Woodworking Events
Browse our list of woodworking events around the U.S. (and beyond)To have your event featured here, send dates and details to fw@taunton.com
Updated: 10/4/2024
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
The Art of Craftsmanship
Peters Valley School of Craft is excited to invite submissions for The Art of Craftsmanship exhibition to be displayed in their Sally D. Francisco Gallery (19 Kuhn Road, Layton, NJ). 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. All crafts media are welcome to apply. The show will run from Oct 5 – Nov 3, 2024. Submission deadline is Aug 23, 2024. For more info go here: Peters Valley School of Craft
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
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
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
6/13/24 – 9/8/24, Malvern
Rhythms: 30th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition
Often defined as a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound, the idea of rhythm has extended across Wharton Esherick’s career, taking on multiple meanings. Twenty-five artists explore this idea materially and conceptually, offering insight into the cadence of their practice and their creative aspirations. They invite us to ponder the rhythms at play in our own lives, the patterns that shape who we are, and how effectively wood can engage this expansive idea.
Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.whartonesherickmuseum.org
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
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
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
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
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02/24/17 – 02/26/17, Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (9280 Airport Road, Hamilton)
Hamilton Woodworking Show 2017
Canada’s largest consumer woodworking show celebrates everything to do with wood for hobbyist and professionals at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (9280 Airport Road, Hamilton). The Show returns for its 22nd year from February 24th to 26, 2017.
Hours: 10am-5pm. Admission: $15 Adult; $14 Senior (65+) and youth (13-17). Children 12 & under free. Save up to $2 when you purchase your tickets online.
Website: http://www.WoodShows.com/Hamilton
Canadian Woodcarving Championship
“Dedicated to Artistic Creations In Wood”
What: The Canadian Woodcarving Championship (CWC) takes place annually and is held in conjunction with the Hamilton Woodworking Show. Our primary goal is to provide a superior Championship where all Woodcarvers, regardless of their degree of expertise, can display their carvings and enter competitions that offer rewards commensurate with the effort and dedication required to produce such Artistic Creations. Entry forms are available online.
Registration: Bring carvings to the show on Thursday February 23rd from 2 pm – 7 pm or Friday February 24th from 8:30 am – 10:00 am.
Show Dates: Friday, February 26 10-5pm
Saturday, February 27 10-5pm
Sunday, February 28 10-5pm
Where: Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum – 9280 Airport Road, Hamilton, ON L0R 1W0
Cost: $15 for the 1st carving, $5 for each additional carving.
Web: http://www.WoodShows.com/cwc
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