Make a Unique Wooden Box! 2-day workshop at Wendell Castle Workshop
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 08/17/2025
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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.
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