Christina Miles
RISD’s Project Open Door Program
What better way to represent Rhode Island, the Ocean State, than a boat in a bottle? Project Open Door, a community arts program supported by the Rhode Island School of Design, draws creative urban teens from under-resourced public schools across the state. They participate in art classes and build a portfolio of work to prepare for college. Artist in Residence Christina Miles had these students create stained glass sailboats for this ornament design project. Christina teaches art and has been working in stained glass for 10 years. Through this project, the teens learned all the elements of making a stained glass piece—from cutting glass to joining the pieces together with solder.