Community Bench: Bellefonte Area – Stained Glass Windows

 

Artist: Elody Gyekis and Community

Location: Saint John Lutheran Church (entrance to drive), 216 McCallister Street, Bellefonte, PA 16823

 

The community benches are based on themes generated at the community meetings that were not covered by other artists. At the Bellefonte meeting many people shared how much they loved the beautiful Victorian architecture and the detailed decorative stained glass and wrought iron work.  The bench design includes composite stained glass windows from around Bellefonte and a few from other parts of Centre County, both from churches and secular buildings, and also a wrought iron fence from historic Bellefonte. 

 

Bellefonte Middle and High School Art Teachers, students and community members participated in painting this bench.  Bellefonte Middle School hosted the community painting event in their art room.

 

”Of all of the Public Art Projects I have helped bring to fruition, this has been the most expansive in reach and most logistically complex. It has been a real pleasure working with my incredible partner in the project, Ann Walker, all of the artists who created proposals and painted benches, all of the community members who leant their hearts and minds to the idea building process and all of the community members who showed up and helped to paint the community benches. (Ann Walker asked me to help direct the project!)”