Brook White, Jr. & Dave Caudill discuss the Stephen Powell Memorial in Danville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.
Brook Forrest White Jr. discovered his passion for hot glass under the tutelage of Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College. Brook has worked with artists and visited glass centers around the world. He has garnered many honors including a 1998 Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship, the Owensboro Mayor’s Award of Excellence in 2001, the 2003 Centre College Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and inclusion in the 2005 Leadership Kentucky class. In 2004 the Kentucky Arts Council commissioned him to create that year’s Governor’s Awards in the Arts. His glass is in galleries across the country and in the collections of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Museum of Art and the Asheville Art Museum. His blown-glass art installations are featured in many private collections and public buildings throughout the Midwest.
His studio, Flame Run, is locate in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
Dave Caudill creates artworks for public, corporate and private collections. His larger public works are found at Louisiana’s Rip Van Winkle Gardens, East Tennessee’s Horizon Center park, the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville School of Music. Corporate collections include Brown-Forman Corporation and Fire King International. Individual collectors across America have acquired his work.
He is also one of the few sculptors in the world who have created an environmental undersea sculpture. Caudill’s artwork was placed on the seabed near Nassau, The Bahamas.
Stephen Rolfe Powell (1951-2019) was hired by Centre College in 1983 to teach ceramics and sculpture. By 1985, thanks in part to Corning Glass in Harrodsburg, Philips Lighting in Danville, and Corhart in Louisville, he had built a glass studio and founded Centre's glass program. Powell designed and completed a new, state-of-the-art glass studio, which Centre College opened as part of their new Visual Arts Center in January 1998.
Powell was honored with Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award in 1999 and 2000. In 2004 he was presented with the Acorn Award by the Kentucky Council on Post-secondary Education.