It starts with a sketch. From there, glass artist Ryan Johnstone cuts each piece of glass individually, grinds it, wraps it in copper foil, then assembles the bits "like a giant jigsaw puzzle." The ...

For more than 50 years, shards of colorful glass, preserved in 25 carefully labeled envelopes, had been stored in an old Italian shoe box under Fred McDonald’s bed. The broken bits, taken from bombed ...