BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Museum for Art in Wood - ECPv6.1.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://museumforartinwood.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Museum for Art in Wood REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20260324T210206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T204952Z UID:10002082-1775235600-1775246400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday and Opening for BA Harrington: Suite Américaine DESCRIPTION:First Friday and Opening for BA Harrington: Suite Américaine | Fri. April 3\, 2026 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups are Welcome \nJoin us for First Friday and the opening for BA Harrington: Suite Américaine. Artist  BA Harrington  brings inherited craft knowledge into contemporary feminist practice. Revisiting historic American furniture typologies designed to accommodate women during the Early American and colonial periods (c. 1620–1700s)\, Harrington constructs and animates these forms while opening them physically and conceptually\, revealing interiors filled with textiles\, quilts\, and collaborative interventions. \nSuite Américaine is a part of Radical Americana\, a citywide initiative organized by The Clay Studio that unites Philadelphia’s leading arts and cultural Institutions through a series of exhibitions showcasing research-driven work by contemporary artists. \nSuite Américaine is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, the William Penn Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-and-opening-for-ba-harrington-suite-americaine/ LOCATION:The Center for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Installation-3b-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="The%20Center%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org GEO:39.9533152;-75.1447709 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Center for Art in Wood 141 N 3rd Street Philadelphia PA 19106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=141 N 3rd Street:geo:-75.1447709,39.9533152 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20260102T202909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T202909Z UID:10002077-1773943200-1773950400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:The Art and Furniture of Tommy Simpson Book Signing with Author Oscar P. Fitzgerald DESCRIPTION:The Art and Furniture of Tommy Simpson Book Signing with Author Oscar P. Fitzgerald | Thur. March 19\, 2026 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a special evening celebrating the release of the first-ever comprehensive catalogue of the work of Tommy Simpson with author Oscar P. Fitzgerald. During the event\, Fitzgerald will present his experience with artist Tommy Simpson while preparing the publication. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase at the event\, along with plenty of opportunities for conversation. \nAbout Oscar P. Fitzgerald \n Dr. Fitgerald has lectured worldwide including presentations to appraisers\, collectors\, museums\, and even several Atlantic Ocean crossings on Queen Elizabeth II. His books include American Furniture: 1650 to the Present (600 pages\, 800 illustrations)\, the standard text book in the field; the catalogue of studio furniture in the Smithsonian’s Renwick collection; and American Furniture Designers: 1900-2020\, published by Rowman Littlefield in 2022. His latest book\, The Art and Furniture of Tommy Simpson was published by Bloomsbury in January. He served an Adjunct Professor of American furniture at the Smithsonian Institution/George Washington University Master’s Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design. \n\n\nThis 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/the-art-and-furniture-of-tommy-simpson-book-signing-with-author-oscar-p-fitzgerald/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/91sInqCeXbL._SY425_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20260218T190409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T190622Z UID:10002080-1772816400-1772827200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Viola Bordon: Muliebrity DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for Viola Bordon: Muliebrity | Fri. March 6\, 2026 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nJoin us for the opening of Viola Bordon: Muliebrity! While you’re at the Museum\, experience American Graffiti: Painting\, Dyeing\, and Surface Design in Wood and make sure to explore our permanent collection of over 1\,400 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nViola Bordon: Muliebrity is a part of Radical Americana\, a series of exhibitions organized by a consortium of Philadelphia’s extensive collection of arts and cultural institutions that celebrate how today’s artists are continuing the city’s unique and rich legacy as a center for creativity and civic engagement. To learn more about the other participating artists and organizations\, please click HERE. \nSince the American Revolution\, the Roman goddess Libertas has personified the nation’s ideals\, embodying evolving definitions of freedom and belonging. The 1886 dedication of the Statue of Liberty\, however\, unfolded amid national conflict over the boundaries of liberty\, including the end of Reconstruction\, debates over immigration\, and the rise of women’s suffrage. Drawing on archival research at the American Historical Society\, textile artist Viola Bordon examines “Lady Liberty” as a fragmented American icon. Her triptych Muliebrity\, composed through appliqué and found textiles\, invokes a distinctly feminine power grounded in endurance and embodied knowledge\, prompting us to consider how figures of womanhood have been repeatedly mobilized to serve patriarchal institutions.\n\nAbout the Artist: \nViola Bordon is a Philadelphia-based sculptor and fiber artist whose work explores themes of power\, boundary\, control\, the body\, labor\, faith\, religion\, and isolation. She holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Bordon has presented her work in exhibitions and site-based installations throughout the United States\, South Asia\, and Australia.\n\nViola Bordon: Muliebrity is generously supported by Radical Americana\, the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, William Penn Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-viola-bordon-muliebrity/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Detail-3--scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T193000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20251229T212345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T180041Z UID:10002076-1770229800-1770233400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:A Usable Past Virtual Artist Talk DESCRIPTION:A Usable Past Virtual Artist Talk | Wed\, Feb 4\, 2026 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a virtual gallery talk for A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance. The exhibition brings together sculpture by twelve artists who reckon with America’s layered histories. From family lineages and ancestral myths to rooted or shifting values\, the ideas that drive these works probe how the nation’s past continues to shape these artists and their experience of the present. Drawing from the metaphorical power inherent in the material of wood\, these artists translate inheritance into form\, giving “shape and substance to national identity.” \nArtists who will be joining us for the virtual discussion:Vivian Chiu\, Damien Davis\, Michael De Forest\, Aspen Golann\, Terry Holzgreen\, Gina Siepel\, and Kimberly Winkle; moderated by exhibition curator Jennifer-Navva Milliken \nExhibition Artists:Vivian Chiu\, Damien Davis\, Michael De Forest\, Raul De Lara\, Aspen Golann\, Terry Holzgreen\, James Maurelle\, Jordan Nassar\, Ato Ribeiro\, Gina Siepel\, David J. Wilson\, Kimberly Winkle \nThis 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. \nA Usable Past is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, and Windgate Foundation. