> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Julia Bergin > Reference:: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/world/australia/stained-glass.html > Date:: 2024 > Tags:: #warp #glass #Australia > WeftLinks:: [[Aesthetic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is experiencing a resurgence of popular interest]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Stained glass art is experiencing a resurgence a revival in Australia. ### Highlights The huge piece of blue, red, yellow and white stained glass cost about $34,000 and took more than a year to create and install. Now complete, the work by Jodie-Mae Holm, a Melbourne artist, wraps all the way around the top of the building’s bar, bistro and front desk. Ms. Holm, 27, has worked with stained glass for only three years, but she’s one of a dozen young artists who industry veterans say are responsible for helping revive the art form in Australia. “In 2015 we only had four young people under the age of 40 in the whole of Australia who had been trained to properly conserve stained glass,” said Donna Kennedy. She is the director of GLAAS, a nonprofit organization devoted to stained glass. One demographic, however, that artists say never lost interest in the art form were gay men. Rodney Marshall, 83, a longtime stained-glass artist and painter, said they were a consistent customer base. One of Ms. Kennedy’s main aims with the Melbourne Polytechnic course was to change that perception, to take the industry from “trade” to “art.” Mission accomplished, she said, with the young cohort of design-savvy and social media literate artists leveraging traditional techniques for contemporary us