Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Continuing Education | Summer 2008 Courses

DESCRIPTION
This course, for beginning and continuing students, emphasizes developing an understanding of the relationship between material, process and ideas. Slide presentations, demonstrations and discussions cover joinery, carving, lamination, framing, finishes and the history of wood . A full range of woodworking hand and power tools are introduced for use in specific projects. Students are encouraged to discover the unlimited potential inherent in a single material. Rigorous hands on investigation of these materials and processes combined with research will expand students’ capacity for generating significant works. Emphasis is on the simultaneous development of technical skills and ideas: Carving/Joinery, Box and Bench.

INSTRUCTOR
Ted Southwick is Woodshop Studio Manager and Visiting Lecturer at MassArt, where he earned his BFA. He holds an MFA from Boston University.

DESCRIPTION
In this course, students will initiate and be guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. The course, which takes place in a shop setting, will start with an introduction to fundamentals, followed by a concept design process. Concepts will then be refined through drawings and maquette model making as preparation for the last phase: completion of the final product. Students should have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work on standing machine power tools.

INSTRUCTOR
Peter Thibeault is an industrial designer and Principal at Thibeault Design, Inc. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Graduate Studio Program in Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island. His awards include: 1st Annual Bronze Bean Award, Boston IDSA; Finalist: Best of Show Award, "The Glorified Goblet," Signature Gallery; Award of Excellence, "Furniture of the ’90’s" exhibition, Houston. He has also exhibited at the DeCordova Museum.

Judith Hanson is a sculptor and furniture maker and Woodshop Studio Manager at MassArt. She completed the Cabinet and Furniture Program at Boston’s North Bennet Street School before pursuing studies in sculpture and mixed media at MassArt. Since 1994 she has taught woodworking classes at the North Bennet Street School and other adult education programs.

DESCRIPTION
In this course, students will initiate and be guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. The course, which takes place in a shop setting, will start with an introduction to fundamentals, followed by a concept design process. Concepts will then be refined through drawings and maquette model making as preparation for the last phase: completion of the final product. Students should have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work on standing machine power tools.

INSTRUCTOR
Peter Thibeault is an industrial designer and Principal at Thibeault Design, Inc. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Graduate Studio Program in Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island. His awards include: 1st Annual Bronze Bean Award, Boston IDSA; Finalist: Best of Show Award, "The Glorified Goblet," Signature Gallery; Award of Excellence, "Furniture of the ’90’s" exhibition, Houston. He has also exhibited at the DeCordova Museum.

Judith Hanson is a sculptor and furniture maker and Woodshop Studio Manager at MassArt. She completed the Cabinet and Furniture Program at Boston’s North Bennet Street School before pursuing studies in sculpture and mixed media at MassArt. Since 1994 she has taught woodworking classes at the North Bennet Street School and other adult education programs.