C’ville Arts Features: “Just Imagine” by Norma Geddes
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sat, Aug 1, 2026 - Mon, Aug 31, 2026 10am - 6pm
Location
C'Ville Arts
118 E Main St
Details
Join us this August as we celebrate Norma Geddes as our Featured Artist of the Month! Norma's vibrant, inspired glasswork brings color and light into every piece she creates. Meet the artist in person at our First Friday opening on Friday, August 7, from 5–8pm.
Norma came to glass art unexpectedly. While buying stained glass for a kitchen renovation, she noticed a small sign that read, "Stained Glass Classes Starting." Says Norma, "Something in me said, 'Why not?' That simple moment opened a door I didn't know existed."
Within two months, she transformed a two-car garage into a working studio. For years she balanced a career in health care with intensive study in stained glass, kiln forming, and sculptural techniques. The studio became a sanctuary — a place where imagination could take shape in color, light, and heat.
Norma's recent work explores abstraction through broken pieces of blown glass. "When a box of fragments arrives from a glassblower, I see not damage but possibility. Each shard carries its own history, and assembling them into new forms feels like a conversation between what was and what could be. Joseph Campbell wrote that when you follow your bliss, doors open that exist only for you. Glass has been that door for me. Every day I enter the studio, look at broken glass, and just imagine."
