Glass Citiscapes grew from my playing with stained glass projects to designing and creating fused glass jewelry and gifts to a desire to address the emotional connection many people have with pieces of their lives.

My journey through broken glass (both accidental and deliberate) began in the mid-eighties in Ybor City, Florida, in West of the Moon stained glass studio. The instructor granted each of us the incredibly liberating permission to break glass. An intriguing medium, glass has a seemingly contradictory appeal - despite its inflexibility and cool hardness, glass can soothe or excite through designs, shapes, shades, textures, and finishes that slide in and around a piece creating often unexpected responses.

New York City, where I began my professional teaching career, met my husband, and birthed my children, had been our home for 15 years before our move to Florida in 1980 and a subsequent move in 2009 to North Carolina. Following September 11, 2001, my glass art changed. Glass Citiscapes was born.

As a tribute to both professional and civilian first responders, the World Trade Center dominating my first skyline features irridized clear glass, which shines with reflective brilliance; all other structures in every skyline I have since created use clear, textured glass. The world has changed since 9/11. What has not changed, however, is the connection people have to cities which have shaped or added incomparable experiences to their lives. Glass Citiscapes honors and celebrates those experiences.