First Year High School Art Students Create Stained Glass Buckyball




Fish Motif

A class of talented students learned stained glass from parent and professional studio artist Michael Martino. After working together to accomplish a three panel stained glass mural that now adorns the math and science wing, each student designed a fish in a hexagon or pentagon that came together in the C60 buckyball spherical geometric form. This idea emerged when we were in the middle of the mural and visited Virtual Reality Polyhedra web site. There we found a conceptual stained glass sphere. Our students said, "that's a great idea, let's really make one", and so they did. This glass covered polycarbonate orb is now a hanging light in the art room.

Students completed their stained glass work by making independent window hangings

Kerry Stefancyk, Allison Cahill, and Jessica Smith apply grout made of latex painter's caulking, grout, and tint black

  • Our first mural
  • Uxbridge High School Main Entrance
  • "Mike's Dolphin" donated to UMASS Hospital
  • "Ali's Dream" donated to UMASS Hospital
  • Stained Glass Orb
  • Van Gogh Stained Glass Windows on Art Room Doors
  • Field Trip to Martino Stained Glass Studio
  • The History of Stained Glass
  • Explorers
  • Index
  • Virtual Reality Polyhedra
  • Termespheres
  • Index