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New Scholarships Offered at
Pilchuck Glass School
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Seattle, WA – December 16, 2005 – Pilchuck Glass School is pleased to announce the availability of the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Scholarships offering two Hawaii artists the opportunity to participate in 17-day workshops during the school’s 2006 summer program.
Established in 2005 with the Laila Twigg-Smith Fund of the Hawai’i Community Foundation, these scholarships afford Hawaii-based visual artists unique opportunities to enhance their professional and academic training through a summer workshop at Pilchuck Glass School’s Stanwood, Washington campus.
Scholarship applicants must be over the age of 18, legal residents of the State of Hawaii, practicing artists or pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees, and demonstrate artistic merit through Pilchuck Glass School’s regular scholarship jurying process. Scholarships will cover program fees plus a $500 travel reimbursement.
Each year Pilchuck Glass School awards full and partial scholarships to more than one-third of its students. Many of these scholarships are funded from the proceeds of the school’s scholarship endowment. Others are specially supported by annual gifts from individual donors and foundations. All are intended to attract talented artists representing diverse countries, backgrounds, and aesthetics to attend the school regardless of financial resources.
"Pilchuck’s scholarship program allows us to offer artists of merit but who lack means to participate in the school’s renowned summer workshops," observes Pilchuck Glass School Executive Director Patricia Watkinson. "The Laila Twigg-Smith Art Scholarships will encourage more Hawaii artists to participate in the school’s programs. They will carry home their Pilchuck experience and will share it in their own creative communities."
All scholarship applications, including those for the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Scholarships, must be received by Pilchuck Glass School by Friday, February 17, 2006. For more information or to request a 2006 Summer Program Catalog, contact Pilchuck Glass School Registrar Tricia Watson at (360) 445-3111, extension 29, or via e-mail at registrar@pilchuck.com. The catalog and a downloadable application form can be viewed on the school’s Web site at www.pilchuck.com.
Underwritten by the Laila Twigg-Smith Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation, the scholarship honors the memory of Laila Twigg-Smith (1944-1998), a tireless supporter of artists and the arts. She served as director of Hawaii’s Contemporary Arts Center from 1974 to 1983, co-founded The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, was a member of the Painting and Sculpture Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a trustee of New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Dale Chihuly, with the support of patrons Anne Gould Hauberg and John H. Hauberg (1916-2002), founded Pilchuck Glass School in 1971. Chihuly envisioned a retreat that would offer artists an opportunity to work with and learn about glass. Amid the spectacular beauty of the Pacific Northwest, Chihuly’s vision became a shared reality for thousands of artists and patrons throughout the world. In just thirty-five years Pilchuck has become the largest and most comprehensive international educational center for artists working in glass.
Pilchuck Glass School receives generous annual support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Washington State Arts Commission, PONCHO, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Kreielsheimer Remainder Foundation, the Corning Incorporated Foundation, and many generous individuals.
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