Glass artist Linda Lichtman worked in collaboration with community residents to design, fabricate, and install a permanent stained glass window in the library. With neighborhood volunteers acting as apprentices in stained glass techniques, all of the work on the project was conducted on site during a three month artist-in-residence program from January to April of 1981.
Lichtman began her career with the unusual combination of graduate degrees in painting (at the Massachusetts College of Art) and social work (at Simmons College). She has practiced stained glass artistry since the 1960s, but her earlier training can be detected in the abstract, painterly quality of her work and in her sensitivity to the ways in which people experience public environments. Lichtman studied glasswork at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Pilchuck Glass Center in Washington, as well as with the renowned English glass artist Patrick Reyntiens. She has exhibited at the Boston Architectural Center, Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, and the Brockton Art Museum, and has received commissions for public installations throughout New England.
Commissioned through the Cambridge Arts Council's Public Art Program. Funded by the Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Organization of Portuguese Americans, The Artists Foundation, and a grant from the Massachusetts Arts Lottery, a program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered by the Cambridge Arts Council.
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