Zerbe Accepted to a Second Pilchuck Workshop for the 2025 Season

I am so excited to announce I will be attending not one, but TWO different residency workshops at Pilchuck Glass School this summer. On March 1 and 2, I attended a weekend intensive at Pratt Fine Arts focused on vitreography: a printmaking technique which utilizes glass as the print plate, and combines elements of intaglio, relief, and monotype style printmaking all in one.

The experience was incredible, and allowed me to combine my love of illustration with my passion for working with glass. I was so excited to get an opportunity to play with this very new, experimental, and little known form of printmaking. The instructor, Nikki Jabbora-Barber, mentioned that she would be offering a vitreography focused workshop during the first session of Pilchuck’s workshop sesason this year, so I took a risk, put my materials together as quickly as possible, and applied.

Me hard at work, drilling out the details of my design on the glass plate

Using the large, steel bed print press for the first time!

I am over the moon that I have been accepted to attend! Nikki’s workshop is part of the Session 01: Construction Series at Pilchuck this year, and her class is called “Botanical Printmaking with Glass”. The course description states:

“We will use Pilchuck Glass School’s natural environment as a reference to create vitreograph plates to be sent through a press and printed on printmaking paper. Students will leave with a portfolio of Pacific Northwest- themed fine art prints - inked by hand and printed using an etching press - and a new way of thinking about glass as a matrix.”

The workshop will explore: Vitreography, Monotyping, Embossing, Sandblasting, Engraving, Laser Engraving

I cannot wait to continue learning about vitreography and I am so excited to be able to spend another session on the hill at Pilchuck this year!