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FROM THE DIRECTOR NINE-MONTH COMPREHENSIVE BEGINS

s crimson and russet herald winter’s approach, Our third Nine-month Comprehensive began September 11 I am pleased to report that this has been another remark- with a record 14 students. Lead Instructor David Upfill-Brown is able year at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. There being joined for each of the eight project segments by Visiting A Instructors Peter Turner (South Portland, Maine), Aled Lewis are measurable indicators, such as record course enrollment and an (Oxford, England), Austin Matheson (Rockport, Maine), Darryl unprecedented number of visitors to the Messler Gallery, but what Keil (Brunswick, Maine) Toby Winteringham (King’s Lynn, I’m really talking about is the feeling on campus. The level of England), Pete Schlebecker (Camden, Maine), David Colwell excitement, inspiration, commit- (Wales, UK), and Tom Kealy (Somerset, England). ment, and camaraderie among Additional faculty include furniture historian Ed Churchill students, faculty, and staff seems (Augusta, Maine), artist Linden Frederick (Belfast, Maine), mar- to intensify year by year. quetarian Jim Macdonald (Burnham, Maine), woodturner Mac Ray (Damariscotta, Maine), and carver Valdemar Skov In great part, the creative ferment (Waldoboro, Maine). Participants are: at the school results from cross- Ben Bogie, 23 pollination among the various New Milford, Connecticut programs: Workshops, Twelve-week Cabinetmaker Intensives, the Nine-month Goal: To become proficient and eventually run his own shop Comprehensive, Studio Fellowships, and the Messler Gallery. Instructors from all over the world get to know Ben Branscom, 47 each other, students are exposed to multiple points of view, and we Raleigh, North Carolina all find inspiration in the work we see each other doing. Mortgage Recovery Manager at Wachovia Bank Trying to describe what the excitement is all about, I am drawn to Goal: To join a small coop a remark a student recently made. “What I find so amazing,” he or a larger firm in a design capacity and, eventually, to teach said, “is that you start with an idea and end up with an actual piece of furniture.” This resonates strongly with me, because there is a moment indelibly etched in my mind from almost 30 years ago Jordan Charney, 22 when that same realization first astonished me. Guilford, Connecticut B.S. in from the I think it is safe to say that all of us who are involved with the University of Vermont school value it specifically for the way it exercises our creative Goal: To pursue a woodworking career in a small shop capacities. The practice of woodworking builds confidence in our and eventually ability to transmute ideas into reality and, by extension, in our work for himself ability to shape the world around us. It also introduces us to the wonderful sense of fulfillment that comes from creative Mike Cyphers, 26 engagement, and this applies not just to the woodworkers among Port Murray, New Jersey us, but to all who help shape the school through the gift of their Mechanic for construction equipment time, talents, and resources. Goal: To be self-employed — Peter Korn as a furniture maker

Continued on page 3 F ALL 2006 REVIEW OF ORKSHOPS C ENTER for F URNITURE P 2007 W C RAFTSMANSHIP Course descriptions will be posted to www.woodschool.org by mid-December. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Alumni should receive the printed course catalog by the end of the year. educational organization. Registration begins on January 2, 2007. Our mission is to provide the best possible for people who want to design WORKSHOPS and build functional, beautiful, expressive work out of to the highest June 4 – 15 BASIC WOODWORKING Peter Korn (Also July 2 – 13, July 30 – Aug. 10, Aug. 27 – Sept. 7, Oct. 8 – 19) standard of craftsmanship. June 4 – 8TURNING FOR BEGINNERS Ernie Conover

BOARD OF DIRECTORS June 11 – 15 INTERMEDIATE TURNING Graeme Priddle

President June 18 – 29 INTERMEDIATE FURNITURE MAKING Peter Shepard & Richard C. Kellogg, Jr. Houston, TX Peter Turner Vice-president June 18 – 22 SCULPTURAL CARVING Chris Pye Mark Horowitz Weston, MA June 25 – 29 Chris Pye Treasurer Jim Bowers Washington, ME July 2 – 6CARVING TUTORIAL Chris Pye Secretary July 2 – 13 TIMBER Collin Beggs

Jeremy Morton, M.D. Portland, ME July 16 – 27 CABINETS AND CASEPIECES Jerry Curry & Rod Wales

Garrett Boone Dallas, TX July 16 – 20 INTRODUCTION TO TURNING Stephen Gleasner

Karen Cadbury Rockport, ME July 23 – 27 INTERMEDIATE TURNING Michael Mocho

Robert Fippinger New York, NY July 30 – Aug. 3 REALLY BASIC WOODWORKING Liza Wheeler

Thomas Lie-Nielsen Waldoboro, ME August 6 – 10 PRECISION WITH HAND Garrett Hack

Craig Satterlee Marietta, GA August 13 – 24 STRUCTURE AS DESIGN Tom Hucker & Don Seeley Tucson, AZ Michael Hurwitz Bill Stengel Brunswick, ME August 13 – 17 TURNING FOR BEGINNERS Beth Ireland John Tuton Philadelphia, PA August 20 – 24 TURNING FOR FURNITURE Nick Cook Joan Welsh Rockport, ME Aug. 27 – Sept. 7 FINISHING Teri Masaschi

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR September 10 – 21 DESIGN AND CRAFTSMANSHIP Ted Blachly & Jere Osgood Peter Korn September 10 – 14 TURNING FUNDAMENTALS Alan Lacer

SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR September 17 – 21 TURNING II Alan Lacer Margaret Jones Sept. 24 – Oct. 5 ADVANCED FURNITURE MAKING John Fox & Craig Stevens STAFF INSTRUCTOR Sept. 24 – 28 INTERMEDIATE TURNING Christian Burchard Pete Schlebecker October 1 – 5THE UNPLUGGED WORKSHOP Tom Caspar STUDENT SERVICES Laura Walz October 8 – 12 AND Craig Stevens October 15 – 19 ADVANCED VENEERNG Darryl Keil DESIGN & PRODUCTION Silverline Studio, Camden, Maine TWELVE-WEEK INTENSIVES CENTER for FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP 25 Mill Street, Rockport, ME 04856 February 19-May 11, 2007 (207) 594-5611 June 11-August 31, 2007 [email protected] www.woodschool.org October 29, 2007 – January 25, 2008

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship does not discriminate on the basis NINE-MONTH COMPREHENSIVE of race, color, religion, gender, September 10, 2007 – May 30, 2008 national origin or sexual orientation. COMPREHENSIVE BEGINS (continued)

Aaron Fedarko, 40 Daniel Griggs, 21 Cody Grimes, 20 Silas Holmes, 25 Ted Hukill, 22 Aspinwall, Point Harbor, Mechanicsburg, Peterborough, Avon Lake, Ohio Pennsylvania North Carolina Pennsylvania New Hampshire Fiberglass fabricator Director of Latin Graduate of Carpenter/Timber Goal: To work in a American Sales & Goal: To work with a Pennsylvania College 3–4 person shop, be Marketing for a steel cabinetmaker for a few of Technology with a Goal: To be able to involved in the design manufacturer years and then help in certificate in cabinet- work with wood long process, and have some Goal: Career change; his father’s antique making and millwork past the time when he control over what he is testing the idea of a shop building custom Goal: To build a truly can no longer lift producing professional woodwork- furniture amazing piece of beams and work ing career with the goal furniture outside all winter of running his own small furniture-making shop

Liz Phillips, 44 Ben Richmond, 30 Jack Rodie, 50 Liz Vera, 25 Ric Washburn, 47 Brighton, Machias, Maine York, Maine Brooklyn, New York Snohomish, Massachusetts Cabinetmaker Remodeling contractor Draftsman Washington Magazine editor Goal: To own his own Goal: To move out of Goal: To complete the Radiology equipment Goal: To make at least furniture and custom remodeling into case- Comprehensive and technician part of her living as a workshop work and furniture and get accepted into Goal: To have his own furniture maker with up to two work with interior graduate school for workshop, with one working in a small employees designers and archi- furniture design or find employee, making cooperative shop tects because he enjoys an apprenticeship custom-fit furniture their creativity

NEW SCHOLARSHIP INITIATED

Alumnus Jerry Axelson and his wife, Nancy Wilson, have set Instructor at The Boat School, comments, “We are excited up a new $2,500 scholarship for 2007 to give a promising stu- about this. The Center’s emphasis on fine hand skills and dent from the Maine Technical College System the opportuni- design is a perfect complement to our ty to attend a two-week Basic Woodworking workshop at the curriculum.” The scholar- Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. ship covers the costs of tuition, hous- ing, materials, travel, and meals. The initiative springs from Jerry’s participation in the Basic Woodworking course in 2005. “The course opened doors for “It’s a wonderful thing to learn how to me that we want to open for young people,” Jerry says. express yourself in wood,” concludes “We want to give them that same inspiration to jumpstart Jerry. “Maybe one in ten scholarship them on woodworking as a life-enriching experience.” recipients will find the inspiration to carry on, and that would make it The 2007 scholarship will be awarded to a student from The worthwhile to us.” Boat School of the Marine Technology Center of Washington County Community College. Dean Pike, who is Lead Jerry Axelson WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ALUMNI NEWS 2004–2005 Comprehensive 2005–2006 Comprehensive Orion Boshes is in his second year as a Andrea Barra is working for William Mary Lake (Augusta, Maine) has started cabinetmaker at Phi Home Design in Evans Cabinetmaker in Waldoboro, a new business, Greener Pastures, using Rockport, Maine. ■ Andrew Bradford is Maine. ■ Dave Barber is working full recycled and reclaimed to make in his second year of self-employment, time at Freeport Woodworking, a three- biodegradable urns and caskets. Her web building cabinets and furniture in Sandy person cabinet, furniture, and millwork site is: greener-pastures.org. ■ Pat Point, Maine under the name Bradford shop in Freeport, Maine. ■ James Megowan won 1st prize at the 2006 Design. ■ Brian DiGeorge has been Cohen is a shop fabricator at Made LLC, Mid-Willamette Woodworkers Guild working as a carpenter and will be a a design/build architecture firm in Woodworking Show for his Musician’s stay-at-home dad for the next year and Brooklyn, New York. ■ Kris Fenton is Sideboard, built during a Twelve-week a half while his wife, Amanda, attends engaged in a six-month apprenticeship Intensive he took here in 2005. ■ nursing school. ■ Brother Christopher with chairmaker Brian Boggs in Berea, Forrest Procter (Newburgh, Maine) is Fair continues as Supervisor of the Kentucky. ■ Dave Frechette has represented by the Carver Hill Gallery woodshop at St. John’s Abbey in returned to his position as Emergency in Rockport, Maine. ■ Dolly Spragins Collegeville, Minnesota. The four-person Room Director at Cottage Hospital in (Chicago, Illinois) is one of the shop recently furnished an entire 30- Woodsville, New Hampshire and exhibitors in “Form Follows Form: room guesthouse. ■ Mike Fink is a continues to build furniture for his Architecturally-Inspired Furniture” at cabinetmaker at Richmar Cabinets in house and family. ■ Kevin Gill is a the Paul V. Galvin Library of the Illinois Vacaville, California. ■ Jesse Hagey is Studio Fellow at the Center for Furniture Institute of Technology, September 21 – building furniture and cabinetry at Craftsmanship. ■ Ian Kirk is restoring October 28. ■ A demilune table by Artisan Woods, a six-person shop in furniture and pursuing commissions at Laura Smith (Seattle, Washington) Omaha, Nebraska. ■ Blair Hawley is appeared in the Reader’s Gallery of the Vice-President of Supply Chain for New August issue of Fine Woodworking. ■ World Pasta in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Joey Stuckelman (Encino, California) and has just finished outfitting a new had a solo exhibition called “Horizon 900 sq. ft. home workshop. ■ Jason Line” at the Los Angeles Art Associ- Huber is developing new products for ation’s Gallery/eight/two/five this past Schlage Lock as an engineer, while summer. ■ Kristin Terpening (Rockland, woodworking in his spare time. ■ Clark Maine) and Libby Schrum (Camden, Kellogg is in his second year of self- Maine) are working as cabinetmakers at employment in Houston Texas. The web Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Co. in site for his company, Kellogg Furniture Thomaston, Maine. In late October, Design, is: kelloggfurniture.com. ■ Dan Libby worked as a presenter at the Parkington is in his second year at J.G. Ian Kirk Woodworks Show in Portland, Maine. Woodsmiths in Fairfield, New Jersey. ■ Kirk Restorations, in Spring City, ■ Bill Wells (Ypsilanti Township, Fred Stehman is working at Cedars Pennsylvania. ■ TJ Mifflin is a self- Michigan) was juried into the Fine Woodworking & Interior Painting in employed furniture maker and is Furnishings Milwaukee Show in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Their web site currently setting up a new shop at the September and has a new web site: is cedarswoodworking.com. ■ Leslie Riverdam Millyard in Biddeford, Maine. www.williamwellsfurniture.com. Webb is in her final year at the & ■ Johann Rutt is working for a real Design Program at Sheridan College in estate company in Mallorca, Spain. ■ Toronto. ■ Akiko Yokoyama is a Studio Jesse Shaw is a Studio Fellow at the Fellow at the Center for Furniture Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. ■ Craftsmanship. Peter Wilde is building furniture at Elkins & Co. in Boothbay, Maine.

