Learn machine and hand woodworking fundamentals, push yourself as a designer and wood artist, practice new techniques and create original pieces of your own design.

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Learn woodworking fundamentals through a series of exercises utilizing both hand tools and machines. Develop a habit of sharpening and tuning your tools. Practice a variety of joinery techniques and build your own sample library of construction options. Put your newly honed skills to test by building a final project … Read more

Start Date

09/06

Meeting Day

Wednesdays

End Date

12/13

Faculty

Rachel Prentki

Time

6:30pm–10pm

Credits

3

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This hands-on course is designed to equip students with the essential skills and techniques required to design a chair. This course is intended for students with a passion for furniture design, interior design, or industrial design who aspire to develop a deep understanding of chair design and its impact on … Read more

Start Date

09/08

Meeting Day

Fridays

End Date

10/20

Faculty

Joe Sheehan

Time

1:30pm–4:30pm

Credits

0

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Lounge organic shaped chair made from light and dark hardwood

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This course exposes students to a variety of specialized woodworking techniques applicable to furniture production. Through a series of modules devoted to select skills, sessions explore the basics of techniques with the objective of giving students enough exposure to begin applying them independently to studio projects. Areas include carving and … Read more

Start Date

09/10

Meeting Day

Sundays

End Date

12/10

Faculty

Annie Meyer

Time

10am–4pm

Credits

3

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We often think of wood as rigid and hard, but by adding heat, we can bend flexible, sweeping curves. It really feels like magic – suddenly you can tie a knot in a piece of wood or form the ribs of a canoe. Steam bending doesn’t have to be intimidating! We’ll … Read more

Start Date

09/10

Meeting Day

Sundays

End Date

09/24

Faculty

Oliver Strand

Time

10am–4pm

Credits

0

Progress photo of a curved piece of wood clamped to a form on a saw horse in an outdoor setting

In this introductory, course participants will learn how to design and carve wooden utensils. Students will be shown how to safely and efficiently use the bandsaw as well as hand tools such as gouges, rasps, files, scrapers, and a variety of handsaws. Whether it’s spoons, spatulas, forks, knives, or something … Read more

Start Date

10/01

Meeting Day

Sundays

End Date

10/08

Faculty

Ellen Adams

Time

1pm–5:30pm

Credits

0

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Delve into the fascinating world of bent lamination. Explore a range of techniques that will bring versatility and creativity to your wood and furniture projects. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises, learn how to bend wood using molds, a vacuum bag, freeform bending methods, and more. This workshop is a module … Read more

Start Date

10/22

Meeting Day

Sundays

End Date

11/05

Faculty

Joe Sheehan

Time

10am–4pm

Credits

0

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Chair Building: From Design to Construction is an immersive hands-on experience that focuses on transforming chair designs into physical pieces. This course is meant to build upon the design acquired in the previous course the “Chair Design: Through Sketching, Modeling, and Full-Size Mock-ups” but if a student wishes to take … Read more

Start Date

10/27

Meeting Day

Fridays

End Date

12/15

Faculty

Joe Sheehan

Time

1:30pm–4:30pm

Credits

0

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Lounge organic shaped chair made from light and dark hardwood

Learn the basics of carving and shaping with hand tools; gouges, rasps, files, spokeshaves, block planes, knives, and more. Through demonstrations and prompts, explore both traditional and contemporary carving techniques and learn how they can be applied to the making of furniture and functional objects. This workshop is a module … Read more

Start Date

11/12

Meeting Day

Sundays

End Date

12/03

Faculty

Ellen Adams

Time

10am–4pm

Credits

0

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