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Updated: 2/24/2020

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 
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 Annual Exhibition takes place June 5 – July 5, 2020. 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 Friday May 1, 2020. For more info visit the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association  or San Diego County Fair.

Wharton Esherick Museum
27th Annual juried Woodworking Exhibition, the 2020 theme is: Wood and…
The museum invites you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that showcases wood and at least one other medium. Whether functional or sculptural, each submission should reflect the way Esherick worked across a vast spectrum of materials and practices as well as his outside the box thinking. Cash prizes. The exhibition will run from September 13 – December 30, 2020. Entry deadline is July 1, 2020. For more info visit the Wharton Esherick Museum

 

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

3/20/2020 – 3/21/2020, Phoenix
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Porter Barn Wood
901 South 7th Street
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

Arkansas

California

2/7/2020 – 2/8/2020, San Marcos
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Palomar College
1140 West Mission Road
T Building Room 125
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

6/5/2020 – 6/7/2020, 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

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

11/16/19 – 3/15/20, Athens
Material Georgia 1733 – 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship
This exhibition will review 20 years of scholarly activity at the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. It will include numerous examples of furniture, textiles, pottery and metal work.
Georgia Museum of Art
90 Carlton Street
Website: www.georgiamuseum.org

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

1/31/2020 – 2/1/2020, Chicago
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Chicago School of Woodworking
5680 N. Northwest Highway
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

Indiana

1/31/2020 – 2/2/2020, Indianapolis
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Indiana State Fairgrounds
Champions Pavilion 1202 East 38th Street
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

6/4/20 – 6/7/20, Louisville
34th Annual International Turning Symposium
Presented by the American Association of Woodturners, this event will have 100+ compelling presentations and demonstrations to choose from, turning exhibitions, vendors…
Kentucky Exposition Center
937 Phillips Lane
Website: tiny.cc/Louisville2020

Louisiana

Maine

1/17/20 – 4/8/20, Rockport
Maine Wood 2020
Exhibition designed to showcase the breadth, creativity, and excellence of Maine’s woodworking community. The show includes 78 submissions from 48 Maine artists.
Messler Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
20 Mill Street
Website: www.woodschool.org

Maryland

Massachusetts

5/11/19 – 3/22/20, Harvard
Visions of Design: Parallels in Mid-Century Modern and Shaker Furniture
Exhibition with pieces drawn from Fruitlands Museum’s Shaker collection and from Field Farm in Williamstown, former home of avid modern art and furniture collectors Lawrence and Eleanor Pamedo Bloedel.
102 Prospect Hill Road
Phone: 978-456-3924
Website: https://fruitlands.thetrustees.org/

9/17/19 – 3/14/20, Boston
Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library
“Required Reading” will tell the story of colonial Bostonians’ quest for “essential knowledge”—and invite visitors to reflect on their own “must-read” lists. In 1698, the set of 221 books crossed the Atlantic on HMS Deptford, a fifty-gun man-of-war, to serve as a compact library of necessary works for King’s Chapel, the first Anglican church in Boston. Cached safely when the minister, loyal to the British Crown, fled Boston in 1776, the books re-emerged after the American Revolution, and were deposited at the Athenæum in 1823. The exhibit features a full-scale replica of the massive, ark-like bookcase designed in 1883 to house the historic collection. The replica, built in 2019 by exhibition designer Brent Budsberg , is an achievement in contemporary fine woodworking. It will be modified in an innovative way, enabling visitors to immerse themselves in the rich contexts of the cabinet, its books, and their legacy.
Boston Athenaeum
10- 1/2 Beacon St
Website: www.bostonathenaeum.org

2/8/2020 – 11/8/2020, Brockton
Biennial Members Exhibition
37 members of Fuller Craft Museum – young students, mid-career makers, and those who have been full-time artists for decades –  showing approximately 275 works. Pieces include ceramics, furniture, photography, fiber, woodturning, and other crafts.
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Website: www.fullercraft.org

4/17/2020 – 4/19/2020, Southbridge
Fine Woodworking LIVE
This is where expert instructors share their knowledge, history, and woodworking techniques with an engaged, passionate audience of enthusiasts. Student exhibition, antique tool sale, vendors and more.
Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center
14 Mechanic Street
Website: www.finewoodworkinglive.com

5/30/2020 – 11/29/2020, Brockton
Making History: The Art of 17th Century Boatbuilding
Peter Arenstam, former Captain of the Mayflower II and current director of the Jabez Howland House in Plymouth, MA will work onsite at Fuller Craft to build a 13’ replica of a 17^th-Century merchant sailing vessel, using traditional methods. Making History: The Art of 17^th Century Boatbuilding is programmed in conjunction with the 400^th anniversary of the 1620 Mayflower crossing and will feature period shipbuilding tools, related historic objects, and educational content.
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Website: www.fullercraft.org

