Angela Babby revives and combines ancient techniques into a unique form of art: enameled glass mosaic. Unlike other glass artists, she expands upon traditional stained glass techniques with kiln-fired enamel details in her mosaic art. Her “glass-on-glass” approach combines her love of painting with the luminosity and saturation of color uniquely expressed in glass. The artist explains, “Glass contains light. When I depict a person from the past in glass, it has a three-dimensional depth that I could never achieve with paint.” A hallmark of her work is how the subject matter strikes the viewer with its emotional content. An enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe, Babby’s Lakota ancestry influences her work and the mysterious nature of glass. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1990 from Montana State University in Billings.

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