The Virignia Military Institute conducted a timberframing project near their campus in Virginia, and members of our Sculpture department were lucky enough to participate. Continue reading
VMI Timberframing 2012
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Herb Garden Table
This is a crowning achievement of the past year. I’ve been interested in woodworking for a long time, and tried my hand at various furniture endeavors in the past. I took Joinery last year and was hooked. And the Poland and New Hampshire projects only encouraged my fascination with puzzling together pieces of wood to create structure and form. My practical interests overcoming the potential artistic ones, I decided to embark on one of the bigger woodworking projects I’ve done yet… Continue reading
Wasting
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Yes, I took a Food & Art class this past semester. While I have mixed feelings about its value for me at the time I took the course, its final gave me a chance to exercise some urges I’d been having to make something relevant, powerful, and aggressive. Continue reading
SIM Big Show
Every year, the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) department has their own department-wide show, showcasing the breadth and variety of its students’ work. This year is my first year in SIM, and I’ve been involved in SIM-related projects and events more than any thing I’ve done at any school yet. It’s fantastic. I was asked to stage manage the performance portion of this year’s Big Show, and not knowing what that meant or even what the Big Show was, I said ‘sure.’ It was really big, pretty stressful, and really awesome. Continue reading
The Gwozdziec Synagogue in Sanok, Poland
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Yup, I went to Poland. To help build a timber frame synagogue. A replica of the 1731 place of worship. It was pretty awesome.
The Timber Framer’s Guild was commissioned to build this structure, and Handshouse Studio organized a student volunteer opportunity to help with its construction. My group flew into Warsaw, where we stayed for about three days, and then traveled to Sanok, where we were for about twelve, to build. We then went to Krakow for about two days and headed home. There are plenty of pictures and memories from the trip, and I will do my best to summarize them here 
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