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/a-usable-past-virtual-artist-talk/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_5353-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20251016T173438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T173438Z UID:10002066-1764954000-1764964800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for American Graffiti: Painting\, Dyeing\, and Surface Design in Wood DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for American Graffiti: Painting\, Dyeing\, and Surface Design in Wood | Fri. Dec. 5\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nPlease join us for the First Friday opening of American Graffiti: Painting\, Dyeing\, and Surface Design in Wood! \nDuring the 1970s\, prominent American woodturners like Bob Stocksdale and David Ellsworth marshalled their virtuosic talents to turn vessels that showcased the natural and idiosyncratic features of wood such as knots\, infestations\, and complex grain figure. Embracing species such as Brazilian rosewood\, African blackwood\, and pink ivory wood that appeared “exotic” to American audiences\, these artists highlighted the drama of naturally occurring figuration. By the 1980s\, artists began to challenge this prevailing orthodoxy; pioneers like Meryll Saylan questioned the creative value of rarefied wood types and the field’s prevailing rejection of surface decoration. American Graffiti: Painting\, Dyeing\, and Surface Design in Wood follows the rebellious\, experimental\, and often quirky spirit of artists who dare to obscure the unadulterated beauty of wood grain. \nDrawn from the Museum’s permanent collection\, American Graffiti presents twenty-one objects by eighteen artists. Works of turning\, carving\, and sculpture demonstrate how the allure of color and surface design has captivated artists working in wood. For some\, wood offers a blank canvas for representational sculpture\, embellished by the application of vivid paint or imagery. For others\, dye and surface texturing deepens the exploration of formal qualities like shape and volume\, without the distraction of figured patterning. Taken together\, these artists offer a tongue in cheek response to collectors\, enthusiasts\, and critics that limit their appreciation of wood art to the beauty of strictly natural features. Through automotive lacquer\, fiberglass\, milk paint\, or dye\, these works invite viewers to appreciate the artistic touch that remains on the surface. \nArtists: \nJérôme Blanc; Mike Darlow; Michael De Forest; Giles Gilson; Louise Hibbert; Michael Hosaluk; Michael Hosaluk and Mark Sfirri; Connie Mississippi; Binh Pho\, Greg Wilber and David Williams; Hap Sakwa; Merryll Saylan; Betty Scarpino; David Sengel; Alan Stirt; Derek Weidman; Maria Van Kesteren \nLocation: The Fleur and Charles Bresler Research Library at the Museum for Art in Wood \nRemarks at 6:00 pm \nAmerican Graffiti is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, and Windgate Foundation. \nPictured above: Merryll Saylan\, North Seas\, 1988. Photo by John Carlano URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-american-graffiti-painting-dyeing-and-surface-design-in-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MS05-North-Seas-1995.01.01.212.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20251015T212225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T185848Z UID:10002064-1762534800-1762545600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for "A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance" DESCRIPTION:A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance | Fri. Nov. 7\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nJoin us for the opening of A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance brings together sculpture by twelve artists who reckon with America’s layered histories. From family lineages and ancestral myths to rooted or shifting values\, the ideas that drive these works probe how the nation’s past continues to shape these artists and their experience of the present. Drawing from the metaphorical power inherent in the material of wood\, these artists translate inheritance into form\, giving “shape and substance to national identity.” \nArtists: \nVivian Chiu\, Damien Davis\, Michael De Forest\, Raul De Lara\, Aspen Golann\, Terry Holzgreen\, James Maurelle\, Jordan Nassar\, Ato Ribeiro\, Gina Siepel\, David J. Wilson\, Kimberly Winkle \nA Usable Past is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, and Windgate Foundation. \nRemarks at 6:00 pm. \nPictured above: James Maurelle\, Mathilde\, 2022. Photo by John Carlano URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-a-usable-past-reflections-on-a-nation-and-its-inheritance/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/James-Maurelle.Mathilde.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250923T154955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T155024Z UID:10002061-1759510800-1759521600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:October First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood DESCRIPTION:October First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. Oct 3\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nThis First Friday\, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience A Plank in a Shipwreck: WARP Wood 2025and Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood. While you’re here\, explore our permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/october-first-friday-at-the-museum-for-art-in-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-4.04.07 PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250807T200637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T200637Z UID:10002046-1757091600-1757102400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:September First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood DESCRIPTION:September First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. Sept 5\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nThis First Friday\, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience A Plank in a Shipwreck: WARP Wood 2025and Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood. While you’re here\, explore our permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/september-first-friday-at-the-museum-for-art-in-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-4.04.07 PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250701T204928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250701T204928Z UID:10002045-1754069400-1754078400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for A Plank in a Shipwreck: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2025 DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for A Plank in a Shipwreck: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2025 | Fri\, August 1\, 2025 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nThe Museum’s annual summer exhibition represents the culmination of the Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood)\, a two-month arts residency program. In this exhibition\, the international group of artists presents work created