Residency Blog

Look long enough at Julia Harrison’s work and you may feel like you’re staring. That is, in fact, precisely the point. Harrison explains (click here to listen) that “the act of looking really hard at another person to try to figure out what the hell they are...

“When I’m thinking about things to do,” explains Grant Vaughan, “I’ll go for a walk in the bush.” He doesn’t have far to walk. Vaughan hails from New South Wales, Australia, where he lives on eighty-five acres of bushland. Although his work has shifted over the...

We traveled out to the beautiful environs of New Hope, PA, to visit the studio, showroom, finishing department, Peace House and guest house of gifted wood sculptor George Nakashima. His friendly daughter, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, gave us a wonderful guided tour...

The fellows are onto new beginnings. New art pieces are evolving on what seems like a daily basis. Rex is working on a very large sculpture. Zina is working on new techniques and ideas combining turned pieces with traditional Romanian carving. Adrien is beginning...

Perhaps none of this year’s ITE fellows are more at home in Philadelphia than Rex Kalehoff, who earned a BFA in sculpture from UArts before moving on to RIT’s MFA program in woodworking. As he tells it, Kalehoff’s work is inspired by long travels around the Pacific...

It was a day of presenting completed new work, showing sketches of work yet to come, and discussions of ideas shared between collectors, artists and turners. A pleasant luncheon was shared while a slide show of ITE photojournalist fellow Winifred Helton-Harmon's...

Photos and Text by Seth Bruggeman - "Today I rejoined my fellow fellows from the Center for Art in Wood residency program, a month since first meeting them.  Only minutes after I arrived, Albert LeCoff–the Center’s director and co-founder–joined us for a studio...

Not sure how this missed getting onto the blog as I already wrote it 10 days ago - but I am resubmitting it. My sincere apologies to the wonderful Doctors Jeff Bernstein and Judy Chernoff. Their collection was an astounding assemblage of wood artworks from many...

The fellows are working away and making an assortment of noises with their hands and machines. Some soft - some loud. All of them are reaping wonderful results. Every artist's sound is unique forming a wonderful cacophony of bangs, shushing, sanding, and high pitch...

Once back from their two weeks of Echo Lake and Washington,D.C./Maryland experiences, the fellows were ready to get to work. Jay Cox, UArts Wood shop Manager, helped get things rolling by providing wood, tools and any additional machinery advice to help fellows to...