In 1988, WMF collaborated with the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts to restore the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, New York. WMF assisted in the development of an in-house conservation and training program for stained glass to address the increasing need for skilled craftsman in the field. (...)
In 1988, WMF collaborated with the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts to restore the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, New York. WMF assisted in the development of an in-house conservation and training program for stained glass to address the increasing need for skilled craftsman in the field. It was a particularly acute problem, as so many important stained glass works are found in religious properties, schools, and other venues where there are not necessarily conservators and skilled craftspeople readily available. Capitalizing on the expertise acquired in the stained glass studio after years of restoring the windows of the Brooklyn Heights church, and wanting to continue the work of training young apprentices, WMF and the stained glass conservation team from St. Ann’s restored the two windows of Saint David’s. The windows were cleaned of soot and layers of over-paint, and the thick lead that had been used in a 19th-century restoration was removed. Before being reinstalled, five panels out of the 16 were shown in the World Monuments Fund Gallery in the spring of 2002, in an exhibition titled Masterworks in Stained Glass: Rediscovering the Renaissance Windows from Saint David's School.
