C ENTER for F URNITURE C RAFTSMANSHIP NEWSLETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR NINE-MONTH COMPREHENSIVE BEGINS s crimson maples and russet oaks 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 woodworking 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 Forestry 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 education for people who want to design WORKSHOPS and build functional, beautiful, expressive work out of wood 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 RELIEF CARVING Chris Pye Treasurer Jim Bowers Washington, ME July 2 – 6CARVING TUTORIAL Chris Pye Secretary July 2 – 13 TIMBER FRAMING 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 TOOLS 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 MARQUETRY AND CHIP CARVING 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 Carpenter Graduate of Carpenter/Timber Goal: To work in a American Sales & Goal: To work with a Pennsylvania College Framer 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 cabinetry 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 boat building 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 woods 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.