Make a Unique Wooden Box! 2-day workshop at Wendell Castle Workshop

In this class, students will be able to create their very own Spiral Sprout Box! This octagonal, lidded box is topped with a bundle of bentwood spirals. During the class we will cover box design and function, joinery (with geometry—it’s fun, I promise), making a captured panel bottom and lid, wood bending using a hot pipe, creating a tiny wedged tenon, and fine tuning the fit of a split-lid box. This small project is packed with an array of techniques and fun details to make it your own! Instructor: Larissa Huff Larissa is a wood­worker and teacher who makes custom furni­ture and other func­tional wooden objects in Philadel­phia. When she is not design­ing and build­ing custom furni­ture in her own work­shop, she’s on the road teach­ing and making at shops and schools around the country. In 2021, she was as an artist-in-resi­dence at Arrow­mont School of Art & Crafts and in 2022, she completed a fellow­ship at the Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship. You can find arti­cles she has authored in Fine Wood­work­ing and Wood­craft Maga­zine and her work has been on display in exhibitions at the Messler Gallery and Wayne Art Center. Even her days out of the shop are wrapped up in artful wood­work­ing, as she works part-time at the Wharton Esherick Museum. The Wendell Castle Workshop is a nonprofit woodworking and metalworking school in the former studio of Wendell Castle. Mr. Castle is known as the "father of the art furniture movement" whose work is in museums and collections around the world. His "Ghost Clock" is in the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian. At the end of the first day of class students have the option for a free tour of his studio and the onsite showroom of his work as well as that of his widow, Nancy Jurs, a ceramic artist.