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: 03/07/2024
The Woodworking Shows
The Woodworking Shows, the nation’s premier event for woodworking enthusiasts, professionals and do-it-yourselfers, will hold numerous events during the year. Each event offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures. Also, each event will feature an expanded lineup of America’s top woodworking artisans teaching seminars and leading free demonstrations. Individual events are listed by state below.
Phone: 800-826-8257
Email: info@thewoodworkingshows.com
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com
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
Wharton Esherick 30th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition
Theme: Rhythms
From the Wharton Esherick website: “we invite you to think about the rhythms that shape your creative practice. How do the rhythms of life – whether the daily movements, from waking to sleep, or the larger rhythms of shifting seasons or other cycles – show up in your work? Does making artwork help you capture rhythms, or keep you “on time”? Are there specific rhythms that you center in your creative work? What visual or material rhythms speak loudest through the works you create? We encourage applicants to think about this idea broadly, and hope you’ll submit entries across the spectrum of approaches to this theme, from literal to interpretive.”
The show is open to all artistic disciplines, so long as wood is part of the finished piece. Cash prizes.
For more info visit the Wharton Esherick Museum . Entry deadline: January 5, 2024.
Virtual
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
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
Georgia
10/10/23 – 3/1/24, Athens
Maquettes by Abraham Tesser
This exhibition looks at Abraham Tesser’s tiny works, the maquettes, or a scale models in wood used as drafts or “drawings” for bigger pieces.
The Lyndon House Arts Center
211 Hoyt St
Website: www.accgov.com/lyndonhouse
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
1/26/24 – 4/17/24, Rockport
Maine Wood 2024
A juried, biennial exhibition designed to showcase the breadth, creativity, and excellence of Maine’s woodworking community. For this exhibition, the ninth biennial, the Center received 63 submissions from 43 Maine artists and artisans and features furniture, sculptures, turnings, carvings, and marquetry.
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
4/25/24 – 4/28/24, Eden Prairie
40th Annual Northern Woods Exhibition
Presented by the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild, this exhibition features items made by both members and non-members of all ages and skill levels. Professional and amateur woodworkers display a variety of hand-crafted art pieces – wood turnings, carvings, and furniture.
Eden Prairie Center
8251 Flying Cloud Drive
Website: www.mnwwg.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
1/19/24 – 3/29/24
Design Evolution
First exhibition of the year for the New Hampshire Furniture Masters, Design Evolution, demonstrates the ways in which their personal design aesthetics are constantly growing and changing over time. Each new piece that they design and build is shaped by the work that has gone before it. As you explore the exhibition, you will be fascinated and inspired by the evolution of each Masters work.
Exhibition Gallery
49 S Main Street
Website: www.furnituremasters.org
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
11/17/23 – 7/13/24, Asheville
Hammer and Hope
An exhibition that celebrates the life and labor of Black chairmakers in early America. Featuring the work of two contemporary furniture makers – Robell Awake and Charlie Ryland.
Center for Craft
67 Broadway St
Website: www.centerforcraft.org/exhibition/hammer-and-hope
2/29/24 – 5/4/24, Asheville
Tommy Simpson: Celebrating 65 Years of Making
This solo exhibit is a tribute to his prolific sixty-five-year career, encapsulating his creative evolution and mastery across diverse mediums such as woodworking, painting, printmaking, clay, rug design, and prose.
Momentum Gallery
52 Broadway
Website: www.momentumgallery.com
3/1/24 – 4/24/24, Asheville
W.O.W. Wood Invitational
This international wood exhibition features the works of over twenty contemporary world-class wood artists. The featured works are created from common or exotic species and are either turned, carved, sanded, or inlaid using a variety of tools and techniques. As the mnemonic implies, W.O.W is meant to impress.
