Message from the President and AW Editor

[Ed Davidson]

Bill Haskell, AAW President, and Betty Scarpino, Editor of the American Woodturner, have some important comments to share (pdf reprint from winter AW).

 

[Charlie Knighton]

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is there a link or more info for Wood Objects on Display?

• Exhibitions abound! The WOOD (Wood Objects On Display) exhibits started this
year with three exhibits, and there are four more planned in subsequent years.
These exhibits offer AAW members more opportunities to showcase work in
fine galleries while exposing more of the public to woodturning

found this in Bill Haskell letter, but do not know where to look next, i'm confused

 

[John Hill]

The WOOD (Wood Objects On Display) committee is made up of Pete Kekel, John Hill, Bill Haskell and Steve Keeble. It is our purpose to identify venues that would be suitable to host a woodturned art exhibit. We contact the venue and help them facilitate the exhibition. There is no cost to the venue for having the AAW WOOD committee helping them put on an exhibition and if it is a sales venue, the sales are split between the venue and the artist. Nothing for the AAW. We do it as a service. They may choose to have us send out a call for entries for a juried show as was done for the Grovewood Gallery exhibition “Turning to the Future†that was held this past March. When a general call for entries goes out, we usually send it out to all members of the POP. Some venues want to have invitational exhibitions. Others want a themed exhibition. The WOOD committee does all that it can to help the venues show turned wood art to their patrons or clients so as to expand the greater appreciation of turned wood as a collectable art form. Right now we have the “Women in Wood†exhibition at Arrowmont Gallery that will travel in January to Grovewood Gallery. We have an upcoming exhibition “Be our Guest†at the Ohio Craft Museum. We have arranged for an exhibition at Habatat Gallery named “The Color of Wood†for a future to be determined date. We have an exhibition coming in 2012 at the Burroughs – Chapin Museum, another at the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Two more will be scheduled at Grovewood Gallery and Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in 2011.
If any one knows of a gallery or museum that may be suitable for a turned wood exhibit, contact me and I will follow up with the venue to help make it happen.
John Hill
Johnhill6@verizon.net

 

[Steve Worcester]

... We have an upcoming exhibition “Be our Guest†at the Ohio Craft Museum......
John Hill

to which I got invited to, thank you for your continued efforts to put woodturning in front of the communities.