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Updated: 10/31/2024

Woodcraft Supply Corp. Woodworking Demonstrations and Seminars
Woodworking demonstrations and seminars are scheduled to take place at many retail locations nationwide. The sessions — ranging from beginner to intermediate to advanced-level classes — will be held on dozens of topics, including woodcarving, whittling, furniture making, scroll sawing, and tool sharpening. For a schedule of offerings in your area, visit www.woodcraft.com and click on the Education link at the top of the page.

Call for Entries

CraftForms 2024
Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Ave., Wayne, PA, is seeking submissions for the 29th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, in the following mediums: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood. Exhibition and Sales: December 7, 2024 – January 25, 2024. Submissions due before Sept 10, 2024. For more info go here: Enter Now

Small Woodworks: Exploring Function, Form and Fantasy in Wood
Timber Tales invites artists, designers, and creators to submit works of art made of wood that represent a range of personal expressions and points of view. Successful submissions will celebrate the rich narrative of this ancient, organic material through a modern lens.  Makers are encouraged to explore wood’s potential as a small-scale functional object as well as a vehicle for personal narratives, fantasy, folklore, or perhaps a meditation on the medium itself, its role in sustainability, and its effect on climate change.  Artists are encouraged to interpret this call for entry using wood as a primary medium, using woodworking and sculptural techniques, and including secondary media as needed. Presented by Society of Arts & Crafts. Deadline September 1, 2024. For more info go here: Call For Entry

31st Annual Wharton Esherick Juried Woodworking Exhibition
Theme: Renewal
Wharton Esherick Museum (WEM) invites you to think about renewal, and how it exists in your artistic life. Have you made an artwork that represents a moment of personal, professional, or ideological renewal? When have you transformed a material, giving it new life in the process? What objects facilitate moments of renewal, restoration, or caretaking? Is there a way to renew meaning from the past through artwork that’s wholly contemporary? With these initial prompts, WEM encourage applicants to think about this idea broadly and hope that you’ll submit entries across the spectrum of thematic approaches (so long as they contain wood in some way). A group of works from the final jury selection will be exhibited in the Museum’s 150 square foot visitor center gallery. All of the works in the jury selection will be shared via an online exhibition on the Wharton Esherick Museum’s website and through a small publication. The show will run June 12,2025 – Sept 7, 2025. Entry Deadline: Jan 6, 2025 midnight. For more info: https://whartonesherickmuseum.org/31st-annual-juried-woodworking-open-call/

 

Virtual

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

7/27/24 – 1/5/25, Fresno
Wendy Maruyama: A Sculptural Survey
American sculptor Wendy Maruyama has been chosen by the Fresno Art Museum’s auxiliary member group, The Council of 100, as their Distinguished Woman Artist for 2024. Based in San Diego, CA, Maruyama is recognized nationally and internationally for her master work in wood furniture and wildlife portraits and for her social commentary. This exhibition is an overview of her work over the years.
Fresno Art Museum
2233 North First Street
Website: www.fresnoartmuseum.org

Colorado

9/27/24 – 9/29/24, Loveland
Rocky Mountain Woodturning Symposium
Participants can choose from 45 rotations given by some of the best woodturners in the world. The presentations have something for everyone, from the beginner to the professional. There is a large vendor exhibit and a hands on woodturning program area. An Instant Gallery is open to the public and all attendees are encouraged to bring up to three pieces and display their work.
McKee Building at the Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle
Website: www.rmwoodturningsymposium.com

Connecticut

Delaware

11/15/24 – 11/17/24, Wilmington
The Annual Delaware Antiques Show
A spectacular showcase of art, antiques, and design! Featuring the finest offerings from more than 60 distinguished dealers, the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the best of American antiques and decorative arts.
Chase Center of the Riverfront
815 Justison Street
Website: www.winterthur.org

Ongoing, Winterthur
With Hammer in Hand: A Story of  American Craft
The updated Dominy Gallery of hand tools, furniture, clocks, business records, and family papers reopened March 2021. It reveals a fascinating window into skilled craftwork, trade, and material life in the racially diverse community of East Hampton, Long Island, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
5105 Kennett Pike
Phone: 800-448-3883 or 302-888-4907
Website: www.winterthur.org

Florida

Ongoing, Winter Park
American Arts and Crafts
Works in this gallery, all selected from the Morse collection, illustrate the simple beauty of the objects created by American art potteries, furniture makers, metalworkers, and others who took up the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
445 North Park Avenue
Website: www.morsemuseum.org

