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 The
exhibition, “Reflections on Glass: 20th Century Stained Glass in American
Art and Architecture,” currently on display at The Gallery at the
American Bible Society in New York City, brings together a Holy Cross faculty
member and an alumna. Curated by Virginia C. Raguin, professor of visual
arts at the College, and organized by Patricia Pongracz ’92, the exhibit
profiles the major design concepts of glass in religious architecture in
the 20th century. Including information on technique, process and materials, “Reflections
on Glass” features windows by Tiffany, the Lamb Studios, Charles Connick
and Johannes Schreiter, as well as contemporary glass work by Saara Gallin
and J. Kenneth Leap.
Raguin received her Ph.D. from Yale University and her certificat d’histoire
de l’art moderne from the University of Toulouse in France.
A Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright Fellow, she is the recipient of grants
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston; the Corning Museum
of Glass; and the Society of Architects Award for Historic Preservation.
Pongracz, who studied with Raguin during her undergraduate years, calls
her former professor, “a pivotal person in my time at Holy Cross.”
Pongracz received her master’s degree and Ph.D. in art history from
Brown University. Her dissertation, Monastic Architecture and Female
Patronage in Thirteenth-Century France: The Royal Abbey of Saint-Jean-aux-Bois,
focused on the monastery’s buildings and the community’s documents
to illuminate how the women used and inhabited the complex built expressly
for their needs. Since 1999, she has worked at The Gallery at the American
Bible Society. In addition to her work there, Ms. Pongracz has lectured
and presented papers on monastic art and architecture at The Cloisters
and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and also at the International
Medieval Conference, held at the University of Leeds in England.
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