CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP NEWSLETTER Photo by Tom Hellmich Photo by Tom FROM THE DIRECTOR NINE-MONTH COURSE BEGINS s the maples turn and 2004 enters the home stretch, I Our first Nine-month Comprehensive started on September am pleased to report that the school has had a remarkable 13, following years of planning, fundraising, and construction. year. It got off to a great start with the successful completion Guided by the experienced hand of lead instructor David A Upfill-Brown, thirteen students hit the ground running. of our $2.4 million Capital Campaign. Since then, it’s been one They haven’t looked back. Participants are: wonderful thing after another: Orion Boshes, 29, ■ The new Main Building opened Lowell, Massachusetts. in February. Former software engineer, arborist, ■ Our Messler Gallery presented a and professional snowboarder. series of handsome exhibitions Goal: to be a self-employed studio that drew tremendous communi- furniture maker. ty response and a grant from the Maine Arts Commission. The alumni show was drop-dead impressive and will become an annual event. ■ Enrollment in the Workshop Program set a new record and the Twelve-week Intensives ran at full capacity. Andrew Bradford, 23, ■ We introduced woodturning to Bangor, Maine. Fourth-year architecture student. the curriculum and initiated a Goal: to combine furniture-making new Turning Studio. consciousness with architecture. ■ We found excellent people to fill the new staff positions created by our expansion. These include Kate Fletcher as Senior Administrator, Pete Schlebecker as Staff Instructor, and David Upfill-Brown as Lead Instructor for the Nine-month Comprehensive. Brian DiGeorge, 30, ■ Our first-ever Nine-month Comprehensive started in September Atlanta, Georgia. with an ample roster of 13 students. Former carpenter. ■ We built the Jackson Building, where the expanded Studio Goal: to be a working furniture Fellowship Program will begin in December. maker, self-employed. But the best thing about this year, as always, has been the excep- tional educational experience the school has provided for its stu- dents. That is our bottom line. Every effort, every expenditure, every improvement is directed toward its fulfillment. There is no way to adequately recognize our alumni, faculty, volun- teers, donors, staff, and Board of Directors for all they contribute to Brother Christopher Fair OSB, 35, the success of the school. Thank you all for being part of this vital Collegeville, Minnesota. community we call the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship! Works in St. Johns Abbey woodshop. Goal: to broaden skills. — Peter Korn F ALL 2004 C ENTER for F URNITURE NINE-MONTH COURSE (continued) C RAFTSMANSHIP is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization. Mike Fink, 23, Our mission is to provide the best possible Bacaville, California. education for people who want to design Corporate drop-out. Goal: to start his own and build functional, beautiful, expressive cabinet shop. furniture out of wood to the highest standard of craftsmanship. Jess Hagey, 21, Orange City, Iowa. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Former carpenter. President Goal: to have his own studio Craig Satterlee Marietta, GA furniture workshop. Vice-president Richard C. Kellogg, Jr. Houston, TX Treasurer Jim Bowers Washington, ME Blair Hawley, 48, Secretary Woodbury, Connecticut. Jeremy Morton, M.D. Portland, ME Former vice-president of supply chain for Remington Products. Robert Fippinger New York, NY Goal: to gain a personal skill set Mark Horowitz Weston, MA and to start a retail furniture showroom/gallery. Thomas Lie-Nielsen Waldoboro, ME Bill Stengel Brunswick, ME Jason Huber, 27, Fountain, Colorado. Karin Thomas Camden, ME Formerly employed as a mechani- John Tuton Philadelphia, PA cal engineer at Schlage Lock. Goal: to be a self-employed, HONORARY BOARD limited-production furniture maker. Art Carpenter Bolinas, CA Wendell Castle Scottsdale, NY Clark Kellogg, 24, Houston, Texas. James Krenov Fort Bragg, CA Recent B.A. from John Makepeace Beaminster, England University of Virginia. Goal: to eventually run his Wendy Maruyama San Diego, CA own furniture workshop. Thomas Moser Auburn, ME Alan Peters Cullompton, England Dan Parkington, 24, Martin Puryear Accord, NY Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Former sculpture student. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Goal: to be a self-employed studio Peter Korn furniture maker who won’t be stuck making one thing SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR for too long. Kate Fletcher STAFF INSTRUCTOR Fred Stehman, 48, Pete Schlebecker Lancaster, Pennsylvania. STUDENT SERVICES Formerly employed by Clark Filter Jennifer Mora (29 years). Goal: to explore a profession as a DESIGN & PRODUCTION self-employed designer/maker. Silverline Studio, Camden, Maine Leslie Webb, 26, Georgetown, Texas. CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP Former art student. 25 Mill Street, Rockport, ME 04856 Goal: to do woodworking as a (207) 594-5611 profession and eventually be self-employed. [email protected] www.woodschool.org Akiko Yokoyama, 36, Japan by way of Atlanta, Georgia. Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Former international human does not discriminate on the basis of resources manager for race, color, religion, gender, The Coca-Cola Company. national origin or sexual orientation. Goal: to see how far she can go as a furniture maker. FIRST ALL-SCHOOL TALENT SHOW Instructor Kevin Rodel playing the concertina at the school’s first Talent Show in April 2004 to an astounded audience. Other performers included Fred Young (poetry), Harv Mastalir (blues guitar), Sean Bergold (harmonica), Peter Korn (poetry), Tim Knicklebein (guitar). 2004 CROQUET TOURNAMENT VICTORS June 17 Jason Green & Tanya Heidrich June 24 Game called on account of rain July 1 Owen Edwards & Peter Shepard July 8 David & Clare Haig July 15 No game July 22 David & Clare Haig July 29 Lost in the mists of memory August 5 Game called on account of rain August 12 Federico Gonzalez & Nathan Kushner August 19 David & Clare Haig August 26 Owen Edwards & David Haig September 2 Rosalie MacNeal & Nathan Kushner Special notes: a. After a four-year absence, Silas Kopf will to return Workshop Assistant Nathan Kushner and Rosalie to the court in October 2005. MacNeal, winners of the final 2004 season b. Never bet against a Kiwi in croquet. tournament. F ACULTY NEWS FALL 2004 TED BLACHLY (Warner, New Hampshire) participate in “Whispers to Shouts: received the Best In Wood award at the Indiana Women Who Create” at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Indiana State Museum, February–July “Living With Crafts Exhibit” in August. 2005. Recently, the Mobile Museum of ■ BRIAN BOGGS (Berea, Kentucky) has Art in Mobile, Alabama purchased one two new tools in pre-production at of Betty’s sculptures, “Something Lie-Nielsen Toolworks: a half-round Green.” ■ JACQUES VESERY (Damariscotta, spokeshave and a hollowing shave for Maine) is curating “A Nation of Windsor seatmakers and luthiers. Brian’s Enchanted Form,” an exhibition of first DVD, titled “Hickory Bark: From contemporary woodturning. It will Tree to Chair,” is also available through open at the American Association of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. ■ MICHAEL Woodturners gallery at the Landmark FORTUNE (Lakefield, Ontario) is complet- Center in St. Paul, Minnesota from ing a 27'- long, curved reception desk for January 15 – April 1. It will then travel the Haliburton School of the Arts in to our Messler Gallery from April 22 – Haliburton, Ontario. ■ STEPHEN GLEASNER June 16. Participating faculty include (Appleton, Maine) will be exhibiting at STEPHEN GLEASNER, MATTHEW HILL the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), MICHAEL ■ Show the first week of November and Tim and Ann Rousseau (Appleton, Maine) HOSALUK, and BETTY SCARPINO ROD AND the Washington Craft Show the third had their first child, Noah, born at home on ALISON WALES (East Sussex, England) are week of November. ■ JULIE GODFREY August 3, 2004. currently teaching a six-week project at (Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) is the Australian School of Fine Furniture working on a commissioned ark for in Tasmania. On their return to England the Solomon Schecter School in introduced at the High Point Market, they will be launching new street furni- Northampton, Massachusetts. ■ MIGUEL including an all-leather occasional group ture designs through Luke Hughes and GOMEZ-IBANEZ (Weston, Massachusetts) for Bernhardt Furniture. Marcy’s Ripley Company and a new range of hospitality was recently appointed to the guest seating line was introduced by furniture with CS Contract Furniture Collections Committee of the Fuller Paoli, Inc. at Neocon 2004. ■ “Turning Ltd. ■ Faculty who took part in this Craft Museum, Brockton, Mass. ■ This Drawer Pulls” by PHIL LOWE (Beverly, year’s New Hampshire Furniture Masters past June, MICHAEL HOSALUK (Saskatoon, Massachusetts) appears in the current Association auction on October 17, Saskatchewan) was presented with the issue of Fine Woodworking (Sept./Oct.). include TED BLACHLY (Warner, New Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s “Fitting Drawers” will be published in Hampshire), TIM COLEMAN (Shelburne, Award for Innovation in the Arts. ■ A the Nov./Dec. issue. ■ JIM MACDONALD Massachusetts), JERRY CURRY (Union, table by TOM HUCKER (Hoboken, New (Burnham, Maine) is collaborating with Maine), GARRETT HACK (Thetford Center, Jersey) is currently on display at the Wisconsin luthier Bruce Petros on a Vermont), JERE OSGOOD (Wilton, New Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, Grand Concert steel string acoustic gui- Hampshire), and BILL THOMAS (Rindge, drawn