1/19/25 – 1/11/25, Punta Gorda
2025 Southwest Florida Wood Art Explosion and Competition
The Southwest Wood Art Expo is an annual event that showcases the work of wood carvers and wood turners and furniture builders as they compete for the top spot. A dynamic show with hundreds of entries for competition, vendors of all kinds (wood, tools, blanks, dust equipment, art supplies and more), demonstrations, raffle, artists’ displays and sales.
Charlotte Harbor Event Center
Website: www.swflwoodartexpo.org

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

10/11/24 – 10/12/24, Des Moines
Woodworking in America
This event is hosted by Woodsmith, Fine Woodworking, and Popular Woodworking magazines. Instruction, demos, vendors and more.
Franklin Center
4801 Franklin Ave
Website: https://www.woodsmith.com/article/woodworking-in-america-2024/

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

9/27/24 – 1/8/25, Rockport
Best Case Scenarios
A survey of contemporary casework curated by by a trio of furniture makers from across the country: Owain Harris (Gonic, NH), Laura Mays (Fort Bragg, CA), and Brian Reid (Rockland, ME). These makers and educators find casework to be fertile ground for creative expression and strove to show a wide cross section of work being produced today. The exhibition includes pieces from 18 different makers.
Messler Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
25 Mill Street
Phone: 207-594-5611
Website: www.woodschool.org

Maryland

Massachusetts

12/6/24 – 12/7/24, Boston
North Bennet Street School Annual Open House
A behind-the-scenes look at America’s first trade school. Tour program spaces, meet the admissions team, explore community education classes (classes made for everyone), winter market.
North Bennet Street School
150 North Street
Website: www.nbss.org

Michigan

Minnesota

Ongoing, Saint Paul
Touch This!
A family-friendly exhibition introduces how woodturning works, and offers samples of wood to heft, sniff, and admire. Also see a history of turning, and vintage and reproduction lathes from the Viking era to the late 1700s.
Around the Hus
Turned objects from everyday Scandinavian domestic life up to the 1900s.
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Ongoing, Cody
By Western Hands
Member gallery and museum showing works of furniture, hand-carved wood, tooled leather and bone, beaded textiles, antler, silver, and iron (to name just a few).
1007 12th Street
Phone: 307-586-1755
Website: www.bywesternhands.org

Nevada

New Hampshire

5/25/24 – 10/12/24, Newbury
Summer at the Fells
The New Hampshire Furniture Masters are hosting a summer long exhibition at the John Hay Estate at the Fells on Lake Sunapee. “Summer at the Fells” will feature the work of over a dozen members of the NH Furniture Masters. Throughout the season, they will refresh the exhibition with new pieces from members.
The John Hay Estate at The Fells
456 Route 103A
Website: www.furnituremasters.org

New Jersey

10/5/24 – 11/3/24, Layton
The Art of Craftsmanship
The theme for this exhibition is derived from the age old debate of art versus craft and encourages makers to use their fine tuned craftsmanship skills to create striking, artistically thought out pieces.
Sally D. Francisco Gallery
Peters Valley School of Craft
19 Kuhn Road
Website: www.petersvalley.org

New Mexico

New York

First Friday of Every Month,  Kingston
Kezurou-kai is a Japanese woodworking tradition that focuses on the art of hand planing. ​​​​
Part social club, part tool prep, and part wood-shaving competition, Kezurou-kai participants gather to share their knowledge, showcase their craftsmanship, and exchange ideas and techniques. Rowan Woodwork’s “Kez” is a cherished monthly tradition started by Andrew Hunter and Suzanne Walton. The goal is to get folks into an accessible, inclusive, and creative space to learn and be together.
Rowan Woodwork
40 Clarendon Ave.
Website: www.rowanwoodwork.com

now  – 9/22/24, New York City
Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940 – 1980
This exhibition presents sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of home environments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela between 1940 and 1980. The exhibition includes furniture, appliances, posters, textiles, and ceramics, as well as a selection of photographs and paintings.
MOMA
11 West 53 Street
Website: www.moma.org

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

8/2/24 – 10/20/24, Philadelphia
Fruition: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024
Annual summer exhibition that represents the culmination of the Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood), a two-month arts residency program. In this exhibition, the nine resident Fellows present work created during the residency, which emphasizes research, exploration, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment.
Museum for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.museumforartinwood.org

9/26/24 – 12/29/24, Malvern
Rhythms of Work
This exhibition brings together a selection of artifacts of Wharton Esherick’s studio practice—furniture works-in-progress, tools, and archives—to highlight Esherick’s approach to furniture making as fundamentally collaborative and open to modern technologies.
Wharton Esherick Museum Visitor Center
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.WhartonEsherickmuseum.org

