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Joinery for Sculpture
Joinery for Sculpture

Craft and learn in this workshop, emphasizing designing and constructing sculptural objects. This hands-on workshop explores how wood can be used as a medium for creative expression. Working with kiln-dried lumber, students become familiar with a wide variety of hand and power tools and heavy woodworking machinery. Techniques will cover wood selection and preparation, traditional joinery techniques, shaping, and finishing. This workshop offers a nurturing environment for students to produce one-of-a-kind wood sculptures! All levels welcome.

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Session 1Molly FlaniganWood, Vivian Chiu
Get a Grip
Get a Grip

Through exploration of form, surface treatment, and adornment we will create “tools” that do not quite fit expectations of the everyday objects around us. We will begin by looking at unconventional and functional modifications, and explore the endless forms and functions that tools provide. Demos for techniques in connecting and transitioning disparate materials as well as shaping and surface adornment will be presented. By exploring and experimenting with these methods you will create unique sculptural “tools” of your own design. All levels welcome.

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Session 2Molly FlaniganWood, Chloris Lowe
Reimagining Historical Furniture: Sculptural Use of Traditional Techniques
Reimagining Historical Furniture: Sculptural Use of Traditional Techniques

Have you ever wanted to make a piece of furniture that is a little bit strange, or suggestive of a place out of time? Or maybe you want to use traditional techniques in unusual ways? This workshop is for you. In our two weeks together, you will learn how to build a small table, think plant stand or bedside table, and then embellish it using historical techniques that we will cover in the workshop. We will also look at contemporary artists who use these kinds of techniques in subversive ways and discuss the provenance of some of these traditions. Students will leave with a small table of their own design, comfort on many of the machines in the woodshop, the basic skills for continued experimentation in wood, and ideas about how to strategically use historical techniques in their work. More advanced students can tackle more complicated builds and carved surface embellishments. All levels welcome.

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Session 3Molly FlaniganWood, Stacy Motte
Designing & Making Wood Lamps
Designing & Making Wood Lamps

Hardwood is a beautiful and versatile material for constructing table and floor lamp bodies. This workshop will explore various shapes, from Brancusi and Sottsass to free-form Midcentury Modern to clean-lined Scandinavian designs. Fabrication techniques will encompass stacked and vertical lamination of hardwood, lathe turning, bandsaw cutting and shaping, and free-form carving. We will also cover traditional wiring principles and techniques, the treatment of lampshades, and hand-applied wood finishing. Follow along with Scott as he constructs a table lamp body from start to finish. Intermediate woodworking skills required; Students should have a general understanding of basic joinery.

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Session 4Molly FlaniganWood, Scott McGlasson
Wood & Fiber: A Marriage of Materials
Wood & Fiber: A Marriage of Materials

This workshop will bridge two craft disciplines through materiality, method, process, and consideration. Both textiles and woodwork share relational qualities. Through making and experimentation, participants will investigate the poetics of these two crafts, contemplating new points of connection and overlap while understanding the historical practice of each discipline. How can fibers dovetail into wood? How can wood become weft? All levels welcome.

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Session 5Molly FlaniganWood, Paolo Arao, Gregory Beson
Holding Meaning, Extending Form
Holding Meaning, Extending Form

Workshop participants will carve a series of wooden spoons that combine function and meaning. What do spoons do in the world and in relation to our bodies? Using a combination of traditional hand tools and machines, students will learn to subtract wood from a larger block, finding their forms within. Working with the bowl and handle form, students will explore shaping both inside and outside curves in wood. Decorative embellishments using paint and mark making will be introduced. All levels welcome.

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Session 6Molly FlaniganWood, Kate Hawes