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Learn the Art of Stained Glassmaking in Ossining

Did you know there's a glass class at the Ossining community center and has been for many years?

There's still time to sign up for The Stained Glass Workshop meeting weekly, for eight weeks, at the Joseph G. Caputo Community Center, starting next week on Sept. 23.

Joan Peske of Frog Hollow Glassworks teaches in the "Tiffany" style with copper foil and students, both beginner and advanced, can complete at least one panel of stained glass.

Frog Hollow is the name of her home-based company, and she says it comes from the Revoluntionary-era name of her George's Island neighborhood, once called Frog Holler. Her land also has a pond on it with a lot of frogs. Here she has raised five kids and when she later found herself with more time on her hands, this former art major, got into glass-making, "I got into glass and have never stopped since," she said. She also fuses glass into jewelry and dishes and such but can't teach that without a kiln.

At the community center for the last 18 years, Peske instructs students in cutting the glass, grinding it, foiling it, and soldering it together to form panels about 8 by 10 inches big. She sells starter kits and materials for $140 if needed added to the class price of $80. You can find out more and sign up with the Ossining Recreation Department at 914-941-3189.

One Sleepy Hollow resident, who says he took a glass workshop many years ago, is eager to try to recreate the headless horseman panel that greets visitors to Sleepy Hollow's village hall. He also hopes someday to make a Tiffany-style lampshade. 

Peske said she had a student who was the groundskeeper of the local golf course and made a panel from a photograph of the 18th hole and clubhouse in the background.

What would you make?


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