Emerge 2012 Award Winners Announced

April 2012

Emerge 2012, Bullseye Glass Company's seventh international kiln-glass exhibition for early-career artists, has announced its award winners. They are:

GOLD Émilie Haman, France, Once upon a time
SILVER Victoria Calabro, United States, yellow frames collection
BRONZE Elizabeth Fortunato, United States, Not a Family Man
DESIGN Ester Luesma and Xavier Vega, Spain, autumn leaves plates
JEWELRY Miri Admoni, Israel, The Four Seasons brooch
KILNCASTING Sayaka Suzuki, United States, Harvest Day
ACADEMIC Karen Mahardy, United States, folded 1a and folded 1b
NEWCOMER Karen Mahardy, United States, folded 1a and folded 1b.

The exhibition jurors were artists Klaus Moje and Silvia Levenson, and New Mexico Museum of Art contemporary art curator, Laura Addison. The Emerge 2012 exhibition will run at Bullseye Gallery in Portland until June 23, 2012. Selected award-winning works will travel to the New Mexico Museum of Art and to Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area, after the Portland show closes.

For more details about the exhibition, visit the Emerge 2012 Web page.