Museum for Art in Wood

Thank a Tree by Voting Poster Project
2024-10-19 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Thank a Tree by Voting Poster Project with artist Jessica Gath | Sat, October 19, 2024 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm | In-person
Walk-ups are Welcome!
Join us in inspiring voting and showing support for trees and the environment!
We’re hosting a fun and creative event to inspire voting and raise awareness about the importance of trees and our environment. Artist Jessica Gath has designed a poster template to help you and your friends create your own unique posters. It’s the perfect opportunity to use your creativity for a meaningful cause.
Let’s come together, get the word out, and vote for trees!
Artwork featured above by Jessica Gath
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.

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.
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Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Young Speaker Series: Hanna Dausch
2024-10-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Young Artist Speaker Series: Hanna Dausch | Wed, October 16, 2024 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm | ZOOM
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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!

“I am Hanna Dausch and I run a small woodworking studio in Pittsburgh, PA called Han Studio.

My 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.

After 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.
My 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.”

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Family Craft Table
2024-10-13 12:00 - 16:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Family Craft Table | Sun, Oct. 13, 2024 | 12 pm – 4 pm | Museum for Art in Wood
Join us for a fun-filled afternoon at the Museum’s Family Craft table. This fall the Museum will offer a monthly free seasonal hands-on craft for all ages to enjoy. Stop in and experience the Museum’s current exhibition Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024, the Permanent Collection, and unique handmade items in our Museum store. We can’t wait to see you get creative at the Family Craft Table.
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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 9 - From Conversation to Exhibition
2024-10-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 9 – From Conversation to Exhibition
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The Museum for Art in Wood hosts a series of conversations with queer woodworkers. Curator, publisher, and educator Deirdre Visser, will lead the next edition of the roundtable on the evolution from conversation to exhibition with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood.
Join us for this enlightening and fun afternoon.
San 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 difference. 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.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

First Friday Opening for Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection
2024-10-04 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
First Friday Opening for Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection | Fri, October 4, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us for the First Friday Opening for Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection.

Many artists, collectors, and enthusiasts turn to wood for its inviting warmth and its promissory sense of nostalgic familiarity. Departing from these typical associations, Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, presents works which nurture a discomforting curiosity with the unfamiliar. Taking inspiration from cultural critic Mark Fisher’s insight that our attraction to the “weird” and the “eerie” stem from a fascination for “what lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience,” Strange Woodcraft embraces sculptural forms which feel out of place, askew, haunting, or just downright odd.
Residing in the gallery of the Fleur and Charles Bresler Research Library at the Museum for Art in Wood, this exhibition includes work from sixteen artists, held in the museum’s permanent collection, whose sculptural forms probe at the weird, eerie—and perhaps even grotesque—registers of wood. In doing so, Strange Woodcraft encourages visitors to consider the presence of more-than-human forces that may linger in crafted objects, just beyond common perception.
Pictured above: Alain Mailland, Purple Heart, 1999. Photo by John Carlano.

Artists:
Paul Clare
Felicia Francine Dean
Satoshi Fujinuma
Daniel Guilloux
Rebecca Kolodziejczak
Friedrich Kuhn
Alain Mailland
Hugh McKay
Wonjoo Park
Gord Peteran
Michael Peterson
Hilary Pfeifer
Hartmut Rademann
Robin Rice
Neil Scobie
David Sengel
Gordon Ward

Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture in the Museum’s Permanent Collection is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood, 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.
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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Family Craft Table
2024-09-22 12:00 - 16:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Family Craft Table | Sun, Sept. 22, 2024 | 12 pm – 4 pm | Museum for Art in Wood
Join us for a fun-filled afternoon at the Museum’s Family Craft table. This fall the Museum will offer a monthly free seasonal hands-on craft for all ages to enjoy. Stop in and experience the Museum’s current exhibition Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024, the Permanent Collection, and unique handmade items in our Museum store. We can’t wait to see you get creative at the Family Craft Table.
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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Wood Friends Social
2024-09-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Juno Mexican Grill, 1033 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia, PA, 19123, United States
Wood Friends Social | Thurs, Sept. 19, 2024 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET | Juno Mexican Grill, 1033 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia PA 19123
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Join us for a casual social hang-out with friends who work with wood and friends who just love wood. Stop by Juno Mexican Grill, located on Spring Garden Street, to mingle with the wood community. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Free-Range Carving Meetup
2024-09-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Free-Range Carving Meetup | Wed. 11, 2024 | 5:30 – 7:30 pm ET | In-person
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Grab your widdling tools and wood for an evening of carving, conversation, and camaraderie. This is a free-range event, not a class or workshop, so bring your own hand tools and supplies.
While you’re here, get inspired by our current exhibition, Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program 2024. This highly anticipated exhibition reveals artwork made by the 2024 WARP Wood fellows, a cohort made up of professional artists, a student artist, a documentary artist, and a scholar.
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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

September First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood
2024-09-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
September First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. September 6, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
Walk-ups Welcome
This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024 and Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni. While you’re here, explore our permanent collection of over 1,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

First Friday Opening for Fruition: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024
2024-08-02 17:30 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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
Walk-in’s Welcome
The 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.
This year’s fellows, listed below, will bring immersive and installation sculpture, furniture and woodworking, sculpture, and research to the Museum’s exhibition space.
Artist Fellows:

2024 Windgate Resident Fellows

Artists:
Chance Coalter | San Diego, CA
Melissa Engler | Asheville, NC
Jamie Herman | Layton, NJ
J Prud’homme | San Francisco, CA
Sara Tabbert | Fairbanks, AK
Sarah Watlington | Los Angeles, CA
Student Artist:
Brittany Rudolf | Portland, OR
Documentary Artist:
Molly Nemer
Scholar:
Folayemi Wilson

Meet 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.

Opening reception with the Windgate Resident Fellows | Aug 2, 5:30-8 PM | Gallery talk, 6-7 PM

This 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.

Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

To Understand a Tree: an Experiential Workshop with Gina Siepel
2024-07-20 10:00 - 15:30 | The Schuylkill Center, 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
To Understand a Tree: an Experiential Workshop | Sat, July 20, 2024 | The Schuylkill Center | 8480 Hagy’s Mill Road, Philadelphia 19128 | 10:00 am – 3:30 pm ET | In-person
$100 General Registration
$85 Member Registration
Join us for an exploratory, hands-on workshop, where we will explore connections between the forest, the tree, and the material of wood. Led by artist Gina Siepel, in collaboration with a naturalist from the Schuylkill Center, we will undertake a guided exploration of the forest. During this workshop, we’ll practice tree identification using field guides and online tools, and we’ll have an overview of the anatomy and physiology of trees. We will also take the opportunity to study the material in depth, splitting logs and other found materials and exploring the life of the tree through an examination of the wood itself.
Pictured above is the summer canopy at the MacLeish Field Station at Smith College—photo by Gina Siepel.

Images above: Lotte Walworth and Silvie Schlein splitting logs. Nov. 2022, photo by Olive Rowell.Detail image of One-Half Log, Divided into a Chair and Scraps by Gina Siepel, 2022, photo by John Carlano.

About Gina Siepel

Portrait of Gina Siepel
Gina 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.

Please direct questions to Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

A Concert with JAFFNA ENSEMBLE
2024-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
A Concert with JAFFNA ENSEMBLE | Thurs. July 18, 2024 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm EDT | In-person Event
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Join us for a lively concert with Philadelphia-based world music ensemble Jaffna! Jaffana combines instrumentation and influences from the Middle East, India, and anywhere else that inspires them. With roots in the early-1990s, the group maintains its distinct style with original compositions and improvisations which stretch the boundaries of their respective cultures. Don’t miss being transported to other worlds!
Follow Jaffna on Facebook and listen to them on Reverb Nation!
Jaffna Ensemble: Roger Mgrdichian, Raji Malik, Branavan Ganesan, Joseph Tayoun

Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

2024 Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood Open Studio Day, in memory of Lee Bender
2024-07-13 10:00 - 15:00 | NextFab, 1800 N. American St, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
2024 Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood Open Studio Day, in memory of Lee Bender |
Saturday, July 13th | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm | NextFab, 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia
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*Registration is required to attend.
The public is invited into the Windgate Fellows shop for discussion surrounding their work as part of the 2024 Windgate Arts Residency Program (WARP – Wood). This event will take place at NextFab located at 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, on Saturday, July 13, 2024, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. This event is an opportunity to meet the resident fellows and hear about their concepts and works in progress, whether in wood, film, writing, or other documentation.
This summer marks the 28th year that the Museum has sponsored the international residency program. The Fellows live, travel, and work independently and collaboratively in an intensive, 8-week program from June 3 through August 2, 2024. Typical activities include visits to local and regional museums and public and private collections of art. The residency culminates in an exhibition of their artwork, opening Friday, August 2nd. The evening will begin with a gallery talk by the Resident Fellows, followed by a reception. Sponsored and programmed by the Museum for Art in Wood and hosted by our partner NextFab, the residency encourages research, discussions, studio work, experiments, and collaborations.
Schedule for the day:

10:00 AM Arrival
10:30 AM Welcome words and the artist presentations begin
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Guests will be able to watch demos, see the shop, talk more with the fellows, and go on tours of NextFab.
3:00 PM Guests exit

$25 for entry and lunch
*Note: Students pay only $15 for entry and lunch–a valid student ID must be shown at entry. Please contact Katie Sorenson to RSVP.
** Attendees must wear closed-toe shoes. No one will be permitted in the woodshop with open-toe shoes!
No flip-flops, no sandals.
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Wood Friends Social
2024-07-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Fringe Bar, 140 N. Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Wood Friends Social | Wed, July 10, 2024 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET | Fringe Bar, 140 N Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia
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Join us for a casual social hang-out with friends who work with wood and friends who just love wood. Stop by Liberty Point, located adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum, to mingle with the wood community. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

A Special Book Signing Event with Mira Nakashima
2024-06-13 17:30 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
A Special Book Signing Event with Mira Nakashima | Thurs. June 13, 2024 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
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On June 13, 2024, the Museum for Art in Wood will host a special book signing event with renowned furniture designer and architect Mira Nakashima, daughter of George Nakashima, one of the leading innovators of 20th–century furniture. During the event, visitors can meet Mira and have their copy of the book The Nakashima Process signed. The publication illustrates what makes Nakashima’s unique handmade furniture special, featuring original sketches, the philosophy behind her father, George Nakashima’s masterpieces, and family history. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Mira Nakashima.
Click HERE to preorder the book.

About George Nakashima
George Nakashima (1905–90) was a world-famous woodworker in the second half of the twentieth century. He achieved fame as a leader of the modern American Arts and Crafts movement. George earned a master’s degree in architecture from M.I.T in 1931. In 1934, Nakashima joined the architecture firm of Antonin Raymond, a protégé of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. However, after spending a year in a WWII Japanese American internment camp in 1942, along with his wife and daughter, Mira, Nakashima decided to pursue a new career as a furniture designer, where he championed traditional philosophies and craftsmanship. Nakashima is recognized as one of America’s most eminent furniture designer-craftsman and his style of “organic naturalism” can be seen in the buildings, landscape, and furniture located in the Nakashima Woodworkers Complex in New Hope, PA, which has been recognized as a National Landmark and a World Monument. Private tours of the Nakashima studio are offered through the Nakashima Foundation for Peace and George Nakashima’s work can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum, Mingei International Museum and Michener Art Museum.

About George Nakashima Woodworkers
Founded in 1945 by the late Japanese American George Nakashima, Nakashima Woodworkers focuses on material and craftmanship by creating timeless furniture pieces from sustainably harvested hardwoods, particularly American black walnut, made to be aesthetically pleasing and utilitarian at the same time. The studio works only with solid wood and with an immense respect for the material. George believed that natural materials, such as wood, should be “studied, understood and respected”. They custom-mill sustainably harvested hardwoods and select the resulting planks individually for each project.

