then, call us at 207-872-9305 or e-mail us at info@stainedglassexpress.com to grab it and set …it aside for you…

Thanks for your cooperation!

SGE

If you are an art glass teacher who supports Stained Glass Express, we want YOU to come to our 2nd Annual Teacher Round Table Event. The event is June 3, 2011 from 4:30 – 6:00pm. Stained Glass Express wants to talk with you about different teaching methods, ideas and teacher projects that you may be having your students work on. Kindly RSVP to soo@opglass.com by May 27th. We will have refreshments, gifts and door prizes as well! Also, send your address, e-mail and name as well so we can put you on our list. Hope to see all you teachers there!

Thanks,

SGE

Lucie Boucher and Bernie Huebner embody, as they say, “a fusing of restless minds” through creative collaboration and, of course, fused glass! Lucie and Bernie believe that the only relevant bio to describe the man and the woman behind Stone Ridge Glass is their joint bio. A formal résumé would list five advanced degrees and an employment history including everything from hairdressing and firefighting to teaching at all levels from kindergarten through graduate school. By the time they came to glass, they were long past the age to go to art school. But as experienced teachers, it followed naturally that they would make their way self-taught.

Lucie was the leader, entering through traditional stained glass but quickly becoming frustrated with the refusal of cold glass to bend to her 3D mind. She remains the technical expert as well, both with glass and kiln. Bernie spent years teaching both the visual arts and the creative process, and brings a facility with tools and materials—elsewhere called jury-rigging—that serves them well. Of course there’s still considerable role confusion. Who’s the designer? Who’s the glass slave? (And at any given moment, how do you tell?—by counting who’s wearing more bandaids.)

Stuck up on their studio wall is a cliché which says “always make new mistakes.” Given the already considerable loss rate with complicated glass work, there is never-ending opportunity to deepen one’s knowledge of the craft. But sometimes failures—cracks, distortions, contaminants—serendipitously provide the chance to recast a design and salvage the piece. And sometimes the limits of glass lead one into uncharted territory, as with their innovative Glasscapes, the principle of which arose out of experiments with transmitting light through glass edge-on.

Glasscape

Glasscape

Hands of Time

Hope you enjoyed this little piece on Lucie. Come visit us and take a class from Lucie. Call 207-872-9305 for more details.

Thanks,

SGE