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: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:20260404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20260312T215144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T215144Z UID:10002081-1775300400-1775304000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with BA Harrington and Viola Bordon DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk with BA Harrington and Viola Bordon | Sat. April 4\, 2026 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a gallery talk with artists BA Harrington and Viola Bordon. These two exhibitions\, Viola Bordon: Muliebrity and BA Harington: Suite Américaine\, are a part of Radical Americana\, a series of exhibitions organized by The Clay Studio and 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. \nAbout the Artist:\nSince 2012\, BA Harrington has been a Professor of Woodworking in the Department of Art and Design and Director of the Wood Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She continues to write essays\, speak at conferences\, and build sculptural work in reference to early American furniture forms. She has held Windgate Artist Residencies at San Diego State University and SUNY Purchase and was a recipient of the Center for Craft’s inaugural Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship. Each year this substantial mid-career grant is awarded to two artists who are revising\, reclaiming\, and advancing the history of craft through their work. Harrington graduated from the Cabinet & Furnituremaking program at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. She also holds an M.F.A. in Wood and an M.A. In Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Artist:\nViola Bordon is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia whose work examines transformation across material\, ecological\, and social systems. Her quilting is an act that binds histories of labor\, belief\, and resistance. Working through inherited methods of reuse and repair\, she frames systems of power that shape both personal and collective experience. Her quilts negotiate structures that hold tension between faith and skepticism\, memory and material. Quiet repetitive labor forming articulated dissent\, allowing form itself to think through what endurance makes visible. Her practice also includes environmental installations\, drawing on methods of reuse\, endurance\, and collaboration. Her projects have been supported by the Fulbright Commission\, Lilly Endowment\, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation\, US Fish and Wildlife Service\, and Salt Planes State Park. Bordon’s teaching and research emphasize tactile knowledge and the quiet radicality of sustained attention to material and processes. \nSuite Américaine and Muliebrity are generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood\, Radical Americana\, 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. \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. \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-with-ba-harrington-and-viola-bordon/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Untitled-design-34.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 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:20260313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20260112T191901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T191941Z UID:10002078-1773426600-1773430200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins | NextFab\, 1800 North American Street | Fri. March 13\, 2025 | 6:30 pm EST | In-person event\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a gallery talk with the 2026 Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins. 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. An exhibition of the work created over the two-month-long program will be presented at NextFab. \nABOUT LIN ELKINS \nLin is an artist\, furniture maker\, and craftswoman based in Philadelphia\, PA. Lin holds a BS in Furniture Design from Appalachian State University. Post graduate\, Lin has been a Fellow at UNC Asheville\, a craft education intern at North House Folk School\, the Staff Fellow and Media Coordinator at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. She also has assisted and led education courses at a variety of institutions\, including Penland School of Craft and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. \nShe is driven by the dichotomy between the natural and the built environment and how that tension affects the spiritual and physical connection we have to ourselves and the world around us. She explores this through purposeful functionality\, playfulness\, and art\, creating opportunities for moments of comfort\, wonder\, and curiosity. \nABOUT NEXTFAB \n\nNextFab is a network of membership-based makerspaces that provide access to tools\, technology\, education\, events\, and services for makers and creatives. They offer a variety of education and startup programs\, as well as professional design\, production\, and placemaking services for whatever your fabrication needs. \nABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD \nThe Museum for Art in Wood is a museum of contemporary art\, craft\, and design in the material of wood. The Museum presents the work of emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad and offers thought-provoking exhibitions\, a permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and works of art\, publications and documentation\, events and workshops\, and a library with over 26\,000 artist files\, books\, and documents that span the history of craft. The Museum also brings artists and researchers from around the world to Philadelphia every year to attend its unique Windgate Artist Residency Program. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-with-winter-residency-fellow-lin-elkins/ LOCATION:NextFab\, 1800 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20230630-IMG_7796-scaled.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org 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:20260204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 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:20251120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250923T160454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T160454Z UID:10002062-1763663400-1763667000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Drinkers & Thinkers DESCRIPTION:Drinkers & Thinkers | Thur. Nov 20\, 2025 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\n*This is the new date from the postponed September date.  \nClick HERE for Tickets \nJoin us for a lively evening discussing cocktails and Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood\, the current exhibition on view in the Fleur & Charles Bresler Research Library. Drinkers & Thinkers pairs mixologists with artists\, designers\, makers\, and thinkers in conversations that satiate the palate and the mind. \nFor the first of this new series\, the Museum for Art in Wood welcomes mixologist Jackie Nevin\, artist Miriam Carpenter\, and Assistant Curator Amrut Mishra\, in a conversation about cinders and smoke\, creativity\, and the relevance of craft in a creatively satisfying life. \nSpace is limited\, and special custom glass is included with the ticket cost. Reserve your spot today. \n*Must be 21 to attend. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Jackie Nevin \nJackie Nevin is a multidisciplinary creative professional\, based in Philadelphia\, with a background in both arts administration and the food & beverage industry. She was the beverage director and bar manager for Art in the Age; craft cocktail bar\, where she developed a seasonally rotating menu of experimental cocktails. She also does freelance food\, beverage and prop styling for print and digital-media marketing campaigns. Jackie grew up helping out in her family’s art gallery where she learned about printmaking and art framing. She attended Savannah College of Art and Design for Art History and Arts Administration. In her spare time she enjoys learning new art skills and dabbles in mediums such as woodworking\, etching and ceramics. Jackie currently coordinates the planning and production of exhibitions at the Craft Coven Gallery\, where you can also find her mixing up cocktails for First Friday events. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Miriam Carpenter \nMiriam Carpenter is a contemporary artist based in Bucks County\, Pennsylvania whose work includes wood sculpture\, furniture\, ceramics and works on paper. As a Rhode Island School of Design alumna\, she began her career as a furniture designer at George Nakashima’s studio. Through new processes\, her work explores things often overlooked—unveiling the hidden complexities around us. Carpenter’s work can be found internationally in both private and public collections including the Michener Art Museum (PA) and the Museum for Art in Wood (PA)\, among others\, and has been exhibited most notably at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Fuller Craft Museum\, Wharton Esherick Museum\, Museum for Art in Wood\, Philadelphia International Airport\, SOFA Chicago\, Design Miami/Paris and Moderne Gallery where she is currently represented. In 2021\, she had her fourth major solo exhibition with her first museum solo show at the Michener Art Museum. In 2025\, she was nominated for Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Awards\, an official project of the White House Millennium Council which honors innovation and impact in design. She has been awarded six international residencies in the arts and is an active participant in artist collaborations around the globe. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Amrut Mishra \nAs the Assistant Curator for the Museum for Art in Wood\, Amrut coordinates the planning and production of exhibitions\, including exhibition design\, display\, and layout; production of signage; and organization of publications and ancillary program projects.  \nBefore joining the Museum for Art in Wood\, Amrut held positions at the Ackland Art Museum and Carolina Performing Arts while finishing his doctoral studies. From this research\, he hopes to pursue accessible exhibition design guided by the teachings of Black and transnational feminist practitioners. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n 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/drinkers-thinkers-2/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/open-studio-day-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20251016T171953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T214438Z UID:10002065-1762599600-1762603200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk for A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk for A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance | Sat. Nov. 8\, 2025 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for the 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 Saturday morning discussion:\nDamien Davis\, Raual De Lara\, Terry Holzgreen\, James Maurelle\, Ato Ribeiro\, David Wilson\, Kimberly Winkle \nExhibition Artists:\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 \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/gallery-talk-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:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MAW_Useable_ad-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250910T185029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T172600Z UID:10002057-1761998400-1762003800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 12 - ON ZOOM DESCRIPTION:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 12 | Sat\, November 1\, 2025 | Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this fall. Entrepreneur\, teacher\, and artist Sterling Cruz-Herr will lead 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.  \nJoin us for this enlightening and community-filled afternoon. \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. \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/queering-wood-craft-an-lgbtqia-woodworkers-roundtable-part-12-on-zoom/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks,Queering Wood Craft ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Queering-Wood-Craft-523-Presentation-169.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250905T185616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T151800Z UID:10002056-1761678000-1761685200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - Liz Moore "The God of the Woods" Book Release-SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:Liz Moore “The God of the Woods” Book Release | Tues. Oct. 28\, 2025 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP–THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT \nJoin us for a special evening celebrating the paperback release of The God of the Woods by New York Times bestseller\, local author Liz Moore. Hear directly from the author about the themes that inspired her latest novel\, take part in an engaging conversation\, and have your copy signed. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase at the event from H&H Books\, along with plenty of opportunities for conversation. The event will take place from 7 – 8 pm\, followed by a reception until 9 pm. \nDuring the evening\, we also encourage attendees to support Savage Sisters and their mission by making a donation. \nAbout Liz Moore\n \nLiz Moore\, à Lille le 26 mars 2025\, pour Der Spiegel. © Laura Stevens // Modds \nLiz Moore is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The God of the Woods and Long Bright River\, which was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year\, as well as the acclaimed novels Heft and The Unseen World. A winner of the 2014-2015 Rome Prize in Literature\, she lives in Philadelphia. \nAbout The God of the Woods\nWhen a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp\, two worlds collide. \nEarly morning\, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant\, Barbara Van Laar\, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago\, never to be found. \nAs a panicked search begins\, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow\, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet. \nAbout The Head & The Hand\nThe Head & The Hand (H&H Books) is a nonprofit independent publisher and community bookstore based in the Kensington/Fishtown neighborhoods of Philadelphia. As a women-run literary arts organization supported by a growing corps of 20 volunteers\, H&H is committed to serving as a launchpad for the next generation of local writers and growing as our neighborhood’s sole independent bookstore and publisher duo. Our mission is to create innovative relationships between local authors and their audiences by curating and publishing transformative works that have the power to spark change and entertain. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/liz-moore-god-of-the-woods-book-release/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GOD-OF-THE-WOODS-cover-art.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250815T172527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250815T172527Z UID:10002055-1761244200-1761247800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Along the Tidelines of History: Three Decades of WARP Wood DESCRIPTION:Along the Tidelines of History: Three Decades of WARP Wood | Thurs. Oct. 23\, 2025 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a gallery talk with the 2025 WARP Wood Scholar Fellow\, Holly Gore. This talk approaches WARP Wood 2025 as belonging to a continuum extending through the three-decades-long duration of the program and further—through Philadelphia’s long history as a city that has supported artists and craftspeople in unique ways. \nAbout Holly Gore \nWhat does it mean to build and who can be a builder? The very language of construction is saturated with moralism: angles are “right” and boards “true.” In artist homes and intentional communities\, the ability to construct one’s own living environment has assumed cosmic dimensions of world-building. Sometimes\, though\, the liberative potential of woodworking is limited by gendered and racialized norms whose deconstruction is overdue. \nAs a writer and curator\, I excavate histories of art\, craft\, and design toward illuminating the present. My recent focus has been on modernism and the work of building—in wood\, metal\, earth\, and stone. During the WARP Wood residency\, I did research in the Museum for Art in Wood archives on the beginnings of the program as a residency for woodturners. In the process\, I found that this turning legacy persists in shaping WARP Wood today\, even as the residency has changed dramatically over its thirty-year lifespan. \nI am based in Chester County\, Pennsylvania\, where I am Director of Interpretation and Associate Curator at the Wharton Esherick Museum. Prior to earning a Ph.D. in art history at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, I had a first career as a museum cabinetmaker and exhibition designer. \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/along-the-tidelines-of-history-three-decades-of-warp-wood/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-12.40.08 PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250910T200938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T132719Z UID:10002058-1760529600-1760533200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Young Artist Speaker Series: Sterling Cruz-Herr DESCRIPTION:Young Artist Speaker Series: Sterling Cruz-Herr | Wed. Oct 15\, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | ZOOM\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood is proud to present the Young Artist Speaker Series. Each semester\, an artist is invited to share their work and discuss their experiences as an independent artist. The eighth installment in the series features Sterling Cruz-Herr\, an entrepreneur\, teacher\, and artist. Sterling will lead an interactive session to explore how we get paid for our passion by building audiences\, responding to their leads\, and connecting with our peers. Sterling doesn’t claim to know the answers\, but they promise to bring good questions. Don’t miss this lunch hour for the opportunity to learn about Sterling Cruz-Herr’s journey! \nSterling 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. \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/young-artist-speaker-series-sterling-cruz-herr/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Untitled-design-8.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250814T171339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T155200Z UID:10002048-1757615400-1757619000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Drinkers & Thinkers DESCRIPTION:Drinkers & Thinkers | Thur. Sept 11\, 2025 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\n*This event has been postponed. We will send an update once a new date has been identified. Thank you for your understanding. \nJoin us for a lively evening discussing cocktails and Cinders: Burned\, Scorched\, and Pyrographed Works in Wood\, the current exhibition on view in the Fleur & Charles Bresler Research Library. Drinkers & Thinkers pairs mixologists with artists\, designers\, makers\, and thinkers in panel- or duet-panel-conversations. Giving mixologists and artists the platform to talk about ways in which their work intersects—inspiration\, problem-solving\, technique\, materials and processes\, and more—encourages deeper thinking about these fields through the sharing of perspectives that may seem incongruous\, but are actually very much aligned. \nFor the first of this new series\, the Museum for Art in Wood welcomes mixologist Jackie Nevin and Assistant Curator\, Amrut Mirsha. Space is limited\, and special custom glass is included with the ticket cost. Reserve your spot today. \n*Must be 21 to attend. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Jackie Nevin \nJackie Nevin is a multidisciplinary creative professional\, based in Philadelphia\, with a background in both arts administration and the food & beverage industry. She was the beverage director and bar manager for Art in the Age; craft cocktail bar\, where she developed a seasonally rotating menu of experimental cocktails. She also does freelance food\, beverage and prop styling for print and digital-media marketing campaigns. Jackie grew up helping out in her family’s art gallery where she learned about printmaking and art framing. She attended Savannah College of Art and Design for Art History and Arts Administration. In her spare time she enjoys learning new art skills and dabbles in mediums such as woodworking\, etching and ceramics. Jackie currently coordinates the planning and production of exhibitions at the Craft Coven Gallery\, where you can also find her mixing up cocktails for First Friday events. