Caitlin Ezell Waugh graduated from Hampshire College in December, 2005 with a BA in Sculpture and Literary Journalism. She spent the year after college as an apprentice glazier at Luminosity Studios in Waitsfield, Vt., and continued to travel in Latin America. Waugh now lives and works in her home studio in Uptown New Orleans. Waugh’s sculptural work is conceptual and often narrative—the third world, health, imprisonment, Latin America, and contemporary US policies are recurring themes in her exhibits. It is important to her that her art speaks of concerns outside of herself. Her forms function as symbols of stories she is attempting to tell and are physically practical as furniture. Her work is within the realm of conceptual craft.
Through her treatment of metal, wood, glass and found objects, Waugh explores aesthetics of decay, vulnerability, and material and textural variation. She is dedicated to the rejuvenation of the stained glass trade, to using traditional techniques inventively. Currently, she is developing new architectural uses for glass on a miniature scale and designing large scale public installations. Her work is patient as well as spontaneously decisive.