An artist there bends over an oval piece of glass and carefully paints eyebrows and beard on the face of a saint. She'll fire the oval in a kiln before adding a new color. In fact, she' ll fire this oval 12 times before the face is finished. Someone pulls a sheet of cobalt blue glass out of a wall rack where thousands of sheets of glass stand on end, like library books. Displayed by the entry is a series of pre-designed doors and windows offered by Bovard Studio.
Projects are everywhere.
Leaning against the front wall and spanning the studio's window is a 12-foot tall stained glass window. It glows in the afternoon sunlight. It has seen better days. The glass is sagging. The arched wooden frame is dry rotting.