Residency: Cumberland Regional High School

On February 4th, 2013 I began a 10 week residency at Cumberland Regional High School in Seabrook, NJ. I will be working with students to create 3 panels for the transoms over the entrance to the Performing Arts Center. During planning meetings with the school we arrived at a theme incorporating imagery from Cumberland County. Students in the high school engaged in collecting oral histories from family members to be considered for the final design.

PAC Exterior

PAC Interior

In planning for this project, I thought back to panels I designed for Ocean County Library in Tom's River as an approach to this project. These panels depict images from the history of Ocean County.

"THE VEIL of HISTORY" Ocean County Public Library

My research was inspired by many historic resources including maps like this.

Proposal Rendering

Panel 1 

Panel 2 

Panel 3 

Panel 4 

Panel 6

 I suggested a preliminary design for the Performing Arts Center panels using the imagery from Ocean County as a guide.

Rendering

Panel Rendering

Sample Layout Panel 1

Sample Layout Panel 2

Sample Layout Panel 3

 The 24 students who are participating in this program will add their own designs based on imagery from Cumberland County to these panel layouts:

Lead line design for Panel 1 

Lead line design for Panel 2 

Lead line design for Panel 3

This project will run through June of 2013.

Residency: Central Middle School - Long Hill, NJ

Starting March 5, 2013 I will be working with students from the 6th grade class at Central Middle school to make stained glass windows for the entrance to their school.

School Exterior

School Interior

Panel Design

Interior Rendering

Exterior Rendering

This residency will run through June of 2014

Nunc Licet Panel for Bryn Athyn College

DESCRIPTION
I proposed this design for a glass panel to be created for above the fireplace in the first floor lobby of the Brickman Center at Bryn Athyn College. The image features the Alpha & Omega symbol which is associated with the College and the Bryn Athyn community. The artwork would be created on mirrored glass with laminated pigments and gilding. The installation features interactive lighting elements. See details below.

Installation rendering 

Panel as first viewed

The faint imagery in the background includes drawings for the stained glass panels in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral which depict the succession of churches. Adding a further textural layer the writings of Swedenborg appear in latin text. As the viewer approaches the artwork proximity sensors trigger embedded lights. The words "Nunc Licet" and the image of the "Open Word" gradually become visible.

Nunc Licet fades "ON"

The open book fades "ON"

The artwork fully illuminated

Images copyright J. Kenneth Leap 2010. For further information about this artwork please contact the artist at: paintedwindow(at)comcast.net