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Country Acres Saturday, May 18, 2024
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Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment
Volume 11, Edition 07
Going on nearly
50years of craftsmanship
Spectrum Stained Glass Studio producing windows, lamps since 1975 BY SARA EISINGER STAFF WRITER
DASSEL - The sun’s light shined through six stained windows of the Dassel Covenant Church, casting an iridescent rainbow over the pews where artist Tom Nelson, of Spectrum Stained Glass Studio, stood. The artist soldered together an assortment of shapes and colors to symbolically portray the life of Christ. “We all have a biblical image of what Christ’s life was like,” Nelson said. “These images help to get peo-
ple thinking about what took place. Someone can look at the crown of thorns and draw their own image.” Nelson has been creating stained-glass windows and Tiffany-style lamps for homes, churches and businesses since 1975. Nelson works out of the garage on his property along Lake Washington in Dassel. Nelson ships his work across the country. His hometown church project is filled with representation. Images shown in the chapel’s first stainedglass window portray Christ’s birth. “There are the wise men and three gifts,” Nelson said. “There is the star that the wise men followed.
PHOTO BY SARA EISINGER
Stained glass artist Tom Nelson fits cut and sanded glass to match his graph April 1 at Spectrum Stained Glass Studio in Dassel. He hopes to brighten the hospice unit at Annandale Care Center.
There is a manger with baby Jesus.” The second window represents Christ’s life, and a third displays miracles performed by Christ. A fourth window represents the Jordan River, baptism and Holy Communion.
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PHOTO BY SARA EISINGER
Spectrum Stained Glass Studio owner Tom Nelson created stained glass to be installed in his church in Dassel. Nelson incorporated a flaming torch in many of the windows at Dassel Covenant Church to reiterate the message, ‘Let your light so shine before men’ — Matthew 5:16.
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