during the residency\, which emphasizes research\, exploration\, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment. Now in its twenty-eighth year\, this renowned residency offers artists specializing in the material of wood the opportunity to test their vision and skill\, while developing connections with colleagues\, collectors\, and the city of Philadelphia. \nThis year’s fellows\, listed below\, will bring immersive and installation sculpture\, furniture and woodworking\, sculpture\, and research to the Museum’s exhibition space. \nArtist Fellows:\n2025 Windgate Resident Fellows\n\nArtists\nKlara Knutsson | Stockholm\, Sweden \nAllen Laing | Pretoria\, South Africa \nNifemi Ogunro | Brooklyn\, New York\, US \nEdgar Orlaineta | Mexico City\, Mexico \nArtist and Documentation\nAsem Kamal |  Giza\, Cairo\, Egypt \nStudent Artist\nArden Carlson | Fayetteville\, Arkansas\, US \nScholar\nHolly Gore\,  PhD | Malvern\, Pennsylvania\, US \n\nMeet the 2025 WARP Wood Fellows! Join us for the WARP Wood Open Studio Day\, in memory of Lee Bender\, on July 12\, 2025\, at NextFab North. To RSVP\, click HERE. \n  \nOpening reception with the Windgate Resident Fellows | Aug 1\, 5:30-8 PM | Gallery talk\, 6-7 PM \n  \nThis year’s Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood and Exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood\, donors to the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood appeal\, the Phil F. Brown Fund\, Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, the Klorfine Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. The Museum received in-kind support from Boomerang\, Inc. Special thanks to the WARP Wood committee\, the organizing committee of the Echo Lake Collaborative Conference\, the Organic Recycling Center in the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation\, and Debbra Soffer in memory of Michael Soffer. \n  \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-a-plank-in-a-shipwreck-the-windgate-arts-residency-program-in-wood-2025/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hudnall_7.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250528T170346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T170346Z UID:10002040-1749229200-1749240000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:June First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood DESCRIPTION:June First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. June 6\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nThis First Friday\, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points and Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood. While you’re here\, explore our permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/june-first-friday-at-the-museum-for-art-in-wood-3/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hudnall_7.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250417T161137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T163344Z UID:10002034-1746205200-1746216000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood | Fri. May 2\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nCinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood\, curated by Assistant Curator Amrut Mishra\, presents artworks that revel in the incendiary properties of wood as a medium. Illustrated across twenty-six objects by twenty-two artists and largely drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection\, Cinders delves into the enigmatic tension between permanence and fragility that materializes in fire-treated wood. \nInstalled in the gallery of the Fleur and Charles Bresler Research Library at the Museum for Art in Wood\, this exhibition presents works of installation\, sculpture\, and woodturning that experiment with the generative possibilities of fire. From the delicate surface decorations of pyrography to the sensual sheen of scorching\, Cinders invites visitors to consider the creative but fraught threshold before combustion. \nPlease join us for the opening! \nFri. May 2nd\n5:00 – 8:00 pm\nRemarks at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists: \nSteve Bishop\nChristian Burchard\nMiriam Carpenter\nGaynor Dowling\nMelissa Engler\nAshley Eriksmoen\nAmy Forsyth\nGiles Gilson\nMorgan Hill\nTodd Hoyer\nKatie Hudnall\nMalcom Martin\nDennis Mueller\nJim Partridge\nAndrew Potocnik\nGraeme Priddle\nBetty Scarpino\nJack Slentz\nHayley Smith\nMichaela Crie Stone\nNucharin Wangphongsawasd\nJohn H. Williams \nCinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, The Bresler Foundation\, The Klorfine Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, and Windgate Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-cinders-burned-scorched-and-pyrographed-works-in-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MAW_Cinder_Logo_Final_Square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250320T172813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T172813Z UID:10002032-1743786000-1743796800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:April First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood DESCRIPTION:April First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. April 4\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nThis First Friday\, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points and Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection. While you’re here\, explore our permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/april-first-friday-at-the-museum-for-art-in-wood-2/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hudnall_7.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250127T203616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T203917Z UID:10002025-1741431600-1741435200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk for The Longest Distance between Two Points with Katie Hudnall DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk for The Longest Distance between Two Points with Katie Hudnall | Sat\, March 8\, 2025 | 11:00 – 12 pm ET | In-person at the Museum for Art in Wood\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Museum for Art in Wood for an in-depth conversation with artist Katie Hudnall for her current exhibition The Longest Distance between Two Points. Hudnall makes tools\, furniture\, and objects that are perfectly suited for a peculiar world. The first museum-organized solo presentation of Hudnall’s unique and captivating work reveals a rare glimpse into the artist’s rich inner world. Here\, the absurd and mechanically improbable merge with fine woodworking and salvaged wood materials to bring mechanisms and structures to life and action. \nKatie Hudnall received her BFA in Sculpture from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Furniture Design/Woodworking. Hudnall lives in Madison\, Wisconsin\, where she runs the Woodworking and Furniture Program at the University of Madison\, Wisconsin. When she’s not teaching\, she spends her time making tools for problems both real and imagined. \nHudnall’s distinctive work is held in public and private collections and has been presented in exhibitions throughout the United States\, including Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking (Museum for Art in Wood\, 2019). She was a 2016 artist fellow in the Museum’s Windgate International Turning Exchange residency and a 2022 documentary artist fellow in the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood (WARP Wood). \nThis 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. \nKatie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points is supported by a grant from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Special thanks to Mariah Moneda and Sam Northcut. The exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, The Bresler Foundation\, The Klorfine Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, William Penn Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang\, Inc. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-for-the-longest-distance-between-two-points-with-katie-hudnall/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corsicana_KHud-2-of-13.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250127T220323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T220856Z UID:10002026-1741366800-1741377600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points | Fri\, March 7\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nJoin us at the Museum for Art in Wood for First Friday and the opening of Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points. The first museum-organized solo presentation of Hudnall’s unique and captivating work\, The Longest Distance between Two Points reveals a rare glimpse into the artist’s rich inner world. Here\, the absurd and mechanically improbable merges with fine woodworking and salvaged wood materials to bring mechanisms and structures to life and action. \nThe Longest Distance between Two Points represents Hudnall’s most ambitious work yet. At the center of the exhibition is a complex interactive installation centering on a monumental cabinet for treasures found and carefully arranged by the artist. This idiosyncratic take on the Wünderkammer\, made with reverence for the eccentric collector that lives in all of us\, is no mere piece of storage furniture: every pull of a drawer instigates a specific response elsewhere in the space\, highlighting the delight in the “inefficient beauty of roundabout function” as actions traverse meandering paths from gesture to outcome. \nKatie Hudnall received her BFA in Sculpture from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Furniture Design/Woodworking. Hudnall lives in Madison\, Wisconsin\, where she runs the Woodworking and Furniture Program at the University of Madison\, Wisconsin. When she’s not teaching\, she spends her time making tools for problems both real and imagined. \nHudnall’s distinctive work is held in public and private collections and has been presented in exhibitions throughout the United States\, including Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking (Museum for Art in Wood\, 2019). She was a 2016 artist fellow in the Museum’s Windgate International Turning Exchange residency and a 2022 documentary artist fellow in the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood (WARP Wood). \nRemarks will take place at 6:30 pm. \n\nThis 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. \n\n\nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/70956/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/DMJznDoc.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T193000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250108T213211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T213211Z UID:10002022-1738953000-1738956600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Tour of La Famiflia with Mark Sfirri DESCRIPTION:Tour of La Famiflia with Mark Sfirri | Fri. February 7\, 2025 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nJoin us for a First Friday tour with artist Mark Sfirri of La Famiglia\, his first museum solo exhibition. This highly anticipated exhibition of new and never-before-seen work by celebrated artist and woodturner Mark Sfirri presents a way of thinking about the definition of family and its meanings through different lenses: families that are chosen vs. born into; families of species (trees and wood types) and identities; and familial strife and unconditional love\, support\, and dysfunction. It represents a coming to terms with generational passing\, through the artist’s adoption of a spontaneous\, “flow state” approach in his turning\, carving\, and surfacing processes. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue\, published by the Museum for Art in Wood\, that includes essays by artist Miriam Carpenter and writer and curator Craig Edelbrock along with writings by Sfirri and documentation on the works in the exhibition. \nMark Sfirri is an esteemed figure in the world of woodturning and woodworking. Born with an innate passion for craftsmanship\, creativity\, and artistic collaboration\, he is renowned for his innovations in art in wood. \nSfirri earned a BFA and MFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design\, where he began to explore ways to incorporate lathe-turned parts into furniture and turned some double-rimmed platters\, one of which was his first off-center turning. As an MFA student\, he made a set of six dining chairs constructed of off-center turned elements\, which planted the seeds for his future experimentations in multi-axis spindle turning. \nSfirri’s work has been exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide\, and is held in numerous public collections including the Museum of Arts & Design (NY)\, Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh\, PA)\, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC)\, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN)\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA)\, Yale University Art Gallery\, the James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown\, PA)\, and the Museum for Art in Wood (Philadelphia\, PA). As a maker\, researcher\, and writer\, he has conducted demonstrations and lectures throughout North America\, Europe\, Australia\, and New Zealand. \nIn addition to his role as an artist\, Sfirri is professor emeritus at Bucks County Community College (Newtown\, PA)\, where he taught fulltime for nearly 40 years. He has received three national awards: the “Distinguished Educator Award” in 2010 from the Renwick Alliance and\, in 2012\, the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Collectors of Wood Art\, and this year receives the prestigious “2024 AAW POP Merit Award” from the American Association of Woodturners. \nThis 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/tour-of-la-famiflia-with-mark-sfirri/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5_DSC_8010.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20250108T211622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T211654Z UID:10002021-1738947600-1738958400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:February First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood DESCRIPTION:February First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. February 7\, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person\nWalk-ups Welcome \nThis First Friday\, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia and Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection. While you’re here\, explore our permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects\, jewelry\, artworks\, and books. \n\nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/february-first-friday-at-the-museum-for-art-in-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Holiday-Hours-3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20240708T163407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240708T164709Z UID:10001729-1730480400-1730491200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for La Famiglia: Mark Sfirri | Fri\, November 1\, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nJoin us at the Museum for Art in Wood for First Friday and the opening of Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia\, a highly autobiographical exhibition of new and never-before-seen work by celebrated artist and woodturner Mark Sfirri. This exhibition presents a way of thinking about the definition of family and its meanings through different lenses: families that are chosen vs. born into; families of species (trees and wood types) and identities; and familial strife and unconditional love\, support\, and dysfunction. It represents a coming to terms with generational passing through the artist’s adoption of a spontaneous “flow state” approach in his turning\, carving\, and surfacing processes.  