Wichita ? Randy Rayer’s projects have included work for the White House and Hollywood celebrities’ homes. And though his latest project will only be viewed by those visiting the small southeast Kansas town of Sedan, Rayer said the opportunity rated with the others.

Rayer, chief executive of Rayer’s Bearden Stained Glass Supply Inc. in Wichita, said he has been commissioned by TV documentary host and producer Bill Kurtis to create windows for Kurtis’ Art of the Prairie gallery in Sedan.

Kurtis has said that one of his dreams was to have a regionally recognized art gallery featuring the work of prominent Kansas and Midwestern artists.

By telling the story of the land and its people, Kurtis said, he hopes to help make Sedan a destination point.

“I would love to have this as part of the accumulation of interesting things to see in Sedan,” Kurtis said.

Rayer said Kurtis wanted to capture the history and beauty of the Flint Hills and gave Rayer the artistic freedom to develop a blueprint to do so with the stained-glass windows.

The company’s artists hand-painted and fired vivid and unusual glass pieces. They depict dark, rolling clouds across an orange sunset and over Kansas prairie hills.

To add realistic landscape touches, the artists embedded the glass with rocks and arrowheads.

Rayer said to give such vivid colors to the work, each stained-glass piece was fired eight times at temperatures up to 1,250 degrees.

“We used every concept of art we know,” Rayer said.

The five panels of stained glass will be unveiled at the gallery Saturday.

Lawrence natives Doug and Barry Coffin already have shown their contemporary American Indian paintings and sculptures at the gallery.

In addition, Lawrence artist Stan Herd is the gallery’s artist-in-residence.

Stained-glass artist Nancy Fricker cleans one of five panels depicting the Flint Hills at Rayer's Bearden Stained Glass Supply in Wichita. The panel will be part of a 22-foot-long mural to be installed this week in Bill Kurtis' Art of the Prairie Gallery in Sedan.