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Miriam Carpenter \nMiriam Carpenter is a contemporary artist based in Bucks County\, Pennsylvania whose work includes wood sculpture\, furniture\, ceramics and works on paper. As a Rhode Island School of Design alumna\, she began her career as a furniture designer at George Nakashima’s studio. Through new processes\, her work explores things often overlooked—unveiling the hidden complexities around us. Carpenter’s work can be found internationally in both private and public collections including the Michener Art Museum (PA) and the Museum for Art in Wood (PA)\, among others\, and has been exhibited most notably at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Fuller Craft Museum\, Wharton Esherick Museum\, Museum for Art in Wood\, Philadelphia International Airport\, SOFA Chicago\, Design Miami/Paris and Moderne Gallery where she is currently represented. In 2021\, she had her fourth major solo exhibition with her first museum solo show at the Michener Art Museum. In 2025\, she was nominated for Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Awards\, an official project of the White House Millennium Council which honors innovation and impact in design. She has been awarded six international residencies in the arts and is an active participant in artist collaborations around the globe. \n \n \n \n \n \n About Amrut Mishra \nAs the Assistant Curator for the Museum for Art in Wood\, Amrut coordinates the planning and production of exhibitions\, including exhibition design\, display\, and layout; production of signage; and organization of publications and ancillary program projects.  \nBefore joining the Museum for Art in Wood\, Amrut held positions at the Ackland Art Museum and Carolina Performing Arts while finishing his doctoral studies. From this research\, he hopes to pursue accessible exhibition design guided by the teachings of Black and transnational feminist practitioners. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n 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/drinkers-thinkers/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/open-studio-day-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250827T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250827T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250811T192955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250812T153334Z UID:10002050-1756319400-1756323000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:How it Started and How it’s Going: A Collector talk with Bill Gehrman DESCRIPTION:How it Started and How it’s Going: A Collector talk with Bill Gehrman | Wed. Aug 27\, 2025 | 6:30 pm EDT | LIVE on ZOOM\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for How it Started and How it’s Going\, a speaker series with collectors. We’ll dive into their collections and learn about how they got started and why; we’ll hear what attracts them to certain pieces and see some of their favorite works. We will also discuss what makes someone a collector of art and how to start your own collection. Our next talk features collector and Founder and CEO of En Route Marketing\, Bill Gehrman. \nAn accomplished marketing professional and civic leader\, Bill Gehrman is Founder & CEO of En Route\, a strategic marketing agency focused on cultural\, tourism\, and civic projects. En Route provides marketing\, public relations\, digital marketing\, social media\, content development\, paid media\, and project management services to an array of clients that includes Museum for Art in Wood\, The Clay Studio\, CraftNOW\, Visit Philadelphia\, The Philadelphia Orchestra\, and Ensemble/Mosaic at The Navy Yard. A Philadelphia native\, Bill and his partner\, Chris\, are active supporters of the visual and performing arts and have become amateur collectors of regional craft artists. \n  \nDon’t miss this special glimpse into a collection! \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. \n  \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/how-it-started-and-how-its-going-a-collector-talk-with-bill-gehrman/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Untitled-design-22.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:20260430T164813 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:20250503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250425T210154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T201458Z UID:10002035-1746273600-1746279000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 11- How Are You? - ON ZOOM DESCRIPTION:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 11 | Sat\, May 3\, 2025 | Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this spring. Curator\, writer\, and educator Deirdre Visser will return and lead this edition of the roundtable\, where we will be checking in with one another to ask How are you doing? We’ll discuss what existing resources are helpful and what is needed in the community. For this session\, we also invite folks to share 3-5 digital files. If you are interested in sharing\, please let us know. \nJoin us for this enlightening and community-filled afternoon. \nSan Francisco native Deirdre Visser is an independent curator\, educator\, and visual artist in the city’s Mission District. Her work is rooted in the belief that arts and culture advance community engagement and catalyze discourse across differences. For more than a decade she’s engaged with the arts as a form of civic participation\, working collaboratively with the Skywatchers Ensemble in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district\, and has been a woodworker for three decades. She is the author of Joinery\, Joists\, and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century (Routledge\, 2022) and co-curator with Laura Mays of Making a Seat at the Table\, a ground-breaking exhibition of works by women and gender nonconforming makers which opened in November 2019 at The Museum for Art in Wood.\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. \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/queering-wood-craft-an-lgbtqia-woodworkers-roundtable-part-11-how-are-you-on-zoom/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Queering-Wood-Craft-523.