Every year, Main Street Alabama commissions a local artist to create a unique work of art to be enjoyed in Designated communities across the state. For the 2022 Awards of Excellence, we worked with Birmingham glass artist Amy Soverow, The Glass Studio. Amy literally melts Main Street Alabama's turquoise and red brand color theme and shaped into the state of Alabama. The process included taking slabs of custom glass in variations of turquoise and red, and then melting the glass in the kiln at 1500 degrees. These slabs were then sliced into smaller pieces and fired into a handmade mold in the shape of Alabama at 1550 degrees. The Main Street Alabama logo was then sandblasted into the surface of the glass once cool.

To read more about Amy and her journey, please click here. 

The awards were made possible with the support of a grant from the Alabama Council of the Art's Tag program.

If you are an artist, or you'd like to make a recommendation, for future awards, email us at info@mainstreetalabama.org.