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.
The goal of this course is to design portable play component systems in a 9-day intensive studio session. A design brief will be shared at the outset and used along with other parameters to guide this studio. Our collective goal is to examine ways that play can be a means … Read more
Start Date
06/05
Meeting Day
Monday thru Friday
End Date
06/15
Faculty
Mitch Ryerson
Time
8am–4pm
Credits
3
In this three-day workshop, you will learn how to use a a variety of tools to burn nuanced and expressive drawings into wood. Whether used to decorate furniture with designs, to create architectural installations or to complete large scale drawings, pyrography has been a method of drawing for eons. The … Read more
Start Date
07/15
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
07/16
Faculty
Brett S. Poza
Time
10am–2pm
Credits
0
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
07/22
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
07/29
Faculty
Ellen Adams
Time
10am–3pm
Credits
0
In this workshop students will have the opportunity to explore form and function through the practice of brush making. With wood as our main material we will practice how to safely and efficiently use the bandsaw and drill press as well as hand tools such as gouges, rasps, files, scrapers and power drills. After … Read more
Start Date
08/12
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
08/19
Faculty
Ellen Adams
Time
1pm–5pm
Credits
0
