Art of Glass

“ARTISTS DON’T RETIRE,” says Jean-Jacques Duval, sitting in his Willsboro studio in front of an unfinished abstract painting on an easel. Another work in progress leans against a wall. On his drafting table is a small line drawing of Jesus and two angels, filled in with watercolor paint—a proposed stained-glass window design for a New Jersey church, the latest of hundreds of projects he’s conceived for buildings around the world, from Japan to Germany to Plattsburgh. In 2005, the Stained Glass Association of America honored him with a Lifetime Achievement