Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 12b
January 10, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Free
Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 12b | Sat, January 10, 2026 | Zoom
The Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this winter. Entrepreneur, teacher, and artist Sterling Cruz-Herr will co-host with artist, educator, and wood sculptor Leo Louise this edition of the roundtable discussion with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood, sharing the ways their lived experience impacts their craft, process, and aesthetic.
Join us for this enlightening and community-filled afternoon.
About the Co-hosts
Sterling is only young in woodworker years; but they nonetheless are building a business — T4Timbers — with products for the queer/trans community and our allies. What they lack in woodworking experience, they are trying to offset with communication skills garnered over decades.
Leo Louise (they/them) is a queer and trans artist, educator, and wood sculptor based in Baltimore, MD. They transform found wood into sculptural objects that honor queerness, abundance, and cooperation in nature. As a self-taught artist, Leo came into woodworking through community networks and mutual learning—not formal training. That DIY lineage informs their commitment as an educator to demystify craft and challenge who gets to belong in spaces of making. They are a woodworking instructor and shop monitor at Baltimore’s Station North Tool Library and travel often to teach and assist fellow woodworkers at craft schools across the country.
This event is free to the public. The Museum for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of it. A suggested donation of $5 per person enables us to provide programs and exhibitions throughout the year.
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at [email protected].