« Fall 2012 Courses & Workshops

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This class provides students with the elements necessary to transform an idea into a project. Fusing design activities and methodologies, including aesthetic sourcing (visual, literary, emotional, and structural), drawing and modeling, students engage in design as a problem solving process. Projects emphasize the development of conceptual visualization through the exploration of two and three dimensional sketch techniques. Students capture and develop ideas using a sketchbook or folder system that will be used throughout the certificate program.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Tom Russell is assistant professor of industrial design at MassArt where he received his BFA. His collections and client work include the Fei Company, Micrion Corporation, and Industrial Sensors Incorporated. He has extensive experience in manufacturing, engineering, management, and design, both freelance and corporate.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a survey of the craft and form of furniture over the past 250 years. Students gain an overview of the history of furniture making in America, current trends in contemporary furniture design and manufacture, current field of furniture and an understanding of its historical evolution. Furniture will be considered as an element of social and economic development. Exploration of the development of furniture relative to both the domestic market and public sphere will frame the social role of furniture in our culture. The course will cover the development of styles and their sources, as well as the evolution and organization of furniture manufacture, from early joinery to the emergence of cabinetmaking techniques, to the development of machine technologies, and the re-emergence of craft within the studio furniture movement as well as the emergence of hybrid manufacturing and the impact of the effects of globalization on the craft and industry of furniture making. Important: This class does not satisfy the History of Art requirement for the BFA degree.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Barbara Ward has been the director and curator of Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, a national historic landmark in Portsmouth, NH, for more than ten years. She has edited and contributed to numerous publications, including the Encyclopedia of New England Culture and the Journal of American Folklore. Barbara has a BA from Connecticut College and an MA and PhD in American and New England studies from Boston University.

SPECIAL SCHEDULE
and 1 St tba

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this studio shop course, students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. We begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. Concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model making as preparation for completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program with experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance and working with standing machine power tools. Prerequisite: From Concept to Object: Processes for Furniture Design

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Peter Thibeault is an industrial designer and principal at Thibeault Design, Inc. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Graduate Studio Program in Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island. His awards include: 1st Annual Bronze Bean Award, Boston IDSA; Finalist: Best of Show Award, "The Glorified Goblet," Signature Gallery; Award of Excellence, "Furniture of the ‘90’s" exhibition, Houston. He has also exhibited at the DeCordova Museum.

Judith Hanson is a sculptor and furniture maker and the woodshop studio manager at MassArt. She completed the cabinet and furniture program at Boston’s North Bennet Street School before pursuing studies in sculpture and mixed media at MassArt. Since 1994 she has taught woodworking classes at the North Bennet Street School and in other adult education programs.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a survey of the craft and form of furniture over the past 250 years. Students gain an overview of the history of furniture making in America, current trends in contemporary furniture design and manufacture, current field of furniture and an understanding of its historical evolution. Furniture will be considered as an element of social and economic development. Exploration of the development of furniture relative to both the domestic market and public sphere will frame the social role of furniture in our culture. The course will cover the development of styles and their sources, as well as the evolution and organization of furniture manufacture, from early joinery to the emergence of cabinetmaking techniques, to the development of machine technologies, and the re-emergence of craft within the studio furniture movement as well as the emergence of hybrid manufacturing and the impact of the effects of globalization on the craft and industry of furniture making. Important: This class does not satisfy the History of Art requirement for the BFA degree.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Barbara Ward has been the director and curator of Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, a national historic landmark in Portsmouth, NH, for more than ten years. She has edited and contributed to numerous publications, including the Encyclopedia of New England Culture and the Journal of American Folklore. Barbara has a BA from Connecticut College and an MA and PhD in American and New England studies from Boston University.

SPECIAL SCHEDULE
and 1 St tba

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this studio shop course, students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. We begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. Concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model making as preparation for completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program with experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance and working with standing machine power tools. Prerequisite: From Concept to Object: Processes for Furniture Design

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Peter Thibeault is an industrial designer and principal at Thibeault Design, Inc. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Graduate Studio Program in Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island. His awards include: 1st Annual Bronze Bean Award, Boston IDSA; Finalist: Best of Show Award, "The Glorified Goblet," Signature Gallery; Award of Excellence, "Furniture of the ‘90’s" exhibition, Houston. He has also exhibited at the DeCordova Museum.

Judith Hanson is a sculptor and furniture maker and the woodshop studio manager at MassArt. She completed the cabinet and furniture program at Boston’s North Bennet Street School before pursuing studies in sculpture and mixed media at MassArt. Since 1994 she has taught woodworking classes at the North Bennet Street School and in other adult education programs.