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The recent expansion of the Woodworking and Furniture Design program into the new Center for Turning and Furniture Design includes the addition of a new studio core featuring advanced and experimental studies in turning. Enrollment for each class is set at 14 students, which offers personalized instruction and accessibility to the studio resources.
Our program focuses on the professional development of the emerging artist of turned objects and furniture. The curriculum of the Center for Turning and Furniture Design offers a broad range of instruction in areas of creative concept development, design and drawing, turning, joinery, and construction applications. Each student is encouraged to develop his or her own creative and technical abilities and to challenge new ideas and approaches applied to conventional and innovative processes and materials. Advanced students have the opportunity to focus on contemporary issues of recycling, reinvention, and renewal while exploring creative applications of new technologies and computer numerically controlled machining systems. Current trends and historical issues of noted designers, artists, and craftsmen in the disciplines of turning and furniture are studied throughout the program.