The grandchild of four first-generation Americans who came through Ellis Island around 1900 and settled in Chester\, the oldest city in Pennsylvania\, the artist presents several installations of sculpture that consider communities comprised of families with their own histories\, ethnic backgrounds\, biases\, and quirks—all trying to coexist in new and evolving worlds. \nRemarks will take place at 6:30 pm. \n\nThis 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. \n\n\nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. \nImage above: Mark Sfirri\, Large group image of Ellis Islander’s series consists of 29 figures\, 2021\, Photo courtesy of the Artist URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-mark-sfirri-la-famiglia/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LARGE-GROUP-HORIZONTAL-Website-copy-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20240524T171900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T185442Z UID:10001726-1722619800-1722628800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Fruition: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024 DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for Fruition: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024 Exhibition| Fri\, August 2\, 2024 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nThe Museum’s annual summer exhibition represents the culmination of the Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood)\, a two-month arts residency program. In this exhibition\, the international group of artists presents work created during the residency\, which emphasizes research\, exploration\, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment. Now in its twenty-sixth year\, this renowned residency offers artists specializing in the material of wood the opportunity to test their vision and skill\, while developing connections with colleagues\, collectors\, and the city of Philadelphia. \nThis year’s fellows\, listed below\, will bring immersive and installation sculpture\, furniture and woodworking\, sculpture\, and research to the Museum’s exhibition space. \nArtist Fellows:\n  \n2024 Windgate Resident Fellows\n\nArtists:\nChance Coalter | San Diego\, CA \nMelissa Engler | Asheville\, NC \nJamie Herman | Layton\, NJ \nJ Prud’homme | San Francisco\, CA \nSara Tabbert | Fairbanks\, AK \nSarah Watlington | Los Angeles\, CA \nStudent Artist:\nBrittany Rudolf | Portland\, OR \nDocumentary Artist:\nMolly Nemer \nScholar:\nFolayemi Wilson \n\n  \nMeet the 2024 WARP Wood Fellows! Join us for the WARP Wood Open Studio Day\, in memory of Lee Bender\, on July 13\, 2024\, at NextFab North. To RSVP\, click HERE. \n  \nOpening reception with the Windgate Resident Fellows | Aug 2\, 5:30-8 PM | Gallery talk\, 6-7 PM \n  \nThis year’s Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood and Exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood\, donors to the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood appeal\, the Phil F. Brown Fund\, Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, the Klorfine Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang\, Inc. Additional support was provided by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts Career Opportunity. The Museum received in-kind support from Boomerang\, Inc. Special thanks to the WARP Wood committee\, the organizing committee of the Echo Lake Collaborative Conference\, the Organic Recycling Center in the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation\, and Debbra Soffer in memory of Michael Soffer. \n  \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-the-windgate-arts-residency-program-in-wood-2024-exhibition/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC_4944.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20240506T211824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T132826Z UID:10001721-1715277600-1715284800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Second Thursday at NextFab for Fellow Adam Atkinson's Communing: Objects of Impermanence DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday at NextFab for Fellow Adam Atkinson’s Communing: Objects of Impermanence | NextFab 1800 North American Street | Thurs. May 9\, 2024 | 6:00 pm EST | In-person Event\nWalk-ups Welcome \nStop by NextFab for the Second Thursday and catch the last weeks of the 2024 Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson’s exhibition Communing: Objects of Impermanence\, a series of objects utilizing salvaged materials in the spirit of the program’s mission of sustainability. The residency is designed for artists in Greater Philadelphia who work in the medium of wood and is a collaboration between the Museum for Art in Wood and NextFab. Communing: Objects of Impermanence is on view at the NextFab North Philadelphia location and will be closing on May 20th. Don’t miss the last public opportunity to see Atkinson’s Objects of Impermanence. \n  \nPortrait of Adam Atkinson by Myles Pettengill @myles_standis \nAdam Atkinson (he/they) is a Philadelphia-based metalsmith\, curator\, and educator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio Practices from Boise State University in 2013 and a Master of Fine Arts in Metal Design from East Carolina University in 2019. Atkinson’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at the Metal Museum in Memphis\, Tennessee\, Blowing Rock Museum of Art and History in Blowing Rock\, North Carolina\, and Nagoya Zokei University in Japan. \nAtkinson uses a variety of techniques and materials to explore different narratives in their artistic practice. In their The Orifice Series\, they explored the link between the body and nature using metal and wood juxtapositions. Each piece draws upon organic\, bodily imagery and fur textures overlaid on carved cherry wood; all carefully handcrafted using repousse\, an ancient technique of forming sheet metal\, woodcarving\, and burning. Atkinson also interrogated the role traditional Ancient Roman busts played as historical markers for powerful figures in his Wood Bust Series. With these works\, they questioned the legacies of the figures who have been memorialized through busts\, what marks a great achievement in our society\, and the role the form and function play in visualizing social structures. