Join The Peale and curator/author/professor Linda Rabben for a reception celebrating the exhibition and book launch of Through a Glass Darkly: Baltimore’s Stained-Glass Makers. The exhibition features works by local stained-glass makers, including Len and Sherry Berkowitz, Wesley Bull, Loring Cornish, Alan Fittig, Mary Ann Henderson, Dan Herman, Shannon Katona, Reva Lewie, and Jeff Meyers.

Stained glass has been an important decorative element in Baltimore’s built environment since the mid-nineteenth century. The windows’ design, fabrication and distribution were connected to the development of racial, religious and ethnic segregation as the city expanded. Many of the windows have been lost, but today the beauty of those that remain brings pleasure to diverse viewers.

Curator Linda Rabben is an author, a human rights activist and an associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park. Since moving to Baltimore in 2021, she has researched stained glass in and around the city. Through a Glass Darkly: The Social History of Stained Glass in Baltimore is her eleventh published book. A grant from the Maryland State Arts Council partially supported its production and this exhibition.