Seattle, WA – March 1, 2004 – Pilchuck Glass School announced the selection of its 2004 Hauberg Fellows today. Pacific Northwest artists Jewels Durham, Nathan Gilles, Gloria Goodrich, Scott Jensen, Janet Walker and Owen Walker were selected for the twelve-day residency at Pilchuck’s Stanwood campus from May 10 through May 21, 2004.

The six artists will work together to create glass works in the theme and style of North Coast Native art to “create an appealing union between the indigenous and aesthetic traditions of the Northwest Coast with the medium of glass”. They plan to cast, fuse and slump, paint on glass, sandblast and use pâte de verre to create masks, rattles, coppers and jewelry in glass.

“This Fellowship will continue to explore the extraordinary marriage of glass art and North Coast Native art begun by the creation of the Founders’ Wood and Glass Totem Pole to commemorate the school’s 30th anniversary in 2001,” said Artistic Director Pike Powers. Executive Director Patricia Watkinson noted this residency reflects “two distinct art forms for which the Pacific Northwest is distinguished. It is altogether appropriate Pilchuck support such a residency.”

The residency proposal was spearheaded by Jewels Durham, a Ferndale-based artist whose work focuses on glass carving and blown glass. Bellingham artist Nathan Gilles is a master carver whose pieces both pay homage to and expand on the Coast Salish tradition. Known for formline relief woodcarving, Gloria Goodrich’s current work explores three-dimensional sculpture, drum making and bronze casting. Master carver Scott Jensen combines exacting research in archeology, anthropology, art history and botany with the artist’s aesthetic to create objects of great beauty and deep meaning. Bellingham artists Owen and Janet Walker create original gold and silver jewelry, trade bead items, coppers, daggers and wood carvings.

Established in 2000 to honor Pilchuck co-founder the late John H. Hauberg, the residency offers as many as six artists the opportunity to create work that responds to Pilchuck’s environment or uses the school’s glassmaking facilities. Participants are selected following a competitive application process. Criteria for their selection include artistic merit and collaborative theme. The application deadline for the 2005 Hauberg Fellowship Program is September 1, 2004

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