Todays Goal: Get Info Ready For Newsletter

365 Days Of My Life As A Studio Artist: Day 3

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Day 3 Growth Idea: Newsletter Information

I have been sending my newsletter through Constant Contact but haven't done one in a while. I'm past due. Today I gathered some information that I like to include: Window of the Month from the Michigan Stained Glass Census and emailed it to my office so we can begin our next edition. The photo above is the latest featured church in the census. I am actually skiing at Boyne Mountain with my kids and husband this week-end... so didn't do much but this will get me started. Yesterdays web site additions went well. Dana and I got to put a few new items in and I was able to leave quite a few for her to work on while we were skiing. Without these goals, I may not have done that.

My History: My first years in college consisted of wanting to follow my passion for art, and my sensible self telling me to focus on more practical classes. Whenever things would get too difficult, trying to work full time and going to school in the evening, I would drop my art class. Looking back, I wish I never would have done that but it seemed like the right decision at the time. I continued working for Manufacturers Bank full time and going to school part time in Dearborn. I met my husband during these years and loved his passion for whatever he was doing .. which was similar to myself.

Toady's Business: I was able to leave quite a few products for Dana to add to my web site this morning while we were skiing. Yesterdays goal of creating a procedures page for went well. It allowed Dana to be comfortable working on them while I was out of the office today.

Pat Deere

Fall Newsletter 2009

My Fall Newsletter is published! To get it sent to you via email, send me an email and ask me to put you on my email list. It has active links to a lot of informative sites and pages. This will get you to a copy of my newsletter on my web site. Let me know what you think!

My quarterly Newsletter has finally arrived. Articles you should find helpful:
~Save 40% Off In Stock Glass
~Stained Glass Census - Window of the Month
~Lenawee Medical Facility Window Installation
~Protective Glass Information
~How It's Made
~Upcoming Events
~Great Gift Ideas
~Kitchen Cabinet Inserts
~The Log Furniture Division has finally arrived!

Newsletter link: http://www.picturesinglass.net/page/394502209

Pat Deere

Window Of The Month

Cathedral of St. Paul, Detroit, MI.
Built 1911. Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, architects.

The following information was taken directly from the Michigan Stained Glass Census web site. For those of you who only hear bad things about Detroit... think again. There are so many treasures, like this one, that people really need to hear about. Click on the Window Of The Month link on this blog for details and photos of the windows.

Many of the early Episcopal churches in large cities possess a who's who of the late 19th and early 20th century world of stained glass. The Cathedral of St. Paul in Detroit is no exception. The building was designed (1908-1911) by Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, the famed Boston architectural firm. Architect Ralph Adams Cram is said to have planned the overall theme for the stained glass windows, which eventually included the participation of several fine American and European studios: Charles Connick; J&R Lamb Studio and the William/Henry Willet Studio; from Germany, Mayer Studio; and from England, Powell & Whitefriers and Heaton, Butler and Bayne. St. Paul’s was designated a state historical property in 1980 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This location is the administrative home for 97 Episcopalian congregations throughout southeast and mid-Michigan, supporting 15 Diocesan-wide social service agencies/programs and chaplains at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

Hope you are having a happy Monday!

Pat

Michigan Stained Glass Census - Window of the Month

January, 2009 Window of the Month

River Terrace Church was organized in 1934 under the name of First Christian Reformed Church of Lansing. In 1969 the congregation moved from its first building in central Lansing to its present home in East Lansing, located across from the MSU campus. Designed in a contemporary style by architect Dan Vos of Ada, MI, the building is situated on the banks of the Red Cedar River. The name of the church was changed in 1978 to River Terrace Church. In 1997 a major addition, designed by Mike Mayotte of Mayotte Group Architects in Lansing, MI, provided needed space for classrooms, nursery, gym, gathering place and offices. The church will observe the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding in 2009.The location of the church beside the Red Cedar River influenced the theme of its sanctuary windows, “The Flow of God’s Spirit.” Designed by Robert Johnson and fabricated in 2000 by Conrad Schmitt Studios of New Berlin, WI, five adjacent windows represent the Spirit of God as a flowing and life-renewing river. The central window holds images of the sun and moon, together with a dove and a rainbow, symbols of the Holy Spirit; other images in the windows suggest stars and falling rain. The theme of the windows is based also on scriptural passages that refer to the healing powers of a spiritual river. (Jeremiah 17:7-8; Ezekiel 47:9).Conrad Schmitt Studios, founded by Conrad Schmitt at Milwaukee in 1889, has been directed by three generations of the Gruenke family since 1951. Designer Robert Johnson has been with the studio for over fifty years.

This information was taken from the web site: http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/jan09.html . Visit the site monthly to view a new Window of the Month, see if your church or glass is listed, or ask questions. Click on this web link for a full article and photo of the installation.

If you would like more information about the Michigan Stained Glass Census, feel free to call Pat Deere at Pictures In Glass and she will answer your question or forward the information on.