10/4/24 – 4/20/25, Philadelphia
Strange Woodcraft: Weird and Eerie Sculpture
From the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition includes works which nurture a discomforting curiosity with the unfamiliar. Strange Woodcraft embraces sculptural forms which feel out of place, askew, haunting, or just downright odd.
Museum for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.museumforartinwood.org

10/10/24 – 12/20/24, Philadelphia
Juxtaposed: Portals to African Design
An immersive and educational exhibition that will lead viewers on a visual journey as interpreted by the creative mind of artist and furniture designer Jomo Tariku. The exhibition is unique in its presentation in that it will feature Tariku’s modern designs alongside the historic objects, artifacts and other inspirations from the continent. Says Tariku, “The goal of this exhibition is to communicate the deeper meaning of the objects and cultures that inspire my work and fuel my creative process.”
Wexler Gallery
1811 Frankford Ave
Website: www.wexlergallery.com/exhibitions/juxtaposed-jomo-tariku

10/13/24 – 1/19/25, Chadds Ford
The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
This exhibition explores the interdisciplinary creativity of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), the famed American artist best known as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement. It includes selections from this rich and rarely loaned collection to a broader public, including many objects never before seen except in Esherick’s home and studio. Detailing the artist’s career from his early woodcut illustrations for books by members of the avant-garde literati to his revolutionary reimagining of furniture forms as organic sculpture, works will be presented in thematic vignettes that invite visitors into Esherick’s story and bring the essence of his creative world into the gallery.
Brandywine Museum of Art
1 Hoffman’s Mill Road
Website: www.brandywine.org

6/12/25 – 9/7/25, Malvern
31st Annual Wharton Esherick Woodworking Exhibition: Renewal
Wharton Esherick Museum Visitor Center
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.WhartonEsherickmuseum.org

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

1/31/25 – 2/1/25, Franklin
TAW 36th Annual Woodturning Symposium
Presented by The Tennessee Association of Woodturners, this event is two days of jam-packed demonstrations by some of the best demonstrators, an Instant Gallery where participants and Demonstrators can display their work, A People’s Choice Award Area, Saturday night auction and banquet are just a few of the many activities planned for 2025.
Marriott Hotel and Convention Center
700 Cool Springs Blvd
Website: www.tnwoodturners.org

Texas

11/9/24 – 11/10/24, Austin
Texas Woodworking Festival
An event that can best be described as a mix of an industry trade show, educational seminar and a woodworking-themed festival. Bringing together lumber yards, woodworking organizations & clubs, content creators, furniture makers and tool manufacturers for a weekend of food, drinks and all things woodworking.
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Road
Website: www.texaswoodworkingfestival.com

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

6/24/2021 – ??, Williamsburg
A Gift to the Nation
The Joseph and June Hennage Collection, highlights the focused collecting of the late Joe and June Hennage, who strove to acquire great examples of furniture and silver from important colonial centers including Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, and the Connecticut River Valley.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Colonial Williamsburg
Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

11/2/24 – 11/3/24, Fishersville
Virginia Woodturning Symposium
Demonstrations, Gallery, Vendors
Augusta Exposition and Entertainment Center (Expoland)
279 Expo Road
Website: www.virginiawoodturners.com

1/23/25 – 1/26/25, Williamsburg
Working Wood in the 18th Century: To Furnish a Town: High, Low, and In-Between
This year’s conference (27th year) will explore the ingenuity and quality reflected in pre-Revolutionary furniture belonging to people from diverse walks of life. Several projects featured at this conference are destined for Colonial Williamsburg’s restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School (1760-74), the oldest known building in the United States in which enslaved and free Black children were educated and the home of its middle-class teacher, Ann Wager. Presenters include FWW contributors Bill Pavlak, Megan Fitzpatrick, and Steve Brown, as well as  several from the Colonial Williamsburg staff.
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
301 South Nassau St
Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/working-wood

Washington

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Wyoming

International

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

New Zealand

Russia

United Kingdom

10/4/24 – 10/6/24, Staffordshire
Association of Woodturners of Great Britain (AWGB) International Woodturning Seminar 2024
The Seminar aims to offer something for turners at all levels from beginner to expert. The seminar program is guaranteed to inspire, educate and entertain! Demonstrations, master classes, gallery, vendors.
Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre
Yarnfield Lane
Yarnfield
Website: www.awgbwoodturningseminar.co.uk