In addition to the stained glass, they did murals, mosaics, sculpture, tapestry weaving and easel painting. Edgar Dorsey Taylor, designer of the stained glass window, also created other pieces these artists worked on.

The Oakland Project was supervised by Clifford Pyle. Glen Wessels, professor at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, was an active advisor to the Northern California Federal Art Project. Recent graduates of California College of Arts and Crafts and the Art Department of University of California, Berkeley, were recruited by Wessels to join the project through an application process with the local unemployment office.

"The stained glass window was fabricated in the traditional way, the various pieces of colored glass cut and shaped to match the full size cartoon of the design, allowing for the space used by the lead channeling which would join the pieces into a whole window.

The individual pieces of colored glass were stained using an early 14 century technique of coating the entire surface of the glass with a black opaque vitreous enamel "paint" which, when dry, was scratched or rubbed away to reveal the color of the transparent or translucent glass, modeling and delineating the design.

The glass pieces were then kiln fired to fuse the enamel to the glass and then assembled with the lead and a framework of iron as may be structurally required by the design.