Shawn Skabelund announced as 22nd Rosen Award 1st Place Winner for site-specific work Brassing Out
Shawn Skabelund has won the 22nd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition (2008-2009) Rosen Award 1st Place for his site-specific work Brassing Out (pictured at left). Crafted from steel, wood, brass and pinesap, Brassing Out recognizes the miners who died when an explosion ripped through the Farmville, NC coal mine in which they were working on May 27, 1925. Fifty-three men lost their lives in North Carolina's worst coal-mining accident.