“I design, build and ship all over the country. I am currently a vendor for the First Friday Art Walk in Gulfport, FL, the Faire Festival, and last year I was a vendor at the Sunset Market at the Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg, FL.”

Her interest in the medium began in childhood when she was introduced to her grandmother’s collection of bohemian red glass.  This was to set in motion a lifelong fascination with the concept of using glass to create images.  Later influences include the designs and techniques employed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and glass sculptor Dale Chihuly.

Along with her identity as a contemporary stained glass artist, Kimmel can lay claim to a few other titles.  These include, but are not limited to, bookkeeper, belly dancer, inventor, mask maker, bridge player and world traveler. Her enthusiasm for life is eclipsed only by the passion she feels for her art.

In the early 80s, while earning a degree in Secondary Education at Maryland’s Montgomery College, Sally worked as a glass builder at a professional studio.  There she mastered the Tiffany style of glassmaking using the copper foil method and gained proficiency in the repair of leaded windows. 

 In the late 80s and early 90s, while working as a marketing manager, she taught glassmaking at a retail gallery in Gaithersburg, MD, as well as a series of private classes in Harpers Ferry, WV. 

Since moving to WV in 1989, while working as a bookkeeper, Sally has created custom work for homes and business in the U.S. and abroad, and regularly exhibits at local studio tours, art fairs and exhibitions.