Originally from Oak Park in Chicago, IL., Janine and her family relocated to Michigan where she and her three brothers spent their childhood surrounded by woods, open fields, and horse farms. These varied backdrops for life have influenced her work profoundly today.

Born into art, stemming from a long line of artists, she has been largely self-taught in the art of glass. First affected by this medium as a child while sitting in church, finding that glass has the ability to arrest light, functioning as a material rather than simply a transmitter of light. 

Janine began working in glass at the age of 17, working with and for architects, liturgists, churches, synagogues, public institutions, designers and private individuals to create site-specific artwork, secular and non-secular, while pursuing her own fulfillment in glass art.  Having a particular interest in traditional painted and fired glass, true “stained glass”, a technique that became a vehicle for figurative pictorial communication in the Middle Ages.

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