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Updated: 3/3/2023

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: [email protected]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

40th Annual Design in Wood Competition
San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association along with the San Diego County Fair is now calling for entries to the 40th Annual Design in Wood competition. The theme this year is “Get Out There – to explore the great outdoors and get s’more of what life has to offer.” The event is one of the premier woodworking exhibits in the nation and draws entries from around the globe. More than $20,000 in prizes will be awarded, including a $1,000 prize for Best of Show. The annual Design in Wood competition features 26 categories ranging from Contemporary Furniture to Contemporary Accessories to Scroll Saw Fretwork to Wood Carving, and many more. The summer fair, located in Del Mar, CA, will run from June 7 to July 4, 2023. The deadline to submit entries is April 29, 2023. For more information visit www.sdfwa.org or www.sdfair.com

 

 

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

6/7/23 – 7/4/23, Del Mar
40th Annual Design in Wood Competition
Presented by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association along with the San Diego County Fair. The annual Design in Wood competition, this year’s theme is “Get Out There – to explore the great outdoors and get s’more of what life has to offer” features 26 categories ranging from Contemporary Furniture to Contemporary Accessories to Scroll Saw Fretwork to Wood Carving, and many more.
The Del Mar Fairgrounds
2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd.
Website: www.sdfwa.org  or www.sdfair.com

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

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

6/1/23 – 6/4/23, Louisville
37th Woodturning Symposium
Presented by the American Association of Woodturners (AAW), this event includes more than 100 presentations and demonstrations by woodturners from around the world; trade show; gallery.
Kentucky Exposition Center
937 Phillips Ln
More info coming

Louisiana

Maine

1/20/23 – 4/19/23, Rockport
Turning it all Around: Turners in Collaborative Conversation
Curated by Beth Ireland and Kimberly Winkle, this exhibition features 19 ambitious, mixed media works produced in collaboration between woodworkers and practitioners in other fields.
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

1/5/23 – 5/20/23, Saint Paul
Art from the Lathe
Selections from the American Association of Woodturners’ permanent collection.
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

1/8/23 – 2/5/23, Saint Paul
Living with Craft
Joint Exhibition with North House Folk School.
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

1/21/23 – 5/2023, Saint Paul
She’s Tops: A Tribute to Linda Ferber
This display features tops made for Linda Ferber, who retired from her position as program director for the American Association of Woodturners in 2020. A secret message went out to our members, inviting them to send a top to Linda. To keep her new collection manageable, they asked that the tops be under 2.75″ tall. Most met this limit!
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

2/26/23 – 5/19/23, Saint Paul
Form/Content
Annual professional exhibition
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

4/27/23 – 4/30/23, Eden Prairie
Northern Woods Exhibition
Minnesota Woodworkers Guild’s 39^th annual exhibition includes professional and amateur woodworker’s hand-crafted art pieces including wood turnings, carvings, sculpture, and heirloom-quality furniture.
Eden Prairie Center
 8251 Flying Cloud Dr
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

10/21/23, Concord
1st New England Woodworking Competition
Sponsored by the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and the New Hampshire Furniture Masters, this event provides an opportunity for woodworkers to display and discuss their craft and for the community to view the best in high quality woodworking design and construction. 12 award categories, judged by members of the NH Furniture Masters.
McCauliffe-Shepard Discovery Center & Planetarium
Website: www.gnhw.org

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

3/25/23 – 3/26/2023, Saratoga Springs
Showcase
Northeastern Woodworkers Association‘s Annual Fine Woodworking show featuring works from regional armature and professional woodworkers. The show also includes a vendor area, instant gallery, as well as the Totally Turning Symposium.
Saratoga Springs City Center
522 Broadway
Website: www.woodworker.org

3/25/23 – 3/26/2023, Saratoga Springs
Totally Turning
AWA (Adirondack Woodturners Association) is a Special Interest Group (Woodturning) of the Northeastern Woodworkers Association (NWA). This symposium is a weekend of in-person Professionally led woodturning demonstrations.
Saratoga Springs City Center
522 Broadway
Website: www.woodworker.org

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

11/4/22 – 2/12/23, Philadelphia
Vessel: Embodiment, Autonomy, and Ornament in Wood
This exhibition examines the vessel as a source of inspiration for artists working in wood.
The Center for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.centerforartinwood.org

3/2/23 – 5/14/23, Malvern
One Object, Many Stories: Esherick’s Music Stand
This exhibition offers a deep dive into one of Esherick’s most well known sculptural furniture forms: the music stand.
Esherick created the music stand for Rose Rubinson who, along with her husband Nathan (Nat), was one of Esherick’s most significant patrons in the 1950s and 1960s. Their friendship is just one of the narratives explored in One Object, Many Stories.
The Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

6/1/23 – 8/27/23, Malvern
29th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition. 2023 Theme: Telling Tales.
Stories are central to how we understand Wharton Esherick’s complex and expansive life and career. Esherick’s artistic practice is grounded in storytelling. His early, block-printed illustrations helped tell the stories of other writers, while later prints, illustrations, paintings, and sculptures told stories of Esherick’s life in the studio and his communities. This exhibition will range from pictorial to abstract and may draw from different storytelling modalities, including visual, written, spoken, and sung – all incorporating wood in some way.
The Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website:  www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

11/3/22 – 12/23/22, 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

2/24/23 – 2/28/23, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum: PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE
Celebrating 75 years, Colonial Williamsburg continues to present exhibitions, workshops, and lectures with this in-person or virtual conference.
Colonial Williamsburg
Website: https://web.cvent.com/event/a6d323b2-6f00-467a-9a74-ff68a8d8ee5e/summary?RefId=cwf

Washington

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Wyoming

International

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

New Zealand

Russia

United Kingdom