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Hasna Sal
THE ARCHITECT AND GLASS ARTIST ANSWERS FOUR QUESTIONS by
Judith Fertig
W
hen travelers walk through the new Kansas City airport, they will soon come upon a marvelous 20-foot wall of glass from artist Hasna Sal. “Kansas City is not any average Midwest city,” says Sal. “It is cutting-edge; and I am proud to be part of its community.” A native of Kochi, a port city on the Malabar Coast of India, Sal’s restless spirit led her to study journalism in London and architecture in Boston with post-grad at Harvard. She has taught architecJANUARY 2022
photo by
Carol Bliss
tural engineering at the University of Kansas. Sal’s glass jewelry sparkled down the fashion runway as part of designer Archana Kochhar’s collection for New York Fashion Week. Now a resident of Overland Park, the well-traveled Sal founded her company Glass Concepts 360 in Olathe. With installations in restaurants in Lawrence and Topeka, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, and a Nativity Triptych in Lawrence, Sal also has a permanent exterior installation going up in March at Independence Plaza Park funded by a grant from
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