Residency Blog

The Furniture Society, in conjunction with the Center for Art in Wood, held their FS16 Craft/Facturing Conference at UArts in Philadelphia, June 23-25. The festivities ended just last night with dinner, live music, and dancing! To prepare for the event, on...

As if we needed MORE collaborative experiences, we headed to Bucks County Community College (BCCC) for the three-day, intense, Echo Lake Collaboration XVIII. Not only is their wood studio spacious and well maintained, the other facilities at BCCC are ideal for...

I flew to Atlanta over the weekend to attend the American Association of Woodturner's 30th International Symposium, and (not surprisingly) while I was away, the other residents were highly productive and creative! ...

Seven wood artists, seven blocks of basswood, dozens of words, a shop full of machines, tools, and supplies, a deadline for the Windgate ITE Residents to finish a collaborative project for the upcoming Furniture Society Conference at UArts  .... combine...

Except for scholar, Merryll Saylan who will join us in July, the 2016 Windgate ITE residents are settling into the University of the Arts wood studio. Added to the mix is UArts student Rebecca Kolodziejczak. Welcome Rebecca! Today we will unpack tools and supplies...

Hello from Indianapolis where I am practicing my new social-media skills in preparation for documenting the activities of the 2016 Windgate ITE International Residency, sponsored by The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia. Five resident artists, a historian, and a...

The ITE fellows' exhibition was a great success with many people attending and lots of good energy, and wonderful work filling the space. Albert LeCoff spoke to attendees and patrons about the value of the ITE program in supporting wood workers and artists with the...

The Gerry Lenfest Gallery is full of wonderful new work from this year's ITE fellows. There is quite the range of designs, styles, techniques and some new technologies represented as well. Winifred built her sawdust sculpture from the actual sawdust and cut-offs...

Well, we all are in the final stages of completing and setting up our work in the Gallery. Lots of nice work will represent eight weeks of collaborations, studies, observations, and processes. We all have something to take away from our experience as an ITE fellow...

The fellows worked late into the night finishing up their pieces.  It's been a great creative journey we've all shared together. All our work will be delivered to The Center today. We're all excited and exhausted at this...