Nancy Rody, a glass artist, has created original art glass since 1994.
Her first work was traditional stained glass windows and panels using
the lead came and the Tiffany copper foil techniques. Lead “came“, a
length of lead which is wrapped around cut pieces of glass and then
soldered together, was developed by the master artisans who for more
than ten centuries decorated churches and cathedrals in Europe.

At the end of the Victorian era L.C. Tiffany and his contemporaries
developed a method of joining small glass pieces together with thin
strips of copper, enabling artisans to create very detailed and
3-dimensional glass forms. Using this technique, Nancy has created
three dimensional glass structures such as lamps, boxes, business card holders
and kaleidoscopes, as well as metal overlay sculpture on glass, stained
glass skylights and ceiling panels.

In looking for new and creative uses for the medium of glass, she is
exploring glass fusing, a process that originated over 4000 years ago
in Egypt and Byzantium. Fusing uses colored glass heated in a kiln to
1500-1600 degrees. She uses dicrohic glass, which has the unusual
property of reflecting one color while it transmits another, in making
unique jewelry.

In 2005 Nancy was awarded a Best in Show and the Sponsors Award for
Creativity by the Port Townsend Art Guild in the Jefferson County Fair
art show. She has also received three Honorable Mentions as well as
seventeen blue ribbons in the last three years at this show. In the
fall of 2006 she taught a two day stained glass workshop at Fort
Worden. Her work has been shown at the Commons at Fort Worden and at
the Dream City Market and Café near Kala Point.

She retired in Port Townsend in 2003, after a 40 year career in
public health. Nancy has lived and worked in Alaska, Hawaii and
Micronesia, as well as areas of the US mainland, and has a doctorate in
public health. She has had a lifelong interest in art, beginning at
age 13 with youth training at the Corcoran Gallery and College of Art
and Design in Washington D.C. She and her husband decided to retire in
Port Townsend because of the beauty of the area and the strong arts
community in Port Townsend.

Nancy does commissions for custom stained glass windows and panels, and
stained glass repair.

Contact Nancy: rodys@olypen.com