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Church stained glass and sacred art in Florida

Apperlo Art designs, makes and installs stained glass windows and sacred mosaics for churches and chapels across Florida. Mila Apperlo and Stevan Stanisic carry on a family studio founded in Sombor, Serbia, in 1908, whose windows stand in cathedrals, churches and chapels in the United States and Europe.

New stained glass windows

Hand painted, kiln fired stained glass, from a single dedication window to a full cycle for the nave. In Naples we made the window of Jesus blessing the children for the children's care center of Trinity by the Cove and 3 round windows for its Healing Chapel, as well as stained glass for St. Agnes Catholic Church. In North Fort Myers we fabricated and installed the altar windows of St. Therese Catholic Church, designed by Patti Wisniewski.

Sacred mosaics

Glass mosaics for gardens, courtyards and walls: the 8 by 14 foot Resurrection of Christ for Mary's Memorial Garden at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Sarasota, the Story of Creation mosaics for Trinity by the Cove in Naples, and saints for Ave Maria University.

Memorial and dedication windows

Many of our windows are gifts in memory of loved ones. We design the inscription with the parish and the family, so the name of the donor becomes part of the glass and of the life of the church.

Restoration and repair

Careful restoration of existing church windows and dalle de verre, from cleaning and releading to resetting slab glass, done the traditional way by artists who have restored church windows in the United States and Europe.

Working with your parish

We work with the pastor, the building committee and the architect from the first sketch, prepare drawings and a full color design for approval, and install the windows ourselves. We welcome every tradition: Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches, chapels and schools.

How a church commission works

We visit the church, study the light, the architecture and the story the parish wants to tell, and propose the iconography and colors. After approval, every piece of glass is cut, painted, fired, leaded and soldered by hand in our Bonita Springs studio, and we install the work ourselves.

Where we work in Florida

Naples, Sarasota, Fort Myers, North Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs, Estero, Ave Maria, Marco Island, Tampa, Miami. We take church commissions anywhere in Florida, and across the United States and Europe.

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mila@apperloart.com
USA 239.777.9517
Serbia +381.62.833.4329
Bonita Springs, Florida

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