Fall 2003

Two new fireplace screen designs commissioned by Front Gate.

Spring 2003

Kirk Reber teaching at Flager College

Spring 2003

Invited to "Art After Dark" at The Florida Theatre

Fall 2002

Fireplace screens being offered through Front Gate.

Fall 2002

Robert Padilla joins the Creative Glassworks team.

Fall 2002

Creative Glassworks donates restoration of St. Patrick Conferennce 100th Anniversary SGAA.

October 2002

Kirk Reber publishes article "Environment and Art".

July 2001

Kirk Reber and Creative Glassworks are featured in a spotlight article in the Jacksonville Times-Union for their contributions to the restoration of the Klutho Apartments. Read the full story here. In its heyday silent film stars would stay there while in Jacksonville. The windows in the structure, circa 1918, were designed by Henry Klutho, a renowned architect working in the Prairie Style at the turn of the century. This project is spearheaded by Michael Bryant of Fresh Ministries and is partially state-funded in part by city funds, the FloridaTrust for Historic Preservaton, and other private donations.

April 2001

We are proud to announce that St. Andrews Church in Jacksonville has received the "Preservation Excellence Award".

May 2000

We have posted pictures of our new facilities here. (May 29, 2000)

April 2000

We are proud to announce that Trinity United Methodist Church in Fernandina Beach, Florida, has received an award for Excellence in Historic Preservation from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

In an article written for the Community section of the Florida Times Union, Susan Respess writes:

"The Trinity Church was awarded an Outstanding Citation for work that repaired, restored, and reproduced its 25 stained-glass windows that are the hallmark of the circa 1891 church on Ash and Eighth Streets [Fernandina Beach, Florida]...The Trinity Church was an excellent project and the jury felt overwhelmingly that it should be a model of restoration for other churches," said Heather Mitchell, Executive Director of the Florida Trust, based in Tallahassee. Mitchell said "…the excellent work on the windows impressed every member of the preservation award jury. Creative Glassworks of Atlantic Beach meticulously restored and reproduced the windows."

Creative Glassworks would like to thank The Friends of Trinity for their support throughout our restoration of the windows. We also want to congratulate them for the success of the finished restoration.

To read more of the article go to: "A Model of Restoration" by Susan P. Respess (May 2000)

February 2000

Kirk Reber of Creative Glassworks was the featured artist in the February issue of The Environment and Art News Letter, Volume 13, Number 4. The article was entitled, "Doing Good Work".

January 2000

Creative Glassworks has moved! Due to our ever-expanding business - we outgrew our old studio. After months of hard work and construction we have completed our new facilities to better serve our clients. Our new location, in Atlantic Beach, Florida (5 miles outside metropolitan Jacksonville, Florida), has a spacious showroom with a wide selection of doors and numerous examples of our leaded glass designs. Our new production area is more than double the size of the old one and includes a carpentry studio for in-house finishing of doors. Our new address is: 1875 Mealy Street; Atlantic Beach, FL 32233. See photos of the new facilities here. (Jan. 10, 2000)

Creative Glassworks is proud to have some of their recent work published in the Florida Design Magazine, Vol. 9: No. 2 (Jan 10, 2000).

December 1999

We just finished additions to the entryway of Jacksonville Jaguar Kevin Hardy. We installed five new panels around the double doors, continuing with our original design which we installed last year. (Jan. 10, 2000)

August 1999

Creative Glassworks completed the preservation of the windows of Trinity United Methodist Church. All 25 windows, amounting to over 700 square feet of glass, have been cleaned, re-built with new lead, and re-installed in the church. Pictures documenting the 6 month preservation can be viewed on our Restoration Showcase page. We are now working on the final phase of the project: the thorough documentation of the newly preserved windows.

We are beginning a second phase of windows for the entryway of Jacksonville Jaguar Kevin Hardy.

February 1999

Creative Glassworks was recently commissioned by The Friends of Trinity Committee to completely restore the stained glass windows at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Actual construction on the project is tentatively scheduled for late February. We will be posting monthly progress reports and photos on our Restoration Showcase page - so be sure to check back often! The project will take approximately five months to complete. (Feb 7, 1999)

We are proud to announce that Creative Glassworks was recently awarded the distinct honor of becoming an accredited, full-service studio by the Stained Glass Association of America. We are one of only 95 accredited studios in the United States and the only accredited studio in North East Florida. (Feb 7, 1999)

We have just completed several handpainted windows for Steven Curtis Chapman.

We are also completing a five panel altar scene of the Beaches Baptist Medical Center here in Jacksonville beach.

We have completed the restoration of the St. James Church windows in McClenny, Florida. (Feb 7, 1999)

Past News

We just completed the re-creation of the leaded glass for the old St. Andrews Church in Jacksonville, Florida next to Alltel Stadium. The windows in this National Historic Register church were fabricated from bits and pieces of historical photos and a few of the original windows in the current St. James Church in MacClenny, Florida. The Nave and chancellery (over 475 sq. ft.) were completed in a record time of only nine days!

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