Intermediate Stained Glass: Working with Lead (Limited Offering)
Adult Multi-Week | Registration opens 11/5/2025 9:00 AM EST
If you’re familiar with copper foiling, you’ll love learning the leading technique. Come with a design in mind and glass to get started. We will review the designs and learn how to fabricate a leaded glass panel.
- STudents will provide their own supplies. Students must wear closed toe shoes. Please bring safety glasses. There is lead in the solder used, pregnant students should check with OBGYN before registering. Must have previously taken a stained glass class.
Accessibility notes: Many artmaking processes require the ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time, fine motor skills/finger dexterity, repetitive motions, vision, and some amount of physical strength. VisArts values making classes accessible to everyone, and is always happy to work with students to make accommodations when possible. Please reach out to info@visarts.org with specific questions related to accessibility or accommodations.
Paid studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
- See special notes for materials requirements.
Barbara Atkinson
For 46 years, Barbara has been a professional teaching artist specializing in stained glass. She worked and taught in several different studios before becoming a partner in Atkinson-Betts Stained Glass, creating custom installed architectural stained and etched glass for homes, churches and businesses. Since 2008 she has continued her craft studying with international glass artists at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Penland School of Crafts, and Wheaton Arts. Currently she is teaching stained glass and sandblasting at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, where she has been an instructor for 18 years.