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Updated: 5/16/2022

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

Design in Wood – 6/8/2022 – 7/4/2022
Design in Wood is an International Exhibition of Fine Woodworking co-sponsored by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association and the San Diego County Fair. The 39th Exhibition takes place June 8 – July 4, 2022. The exhibit is open to all woodworkers, 18 and older. Work must be the creation of the artist whose name is on the entry registration. Entry deadline is to be determined. For more info visit the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association  or San Diego County Fair.

Fine Furnishings Shows
May Day Market and The Fine Furnishings Show in November are now accepting Applications from artists, craftsmen and vendors for the 2022 shows. An invitation to exhibit is required for both shows and can be obtained by submitting an Application for an Invitation to exhibit. The Application is easy, one page and free. It is available on the show website or by calling the show office. The 2nd Annual May Day Market will be held May 21 & 22 and the 27th Annual Fine Furnishings Show will be held November 4-6.  Both shows will be held at the WaterFire Arts Center on Valley Street in Providence, RI. The shows support local artists, craftsmen and small businesses providing an opportunity to market their business and sell their goods. For the Application and more info visit The Fine Furnishings Show.

 

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

5/29/2020 – 5/31/2020, San Carlos
2020 Bay Area Fine Woodworking Show –POSTPONED
Presented by the Bay Area Woodworkers Association (BAWA) this is an exhibit of work from woodworkers of all levels: from beginning and student work, on to furniture pieces made by some of the best craftsman in the Bay Area.
Woodcraft Store
40 El Camino Real
Website:  www.bayareawoodworkers.org

6/8/2022 – 7/4/2022, Del Mar
39th annual Design in Wood exhibition
Co-sponsored by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association and the San Diego County Fair, this is one of the biggest woodworking exhibits in the country.
San Diego County Fair
Del Mar Fairgrounds
2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd
Website: www.sdfair.com
Website: www.sdfwa.org

Colorado

Connecticut

Ongoing, Hartford
Design in the American Home, 1650 – 1850
Focusing on objects from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries—from costly furnishings and paintings to inexpensive household necessities—this exhibition shows how the quest for color, texture, and splendor propels artful design.
Wadsworth Atheneum
600 Main Street
website: www.thewadsworth.org

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

4/26/22 – 4/28/22, Winterthur
The Wonder of Wood: Decorative Inlay and Marquetry in Europe and America, 1600–1900
This inlay and marquetry conference brings together 24 exceptional scholars to explore the history and artistry of inlay and marquetry within America and Europe. Includes a field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Winterthur Museum
5105 Kennett Pike
Website: www.winerthur.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

3/11/22 – 6/5/22, St. Petersburg
Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style
This exhibit introduces audiences to some of the architect-designer-artist’s most iconic works. It presents his big, bold graphic designs for posters and his high-backed chairs for Miss Catherine Cranston’s famous Glasgow artistic tearooms, as well as textiles and interior designs, and watercolor paintings.
Museum of the American Arts & Crats Movement
355 4th St North
Website: www.museumaacm.org

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

4/22/22 – 5/25/22, Rockport
Current Student Work
The exhibition showcases furniture and furnishings created by students attending the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship’s  Nine-month Comprehensive. Participants range in age from 25-72, from all sorts of backgrounds and from all over the US and Brazil.
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

4/20/22 – 4/23/22, Eden Prairie
Annual Northern Woods Exhibition
Presented by the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild, this show features furniture created by Midwest artists and woodworkers.
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

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

4/23/22 – 6/25/22, Garnerville
Big Risks: Creative Discoveries,  Sculptures by Peter Strasser
Monumental trees become twisted with burls and cutouts with brightly colored geometric shapes or wood beams inside the tree trunk. Strasser works with massive trees to create monumental sculptures while still bearing the essence of trees.
Garner Arts Center
55 W. Railroad Ave., Building #35
Phone: 845-947-7108
Website: www.garnerartscenter.org

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

11/5/21 – 4/23/22, Philadelphia
Extra Human: The Art of Michael Ferris
The larger-than-life figurative sculptures of Michael Ferris (b. 1969, Chicago) embody a rich fusion of cultural and artistic traditions. Trained as a painter, Ferris embraced sculpture twenty-five years ago and developed an inlay technique inspired by intarsia woodworking from his Middle-Eastern heritage.
Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, Maine.
The Center for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd St
Website: www.centerforartinwood.org

3/3/22 – 5/15/22, Malvern
Home As Site
Home as Site explores the physical nature and architecture of the Wharton Esherick Museeum campus, including what gives the site its power and how it came to be. The exhibition includes images, blueprints, and other materials from WEM’s collection to illuminate how the Studio site has changed over time and in response to Esherick’s evolution as an artist and person.
Website:  www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

To be determined, Malvern
28th annual juried woodworking exhibition. 2022 Theme: Self-Portraits.
As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, they’re reflecting on how they’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait (his home) for thousands of people over half a century.
Website:  www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

Rhode Island

11/4/2022 – 11/6/2022, Providence
27th Fine Furnishings Show
Artists and craftsmen from New England and beyond offering handcrafted decor for the home, office, and garden.
WaterFire Arts Center
475 Valley St
Website:  www.finefurnishingsshows.com

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

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

Washington

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Wyoming

International

Australia

2/13/22 – 4/3/22, Mittagong, NSW
Beyond Ordinary: Contemporary Women Makers
This curated exhibition showcases the work of women primarily in wood but also includes complementary selected works in other media such as bronze, ceramic mosaic and porcelain.
Sturt Gallery & Studios
Cnr of Range Road & Waverly Pde
Website: www.sturt.nws.edu.au

Canada

France

Ireland

New Zealand

Russia

United Kingdom