Michigan

1/18/20 – 5/16/20, Saginaw
Explorations in Wood: Selections from the Center for Art in Wood
Exhibition of more than 70 pieces, collected over a 30-year period, from the Center for Art in Wood. These works display a rich variety of wood and processes, including turned vessels and sculptural forms.
Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Saginaw Valley State University
7400 Bay Road
Website: www.marshallfredericks.org

5/2/2020 – 5/3/2020, Adrian
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Great Lakes Woodworking Festival
Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute
1375 N. Main Street
Building #41
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

Minnesota

4/17/2020 – 4/18/2020, St. Cloud
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Central Minnesota Woodworker’s Association
248 33rd Ave South
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

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

Mississippi

Missouri

2/7/2020 – 2/9/2020, St. Louis area
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Gateway Center Center Hall, Ballroom ABCD
One Gateway Drive
Collinsville, IL 62234
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Nevada

New Hampshire

3/13/2020 – 3/14/2020, Chichester
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Goose Bay Sawmill and Lumber
83 Dover Road
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

New Jersey

3/6/2020 – 3/8/2020, Secaucus
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Meadowlands Expo Center
355 Plaza Drive
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

New Mexico

New York

3/20/2020 – 3/22/2020, Syracuse
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
New York State Fair
Horticulture Building
581 State Fair Blvd
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

3/27/2020 – 3/28/2020, Huntington Station
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Urban Specialty Woods
257 Broadway
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

5/2/2020 – 5/31/2020, Garnerville
Big Risks: Creative Discoveries
Sculptures by Peter Strasser. Working with massive trees, Strasser aims to create monumental sculptures while still bearing the essence of the trees. The exhibition will include works from locally sourced and salvaged trees.
Garner Arts Center
Building # 35
Website: www.garnerartscenter.org
Website: www.peterstrasser.com

North Carolina

1/10/2020 – 4/12/2020, Rocky Mount
Handcrafted
Juried show of  work in any craft media, such as: clay, fibers, furniture, glass, paper, jewelry, metal, found object, mixed media, and everything in between.
Rocky Mount Imperial Centre
270 Gay Street
Phone: 252-972-1266
Website: www.imperialcentre.org

North Dakota

Ohio

3/13/2020 – 3/15/2020, Columbus
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Ohio Expo Center
Celeste Building
717 East 17th Avenue
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Oklahoma

Oregon

2/21/2020 – 2/22/2020, Portland
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Guild of Oregon Woodworkers
7634 SW 34th Avenue
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

4/11/2020, Portland
Open House
Mastery students exhibition and open house. Meet current mastery students and graduates, as well as teachers. Refreshments, demos, furniture.
The Northwest Woodworking Studio
1002 SE 8th Avenue
Phone: 503-284-1644
Website: www.northwestwoodworking.com

Pennsylvania

1/14/2020 – 4/5/2020, Philadelphia
Wharton Esherick: An Artistic Legacy Through Necessity
This exhibition explores the productive relationship between applied and fine arts within Esherick’s work while placing the artist’s practice in conversation with recent alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118-128 North Broad Street
Website: www.pafa.org

2/28/2020 – 2/29/2020, Philadelphia
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Independence Seaport Museum – Boat Shop
211 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd.
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

9/13/2020 – 12/30/2020, Malvern
Wharton Esherick Museum 27th Annual Woodworking Exhibition
Wood and …
Juried exhibition of pieces that combine wood and at least one other medium.
Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
website: www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

Rhode Island

11/6/2020 – 11/8/2020, Providence
25th 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

4/3/2020 – 4/4/2020, Houston
Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
An opportunity to try a wide array of hand tools and learn how great tools can make your woodworking easier. Ongoing demonstrations at interactive stations will help you learn valuable techniques.
Clark’s Hardwood Lumber Co.
700 East 5th 1/2 St
Phone: 800-327-2520
Website: www.lie-nielsen.com

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

2/28/2020 – 3/1/2020, Chantilly
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Dulles Expo Center, North Hall
4320 Chantilly Shopping Center
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Washington

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

2/21/2020 – 2/23/2020, Milwaukee area
The Woodworking Shows
Educational seminars presented by woodworkers: including FWW Contributing Editor, Roland Johnson. This event also offers attendees an opportunity to try out and see demonstrations of tools, supplies and equipment by top manufactures.
Milwaukee County Sports Complex
6000 W Ryan Road
Franklin, WI 53132
Website: www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Wyoming

International

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

New Zealand

Russia

United Kingdom