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250305T223306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T175006Z UID:10002029-1743078600-1743082200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Art for Action: Creativity in the Face of Climate Change DESCRIPTION:Art for Action: Creativity in the Face of Climate Change | Thurs. March 27\, 2025 | University of Pennsylvania | The Agora Room in Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia | 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability & Media\, and the Museum for Art in Wood for a discussion with artists and their call to action for our environment. Dr. Michael Mann will moderate the conversation with artists Katie Hudnall\, Kiersten Adams\, and Jessica Gath. This event will be in person only. A recording will be made available afterward. \nPictured: Katie Hudnall\, The Blower (detail)\, 2024. Photo by John Carlano \nAbout the Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n Michael 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 Jessica Gath is a possibilitarian who makes artwork in paint\, garments\, zines\, food\, correspondence\, community\, activism\, songs\, dirt\, plants\, videos and whatever else gets the job done. Cycles of life and our connections to Earth and one another are integral to her practice. Jessica is a founding member of Artists Commit\, an amorphous collective of artists working to support one another\, arts workers\, institutions\, and businesses built up around art and the art world in bringing environmental justice into mainstream conversation and practices. \n \n \n \n \n \n A Philadelphia native and [word] enthusiast\, Kiersten Adams writes proudly about her hometown and community. She is a West Chester University and Covid-19 pandemic graduate holding a B.A. in English with a focus on writing. A lover of art and culture\, Kiersten explores these concepts in multitudinous forms. Through journalism\, non-profit work\, photography\, and creative writing she is constantly finding new ways to obsess over what’s going on around her. Current Obsessions: Black joy\, Black futures\, Black Lives \n \n \n \n \n \n Katie 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). \nKatie Hudnall’s first museum exhibition\, The Longest Distance between Two Points\, is on view at the Museum for Art in Wood until July 20\, 2025. \n \n \n \n \n \n Questions? \nPlease contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/71120/ LOCATION:Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-5.20.16 PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250205T193757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T193757Z UID:10002027-1741977000-1741980600@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Henry Merker DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Henry Merker | NextFab\, 1800 North American Street | Fri. March 14\, 2025 | 6:30 pm EST | In-person event\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a gallery talk with the 2025 Winter Residency Fellow Henry Merker. 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. An exhibition of the work created over the two-month-long program will be presented at NextFab. \nABOUT HENRY MERKER\n \n \nHenry Merker (b. 1996) designs experimental home goods in wood using CNC machining and traditional woodworking processes. In his studio practice\, Henry playfully leverages these tools in the pursuit of rare shapes – forms that question conventionality and reveal the beauty of wood through its versatility. \nIn his upcoming residency\, Henry will investigate cork – a sustainably harvested wood product – through this lens. By leveraging the material’s unique affinity for both carving and reconstitution\, he aims to create a zero-waste collection of design objects. \n  \n ABOUT NEXTFAB \n\nNextFab is a network of membership-based makerspaces that provide access to tools\, technology\, education\, events\, and services for makers and creatives. They offer a variety of education and startup programs\, as well as professional design\, production\, and placemaking services for whatever your fabrication needs. \nABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD \nThe Museum for Art in Wood is a museum of contemporary art\, craft\, and design in the material of wood. The Museum presents the work of emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad and offers thought-provoking exhibitions\, a permanent collection of over 1\,300 objects and works of art\, publications and documentation\, events and workshops\, and a library with over 26\,000 artist files\, books\, and documents that span the history of craft. The Museum also brings artists and researchers from around the world to Philadelphia every year to attend its unique Windgate Artist Residency Program. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-with-winter-residency-fellow-henry-merker-2/ LOCATION:NextFab\, 1800 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HenryMerker-LargeMirror2-Photo-HenryMerker-Henry-Merker.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org 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:20250308T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 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:20250213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164813 CREATED:20250117T195009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T182922Z UID:10002024-1739469600-1739476800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:City of Immigrants: A Conversation on Philadelphia's Global Heritage DESCRIPTION:City of Immigrants: A Conversation on Philadelphia’s Global Heritage | Thurs. February 13\, 2025 | 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a cross-disciplinary Philadelphia-focused panel discussion that reflects elements of our current exhibition\, Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia. La Famiglia uses the generational nature of wood and trees to contemplate heritage and familial throughlines. This study includes the immigrant experience\, where families separate and reunite\, disintegrate\, and rebuild while learning to exist in new and evolving worlds. We’ll dig into the history\, present\, and future of immigration and migration to the City of Brotherly Love with the American Philosophical Society\, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\, and the artist Mark Sfirri. \nFollowing the discussion\, please enjoy a reception with light refreshments and wine. Mark will also give a tour of La Famiglia. \n \n \n \n \n \n Panelists:\n \n \n \n \n \n Justina Barrett\, Chief Learning and Engagement Officer\, Historical Society of Pennsylvania \nJustina Barrett serves as the Chief Learning and Engagement Officer at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\, one of the nation’s largest archives of historical documents\, founded in 1824. In this role\, she oversees all public programming\, K-12 educational activities\, and external engagement efforts\, including communications and partnerships. She works to showcase and make accessible HSP’s collection of over 21 million manuscripts\, books\, and graphic images. She brings to her role over two decades of museum education experience in art museums and historic houses. Justina earned a bachelor’s degree in history with teaching certification from Bryn Mawr College and a master’s degree in early American material culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware. \n \n \n \n \n \n Caroline O’Connell\, Exhibitions Curator\, American Philosophical Society \nCaroline O’Connell is the Exhibitions Curator at the American Philosophical Society. Her work explores the intersections between design and material culture\, with an emphasis on questions of provenance\, civics\, and public memory. She has held Curatorial positions at Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, the Museum of the City of New York\, and Waddesdon Manor\, and has contributed to exhibitions and publications at various institutions. Caroline