Pilchuck Glass School Selects
Hauberg Fellows

Seattle, WA – January 13, 2005 – Pilchuck Glass School announced the selection of its 2005 Hauberg Fellows today. A team of six Pacific Northwest artists was selected for the twelve-day residency at Pilchuck’s Stanwood campus from May 9 through May 20, 2005. They are Deborah Horrell, Mel George, Jeremy Lepisto, Tom Kearcher, Tom Prochaska and Lynda Rockwood.

Portland-based glass artist and ceramist Deborah Horell curated the residency, selecting participating artists who have a range of experience working in glass and share a commitment to the exchange of ideas. Each of the six will pursue individual bodies of work using the school’s casting and fusing kilns, flameworking equipment, and glass-plate print shop. “It is the group’s desire to pursue individual projects while benefiting from the collective skills and aesthetic perspectives of the other fellows,” said Horrell. Executive Director Patricia Watkinson observed “This fellowship mirrors Pilchuck’s educational philosophy and values because it both supports individual artist’s endeavors and builds an artist-centered community.”

Deborah Horrell’s work will experiment with large-scale pâté de verre processes and continue a series of white-on-white monotypes she began while instructing at Pilchuck during the summer of 2004. Australian-born studio glass artist and current Portland resident Mel George will hone her torchworking skills to create intimate vignettes. Portland resident Jeremy Lepisto will add to his already-significant body of work featuring kiln-formed sculptures and frit imagery on fused and slumped glass by researching ideas for a new line of work. Photographer, printmaker and ceramist Tom Kearcher intends to produce a series of architecturally formed sake cups and trays in glass that will be both functional and figurative. Portland painter and printmaker Tom Prochaska has already worked in glass as a resident at Bullseye Glass Company; he will continue his exploration of this medium at Pilchuck where he intends to make three-dimensional cast glass figures from his paper figures. Seattle resident Lynda Rockwood is an accomplished sculptor working in metal, concrete and plaster. She will work on an experimental series layering various strata of colored glass in molds to cast solid forms. All six Fellows will work in Pilchuck’s print shop creating glass-plate monoprints and vitreographs.

Established in 2000 with a funded endowment to honor Pilchuck co-founder, the late John H. Hauberg, the residency offers as many as six established professional 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 2006 Hauberg Fellowship Program is September 2, 2005.

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