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/second-thursday-at-nextfab-for-fellow-adam-atkinsons-communing-objects-of-impermanence/ LOCATION:NextFab\, 1800 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240314_184822-scaled.jpg GEO:39.9394736;-75.1773386 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=NextFab 1800 N. American St Philadelphia PA 19122 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1800 N. American St:geo:-75.1773386,39.9394736 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102923 CREATED:20240327T180059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T155725Z UID:10001715-1714046400-1714050000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:To Understand A Tree – A Conversation with Artist Gina Siepel and Dr. Michael Mann DESCRIPTION:To Understand A Tree – A Conversation with Artist Gina Siepel and Dr. Michael Mann | Thurs. April 25\, 2024 | University of Pennsylvania | The Agora Room in Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | In-person & Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability & Media\, and the Museum for Art in Wood for an event during Penn Earth Week. Dr. Michael Mann will be in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and woodworker Gina Siepel\, whose exhibition To Understand A Tree is currently on display at the Museum for Art in Wood now through July 21\,2024\, and is a part of their environmentally-focused exhibitions. This event will be in person and via Zoom. \nPictured: The red oak tree at the height of autumn color\, 2019. Photo by Gina Siepel \nAbout the Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n Portrait of Gina Siepel \nGina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist\, designer\, and woodworker\, based in Greenfield\, MA (Pocumtuc land). Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place\, history\, queer experience\, and ecology\, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally\, she is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Smith College\, and a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft. \n \n \n \n \n \n Protratit of Dr. Michael Mann \nMichael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media (PCSSM). He has received many honors and awards\, including NOAA’s Outstanding Publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed\, with other IPCC authors\, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement\, and in 2020\, he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023. He is the author of several books including Dire Predictions\, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars\, The Madhouse Effect\, The New Climate War and Our Fragile Moment. \n \n \n \n \n \n Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/to-understand-a-tree-a-conversation-with-artist-gina-siepel-and-dr-michael-mann/ LOCATION:Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7_Siepel_RedOak_Autnumn1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20240122T160316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T160316Z UID:10001709-1709312400-1709323200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree | Fri\, March 1\, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nJoin us at the Museum for Art in Wood for First Friday and the opening of Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree. To Understand a Tree is inspired by a desire to contemplate a living forest tree and its immediate habitat from the perspective of a queer-identified woodworker\, in a way that challenges and provokes an often-assumed binary between living tree and dead wood. It links legacies of 19th-century transcendentalism with contemporary biological understandings of forest interconnection\, ecofeminism\, queer ecology\, eco-philosophy\, and Indigenous teachings about human-nature relationships. These studies\, along with many hours spent in the forest\, encourage a shift in the consideration of the tree as a subject rather than simply an object\, which fundamentally impacts ideas of woodworking practice and our ecological responsibility. Involving collaboration\, public engagement\, site-based study and contemplation\, video documentation\, and woodworking\, To Understand a Tree functions as a small-scale way of exploring big questions about the place of humans in the environment\, the scale and speed at which we consume natural resources\, and which organisms are included or excluded in a definition of “community.” Forests are complex and interconnected systems\, and in that spirit\, To Understand a Tree connects material practice and object-making to questions of forest ecology\, climate change\, and more than human personhood. To Understand a Tree is an ongoing project of Gina Siepel as an artist in residence at the Smith College MacLeish Field Station. \nRemarks will take place at 6:30 pm. \n\nThis 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. \n\n\nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. \nImage above: The red oak tree at the height of autumn color\, 2019. Photo by Gina Siepel. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-gina-siepel-to-understand-a-tree/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7_Siepel_RedOak_Autnumn1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20240115T200320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T173932Z UID:10001706-1707498000-1707508800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Opening for Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni DESCRIPTION:Opening for Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni | Fri\, Feb 9\, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\n\n\nJoin us for the opening of Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni. Phil Brown was a devoted woodturner and a community organizer who founded several woodturning chapters throughout his home state of Maryland. He also served on the Board of the Wood Turning Center\, in later years shifting his role to coordinating the ITE residents’ (now the Windgate Arts Residency Program – in Wood) annual tour through the private collections and sites in the DC area. Sadly\, Brown passed away in July 2018. He left hundreds of partially turned bowls and blocks in his workshop that he wished to see realized. In this exhibition are presented bowls and sculpture initiated by Phil and finished by the residency alumni\, in a laudatory act of collaboration with this influential and memorable artist. \nArtists:\nPhil Brown (1937–2018)\nAnd\,\nTeresa Audet (WARP Wood 2023)\nMichael Brolly (ITE 1996)\nDoug Finkel (ITE 2001)\nDaniel Fishkin (ITE 2017)\nAmy Forsyth (ITE 2016 and 2019)\nJulia Harrison (ITE 2015)\nKatie Hudnall (ITE 2016 and WARP Wood 2022)\nRex Kalehoff (ITE 2015)\nMerryll Saylan (ITE 1997) and Alex Bradley\nBetty Scarpino (ITE 1999 and 2016)\nMaiko Sugano (WARP Wood 2023)\nJanine Wang (ITE 2018)\nLaura Zelaya (WARP Wood 2023) \n\n\n\n\nExperiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood\, Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, William Penn Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang\, Inc. Special thanks go to the donors to the Phil F. Brown Fund at the Museum for Art in Wood.The exhibition catalogue is made possible by support from Nedra and Peter Agnew. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/opening-for-experiencing-form-phil-brown-and-the-museums-residency-artist-alumni/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2012.09.01.001G.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231220T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231220T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20231116T200854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T200854Z UID:10001697-1703091600-1703095200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Night viewing of FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik DESCRIPTION:Night viewing of FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik | Dec. 20\, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST | In-person\nWalk-up’s Welcome \nJoin us for a night viewing of Glacier\, a monumental sculpture featured in the Museum’s current exhibition\, FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. Stephen Talasnik has built an artistic career by exploring the links between drawing and building. In FLOE\, Talasnik returns to his hometown of Philadelphia to build a fictional narrative of a natural disaster brought about by climate change. The “archaeological collection” presented in the exhibition was discovered by an imagined group of curious children based on Talasnik’s own childhood experiences. FLOE features an immersive and mesmerizing installation by Talasnik that is simultaneously local and universal\, illustrated in wood\, bamboo\, and composite materials. The exhibition also includes works from the Museum’s permanent collection\, curated by Talasnik and selected to represent the remnants of a lost world. Don’t miss this very special experience. \nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/night-viewing-of-floe-a-climate-of-risk-the-fictional-archaeology-of-stephen-talasnik-2/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.04.48-PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20231116T200625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T200625Z UID:10001696-1701363600-1701367200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Night viewing of FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik DESCRIPTION:Night viewing of FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik | Nov. 30\, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST | In-person\nWalk-up’s Welcome \nJoin us for a night viewing of Glacier\, a monumental sculpture featured in the Museum’s current exhibition\, FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. Stephen Talasnik has built an artistic career by exploring the links between drawing and building. In FLOE\, Talasnik returns to his hometown of Philadelphia to build a fictional narrative of a natural disaster brought about by climate change. The “archaeological collection” presented in the exhibition was discovered by an imagined group of curious children based on Talasnik’s own childhood experiences. FLOE features an immersive and mesmerizing installation by Talasnik that is simultaneously local and universal\, illustrated in wood\, bamboo\, and composite materials. The exhibition also includes works from the Museum’s permanent collection\, curated by Talasnik and selected to represent the remnants of a lost world. Don’t miss this very special experience. \nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/night-viewing-of-floe-a-climate-of-risk-the-fictional-archaeology-of-stephen-talasnik/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.04.48-PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20231013T152317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T155808Z UID:10001684-1699095600-1699099200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk for FLOE: A Climate of Risk with Stephen Talasnik DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk for FLOE: A Climate of Risk with Stephen Talasnik | Sat\, Nov. 4\, 2023 | 11:00 – 12 pm ET | In-person at the Museum for Art in Wood\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Museum for Art in Wood for an in-depth conversation with world-renowned sculpture and installation artist Stephen Talasnik on his latest exhibition\, FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. Talasnik\, who grew up and was educated in Philadelphia\, poses his hometown for his “fictional archaeology” of a  natural disaster brought on by climate change; the evidence is revealed in the collection of unearthed artifacts presented in the exhibition. FLOE features an imaginative and mesmerizing installation by Talasnik illustrated in wood\, bamboo\, and composite materials. The exhibition also includes works from the Museum’s permanent collection\, curated by Talasnik and selected to represent the remnants of a lost world. \nPictured above: Stephen Talasnik\, Leaning Globe (Photo Jeffrey Scott French) \n\nPortrait of Stephen Talasnik by Liam Talasnik \nStephen Talasnik is a native Philadelphian\, growing up in Southwest Philly and Mt.Airy. He attended Central High School and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the Tyler School of Art (MFA) both Rome and Philadelphia campuses. \nAfter a short career as a political cartoonist at the Atlantic City Press he moved back to Philadelphia to become the first Exhibitions Coordinator at the Fleisher Art Memorial where he spent six years developing the Challenge Exhibitions Program as well as maintaining his studio practice in Drawing. \nHe moved to Tokyo for three years where he taught art at Temple University’ branch campus. In addition to maintaining his studio in New York City\, continued to commute to Japan\, traveling throughout the Far East studying indigenous architecture in Thailand\, Malaysia \, and The Philippines . \nHis Drawings took him to spend later years exhibiting in Berlin\, Vienna\, London\, Paris\, and Moscow. \nAfter drawing exclusively for 20 years\, he started making sculpture informed by his time in the FarEast. His first piece of Land Art was hosted by the Storm King Art Center in NY with additional large scale installations at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana\, the Denver Botanic Gardens\, CO; and the Architektur Galerie Berlin. His Drawings are in major international collections at The British Museum\, London ; the Pompidou Centre\,Paris; The Albertina \, Vienna; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY to name just a few. \nHe continues to draw and build in his Brooklyn studio. \n  \nThis 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. \n\n\nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-for-floe-a-climate-of-risk-with-stephen-talasnik/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Stephen-Talasnik_Leaning-Globe_Photo-Jeffrey-Scott-French-copy.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20231017T161545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T161545Z UID:10001685-1699030800-1699041600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik | Fri\, November 3\, 2023 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nJoin us at the Museum for Art in Wood for First Friday and the opening of FLOE: A Climate of Risk  |  The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. Stephen Talasnik has built an artistic career by exploring the links between drawing and building. In FLOE\, Talasnik returns to his hometown of Philadelphia to build a fictional narrative of a natural disaster brought about by climate change. The “archaeological collection” presented in the exhibition was discovered by an imagined group of curious children based on Talasnik’s own childhood experiences. FLOE features an imaginative and mesmerizing installation by Talasnik that is simultaneously local and universal\, illustrated in wood\, bamboo\, and composite materials. The exhibition also includes works from the Museum’s permanent collection\, curated by Talasnik and selected to represent the remnants of a lost world. \n\nThis 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. \n\n\nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-opening-for-floe-a-climate-of-risk-the-fictional-archaeology-of-stephen-talasnik/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Floe_promotion_instagram.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20230926T204208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T172814Z UID:10001683-1696611600-1696622400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday and Design Philadelphia DESCRIPTION:First Friday and Design Philadelphia | Fri. Oct 6\, 2023 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET\nWalk-ups Welcome \nJoin us for the October First Friday and Design Philadelphia at the Museum for Art in Wood. Old City and the Philadelphia Arts and Design District come to life for First Friday with galleries\, businesses\, museums\, and design showrooms staying open later\, with some offering special programs. Stop by the Museum for Art in Wood and experience our current exhibition\, PLACING: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2023\, our collection of over 1\,300 objects\, and shop our Museum Store for unique items. \nThe 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/first-friday-and-design-philadelphia/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Museum Collection,Museum Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-26-at-1.28.50-PM-e1695759352154.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20230711T172608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T205155Z UID:10001568-1691170200-1691179200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:First Friday Opening for PLACING: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2023 DESCRIPTION:First Friday Opening for PLACING: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2023 | Fri\, August 4\, 2023 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event\nWalk-in’s Welcome \nThe Museum’s annual summer exhibition represents the culmination of the Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood)\, a two-month arts residency program. In this exhibition\, the international group of artists presents work created during the residency\, which emphasizes research\, exploration\, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment. Now in its twenty-sixth year\, this renowned residency offers artists specializing in the material of wood the opportunity to test their vision and skill\, while developing connections with colleagues\, collectors\, and the city of Philadelphia. \nThis year’s fellows\, listed below\, will bring immersive and installation sculpture\, furniture and woodworking\, kinetic sculpture\, and research to the Museum’s exhibition space. \nArtist Fellows:\nEmma Chorostecki | Toronto\, Ontario \nTerry Holzgreen | Los Angeles\, CA \nAdam John Manley | San Diego\, CA \nMaiko Sugano | Ibaraki\, Japan / Tainan\, Taiwan \nLaura Zelaya | Colón\, Entre Rios\, Argentina \nStudent Artist:\nTeresa Audet | Madison\, WI \nScholar:\nDeidre Visser |  San Francisco\, CA \n  \nMeet the 2023 WARP Wood Fellows! Join us for the WARP Wood Open Studio Day\, in memory of Lee Bender\, on July 15\, 2023\, at NextFab North. \n  \nOpening reception with the Windgate Resident Fellows | Aug 4\, 5:30-8 PM | Gallery talk\, 6-7 PM \n  \nThis year’s Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood and Exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Center for Art in Wood\, donors to the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood appeal\, the Phil F. Brown Fund\, Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang\, Inc. and Sunlite Corporation. Special thanks to the organizing committee of the Echo Lake Collaborative Conference. \n  \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/frist-friday-opening-for-placing-the-windgate-arts-residency-program-in-wood-2023/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Gallery Talks,Opening Receptions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC_4944.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20230330T141041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230331T185846Z UID:10001544-1681315200-1681322400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Drop-in Draw DESCRIPTION:Drop-in Draw | Wed. April 12\, 2023 | 4 – 6 pm | Museum for Art in Wood | In-person Event\nClick HERE to RSVP for this in-person event \nJoin us for Free Range Drawing at the Museum! Experience our current exhibition\, The Mashrabiya Project: Seeing Through Space\, and explore and draw from over 1200 objects in our Museum Collection. We welcome all levels of experience and skill for this event. \nThis 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. \nFor questions\, contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org or 215-923-8000 ext 103. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/drop-in-draw-8/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Untitled-design-15.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T102924 CREATED:20230227T220104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T114751Z UID:10001532-1679490000-1679493600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:The Mashrabiya Project – Seeing Through Space Artist Talk: Susan Hefuna DESCRIPTION:The Mashrabiya Project – Seeing Through Space Artist Talk: Susan Hefuna | Wed. March 22\, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT | LIVE on ZOOM\nClick HERE to RSVP\nThe Museum for Art in Wood is proud to present a series of free virtual lectures with artists featured in the upcoming exhibition Seeing Through Space\, opening March 3\, 2023\, and running through July 23\, 2023. This series is meant to connect the public with the artists and engage in thoughtful discussions about mashrabiya in the context of architecture\, art\, craft\, and community. Our second lecture will feature artist Susan Hefuna. \n  \nPortrait of Susan Hefuna in the Studio. Courtesy of the Artist and The Third Line \nSusan Hefuna was born in Germany and grew up in Egypt. In 1992\, she completed a postgraduate degree in multimedia arts at the Institut für Neue Medien\, Städelschule\, Frankfurt. She lives and works in Cairo\, Düsseldorf\, and New York. In drawings\, installations\, performances\, photographs\, sculptures\, and videos\, she draws on her mixed heritage to ponder the intersection of location and identity. For over 30 years Hefuna has been fascinated by the mashrabiya and has brought their gridded geometries into her work; initially inspired by her connecting the gridded streets of New York City and modern urban architecture with mashrabiya matrices and their complex latticework\, she began using them as a way to speak through her work\, often weaving text–in English and in Arabic–into her handmade\, wooden\, window-scaled screened wall works. Hefuna continues to explore the power of the mashrabiya to discuss women’s experiences\, the invasiveness of the gaze\, and cultural boundaries in her work. She has exhibited internationally and her work is held by many public institutions\, including the Guggenheim Museum\, the Museum of Modern Art\, LACMA\, the Sharjah Art Museum and Foundation\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, the V&A\, and Centre Pompidou\, among others. \nThis 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. \nTo learn more about The Mashrabiya Project and Seeing Through Space\, click HERE. \n  \nThe Mashrabiya Project has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. \n  \nSpecial thanks go to:\nBresler Foundation\nRockler Tools for in-kind support \nThe exhibition program at the Museum is generously supported by members of the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, the Bresler Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, William Penn Foundation\, and Windgate Foundation. \nCorporate support is provided by Boomerang\, Inc.\, and Sun-Lite Corporation. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/the-mashrabiya-project-seeing-through-space-artist-talk-susan-hefuna/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,The Mashrabiya Project ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SH_Knowledge-is-Sweeter-than-Honey.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR