commissions in etched glass

Generations

etched and pieced mouth-blown glass in Soldotna, Alaska

Imagine three corridor walls of glass, a total of 120 square feet of it in stained glass, color and pattern above, with clear window below. Steve Scheibe collaborated with artists Vivienne McConnell of North Carolina and Valerie Collins of New York to create Generations. They used the Kenai River currents and salmon as metaphor for the exchange of knowledge in the learning and shaping environment of Kenai Peninsula College, a branch campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Here is a link to a few KPC installation photos

Click here to view the project documentation.
 

Bear Mountain Birch, Chugiak Alaska

bear mountain birch - deeply etched glass wall between loft and vaulted room. Created fall 2007 - These photos show two sides of just one section of forty linear feet of etched glass in this residential site in Chugiak, Alaska. The glass is blasted with grit in five layers of varied depth.

This site required a child-safe and elegant barrier between the loft and room below. “Birch” is the dominant theme throughout the architecture and décor of this Alaska home at the foot of Bear Mountain. (Note the birch trees just outside the windows.) The artist created the entire work onsite using the trees, leaves, and mountains as models.

view from east/room below

Bear Mountain Birch, Chugiak Alaska

view from west/loft

More of the project...

Here a half-wall of etched safety glass finishes the stairwell.
This glass is on the main floor below the loft.

(Birch partly visible at the top of this photo are painted water-cut steel - patterned after the glass etched birch designs.)