St. Michael’s has always been a home for cultural programming (below). Besides all the art built-into our church, such as the stained-glass windows (whose history you can explore below), St. Michael’s building is home to music, theater, and the collections of several artists. Take a trip back to 1940’s radio with the St.Michael’s Players. Or peruse a collection of art by Alan Rohan Crite in our library, the off-beat works of John Fries Mitchell or the latest collection of paintings displayed by the Trenton A-Team of Trenton Area Soup Kitchen artists displayed in the upstairs Parish Hall.
Concerts, Theater and Culture
Throughout the year, St. Michael’s offers community events, with new plays and music. Our organist, Clipper Erickson is renowned as a great piano virtuoso, touring the nation and Europe with solo concerts and chamber works. Yusuf Komunyakaa, Trenton’s Pulitzer poet did his off-Broadway reading of “Echoes of the Great Migration” in our sanctuary in 2022. Click on the poster to see song clips of this pre-Broadway performance.
for SONGS from the PERFORMANCE
Our Stained Glass Windows
St. Michael’s windows represent an interesting cross-section of the art of early 20th century stained-glass. Preceded by white leaded-windows, the first addition of the art began with the construction of the Parish House chapel in 1895 with a set of prestigious British Kempe Studio windows. A very modernist Tiffany window was added around 1910, after which the church looked to the Lamb Studio of New York (and after 1930 in Tenafly, NJ) for a more consistent look. The series of windows along the pews have been identified as designed by Ella Condi Lamb, wife of Charles R. Lamb, head of his family’s old business. Their daughter, Katherine Tait, was the head designer of the studios during the period the great windows facing Warren St., and those around the pulpit were added.
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