Wood Magazine 16 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1987-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

to create with clay, paper, paints, or camera while the woodworker attends class.

Woodworking taught as a craft among many. At crafts centers and in some university programs, woodworking workshops run concurrently with others in clay, glass, weaving, photography, and similar crafts. You may want to consider these schools for a vacation, particularly if your spouse's interests differ from your own.

Mingling with other craftspeople also may help you see new possibilities or techniques in wood. A potter, for instance, might advise a bowl turner on shape and form. Some schools actively promote this mixing, such as North Carolina^ Penland School, the largest crafts school in the nation. Says its director, Verne Standord: "There's a saying going around, 'Hardening of the categories leads to art disease.' We try to soften those categories."

The Brookfield Craft Center, in Connecticut, offers training in a mix of 150 different crafts and techniques over the year. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, which lies on 70 acres adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains

National Park in Tennessee, also emphasizes exchange of ideas between crafts. There, shops and studios sit close to each other and you'll get to see other crafts demonstrated.

In at least one case, at Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop, you can double-up your learning. After your day in woodworking, you have the opportunity to take a "mini-course" in a different craft during the evening.

Strictly for woodworkers. These workshops tend to be so intensive that unless their location happens to be particularly scenic, or in a tourist area, only the family woodworker will probably enjoy the time there.

Although some families do come along and camp nearby, Conover Workshops in rural, Amish-influ-enced Ohio, create a stimulating environment both night and day for the woodworker attending alone. Ernie and Susan Conover, along with their four children, plan the workshops so something's going on all the time. After a day spent building a Windsor chair, participants may for example, join for an evening tour of the Conover

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tool manufacturing facility or enjoy a picnic after a ride in a wagon drawn by Clydesdales.

Kirby Studios holds workshops at both its home base near Cum-ming, Georgia, and at a location just south of Astoria, Oregon. Instructor and top designer/ craftsman Ian Kirby keeps his short-term woodworkers busy day and evening, too. His program allows participants to take advantage of additional hands-on experience and prepare for classes in his studio after the day's formal sessions are over.

Some workshops, you'll find, concentrate on a specific technique or aspect of woodworking. For example, Woodturning Workshops, held in Provo, Utah, draw turners who want to learn under special instructors such as Dale Nish, Richard Raffan, Ray Key, and Mel I.inquist. Carvers gather for a week on the upper Mississippi River at Villa Maria Woodcarving Workshop, sponsored and taught by members of the Minnesota Woodcarvers Association.

While offering instruction in several technique-oriented woodworking subjects, workshops at the University of Northern Illinois have a common goal. Explains program head Dr. Roger Cliffe: "We try to

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