About

Who (or what) is Glass Garden Workshop?

Is it a person? A place? A school? A garden for the artistic process to grow?  Well....all of the above.

Artist Julie Feigum, originally from the Chicago area, was

fortunate to be exposed to the culture that the Windy City provided. 

After moving to Iowa in her later teens, she searched for a means to

express her artistic spirit, in the starkly different environment that

living on a farm presented.  Always drawn to the older architecture

prominent in the bucolic corn-belt communities, she found an outlet

working on older homes, which often were left in a state of disrepair. 

Something about the forgotten effort of the craftsmen that created

these homes, compelled Julie to apply her talents to bringing them

back to life.

Necessity being the mother of invention, Julie needed to repair the leaded and stained glass windows in these old homes. This inspired her to seek out a teacher, that could help her acquire the tools to restore these timeless artworks.  As one thing often leads to another, her new skill brought an explosion of artistic expression, that has carried on unabated to this day. Bringing other people’s art back to life, while rewarding, wasn’t fulfilling her need to create.  Her studio in Central Wisconsin, allows her to incorporate the aesthetic and soul of her life experiences, into creations that truly have meaning.