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Elazar Abraham is a musician, thinker and maker focused on clarifying the relationship between order and chaos. Combining passions in sculpture, music, philosophy, and education, he seeks to present the virtue of mindfulness and craft in any practice. After graduating with a B.A. in New Media and minors in Biology and Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase, he led bike trips for teenagers before accepting a digital fabrication internship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, where he now teaches workshops annually. Living in Seattle for a year provided fertile ground to explore the shifting front between techno-gentrification and creative communities which, timed with opportunity led him to move to Stockton to help co-found HATCH Workshop. Elazar can also be found farming at Boggs Tract Community Farm. He serves on the board of the Stockton Art League as well as the Stockton Arts Foundation.

Jacqueline Bahnsen is a ceramic and multi-media based sculptor interested in the parallels between physiological processes and those of artistic craft and making. She graduated with her BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase College and during her studies completed a year long internship under the studio manager at the Clay Art Center in New York. Afterwards, she continued honing her craft at a nearby ceramic studio on Long Island and selling her work independently within her local community circles and fairs. She then moved to Stockton, California in order to join the HATCH team and help to jump start their ceramics program. Currently, she is focused on instructing at HATCH and producing her own line of work based on the traditional pottery and sculpture skills she will be teaching, as well as continuing her own personal conceptual exploration of process.

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Ron is our woodworking specialist. He’s been working with wood for over half a century, beginning with his grandfather at age 8. As a late teen, he did a few years of an “apprenticeship.” While this was informal, it was the beginning of his foray into furniture building. 

Throughout his 3 decades in public safety, money was continually spent on the highest quality tools that could be afforded. He continued to hone his craft, building quite an array of items for many people. From a built in library with rolling ladder, to custom cabinetry, once he retired from the fire service, he opened his own shop and made furniture on commission. 

He considers himself a “hybrid” woodworker. Some people are purists and work entirely with machines or hand tools. He uses both. The machines handle the most laborious work and the hand tools do the fine joinery. 

Believing that “relative” dimensions are one of the keys to accurate work, he will rarely measure the component parts of a project. Rather, he will “show” the piece to the work and mark the size needed. The exact measurement is immaterial, in that the piece fits where it needs to. 

Having a good plan with part sizes is helpful, but since we are all human, errors are easily made. The actual sizes of each piece may vary, but sets of parts will be measured and cut to the precise size needed. 

Ron’s goal here at the Hatch Workshop is to teach the craft of woodworking to anyone who is interested. “Free knowledge. Bring your own container.”

He came to us shortly after the non-profit organization was founded. He brought with him his machines and tools and has built the shop we have today. We’ve been fortunate to have some amazing donations of machines and tools. 

Ron donates much of his time to Hatch. When he teaches, a portion is paid to Hatch to cover overhead and other expenses. He’s open to any questions or suggestions for future classes. 

While he uses the term “master woodworker,” he says it doesn’t mean much. Life is full of lessons. It’s important to keep an open mind and never stop learning. There are so many aspects of wood craft that no one person can “know it all.” The true mark of an expert is to be able to fix mistakes and make them disappear to the eye of most people. Even masters make mistakes. We’re human. 

Tiffany Pech (she, her, they) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Stockton, California. She earned an AA in studio art at San Joaquin Delta College and a BFA of mixed emphasis at CSU Stanislaus. She predominantly works in sculpture, printmaking  and bookmaking media. Her work explores her identity as a second generation Cambodian-American, unpacking inherited generation trauma, gender roles, domestic/manual labor and absurdist ideology through creating assemblages with disparate materials.

She has exhibited work in Stockton, Sacramento, Oakland, Turlock, and Nevada. She currently teaches book making and printmaking to local after school program students. She has taught workshops at Tuleburg Press. At HATCH Workshop, she is Shop Generalist, Residency Coordinator, and host for Button Night and Rage Cage. Outside of the studio, she enjoys bicycle rides, cooking and long walks.

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