I feel a touch of fall in the air!
And Mitchell Gaudet (coming from hot, steamy New Orleans) will appreciate that this week.

Mitchell was at Pilchuck Glass School last summer when Hurricane Katrina hit his hometown.
His studio was damaged severely but has since been re-built.

“I know that I have not really digested the totality of this event, mainly because I do not have the time and am afraid that it might consume me. I see my residency at the Museum as a chance to get out of New Orleans and distill all that I have seen and make some work about it. I want to work a series of bowls and house forms that take their shape, color and texture from ruined areas in and around New Orleans.”

Mitchell received his MFA from Tulane University in 1990. He has taught at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle and the Urban School of Glass in Brooklyn. For the past ten years he has been associated with Pilchuck Glass School. Known primarily as a glass caster he makes “objects of desire with a funky historical presence to them.” He approaches his work in a narrative manner telling a story with both his exhibitions and his individual pieces. He currently owns and operates Studio Inferno in New Orleans.

Liz Stockhausen Cepanec
Visiting Artist Program Manager