Tony Curiel

CRVA
Curiel/Reynolds School of Visual Arts
216 6th Avenue East, Spencer, Iowa, 51301
712-580-5035
www.curielarts.org 

"Serving the community through the visual arts"

The reasoning of CRVA's 'one on one' instruction philosophy is that of complete dedication to each student. Our goal as educators, within the realm of the visual arts, is to give the student a direction of purpose, enabling them to pursue their individual goal, to ether become a "full-time working artisan" or to be useful to themselves becoming qualified within a particular field of interest.

Katelyn Mason

Katelyn Mason (Nangnoi Chareonpol) was born in Pattaya Beach, Thailand in 1955. In 1975 she met and married Captain Thomas R. Kolbe, who then brought her to his home town of Sleepy Eye, MN. Katelyn has been a resident of Sleepy Eye for more than thirty years and has four children, Thomas II, Christopher, Elizabeth, and Anthony.

Katelyn began her love of glass work in 1978 when she was introduced to Michael Mason and Sleepy Eye Stained Glass. She became one of his first students. Katelyn also went on to study graphic arts at South Central Technical College in Mankato, MN.

After her children left home for college, Katelyn started to rediscover her love of stained glass work. She started to become a frequent visitor of the glass shop in Sleepy Eye. In July of 2007, Katelyn and Mike Mason were wed, and the rest, as they say, was history.

Katelyn enjoys doing traditional stained glass work, including making beautiful panels and lamps. One of her functions in the glass shop is to create molds and slumped panels for unique lamps. Slumping glass led her to another aspect of glass work: fused glass. She started to create beautiful pendants and other objects by fusing or melting pieces of glass together. This has been her primary focus in the glass shop ever since.

Katelyn shares her love of glass with her daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth also enjoys creating traditional art glass pieces and has recently become a fused glass artist herself. Together they create wonderful, unique pieces and travel around the region to promote and sell their art.