ADAMS, Mass. - Lisa Mendel is an art teacher at Mount Greylock Regional High School, and about a month ago, she shared her passion with a wider audience and opened Mendel’s Stained Glass Studio in Adams. 

“A lot of times, people are like, ‘I’m not artistic,’” said Mendel, who grew up in Adams. “But with stained glass, it doesn’t matter. You pick out colors, and then you just kind of get to work.” 

What You Need To Know

  • Lisa Mendel recently opened Mendel’s Stained Glass Studio in Adams

  • She offers classes where students can learn the basics of making stained glass art

  • The classes are a big success so far, and Mendel said she didn’t expect them to be so popular

  • She hopes to expand her offerings and include more complex projects in the future

 Mendel offers four-week classes where students create two stained glass pieces they get to take home. She gears most of the classes towards beginners.

 

“Most of them haven’t cut glass before, so we just start basic,” said Mendel. “We cut glass, just plain, clear window glass, and we kind of move on from there to cut different colors.”

Mendel said she’s blown away at how popular the classes are, and her students are enjoying themselves too.

“I’m liking it a lot,” said Molly Graether, who had Mendel as an art teacher while at Mount Greylock several years ago. “Lisa is a great teacher and she has such a good collection of glass and such a nice space here.”

“Something that’s really cool about stained glass is that it involves all this equipment that I wouldn’t have known how to use before I took this,” said Nora Zahn, another student in the class. “So yeah, I’d love to come back now that I have some skills and make more things here.”

After this first round of classes are over, Mendel said she wants to expand her offerings and help her students continue to learn and work on more complex projects.

“We can start building boxes and doing frames and lamps,” said Mendel. “And different kinds of things that you would do with stained glass.”