Hello! My name is Chris Roth. I live in Portland, Oregon. Masta Bingus just happens to be that special nickname that never went away. My stained glass journey began in high school where I took a stained glass elective class under the legendary expertise of Michael Knight.

I would go on from there to focus on illustration and oil painting at Parsons School of Design in New York, where i would end up living for the next twelve years. It was about 2006 that I became specifically interested in painted stained glass after seeing an exhibition of painted glass pieces from the 1400s at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

From 2007-2009 I began constructing painted stained glass window pieces using traditional kiln fired painting methods i learned with the help of legendary glass painter Peter McGrain's fantastic instructional DVD set.

In 2009 i packed all my glass and equipment up when i moved out of my Brooklyn studio, with the intention of getting right back into it. But as things go, 17 years would slip by before I came back around to the craft. I spent this time diving into animation and motion graphics. In 2011, I co-founded The Other House , a branding and broadcast design company. 15 years later, the world is on fire and it's time to get medieval.