 Marty Meade
Marty Meade began teaching stained glass as a Fine Art in 1978, in the midst of the "New Glass" movement.
She was guest lecturer at Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 1982 she testified before the California Assembly
as the expert in the field on changing AB3299 to include stained glass. Her mentors were Judy North ( known then
as Judy Raffael) and Roger Darricarrera in Chartres, France. Her "claim to fame" was a window for Elton
John.
The medium of watercolor became important to Marty as it was the vehicle which made her glass work more fluid,
helping to eliminate the cartoon effect of traditional glass. This new medium eventually took its own form. It
allowed her to express, in a series of portraits, her own family of origin which is Mexican American and Pima Indian.
Her work celebrates, grieves, memorializes, protests and worships from a place of deep spirit.
|