This is the first post in a series that will focus on my transition through a four year woodworking program at a Virginia Commonwealth University to a resident artist program at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

It’ll give a vague overview of what is to come.

Well to get things started I’ll introduce myself. My name is Kent Perdue. I am a 22 year old fella from Gladys, Va.  My “expertise” in woodworking before becoming formally trained was steeped in building, forts, rafts, kites, wooden knives, and bows & arrows. I was just a country boy doing country things from the age I was able to open a pocket knife.

My early woodworking experiences were building objects I wanted that a lemonade stand budget could not afford. I would make rafts and small boats for the pond, elaborate lashed together forts in the woods and the bows & arrows to defend them (from what, I don’t know).

At Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, I majored in Crafts and Materials Studies where I focused mainly in Wood Working & Furniture Design. The biggest advantage of my education was being surrounded by top of the line artists such as woodworker/furniture designer Bill Hammersley, metalsmith, Susie Ganch, and fiber artist, Sonya Clark. Artists and mentors like these helped to develop and sculpt my technical and conceptual scope into what it is today. 

I hope you have enjoyed this brief overview of what is to come in future postings that will outline the good, the bad, and the ugly of my trip through school. I will also discuss my current events here at Arrowmont.

 

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