Stained Glass
Julie Bortnick 

 Julie Bortnick is an Elkins Park stained glass artist. She has always been fascinated by the beauty of stained glass. In her days as a travel agent she had the opportunity to visit and learn from stained glass panels of many periods and styles throughout the world...both ancient and modern...both religious and secular. What she finds most interesting about stained glass is its ability to look completely different when viewed by day ir by night and also its unique ability as an art form to transmit its color from the panel to other surfaces in a room. A magic light show!

     Julie creates her panels using both the newer, copper foil tape (Tiffany style) and older lead came (lead channel) forms of construction. To create both 2 and 3 dimensional works. 

     Julie wears many hats...

She creates stained glass works

She teaches stained glass 

She lectures about the art of stained glass 

She is an associate director of the art galleries at Rydal Park and Waters communities.

    Her work is in private collections in Israel, Saudi Arabia, England, Canada and the U.S. 

     Julie has received awards from Woodmere Art Museum and the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.

   Her home is her gallery and classroom.