2006 CROQUET WINNERS

June 15 Rollo Scott and Lawry Hutcheson July 6 David Atmar Smith, Steve Vela, and Andrea Young July 13 Zach Bailey, Daniel Gould, and Steve Vela July 20 Chloris Lowe and Mikey Pumphrey July 27 Mikey Pumphrey and Chloris Lowe August 3 Daniel Griggs and Leon Wong August 17 Robin Chase and Ken Northrop August 24 Fred Pflaum and Tim Rousseau August 31 Tom Harrington and Mike Roy Sept. 7 Mary Ann and Neal Martini Betty Scarpino presents the eponymous Scarpino trophy to tournament winners Mikey Pumphrey and Chloris Lowe. F ACULTY NEWS FALL 2006

JENN ANDERSON’S (San Diego, CA) work is ME) graces the cover of the Fall issue of Washington) has a new web site: featured in the Portfolio section of the Design magazine. ■ JULIE www.hughmontgomery. com ■ TIM October/November issue of American GODFREY (Shelburne Falls, MA) is work- PHILBRICK (Narragansett, RI) is one of the . ■ BRUCE BEEKEN (Shelburne, VT) ing on a grant-funded panel for the furniture makers currently participating and his business partner, Jeff Parsons, Sweet Harvest Festival, at the National in “Autumn Exhibition of Studio are working on a project with the U.S. Yiddish Book Center in Amherst. ■ Furniture 2006” at Pritam & Eames in Forest Service called “Linking Digital MIGUEL GOMEZ-IBANEZ (Weston, MA) has Easthampton, New York. Other faculty Technology, Creative Thinking, and been appointed President of Boston’s in the show are JERE OSGOOD, BRUCE Wood Products.” ■ TED BLACHLY BEEKEN, TOM HUCKER, AND JAMES SCHRIBER. (Warner, NH) will be one of 20 chair ■ MICHAEL PURYEAR (Shokan, NY) is one makers featured in Chairs North by of the authors of the Penland Book of Northeast at our Messler Gallery. Other Woodworking, recently published by Lark faculty participatants include BRUCE Books. ■ BRIAN REID (Warren, ME) has BEEKEN, GARRETT HACK, JERE OSGOOD been appointed Coordinator of the (Wilton, NH), KEVIN RODEL (Pownal, ME), Studio Fellowship Program at the Center TIM ROUSSEAU (Appleton, ME), and BILL for Furniture Craftsmanship. He is also THOMAS (Rindge, New Hampshire). ■ one of the invited artists in the current An ebonized, woven-back side chair by show at the Houston Center for BRIAN BOGGS (Berea, KY) was awarded Contemporary Craft, “Finding Balance,” Best of Show for an Individual Tradition- which runs through January 14, 2007. ■ al Piece at the recent Milwaukee Fine A turned, carved by BETTY Furniture Show. ■ STEVE BUTLER (Layton, SCARPINO (Indianapolis, IN) won a pur- New Jersey) is the new wood studio chase award at the 82nd annual Hoosier Department Head at Peters Valley Craft Instructor Stephen Gleasner and student Salon Exhibition in August and was Center. ■ Three pieces of furniture by purchased by the Indiana State Museum GERALD CURRY (Union, ME) were featured North Bennet St. School. ■ GARRETT for their permanent collection. ■ An on the back cover of the August issue of HACK (Thetford Center, VT) wrote an article on push sticks by PETE SCHLEBECKER Fine Woodworking. ■ The exhibition article called “Five Overlooked Hard- (Camden, ME) appeared in the October, “Inspired by China” runs from October woods” for the August issue of Fine 2006 issue of Fine Woodworking. Pete also 28, 2006 – March 4, 2007 at the Peabody Woodworking. ■ DAVID HAIG (Nelson, has a piece on display in “RISD Artists in Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. New Zealand) was represented in the Midcoast Maine” at the Kingdom Hall Participating faculty include JOHN recent group show “Fine 06” at Shed Arts Center in Belfast, ME, September 30 DUNNIGAN (W. Kingston, RI), TOM HUCKER 11 in Nelson. ■ WAYNE HALL was an – November 10, as does GEOFF WARNER (Jersey City, NJ), MICHAEL HURWITZ exhibitor, along with STEPHEN GLEASNER (Stonington, ME). ■ JAMES SCHRIBER (Philadelphia, PA), SILAS KOPF (North- and BRIAN REID, in the Center for Maine (New Milford, CT) will be participating ampton, MA), CLIFTON MONTEITH (Lake Contemporary Art’s recent “Work of in “A Continuing Tradition: Litchfield Ann, MI), and MICHAEL PURYEAR (Shokan, The Hand” event in Rockport, ME. ■ County Craftsmanship Today,” present- NY). ■ MICHAEL FORTUNE (Lakefield, MICHAEL HOSALUK (Saskatoon, SK) is a ed at the Litchfield Historical Society Ont.) and MICHAEL HOSALUK are repre- Visiting Artist at the California College from April 14 – November 7, 2007. ■ sented in the exhibition “Unique! 30 of the Arts in Oakland for November CRAIG STEVENS (Sunbury, OH) is expand- Years of Outstanding Crafts” at the and December. ■ An article by MICHAEL ing his workshop this winter from 900 Canadian Museum of Civilization in HURWITZ (Philadelphia, PA), titled “Judy to 2400 feet. He was also one of Ontario through August 5, 2007. ■ Kensley McKie: Work that Stands As if five woodworkers selected for the recent JOHN FOX (Acton, MA) will be exhibiting it Always Was,” appears in the new exhibition “New Furniture: Form, at the Washington Craft Show, Novem- Furniture Society publication Furniture Function and Fantasy” at the Southern ber 17–19 and the Baltimore Fine Craft Studio 4: Focus on Materials. ■ SILAS Ohio Museum. ■ PETER TURNER (South Show, February 23–25. ■ A turned vase KOPF’s (Northampton, MA) dvd “The Portland, ME) recently participated in form by STEPHEN GLEASNER (Appleton, Master Techniques of Marquetry” is Serendipity 2006, a fundraiser for The in its third pressing and is available Society of Arts and Crafts, in Boston. ■ through his web site www.croquetloser. DAVID UPFILL-BROWN (Rockport, ME) was com…oops, that should be www. the Guest Artist at this year’s annual silaskopf.com. ■ PHIL LOWE (Beverly, auction of the New Hampshire Furniture MA) wrote an article called “- Masters Association in October. Other Basics” for the Fundamentals section of auction participants include TED BLACHLY, the August Fine Woodworking. ■ TERI TIM COLEMAN (Shelburne, MA), GARRETT MASASCHI (Tijeras, NM) has a new book HACK, TERRY MOORE (Newport, NH), JERE out, published by Fox Chapel Press, OSGOOD, and BILL THOMAS. ■ JACQUES called “Foolproof .” ■ VESERY (Damariscotta, ME) will have a As a member of the 2006 Toboggan solo exhibition at the Payson Galleries National Championship winning team, in Hobe Sound, Florida, from February AUSTIN MATHESON (Rockport, ME) is hard 13 – April 6, 2007. ■ CS Contract at work conducting research and devel- Furniture in Shropshire, England is opment on a new toboggan to defend producing a series of tables and seating the title in 2007. ■ “Inspired by China: designed by ROD and ALLISON WALES (East An Interview with CLIFTON MONTEITH” Sussex, England). ■ In July, STEWART appears in the December 2006 issue WURTZ (Seattle, WA) participated in a of Woodwork Magazine. ■ HUGH group show titled “25+1” at the MONTGOMERY (Bainbridge Island, Northwest Fine Woodworking gallery. Instructor Toby Winteringham at the 2006 All-school Talent Show MESSLER GALLERY NEWS

The summer exhibition NEW WORK BY FACULTY was a tremen- The show is co-sponsored by the Center for Furniture dous success. It presented work from 28 instructors who live Craftsmanship, AIA Maine, Architalx, and the Portland Society as close as Union, Maine and as far away as Nelson, New of Architects, and is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Zealand. Attendance broke all previous records, with approxi- Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported mately 1,000 visitors coming during the eleven week run. by the National Endowment for the Arts. The curators, It also generated a record number of sales and commissions Richard Bernhard, A.I.A. and Phil Kaplan, A.I.A., were tasked for the exhibitors. to invite accomplished architects who either practice in Maine or have done significant projects in Maine to create furniture CURRENTLY SHOWING expressive of their personal design visions and, ideally, to commission Maine artisans to build it. There were no limits GETTING PERSONAL: MAINE ARCHITECTS DESIGN FURNITURE placed on materials or degree of functionality. September 15 – November 20, 2006 Several of the pieces entered were pre-existing, but in most The current exhibition in our Messler Gallery, “Getting cases the architects worked with Maine artisans in wood, Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture,” is visually concrete, and steel. The feedback we’ve received is that these compelling and conceptually strong. But that has been only collaborations were stimulating and enlightening for both one measure of the show’s success. Our objective from the parties and that some teams plan to continue working start was not just result-oriented, i.e. to create a good-looking together on new projects. gallery presentation. It was also process-oriented, i.e. to foster creativity and communication among Maine architects and Architects are strong on concept and visual impact, while artisans, to strengthen ties among design-oriented organiza- furniture makers are more apt to factor in details that pertain tions within the state, to educate our students and the public to the intimacy of use — how a chair arm feels to the hand, about design, and to highlight the quality of Maine’s design how might enhance a form, how a seat conforms community. On all counts, the exhibition is a winner. to one’s butt. Because of these differences, working together was a journey of discovery for both architect and artisan alike. UPCOMING SHOWS

CHAIRS NXNE (NORTH BY NORTHEAST) November 30, 2007 – March 9, 2007

An exhibition of original work by chair makers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, co-curated by Jon Binzen, freelance author and former editor at Fine Woodworking and Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, furniture maker and President of the North Bennet St. School.

CURRENT STUDENT WORK March 16 – April 20, 2007

An exhibition of work by participants in the Nine-month Comprehensive.

Turtleback chairs by architect Christopher Campbell in “Getting

Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture”

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