Blue Spiral 1
38 Biltmore Ave
Website: www.bluespiral1.com
3/23/24 – 5/11/24, Winston-Salem
Seating Assignment: Women in Contemporary Chairmaking and Craft Education
An exhibition featuring 15 contemporary women artists who specialize in furniture making and view education as a core component of their practice.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art
Eleanor and Egbert Davis Gallery
251 N. Spruce St.
Website: www.sawtooth.org
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
5/23/24 – 5/26/24, Portland
AAW’s 38th International Woodturning Symposium
Presented by the American Association of Woodturners, this event includes demonstrations, instant gallery, special exhibitions, and a tradeshow.
Oregon Convention Center
Website: www.aawsymposium.org
Pennsylvania
12/1/23 – 1/20/24, Wayne
CraftForms 2023, 28th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft
Davenport Gallery
Wayne Art Center
413 Maplewood Ave
Website: www.craftforms.org
12/2/23 – 1/20/24, Wayne
Ingrained: Furniture, sculpture and Woodworking by Pennsylvania Artists
Curated exhibition that features the work of 24 talented Pennsylvania-based artists
Wayne Art Center
413 Maplewood Ave
Website: www.wayneart.org
2/9/24 – 9/15/24, Philadelphia
Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni
Phil Brown was a devoted woodturner and a community organizer and board member of the Center for Art in Wood. When he passed away in July 2018 he left hundreds of partially turned bowls and blocks in his workshop that he wished to see realized into completed art pieces. This exhibition is a collaboration between Brown and the artists he enjoyed hosting each year during the ITE (now the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood). The show also includes some works by Brown from the museum’s permanent collection.
Museum for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.museumforartinwood.org
3/2/24 – 6/2/24, Malvern
Movement is Life
An exhibition that kicks off a year of programming that traces the thread of rhythms from the 1920s through the present.
The show includes a selection of woodblock prints, carvings, and archival photographs from the WEM collections, created during the five-year period, 1919-1924. Among the artworks on view are rarely exhibited early works, including an antique chest with carved decorative reliefs by Esherick on each side. Used by Esherick and his family, the carvings depict their farmhouse home and mark one of his earliest forays into exploring art and furniture as one.
Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.whartonesherickmuseum.org
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
11/3/23 – 11/5/23, Knoxville
21st Master Woodworkers Show
An event hosted by the East Tennessee Woodworkers Guild and Able Trade. The show strives to highlight the finest woodworking in the region.
Emporium Center
100 S. Gay Street
Website: www.masterwoodworkers.org
Texas
11/2/23 – 12/15/23, Kerrville
Texas Furniture Makers Show
An annual statewide competition of the finest custom furniture makers in Texas.
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center
228 Earl Garrett Street
Phone: 830-895-2911
Website: www.kacckerrville.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
1/25/24 – 1/28/24, Williamsburg
26th Annual Working Wood in the 18th Century: By the Book
Printed words and images: how did 18th century craftspeople turn them into actions and objects? Tradespeople and scholars from Colonial Williamsburg and esteemed guest presenters explore woodworking by the book. Christopher Schwarz, will open the conference with a keynote on the long historical arc of woodworking books. Woodworking presenters include Schwarz, as well as Dan Faia, Bill Pavlak and John Peeler. Also included are presentations by Colonial Williamsburg joiners, carpenters, conservators and others.
Colonial Williamsburg
Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.org
Washington
Washington, DC
Wisconsin
10/18/23 – 3/3/24, Madison
Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft
This exhibition explores what it means to make on campus—and the power of design and craft to inspire creativity across disciplines. Student Craft includes weaving, woodcraft, ceramics, broomcraft, and craft education outreach programs.
Ruth Davis Design Gallery
Univ of Wisconsin
Center for Design and Material Culture
1300 Linden Drive
Website: https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/heart-head-and-hand-making-and-remaking-at-berea-college-student-craft/
Wyoming
International
Australia
Canada
France
Ireland
New Zealand
Russia
United Kingdom
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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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