Portrait of Mira Nakashima

Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

June First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood
2024-06-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
June First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. June 7, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
Walk-ups Welcome
This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree and Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni. While you’re here, explore our permanent collection of over 1,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Herbarium Workshop
2024-06-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Glen Foerd, 5001 Grant Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19114, United States
Herbarium Workshop | Sat. June 1, 2024 | Glen Foerd | 5001 Grant Ave, Philadelphia 19128 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm ET | In-person
General Registration $45
Member Registration $35
Join us for a collaborative herbarium workshop on the beautiful grounds of Glen Foerd. The day will begin with building your own plant press and collecting plant specimens. Afterward, you’ll have the opportunity to practice mounting pressed plants to create your own herbarium sheets. Space is limited, so be sure to register today.
ABOUT GLEN FOERD
Glen Foerd, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located on 18 acres at the confluence of the Poquessing Creek and Delaware River. It is the only remaining riverfront estate in Philadelphia open to the public. The estate was saved from demolition by a coalition of dedicated neighbors in the immediate community. They formed the non-profit Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation to manage and operate the estate, which is leased from Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. Glen Foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. Drawing from the estate’s architecture, art, material culture, and history – as well as its gardens and waterways – Glen Foerd provides inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and support Philadelphia’s natural and cultural ecosystems. The estate grounds are free to the public and open every day from dawn to dusk.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD
The 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.
If you have questions, please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
*Cancelation Policy
Cancelations of a workshop registration must be made by email. The Museum can offer a full refund if notice is given 72 hours prior to the workshop. Refunds will not be given after that date.
The Museum for Art in Wood reserves the right to cancel or postpone a workshop due to severe weather or unforeseen circumstances. Participants will be notified in advance and offered a full refund.

Wood Friends Social
2024-05-16 17:30 - 19:30 | Liberty Point, 211 S. Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Wood Friends Social | Thurs, May 16, 2024 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET | Liberty Point, 211 S Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia | Adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum
Click HERE to RSVP
Join us for a casual social hang-out with friends who work with wood and friends who just love wood. Stop by Liberty Point, located adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum, to mingle with the wood community. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

The History, Science, and Art of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium
2024-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
The History, Science, and Art of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium | Thurs, May 9, 2024 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET | On ZOOM
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Please join us for a nutritious lunchtime discussion about the herbarium sheets of Lewis and Clark. The American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, and the Museum for Art in Wood are joining history, science, and art in this collaborative talk. We’ll learn about the history and science of these sheets and how they came to Philadelphia and we’ll also hear from artist Gina Siepel about her experience creating a herbarium for her current exhibition, To Understand a Tree.
Don’t miss this unique and fascinating opportunity to dive into the Lewis and Clark Herbarium.
*Pictured above is a herbarium sheet by Meriwether Lewis, 1804, of Nicotiana quadrivalvis.

Ali Rospond
Herbarium sheet by Meriwether Lewis, 1804, Artemisia frigida Willd.
Ali Rospond is the Education Programs Manager at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum (APS). Ali creates, coordinates, and implements intergenerational, school, outreach, and informal adult programming at the Society. She has also worked as an educator at the Independence Seaport Museum. Ali holds an M.A. in Museum Education from the University of the Arts and a B.A. in History/Political Science from Rutgers University.

Dr. Rick McCourt
Herbarium Shhet by Meriwether Lewis, 1804, of Quercus macocarpa Michx.
Dr. Rick McCourt has been a botany curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University since 1996 and a professor in the Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES) Department since its founding at Drexel University in 2012.
Professor McCourt’s research program targets the biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and systematics of green algae, specifically green algae that are among the closest living algal relatives of land plants. In addition, he curates the plant collection of the Lewis and Clark expedition and has written about the history of the botanical results from their journey. Rick’s contributions are widely recognized; he is the author and co-author of over a hundred highly cited articles published in prominent, peer-reviewed scientific journals.
McCourt worked for six years at the National Science Foundation as a program director in the Divisions of Biological Science and Education and Human Resources. He also served as president and chair of the Board of Trustees for the Phycological Society of America and other environmental organizations. Before coming to Drexel, Rick was a faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago; he taught evolutionary biology and ecology courses and mentored graduate, undergraduate, and co-op students in his laboratory.
Rick writes for popular magazines such as Discover and Outside; he has also co-edited the book The New Science Journalists with Ted Anton, a professor of English at DePaul University.
Earlier in his career, Rick worked as a science journalist and reported on science, sports, and arts at National Public Radio. In 1985 he won the AAAS Westinghouse Award for Science Journalism in Radio for a series on aquaculture broadcast on NPR.

Gina Siepel
Living Material I, Red Oak Seedling from the exhibition Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree. Photo by John Carlano
Gina 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.

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May First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood
2024-05-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
May First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. May 3, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
Walk-ups Welcome
This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree and Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni. While you’re here, explore our permanent collection of over 1,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.

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.
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Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Celebration
2024-04-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
The Poetry Gumball Machine Celebration | Sat, April 27, 2024 | 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm ET | In-person at the Museum for Art in Wood
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You’re invited to the unveiling celebration of the Museum for Art in Wood’s Poetry Gumball Machine. The Poetry Gumball Machine Project is the brainchild of acclaimed poet and multiform artist LindoYes and is a community-wide program in varied locations in Philadelphia and New Jersey. The project supports free access to the arts and poetry in a fun and familiar experience using traditional gumball machines. The Museum’s wooden Poetry Gumball Machine was specially crafted by local artist Jesse Rinyu, who was selected through a jury process to create the one-of-a-kind mechanized sculpture, which houses the unique walnut shell capsules created by artist Jennifer Eckenrode that, when opened, reveals a slip of paper with an original poem composed by LindoYes and information for free local social services and, crisis hotline numbers. The unveiling will be commemorated with music and spoken word by local talent with light refreshments provided byPhilly’s own Harper’s Garden.
The Museum’s doors will open at 6:00 pm and the event and performances begin at 6:30 pm
The Poetry Gumball Machine Project team:
LindoYes – Lead ArtistJesse Rinyu – Wood ArtistJennifer Eckenrode – Craft ArtistSavannah Cooper-Ramsey – Writing SupportKatie Sorenson – Project Managment

Performances by:

LindoYes (he/hm), is a dyslexic spoken word poet born, raised and living in Philadelphia. He has been featured in the Philly Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, and Def Poetry Jam to name a few. Lindo’s poetry has expanded to short animations, gumball machines, and plays where he has centered black existence, mental health, and fantasy/sci-fi. He was the recipient of the 2023 Jackie Robinson award by Color of Change and the 2023 “Change Maker” award by Uptown Standards. LindoYes will be releasing in December 2024 a graphic novel called “Pawnshop,” which is a sci-fi/fantasy anthology on Mental Health based in Philly.

Dani & JoePhiladelphia-based Dani & Joe are songwriting sweethearts who, after years as supporting members in other prominent Philly bands, hit the scene under their own names in 2020 with the release of ‘All for You.’ Their beginnings grew out of small, intimate shows, and the music carries that tradition compositionally. Joni-style folk collage storytelling meets experimental R&B with a Black Keys makeup.

Matthew EdwardsMatte is an up and coming Soul-Pop and RnB singer-songwriter from Willingboro, New Jersey. He is a self-taught vocalist that found his voice when he was 9 years old.With a voice like honey dripping on vinyl, his music carries the echoes of gospel-soaked Sundays and smoky jazz bars, weaving stories of resilience and joy into modern R&B grooves. Already captivating audiences with his raw vocals and electrifying live shows. His warm yet timeless soul stirring voice has privileged him to perform and tour on stages in front of thousands of supporters. With Cosigns from major entertainers such as Jim Beanz, Avery Wilson, Tamar Braxton, Stevie Mackey, Jeremy Passion, Jessie J, Tisha Campbell Martin, Common, Jennifer Hudson, and Jazmine Sullivan, Matte is a force to be reckoned with, and soon to be a household name.

Marshall James KavanaughMarshall James Kavanaugh is a Philadelphia-based dream laborer and performance poet. He has performed his poetry at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Contemporary, and the Philadelphia International Airport. As Dream Poet For Hire, Marshall creates stream-of-subconscious inspired poetry on demand for the general public. Equipped with a Smith-Corona Skyriter, he sets up in public spaces around Philadelphia and tailors on-the-spot poems on any theme.

Josh SmithJosh Smith is a dynamic poet, speaker, and mental health advocate from Delaware County, PA. He was first exposed to poetry in the fifth grade while learning about the Harlem Renaissance and fell in love with the works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay. The latter’s sonnet, If We Must Die, inspired Josh to begin his own writing. Blending social commentary, personal experiences, vulnerability, and clever wordplay, Josh Smith impacts his audience in a way that sparks, inspires, and provokes change and healing. Josh Smith’s second poetry collection, How to Grieve, is available for purchase.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

The Gumball Machine Project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

The Gumball Machine Event is partially supported by Harper’s Garden.

To Understand A Tree – A Conversation with Artist Gina Siepel and Dr. Michael Mann
2024-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Annenberg Public Policy Center, 202 S. 36th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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
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Join 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.
Pictured: The red oak tree at the height of autumn color, 2019. Photo by Gina Siepel
About the Speakers

Portrait of Gina Siepel
Gina 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.

Protratit of Dr. Michael Mann
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.

Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

2024 Bandsaw Bash
2024-04-19 18:30 - 21:30 | Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine St, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, United States
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Bandsaw Bash | Fri. April 19, 2024 | 6:30 – 9:30 pm | Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine St, Philadelphia 19147 | In-person

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We are excited and honored to invite you to the fifth annual Bandsaw Bash!
This event celebrates the Museum for Art in Wood with a festive evening party and silent auction. It is an opportunity to gather in support of the Museum’s unique mission while connecting with friends and supporters in the Museum’s vibrant community.
The 2024 Bandsaw Bash will take place in person at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, on Friday, April 19, 6:30–9:30pm. A special champagne reception and auction tour for sponsors will be held at 6:00pm, just before we kick off the main event.
If you joined us for the Bandsaw Box Auction in 2022, you recall the ingenious works made in support of the Museum, as well as the warm camaraderie of our guests. This year promises an event packed with inspiring, new bandsaw boxes, food, wine, beer, live music by the Dave Brodie Trio, and more. As in past years, proceeds from the auction are split between contributing artists and the Museum. Your sponsorship helps fund the exhibitions and events that the Museum for Art in Wood delivers.
The Museum’s staff and Board of Trustees look forward to seeing you on April 19th.

If you have any questions, please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
NOTE: If you wish to pay by check, please make it out to Museum for Art in Wood and mail to 141 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

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Meet the Bandsaw Bash Co-chairs!

Kimberly Winkle is a maker whose work, both furniture and objects, celebrates traditional furniture making and woodturning techniques combined with a strong use of color and pattern. Her work has been included in exhibitions at SOFA Chicago, WANTEDDesign NYC, Architectural Digest Show NYC, the Museum of Art in Wood ,and the Fuller Craft Museum. She earned her MFA from San Diego State University, and she is currently a Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at TN Tech University.

Dan Zobel is a furniture maker and graduate from Bucks County Community College and subsequently Indiana University of Pennsylvania and studied under the tutelage of renowned makers Mark Sfirri and the late Alphonse Mattia. Since schooling Dan has become an enthusiastic supporter and contributor of the wood art field by participating in shows, presentations, collaborative events, and also collecting wooden artworks. In his professional life, Dan manages a millwork and furniture manufacturer, Edgewood Made, based in Philadelphia. Dan’s networking and collaboration with artists and members of the Museum’s staff lends itself to his selection to act as the Co-Chair for this years Bandsaw Bash event.

EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

Patricia* and Gordon FowlerCarolyn and Ron PicciottiMaryalice BirkChristian Giannelli PhotographyBruce KatsiffLeonard Kreppel*Albert and Tina LeCoffElissa TopolJeff and Donna TuriScott and Charmaine WishartGlen and Chris Zobel

An asterisk * denotes a member of the Museum Board of Trustees.

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Draw, Write, Embrace: A Creative Workshop with LindoYes
2024-04-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Free Library of Philadelphia Independence Branch, 18 S 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Draw, Write, Embrace: A Creative Workshop with LindoYes | FREE Library of Philadelphia Independence Branch | 18 S 7th Street | Thurs. April 11, 2024 | 3:30 pm EST | In-person Event
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In this workshop with acclaimed poet and multiform artist LindoYes, middle and high schoolers will transform life experiences and inner struggles into art and writing through illustration and poetry. This program is presented in partnership with the FREE Library of Philadelphia’s Independence Branch and is a part of the Museum for Art in Wood’s Gumball Machine Project.
About LindoYes
LindoYes (he/hm), is a dyslexic spoken word poet born, raised and living in Philadelphia. He has been featured in the Philly Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, and Def Poetry Jam to name a few. Lindo’s poetry has expanded to short animations, gumball machines, and plays where he has centered black existence, mental health, and fantasy/sci-fi. He was the recipient of the 2023 Jackie Robinson award by Color of Change and the 2023 “Change Maker” award by Uptown Standards. LindoYes will be releasing in December 2024 a graphic novel called “Pawnshop,” which is a sci-fi/fantasy anthology on Mental Health based in Philly.

About the FREE Library
The mission of the Free Library of Philadelphia is to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity. Its vision is to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning.
If you have questions, please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

The Gumball Machine Project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

April First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood
2024-04-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
April First Friday at the Museum for Art in Wood | Fri. April 5, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
Walk-ups Welcome
This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree and Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni. While you’re here, explore our permanent collection of over 1,300 objects and shop our Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Queering Wood Craft: An LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 8
2024-03-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Queering Wood Craft: an LGBTQIA+ Woodworkers Roundtable Part 8
Learning Queerly: The Poetics of Learning and Unlearning in Wood
Sat. March 16, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET | LIVE on ZOOM
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The 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.
Learning 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.
Join us for this enlightening and fun afternoon.
Portrait of Kate Hawes
Kate 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.
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.
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Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson
2024-03-15 18:30 - 19:30 | NextFab, 1800 N. American St, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Adam Atkinson | NextFab 1800 North American Street | Fri. March 15, 2024 | 6:30 pm EST | Hybrid Event
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Guests may join us either at NextFab North or via Zoom.
Join 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.
ABOUT ADAM ATKINSON

Portrait of Adam Atkinson by Myles Pettengill @myles_standis
Adam 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.
Atkinson 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.
ABOUT NEXTFAB

NextFab 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.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD
The 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.
If you have questions, please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

Gallery Talk and Performance for To Understand a Tree
2024-03-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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
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Join 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.
The talk will begin at 11:00 am with Ginal Siepel, and at 12:15 pm, the performance will take place with Vernon C. David.
Pictured above: Gina Siepel, To Understand a Tree (Time): One Year, video still composite image, 2020

Portrait of Gina Siepel
Gina 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.

Portrait of Vernon C David
Vernon 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.

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.
DONATE
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.

First Friday Opening for Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree
2024-03-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
First Friday Opening for Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree | Fri, March 1, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event
Walk-in’s Welcome
Join us at the Museum for Art in Wood for First Friday and the opening of Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree. To Understand a Tree is inspired by a desire to contemplate a living forest tree and its immediate habitat from the perspective of a queer-identified woodworker, in a way that challenges and provokes an often-assumed binary between living tree and dead wood. It links legacies of 19th-century transcendentalism with contemporary biological understandings of forest interconnection, ecofeminism, queer ecology, eco-philosophy, and Indigenous teachings about human-nature relationships. These studies, along with many hours spent in the forest, encourage a shift in the consideration of the tree as a subject rather than simply an object, which fundamentally impacts ideas of woodworking practice and our ecological responsibility. Involving collaboration, public engagement, site-based study and contemplation, video documentation, and woodworking, To Understand a Tree functions as a small-scale way of exploring big questions about the place of humans in the environment, the scale and speed at which we consume natural resources, and which organisms are included or excluded in a definition of “community.” Forests are complex and interconnected systems, and in that spirit, To Understand a Tree connects material practice and object-making to questions of forest ecology, climate change, and more than human personhood. To Understand a Tree is an ongoing project of Gina Siepel as an artist in residence at the Smith College MacLeish Field Station.
Remarks will take place at 6:30 pm.

