Herekeke Residency/Collaboration

For the past month I have been at Herekeke, near Questa, NM, doing a collaborative residency. I found out about the arts center a few years ago through a friend and stopped by for a visit while on a road trip. The land here is amazing! I feel so lucky to have been able to come back for such a length of time. I have been doing some explorative sculpture work as well as projects for the organization, building things for their print studio. Photos: Small sculptures, shelf built for studio, and one of the norwegian fjord horses in the pasture.

3D Studios

So much is happening! I've moved away from SF, but before leaving my job at the Oakland metalshop 3D Studios I snapped these photos that I've been meaning to post. My boss, Joe Farais, started the business 25 years ago to fabricate his metal sculptures (they are badass!). The past several years he's been making retail displays, so that's what I was helping with. Production work is of course very repetitive at times, but over the course of the year I got to work on a variety of projects.

Youth Carpentry at Root Division

This past fall I taught a weekly woodworking class for some of the youth from 7 Teepees, a nonprofit for teens that is next door to Root Division. It was a small group, only about 6 students, all middleschoolers. They made and then painted boxes using wood that was donated for the class. All the hammering was loud (especially since they were doing it in the gallery!), but it was a lot of fun- definitely want to do more teaching.

Auf Wiedersehen, Space Waves!

Space Waves was up at the Aldea Home store on Valencia Street and was bought by a German woman. Woo hoo! I made a crate and packed it like a champ...

AWFS Fair

I received an educational scholarship to go to the Association of Woodworking and Furniture Suppliers' trade show this summer. There were a lot of very fancy machines to oggle. Above: Martin panel saw... Below: Cabinet from the 'Fresh Wood' show, made by College of the Redwoods student Bonner Armbruster.

Rosie's Girls

This summer I got to teach carpentry to middle school girls through the trades program Rosie's Girls. There were two groups of girls-- apprentices and journeywomen-- based on their experience. They made chairs and chests, respectively. It was definitely challenging at times but I had a ton of fun and discovered that I love teaching.

Penland!

I just returned from Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where I received a scholarship to take a two week parquetry/piercing workshop with Brian Reid. It was awesome! We spent the first week learning how to make patterned tiles out of veneer (by stacking up layers of veneer and cutting them at the same time on the scroll saw). Next we learned how do piercing... Then we made small cabinets with sliding doors made out of the parquetry and pierced panels.