LAST MODIFIED 4/22/08
News
My partner and I are buying our first house. This means I will have my own studio for the first time! I’ve been having fun shopping for new equipment and planning my new space, which will be in the garage. The electricity in the garage is insufficient, so I am having an electrician install a new panel and a bunch of outlets. A friend of mine and I will frame one wall and install windows and a room air conditioner. Besides working on the studio, I will also be laying new flooring in the house and repairing walls and painting and doing maintenance on the roof, so it may be a month or two before I get back to turning full-time. In the meantime, I can still work in my current studio—whenever I’m not working on the house or packing and moving our stuff.
This weekend, I will visit the Channel Island Woodturners in Ventura County, California, to do an all-day demo. (The day after I return, we close on our house!)
Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m., Pat Reddemann (my studio mate) and I will demonstrate woodturning at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library (530 N. Wilmot Rd.,) in Tucson. This demonstration is sponsored by the Southern Arizona Woodturners Association (SAZWA).
A new German woodturning magazine, Drechsler Magazin: Das moderne Fachmagazin für Hobby, Profi und all Interessierten, ran a story on the International Turning Exchange in its spring 2008 issue. The story featured some of my photographs from the ITE, as well as photos by John Carlano of our work. I’ve forgotten all my German, so I can’t read the story, but it looks good!
Woodwork: A Magazine for All Woodworkers ran photos of work from the ITE turners in its February issue (p. 41). The caption for my piece is wrong, though: the actual title of the piece is “Learning to Cope: Pear Incognito under a Mantle of Cherry.”
To see and buy my work
You can view most of my work for sale online. I have finally finished updating those pages, for now.
Until my next show (as yet unscheduled), feel free to contact me at any time to arrange for a private showing of work, at my studio or in your home. In addition, I continuously have pieces for sale in the Tucson Museum of Art gift shop (140 N. Main Ave., in downtown Tucson) and at Más y Más gallery (24 Tubac Rd., in Tubac, AZ).
I can also share my work long-distance, via webcam. All you need is a relatively fast Internet connection and an instant messaging service such as Windows Live Messenger, AIM, or Skype. You do not need a webcam yourself. Email me and we’ll set up a session!
Old news
Last year was a remarkable year. I am now in a new studio space, which another woodturner, Pat Reddemann, shares with me. Thanks to the amazing and unexpected generosity of a benefactor, I also have a new lathe, another Jet, with a 2-horsepower 230-volt reversible motor, variable speed, and a 16-inch swing (the 1642). I am astonished at the difference the added power makes. I had felt for some time that I had outgrown my original lathe, a 1-hp Jet (the 1442) that served me well for nearly five years, but I had no idea that the change would be so huge. I feel like I can turn anything I want now!
After months of feeling physically and metaphysically dislocated, I finally feel able to absorb and explore the lessons of the summer and my sojourn at the International Turning Exchange (if you want to know more, you can go back and read about the whole experience in my blog). I am finally getting to create the pieces I began envisioning there. I still haven’t resumed my photography, but I am getting back to blogging, to try to share some of what is unfolding.
And I am beginning to do more demonstrations and classes. In March, I did a presentation for the Tucson Museum of Art docents. In April, I will visit the Channel Island Woodturners in Ventura County, California, to do an all-day demo. If you would like to have me visit your area, please email me. Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m., Pat Reddemann and I will demonstrate woodturning at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library (530 N. Wilmot Rd.,) in Tucson.
The November WoodWorks show in York, PA, was successful and fun. You can read about the show (and see photos) at woodworker Andy Rae’s blog on the Fine Woodworking site.
Back from the “ConneXtions” exhibition at the AAW gallery in St. Paul, MN, are two pieces inspired by the internment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens in “relocation camps” in the United States during World War II. My friend Terry Bendt, a glass beadmaker, and I collaborated on their creation. I can hardly wait to see them again—truly seminal pieces in my work.
Selected work
In the slideshow below, click on an image to see multiple views of a vessel. To see more work, visit the photo galleries listed above, in the main site menu. Photos are not to scale.
