Our Story

Hidden Brick Glass is a veteran-owned stained glass studio run by a husband and wife team out of their garage studio in Molalla, Oregon. But the name has a story.

The Hidden Brick Company was a real brickyard in Vancouver, Washington. As a kid, Aaron used to wander the clay pits just down the street from where he grew up. As long as you stayed out of the way, the workers let you play. There are probably a couple hundred bricks out there somewhere with his fingerprints in them from touching the clay before it was fired.

Not every brick they made was stamped with the family name. There was an unofficial game in the region where brick buildings would have a "hidden" brick somewhere, placed by the brick layer, and the goal was to find it.

One brick, pulled from his demolished grade school, has followed Aaron since 1996. It survived countless moves, almost two years in storage during a deployment to Iraq, and a few years as garden decor. It sits in the studio today. Handmade, from a simpler time. A reminder that working with your hands has always meant something.

Aaron has been an artist most of his life, from painting and drawing as a kid to black and white photography later on. After the military, a TBI and PTSD took some of that from him. Stained glass has given it back. The tools, the techniques, the way the medium meets you where you are has filled a void he didn't know how to fill.

Shannon keeps the studio grounded. Her eye for design drives the small suncatchers that people seem to love most, and without her Aaron would probably be attempting giant projects well beyond his current skill level. Together they make ready-made pieces, original designs, and custom commissions. The dogs supervise.

If you'd like to learn more, follow along on Facebook and Instagram to see what's coming out of the studio.