previously served as First Vice President of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America (VSNY). She is an alum of the Attingham Summer School and holds an MA in Decorative Arts\, Design History & Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center and a BA in Art History from Williams College. \n \n \n \n \n \n Mark Sfirri\, Artist \nMark Sfirri received his BFA and MFA in furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design. He is primarily a furniture maker and sculptor working in wood but is also a teacher\, researcher\, writer\, collaborator\, photographer\, and printmaker. His specialty is multi-axis spindle turning\, an area that he has been exploring since the early 1990s. He has lectured and demonstrated his techniques throughout North America\, Europe\, Australia\, and New Zealand. His work is included in the permanent collection of twenty-eight public institutions including the Renwick Gallery\, Yale Art Gallery\, Museum of Art & Design\, Minneapolis Institute of Art\, the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, and the James A. Michener Art Museum\, among others. \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/city-of-immigrants-a-converstation-on-philadelphias-global-heritage/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Philadelphia-FLOE-A-Panel-Discussion.png 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:20260430T164814 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:20250119T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20250108T205951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T205951Z UID:10002020-1737306000-1737313200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:In Person - Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 10 DESCRIPTION:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 10 | Sun\, Jan. 19\, 2025 | 5 – 7 pm | IN PERSON\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this fall. Curator\, publisher\, and educator Deirdre Visser will return and lead the follow-up edition of the roundtable\, discussing the evolution from conversation to exhibition with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood. \nJoin us for this enlightening and fun evening. \nSan Francisco native Deirdre Visser is an independent curator\, educator\, and visual artist in the city’s Mission District. Her work is rooted in the belief that arts and culture advance community engagement and catalyze discourse across differences. For more than a decade she’s engaged with the arts as a form of civic participation\, working collaboratively with the Skywatchers Ensemble in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district\, and has been a woodworker for three decades. She is the author of Joinery\, Joists\, and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century (Routledge\, 2022) and co-curator with Laura Mays of Making a Seat at the Table\, a ground-breaking exhibition of works by women and gender nonconforming makers which opened in November 2019 at The Museum for Art in Wood.\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/in-person-queering-wood-craft-an-lgbtqia-woodworkers-roundtable-part-10/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Copy-of-Queering-Wood-Craft-523-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20241030T200107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T201149Z UID:10002008-1733572800-1733578200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 9b - From Conversation to Exhibition - ON ZOOM DESCRIPTION:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 9b – From Conversation to Exhibition | Sat\, Dec. 7\, 2024 | Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this fall. Part 9\, which took place in October\, had so much material that we needed to follow up with a second part. Curator\, publisher\, and educator Deirdre Visser will return and lead the follow-up edition of the roundtable\, discussing the evolution from conversation to exhibition with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood. \nJoin us for this enlightening and fun afternoon. \nSan Francisco native Deirdre Visser is an independent curator\, educator\, and visual artist in the city’s Mission District. Her work is rooted in the belief that arts and culture advance community engagement and catalyze discourse across differences. For more than a decade she’s engaged with the arts as a form of civic participation\, working collaboratively with the Skywatchers Ensemble in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district\, and has been a woodworker for three decades. She is the author of Joinery\, Joists\, and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century (Routledge\, 2022) and co-curator with Laura Mays of Making a Seat at the Table\, a ground-breaking exhibition of works by women and gender nonconforming makers which opened in November 2019 at The Museum for Art in Wood.\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. \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/queering-wood-craft-an-lgbtqia-woodworkers-roundtable-part-9b-from-conversation-to-exhibition/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Copy-of-Queering-Wood-Craft-523-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20241004T191910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T163220Z UID:10001743-1731522600-1731526200@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:A Strange and Eerie Reading with Author Christina Rosso DESCRIPTION:A Strange and Eerie Reading with Author Christina Rosso | Wed\, Nov. 13\, 2024 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Museum for Art in Wood | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a spooky evening with the spell-casting author\, educator\, and co-owner of A Novel Idea bookstore\, Christina Rosso. The evening will feature Rosso reading from their nominated books Creole Conjure\, and She is a Beast while experiencing the current exhibition in the Museum’s Research Library\, Strange Woodcraft: Weird + Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection. A book signing will follow the reading\, and books will be available for sale. Don’t miss this unique spine-tingling evening at the Museum. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/a-strange-and-eerie-reading-with-author-christina-rosso/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/untitled-33-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240822T135630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T162246Z UID:10001730-1730545200-1730548800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk for La Famiglia with Mark Sfirri DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk for La Famiglia with Mark Sfirri | Sat\, Nov. 2\, 2024 | 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 and woodturner Mark Sfirri for his current exhibition La Famiglia. Mark Sfirri will share his 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. The artist’s adoption of a spontaneous\, “flow state” approach in his turning\, carving\, and surfacing processes represents a coming to terms with generational passing. The artist will walk us through his installations of sculpture that consider communities comprised of families with their histories\, ethnic backgrounds\, biases\, and quirks—all trying to coexist in new and evolving worlds. \nFollowing the gallery talk\, a book signing will take place for the accompanying full-color catalogue\, published by the Museum for Art in Wood. The catalogue includes essays by artist Miriam Carpenter and writer and curator Craig Edelbrock\, 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 of 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/gallery-talk-for-la-famiglia-with-mark-sfirri/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/FAMILY-TREE.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240904T202420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T192908Z UID:10001739-1729103400-1729107000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Young Speaker Series: Hanna Dausch DESCRIPTION:Young Artist Speaker Series: Hanna Dausch | Wed\, October 16\, 2024 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | ZOOM\nClick HERE to RSVP \n \n \n \n \n \n The Museum for Art in Wood is proud to present the Young Artist Speaker Series. Each semester a young artist is asked to share their work and speak about the transition from academia to becoming an independent artist. The seventh installment in the series features Hanna Dausch of Han Studio\, a Pittsburgh-based artist and designer. We will learn about Dausch’s creative process and her strategy for building and marketing a successful business. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about Hanna Dausch’s journey! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n“I am Hanna Dausch and I run a small woodworking studio in Pittsburgh\, PA called Han Studio. \n\nMy grandfather was a woodworker\, my grandmother a painter\, my mother a gardener\, and my father a refinisher. Growing up I was surrounded by craftsmanship – precise lines\, smooth curves\, and distinct details shaped by skilled hands. It wasn’t until I moved away from home that I came to realize how much these details brought comfort and warmth to my childhood memories. \n\n\n\nAfter completing my education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, I became a Historic Carpenter working on the preservation of homes built in the early 1900’s. This soon led me to handcrafting furniture and design for the home. \nMy woodworking is a conversation between the past\, present\, and future of craftsmanship strengthened by family and traditions. It is made to add warmth and intimacy to the home.” \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \nDONATE \nQuestions? Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/young-speaker-series-hanna-dausch/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Copy-of-open-studio-day-6.png 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:20260430T164814 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:20240425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 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:20240316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240206T193721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T193721Z UID:10001711-1710590400-1710595800@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Queering Wood Craft: An LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 8 DESCRIPTION:Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 8 \nLearning Queerly: The Poetics of Learning and Unlearning in Wood\nSat. March 16\, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET | LIVE on ZOOM\nClick HERE to RSVP \nThe Museum for Art in Wood hosts a series of conversations with queer woodworkers. Furniture maker\, spoon carver\, and educator Kate Hawes\, will lead the next edition of the roundtable discussion with Learning Queerly: The Poetics of Learning and Unlearning in Wood with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood. \nLearning a craft like woodworking involves our whole selves. In this roundtable discussion\, we’ll talk about the places and contexts where we learn. How do we learn with others—mentors\, peers\, media\, and communities of practice; and how do we learn with our materials\, tools\, bodies\, and the objects we make? What has been helpful\, and what has been discarded? How are we absorbing\, transforming\, repeating\, copying\, and caring for what we are learning? In sharing our diverse experiences of learning\, we may find that traditional “how-to” methods fail us\, that queer people learn differently\, and that learning queerly in wood has its own creative arc. \nJoin us for this enlightening and fun afternoon. \nPortrait of Kate Hawes \nKate Hawes (they\, them) is a New York-based furniture maker\, spoon carver\, and educator. They earned a certificate in cabinet and furniture making at North Bennet Street School in 1997 and a Masters in Critical Craft History and Theory from Warren Wilson College in 2023. Between these experiences\, they co-founded a sprawling communal wood shop in an old factory in Brooklyn\, worked as a custom furniture maker\, and taught woodworking classes at Makeville Studio. In graduate school they wrote about the phenomenology of dullness and the exchange of spoons in spoon carving community. Kate Hawes lives and works in the Catskills where they make spoons and custom furniture\, as well as teach woodworking classes at the Hudson River Maritime Museum and Wooden Boat School\, North Bennet Street School\, Peters Valley School of Craft\, and Snow Farm. \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/queering-wood-craft-an-lgbtqia-woodworkers-roundtable-part-8/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Untitled-design-23.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240110T200700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T200700Z UID:10001704-1710527400-1710531000@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson | NextFab 1800 North American Street | Fri. March 15\, 2024 | 6:30 pm EST | Hybrid Event\nClick HERE to RSVP\nGuests may join us either at NextFab North or via Zoom. \nJoin us for a gallery talk with the 2024 Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson. 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. An exhibition of the work created over the two-month-long program will be presented at the NextFab North Philadelphia location. \nABOUT ADAM ATKINSON\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 ABOUT NEXTFAB \n\nNextFab is a network of membership-based makerspaces that provide access to tools\, technology\, education\, events\, and services for makers and creatives. They offer a variety of education and startup programs\, as well as professional design\, production\, and placemaking services for whatever your fabrication needs. \nABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD \nThe Museum for Art in Wood is a museum of contemporary art\, craft\, and design in the material of wood. The Museum presents the work of emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad and offers thought-provoking exhibitions\, a permanent collection of over 1\,100 objects and works of art\, publications and documentation\, events and workshops\, and a library with over 26\,000 artist files\, books\, and documents that span the history of craft. The Museum also brings artists and researchers from around the world to Philadelphia every year to attend its unique Windgate Artist Residency Program. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org. URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/gallery-talk-with-winter-residency-fellow-adam-atkinson/ LOCATION:NextFab\, 1800 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Atkinson_Decoy_photo-courtesy-of-Penland-Annual-Auction-Adam-Atkinson-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org 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:20240302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240220T205414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T170423Z UID:10001707-1709377200-1709384400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk and Performance for To Understand a Tree DESCRIPTION:Gallery Talk and Performance for To Understand a Tree | Sat\, March 2\, 2024 | 11 am – 1 pm ET | In-person at the Museum for Art in Wood\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for an in-depth conversation with interdisciplinary artist Gina Siepel and a performance with composer Vernon C David on the exhibition To Understand a Tree. 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.” This multidisciplinary exhibition is comprised of an immersive video installation\, functional and sculptural greenwood chairs made from trees killed by invasive insects or storms\, and site artifacts that emerged through direct engagement with tree and the surrounding ecosystem. It includes many collaborations and public engagements with artists\, ecologists\, students\, and other specialists\, including the composer and cellist Vernon David and the naturalist Kate Wellspring\, who has been a key participant of To Understand a Tree since the initial observation stages of the project. \nThe talk will begin at 11:00 am with Ginal Siepel\, and at 12:15 pm\, the performance will take place with Vernon C. David. \nPictured above: Gina Siepel\, To Understand a Tree (Time): One Year\, video still composite image\, 2020 \n \n \n \n \n \n   \nPortrait 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   \nPortrait of Vernon C David \nVernon C David is a Massachusetts based composer studied Cello at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore Maryland with Mihaly Virizlay and has a Masters in Composition from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA\, USA). He studied chamber music at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and at the Johannesen International School of the Arts in Vancouver BC.  He participated at the Buffalo Festival as a composer where his music was performed by the Arditti Quartet. Recently (2023)\, the Ligeti Quartet played his compositions at Lincoln College\, University of Oxford. His chamber music has been performed in UK\, France\, Greece\, Italy and the United States. \n \n \n \n \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/gallery-talk-and-performance-for-to-understand-a-tree/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/10_Siepel_videostill_Tree_Time_Composite.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T193000 DTSTAMP:20260430T164814 CREATED:20240105T215522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T004028Z UID:10001702-1706725800-1706729400@museumforartinwood.org SUMMARY:Philadelphia FLOE: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Philadelphia FLOE: A Panel Discussion | Wed. Jan. 31\, 2024 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin us for a cross-disciplinary Philadelphia-focused panel discussion that reflects elements of our current exhibition\, FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. FLOE tells the story of a fictitious shipwreck carried to Philadelphia by the glacier that buried it. As global temperatures warmed brought on by climate change\, the glacier melted and surrendered the ship’s remains. We’ll discuss with local professionals ships and shipwrecks\, urban archaeology and climate change. \nPanelists:\nCraig Bruns\nCraig Bruns currently serves as the Chief Curator at the Independence Seaport Museum\, a position he has held for the last thirteen years.  In this role\, he oversees the collections and archives\, the J. Welles Henderson Research Center\, and the preservation and interpretation of the Olympia and the Becuna. \nBruns began his tenure at the Museum as Collections Manager\, a position he held for eleven years\, and was then promoted to Curator\, which role he fulfilled for eight years\, before being appointed to his current job as Chief Curator\, for a total of twenty-eight years at the institution.  During this period\, in addition to holding multiple positions\, he also was involved with the planning and execution of sixty-two exhibits and a Collections Discovery and Reorganization Project\, which allows the public broader access to the Museum’s archival and historical artifacts. \nCraig holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute\, and an MFA from Temple University\, Tyler School of Art. \nJessica Gath\nJessica Gath is a possibilitarian who makes artwork in paint\, garments\, zines\, food\, correspondence\, community\, activism\, songs\, dirt\, plants\, videos and whatever else gets the job done. Cycles of life and our connections to Earth and one another are integral to her practice. Jessica is a founding member of Artists Commit\, an amorphous collective of artists working to support one another\, arts workers\, institutions\, and businesses built up around art and the art world in bringing environmental justice into mainstream conversation and practices. \n  \nMeg Crandal Kassabaum\nMeg is co-director of Heritage West\, a community archaeology project in West Philadelphia. She serves as Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Weingarten Associate Curator for North America at the Penn Museum. She is an anthropological archaeologist with research interests in public and museum archaeology\, archaeology of Philadelphia\, pre-contact Native American archaeology of the Eastern United States\, monument construction and communal ritual\, foodways\, and ceramic technology. \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. \n  URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/philadelphia-floe-a-panel-discussion/ LOCATION:Museum for Art in Wood\, 141 N 3rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumforartinwood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Philadelphia-FLOE-A-Panel-Discussion-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Museum%20for%20Art%20in%20Wood":MAILTO:info@museumforartinwood.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR