Residency Blog
Weeks 5 & 6: No More Distractions, We Have Work To Do!!!
Welcome back to the Windgate Residency Blog! The residency officially ended the first week in August, but I have been traveling and catching up with the life and work I abandoned to spend a summer in Philadelphia with amazing artists and friends (worth it), and am...
Week 4, Part 3: The Mercer Museum, Fonthill and Open House!
Did I mention that Week 4 was a busy one?? It marked the midway point for the residency, and included two looonnnnggg and amazing field trip days as well as the Open House at Nextfab that Saturday. We were all busy! And since then we've been rolling along on our...
Week 4, Part 2: A Visit to the Nakashima Studio and Mark Sfirri!
One of the remarkable things about Philadelphia and this residency is how many amazing field trips are possible - the area is lousy with woodworkers, woodworking history, museums and galleries, and it becomes a race to try and see everything! The Center set up two...
Week 4, Part 1: A visit from D Wood, and project updates!
Week 4 was a busy one! D Wood, the group scholar, arrived from Toronto and split her time between the Center for Art in Wood's wonderful library and talking to each resident. As the visual documentarian, I COMPLETELY FAILED to get a picture of her early in the...
Week 3: In Which Our Fine Fellows Encounter Project Progress, A Visit from Gord and Kailee Bosch!
Week three was such a good one! It felt like all of us finally started to figure out how to work in the space, we started talking and sharing more with each other (it is a group of introverts!). On Monday we got an unexpected and lovely visit from Gord Peteran and...
Week Two: Finding our places and feeling out projects
Week two started a little late for a couple of us - Janice and I didn't get back from the DC/Maryland trip until Monday afternoon. James was busy for the week, so from Tuesday to the weekend it was mostly Janice, Chris, and me. I did a bunch of carving and...
End of Week 1: The Maryland/DC Trip
Hello wood friends! We’re into week 3 and I still feel like I've just arrived, but we’ve had some great adventures and conversations so far, and soon Kailee Bosch will be joining us! I realize I have a zillion pictures to share with y’all about these first weeks,...
Week 1: Orientation to the Center and NextFab and settling in!
Hi friends! It's been exactly two weeks since I arrived in Philadelphia, and after a bit of travel in the first week, we are all settling in and figuring out how and what to make. I thought I would share some of the images from our first week, which included...
Introduction to the 2022 Windgate Artist Residents!
Welcome to the Center for Art in Wood 2022 Windgate Artist Residency Blog! My name is Katie Hudnall and I am the Visual Documentarian for this year’s group. I am so excited to be in Philadelphia and working with the Center for Art in Wood and the rest of these...
Week 8: The End!
I'm writing my last post from home, having moved all my stuff out on Saturday with the assistance of my patient husband. Unfortunately, the elevator in the dorms was broken, so we carried all our stuff down four flights of stairs. The shop was a lot easier, with...
