The style of art that is often expressed by graffiti spray paint can be incorporated into a secondary school art project. This is a good opportunity to have students express art reflecting their community, since graffiti art is generally found out in the community. Students can design stained glass panels with boxy or bubbly words to express a community movement or current event that is relevant to them.
One of the most common mediums for stained glass work is windows. Secondary schools can incorporate stained glass art on their hallway, classroom and building windows to create a more colorful and artistic atmosphere in the school. Classes within the secondary school can each take one or several windows in the school to design and work on so that contributions come from all the grade levels in the school.
Large-scale stained glass murals can be created by secondary school students to represent themes from their class or experiences from the secondary school age group. The murals can be hung in hallways or on classroom walls, and can include individual contributions from each person in a secondary school grade level or from each person within the entire school. Murals can be about the size of a billboard, roughly 30 feet by 15 feet, so there is plenty of room to add themes from the experiences of life and school that students can contribute.
A lot of older stained glass pieces need to be cleaned, refurbished and restored in order to ensure longer preservation. This a a project that secondary school students can work on if they want to work with stained glass but they do not want to design their own stained glass. The preservation of stained glass will include cleaning the glass, replacing broken pieces and filling in thinning caulking areas around the perimeter and the horizontal joints of a glass piece.