SAC presents Mineck Fellowship
The SAC presented the of the 2023 John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship is Sarah Watlington.
Sarah Watlington is the recipient of the 2023 John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, administered by the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston.
The fellowship provides financial assistance to help furniture artists in the early stages of their career.
Watlington is a 2018 graduate of The Krenov School of Fine Woodworking in Ft. Bragg, Calif., and holds a B.A. from the Design Institute of San Diego. She works as project manager at Offerman Woodshop in Los Angeles and teaches.
“My sincere gratitude to the Society of Arts and Crafts for the award of the Mineck Fellowship. It could not have come at a more auspicious time as I step back from five years of full-time commission furniture work to advance my studio art and teaching practices,” Watlington said in a statement.
“With the financial assistance of the fellowship, I will spend the next year designing and building sculptural bespoke record players and conceptual mixed media sculptures utilizing similar technologies. The fellowship will fund my studio space, the purchasing of electronic equipment and materials, as well as courses in large scale ceramic sculpture, audio/electrical engineering and 3D modeling.”
The fellowship is awarded by the Boston-based John D. Mineck Foundation. Learn more at societyofcrafts.org.
This article was originally published in the December 2023 issue.
