Got Wood?: April 2010

TURNINGS

Here ase some turning that I have photographed from the Architecture students in Tom's class.

Jim Sulak

It is Jims 2nd semester in the woods classes and he is already turning and incorporating other methods of embellishment in his pieces like piercing on the edges of his bowls. Hopefully he will stay inspired to keep turning

Ben Walker

This is Bens first semester in the turning clas

s and he has made some wonderful little turnings. Ben is an architectre major and and is Andrew Walker's brother. I should mention that I did not realize they were twins until Brett told me they were brothers.

Evan Ward

Evan is in his last semester of his

Architercture degree. appar ently he has really bad ADD. But, that does not seem to affect his turnings. Well done Evan.

Taylor Townsend

Taylor is another one of the Architecture students from Tom's class. He is in his 2nd year of the program and will be traveling to Buenos Aires for the fall semester. Might I add that he is really patient with his turnings. Good luck Taylor.

Andrew Walker

Andrew walker is also an Architecture major. Is an avid grant writer and tiwn brother to Ben Walker. However, I did not realize this until the 2nd month they had been here. Good luck with the grant andrew. And yes, you will be missed too.

John Lee

John is also another architecture student in his second semester of the turning classes. John is an avid turner now and is doing some real awesome work with wood. He has been bringing some olive wood and has kindly shared his wood with all of us. He is also going to Buenos Aires with as part of the architecture program along with Taylor.

Greetings!
It is almost the end of the semester and things have been a little crazy around the woodshop. Nothing the woods Peeps cannot handle. I personally, have had a wonderful semester, crammed and pretty packed with things to do but, have enjoyed it to the max. Some news from earlier on the semester, our professor Tom Eckert had injured himself here at the woodshop. (No clamped wood on the floor rule totally emphasized) Tom is recuperating and is here at school for four hours a week. Since Tom’s accident, Mark Fromeyer the shop technician from Architecture has stepped in to help us out. Mark has been great at helping all of us here at the woodshop. We could not be making it without you Mark. Thank you Mark for all of your invaluable help you have saved us this semester. For more great news, three of the students (Kelsey Viola Wiskischen, John Lee and Taylor Townsend) from Tom’s classes joined on a mission to create an interactive space for students at the X-Square in front of Neeb hall next to the art building and behind the architecture design building south. Needless to say their group project (PERFORM) was selected to create a structure that will stay up for nine months until next years competition. The project will be completed in the summer and much work awaits these guys. Again congratulations to them on a job well done. And for even greater news, our very own Eleanor Richards won the Nathan Cummings travel award this year. Ellie will be traveling to Germany to explore the issues of child play with woodworking tools. But, her luck did not end there, Ellie also won an award at the Jumpstart competition. We are all very happy for you Ellie (We have got to celebrate).
And, last but not least, the arts studios will be having a spring potluck Saturday April 24th behind the 3D room next to the architecture studios. We hope to have a good group of people from fibers, woods, metals and architecture to come and have a good time. Finally, I am posting pictures of some of my student’s recent work from the woods I class and some from the turning class (which I am gladly assisting this spring semester). All in all, we have (I have) had a wonderful semester, I have met new people and made friends with lots of them as well. I wish everyone a great summer and I will post pictures of my work soon as I have many projects planned for this summer as I prepare for my review for the fall.

Abigail, Spring 2010, Woods I