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.

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Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
Image above: The red oak tree at the height of autumn color, 2019. Photo by Gina Siepel.

Ever-Changing: A Dance Performance
2024-02-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Ever-Changing: A Dance Performance | Sun, Feb 18, 2024 | 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm |In-person Event | Museum for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd Street

A collaborative project between the Museum and the Philadelphia Dance AcademyChoreography by Blake Krapels

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Join us for Ever-Changing, a celebratory closing performance for FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. Ever-Chaning is an immersive dance installation that honors the fictional work of Stephen Talsanik’s exhibition FLOE: A Climate of Risk. Through movement and playful connections, the dancers will discover the world in which Stephen created. The piece is constructed in 4 movements. Discovery, Exploration, Admiration, and Celebration. Come join the Philadelphia Youth Ballet as they take you on a journey through the “ever-changing” landscape.
The performance will take place once at 1 pm and last approximately 15 minutes and occurs again at 3 pm.

Image above: Rehearsal image of the Philadelphia Youth Ballet by Tricia Pompilio at the Museum for Art in Wood for the exhibition FLOE: A Climate at Risk | The Fictional Archeology of Stephen Talasnik.

Rehearsal image of Philadelphia Youth Ballet by Tricia Pompilio.
Choreography: Blake Krapels
Music: Ólafur Arnalds, SOHN, pmt.
Dancers: Hannah Alfonso, Vivian Matkowski, Hudson Pasquarello, Aubrey Salamone, Fiona Savarese, Claire Shmukler, Annarose Spiedel
Costumes: Lori Lahnemann, Kathryn Van Yahres
Photography: Tricia Pompilio
Videography: Bob Finkelstein

About Philadelphia Dance AcademyFounded in 2005 by Lori Lahnemann and located in Old City, Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Dance Academy aims to provide exceptional dance training in a professional and positive environment. They view each student as an individual and aim to ensure they reach their maximum potential. Students are placed in appropriate dance training programs and taught by a professional, experienced faculty.
The Dance Academy’s programs prioritize refined technique, dancer wellness, and artistic development. The Academy offers: Early Childhood Dance, Primary and Pre-Professional Ballet Programs, a Boys Scholarship Program, Theater Dance, Contemporary Dance, Adult/Teen Recreational Classes, and Pilates.
About Blake KrapelsBlake Krapels, a 2011 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, trained in New Jersey under the tutelage of Billy Larson and Jamie Salmon. In 2015 Blake graduated with a BFA from The Juilliard School, where he performed repertoire by William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Elliot Feld, Jose Limon, and Peter Chu. In addition to his core training, Blake participated in Summer Intensives at Nederlands Dans Theatre and Springboard Danse Montreal. After graduation, Blake spent four years with Philadelphia’s BalletX. He also has danced with The Metropolitan Opera, Keigwin & Company, GroundWorks Dance Theatre, Emery LeCrone Dance, Konverjdans, and most recently, DanceAspen. While dancing with DanceAspen, he worked with Matthew Neenan, Penny Saunders, Cayetano Soto, and Yue Yin. As of recently he has taken on the role as an artist and company manager with South Dakota Ballet.
Blake’s choreography has been presented at The Kennedy Center, Cleveland DanceWorks 2017, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, First State Ballet Theater, APAP Conference in NYC, DanceAspen, and South Dakota Ballet.

Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
FLOE: A Climate of Risk is supported in part by a grant from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.

The exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood, Bresler Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, William Penn Foundation, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang, Inc., and Green Crates, LLC.
