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June 2020
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own Viewing
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own Viewing | Thurs, June 18, 2020 | Link to View the Film 12:00 am - 11:59 pm EDT Non-Members: $12 Click Here Members: Free - To RSVP email Katie Sorenson, Community Engagement Manager at katie@centerforartinwood.org *Once you have purchased/RSVP'd, you will receive the link one day before the viewing room opens. You can view the documentary at any time during the 24 hours that the viewing room is open. Once this window has passed; the…
Find out more »Into Her Own Panel Discussion
Into Her Own Panel Discussion | Thurs, June 18, 2020 | Live on ZOOM 6:30 pm EDT RSVP This panel discussion features artists Ursula von Rydingsvard and Vivian Chiu, along with Daniel Traub, the director of the film Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own; it is moderated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken, Artistic Director of the Center for Art in Wood. Join us for this candid discussion revealing von Rydingsvard’s engagement with wood, the development of her sculptural process, her monumental forms, her studio practice—for which 2018 Windgate ITE Fellow…
Find out more »Sip & Wip
Sip & Wip | Wed. June 24, 2020 | 6 – 7 pm | LIVE on ZOOM Please RSVP for this FREE event. Join us for a fun evening sharing your creative work in progress (WIP) from the comfort of your home while sipping on the beverage of your choice. This series of casual creative hangouts are for people to connect with one and other and share their project(s). We hope that you will join us for the next Sip…
Find out more »Artist Talk with Erez Nevi Pana
Artist Talk with Erez Nevi Pana | Fri, June 26, 2020 | Live on ZOOM at 2:00 pm EDT RSVP Erez Nevi Pana takes an investigative and human-centered approach to both raw and discarded materials, excavating their properties and exposing and extracting the hidden, often toxic or destructive, byproducts of industrial manufacture. His egalitarian attitude toward materials and makers brings poetry to objects of uncanny beauty—pure collaborations between nature and culture, otherworldly but borne of the earth. Reclaimed wood is the…
Find out more »July 2020
Sip & Wip
Sip & Wip | Wed. July 8, 2020 | 6 – 7 pm | LIVE on ZOOM Please RSVP for this FREE event. Join us for a fun evening sharing your creative work in progress (WIP) from the comfort of your home while sipping on the beverage of your choice. This series of casual creative hangouts are for people to connect with one and other and share their project(s). We hope that you will join us for the next Sip…
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Sip & Wip | Wed. July 22, 2020 | 6 – 7 pm | LIVE on ZOOM Please RSVP for this FREE event. Join us for a fun evening sharing your creative work in progress (WIP) from the comfort of your home while sipping on the beverage of your choice. This series of casual creative hangouts are for people to connect with one and other and share their project(s). We hope that you will join us for the next Sip…
Find out more »Rescheduled – 2019 Bob Stocksdale Award: Humaira Abid
Rescheduled - The 2019 Bob Stocksdale International Excellence in Wood Award: Humaira Abid | Thurs, July 23, 2020 | 6:30 pm | Virtual Lecture Co-hosted by Winterthur Museum RSVP Join us to celebrate the fourth year of the Bob Stocksdale International Excellence in Wood Award. Supported by an anonymous donor, this award is presented annually to an emerging or mid-career artist whose work, like Stocksdale’s, unites quality of craftsmanship and respect for materials. The 2019 recipient for the Bob…
Find out more »Artist Talk with Roy Underhill
Artist Talk with Roy Underhill | Tues, July 28, 2020 | Live on ZOOM at 6:30 pm EDT RSVP Join us for a talk with woodworking celebrity Roy Underhill! The talk will take place in his very own Woodwright School where Roy will share stories from his life and work, including his experience hosting the hit PBS series The Woodwright’s Shop. Don’t miss this opportunity to spend an evening with a woodworking icon! Roy Underhill is an American woodworker and television show host.…
Find out more »Member, Maker, Mixer
Member, Maker, Mixer | co-hosted by NextFab & the Center for Art in Wood | Wed. July 29, 2020 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | LIVE on ZOOM RSVP Join us for a festive virtual happy hour celebrating our community of members and makers! We are excited to be partnering with NextFab for the first of many member mixers. Featured during the evening are tours and games, followed by a raffle, and an announcement of an exciting new joint program.…
Find out more »To Understand a Tree, a work-in-process
To Understand a Tree, a work-in-process with Gina Siepel | Thurs. July 30, 2020 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | LIVE on ZOOM RSVP What is the community of a tree? Are woodworkers part of it? What will happen if I, as a woodworker, place myself in a deeper relationship to the forest? Interdisciplinary artist and woodworker Gina Siepel discusses her ongoing work, To Understand a Tree, currently in process in the forest of western Massachusetts. To Understand a Tree…
Find out more »August 2020
Sip & Wip
Sip & Wip | Wed. August 5, 2020 | 6 – 7 pm | LIVE on ZOOM Please RSVP for this FREE event. Join us for a fun evening sharing your creative work in progress (WIP) from the comfort of your home while sipping on the beverage of your choice. This series of casual creative hangouts are for people to connect with one and other and share their project(s). We hope that you will join us for the next Sip…
Find out more »Object Lesson: Ksenia Nouril
Object Lesson | Ksenia Nouril | Fri. August 7, 2020 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Live on ZOOM RSVP Join us for First Friday Object Lesson followed by a festive virtual happy hour. Object Lesson is a monthly First Friday speaker series that opens wide the cases of the Center’s Museum Collection through the perspectives of individuals from the worlds of art, design, performance, community activism, education, and more, creating fresh dialogues about the Collection and its objects. The…
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