MEET THE TEAM AT FLAME RUN
LEO Weekly Magazine
Reprinted with permission
Glass working is a team effort that requires multiple hands and
minds to converge in a specialized sort of choreography; besides
Brook Forrest White Jr. and Susie Garbee Slabaugh, Flame Run’s
team includes Paul Hugues, Paul Nelson, Devyn Baron, Casey McMains
and Amy Pender.
Nelson and Hugues are Centre grads who’ve worked with White
for several years. Baron is a Louisville native who earned a fine
arts degree from the Cleveland Institute for Art in 2001. McMains
recently moved to Louisville from Vermont with her boyfriend, who
works at the Frazier Historical Arms Museum. She went straight into
glass apprenticeships several years ago and has been working at it
for eight years. Pender is the “baby” of the group. A
graphic designer (she and her husband designed Flame Run’s
logo) and stay-at-home mom for several years, she got the fever when
she took a class at Glassworks. She’s at Flame Run to indulge
her new obsession and to learn.
(Stephen Rolfe Powell, the noted glass artist and director of the
Centre College program, happily noted that the Flame Run roster includes
four women. His classes at Centre usually include equal numbers of
men and women, he said, but far more men continue on in the field.)
Flame Run opens July 2 with an exhibition called “Centred
on Glass.” It includes work by 16 artists, 13 of them Centre
grads. Mayor Jerry Abramson will attend an opening night reception
that begins at 5:30 p.m. The show is up through Aug. 31. Call 584-5353
for more information. |
