Adams' Glass Studio
Adams' Glass Studio
12120 US Highway 231 South, Troy, AL 36081
Email: sales@adamsglassstudio.com
Phone: (334) 372-0760
Stage of Career/Practice
Mid-Career: An artist who has created professional level art over many years and who has received some regional or national recognition.
About
Charles L. Adams studied art at Troy State University and specialized in kiln fired glass art
under Ed Walter, a professor at the University and fellow glass artist. Adams later studied
and became interested in stained glass art at the Joyce Dendy Glass Studio in Albany,
Georgia. It was these classes that led to his move from kiln fired glass to the more
functional creative medium of stained glass. He also studied art design under Alice Thorton
of Troy and she was a great influence and contributor to his vast assortment of stained
glass designs and patterns. Adams has won numerous awards for his work throughout the
southeast and Adams’ glass creations can be found all across the United States.
Charles David Adams received his BS and MBA in Accounting from Troy State University,
Troy, Alabama and is a Certified Public Accountant. He learned the art of stained glass by
watching his father, Charles, teach classes in the studio located in the basement of Adams’
Nut Shop. By age eleven, his watching turned to helping the adults who were taking the
classes as well as producing pieces for gifts and to sell along with his father at arts and
crafts shows. While earning his degrees at Troy State he was able to study kiln fired glass
under Ed Walter as his father did many years before. While not formally taught by Alice
Thorton, he was informally trained through questions and conversations and in cutting
hundreds of her designs that are reflected in his pattern design process today.
The Charles Adams’ Stained Glass Studio on Highway 231 south of Troy, Alabama has
evolved from a small glass hobby shop in the basement of his father’s candy and nut
business, Adams’ Nut Shop, to a multifaceted stained glass studio. Since 1979, Adams’
Stained Glass Studio has featured a unique collection of stained glass works including
church windows, Tiffany style lamps, doors, clocks, kaleidoscopes, sun catchers, angels and
Christmas gifts, which have become collector’s items for many throughout the years.
