For the last several years Mitchell Gaudet has been building sculptural assemblies of work dealing with murder, in particular gun violence. His latest piece is a wearable mantle built out of 12830 .223 bullet casings.12830 is the average number of gun homicides reported in the United States the last five years. Gaudet set out to create a piece that allowed the wearer to feel this weight of death. Morte Mantle resembles the many sculpted robes, tunics and capes common as decorations on many of the statues around Rome. This, as well as the embossed details on helmets, breastplates, greaves and shields as ornamental and protection icons.

Mitchell Gaudet received his B.F.A. from Louisiana State University and a M.F.A. from Tulane University. In 1991 he founded “Studio Inferno,” a glass studio and artist space located in the Bywater Neighborhood of New Orleans. In early 2020, the studio was relocated to Waveland, Mississippi.

Mitchell Gaudet has been sculpting glass for over thirty five years. He casts hot glass into hand formed sand molds which allows him to easily compose and abstract his ideas. Gaudet is influenced by the patina and pace of the south and in particular New Orleans. His uncontrollable passion to collect historical objects of desire has often led him to create his own.

Gaudet has exhibited his works nationally and internationally and has received both a Pollock-Krasner Grant and the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. He has taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA; The Glass Furnace, Turkey; Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan, Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany and the Crafts in Glass and Ceramics School, Denmark.

Gaudet is currently living on luck, with his artist wife Larkin in Carriere, Mississippi.