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FURNITURE DESIGN &
WOODWORKING
The Furniture Design & Woodworking program unites exciting workshops with
extraordinary faculty. Workshops range from traditional woodworking and woodturning
to innovative approaches in contemporary art and design. If you want to advance your
skills and expand your creative imagination, then we have a workshop for you.
The Maloof Wood Barn has first-rate equipment featuring a large machine room, bench
room, a spacious design studio and a turning studio. Students in furniture construction
classes each have European-style workbenches and tool storage. The Loft Studio,
for design and interdisciplinary workshops, is equipped with workbenches and light
woodworking equipment.

Joshua Enck, Counterpoise Tinker

June 2 - 6

Foundations: taking risks in


FURNITURE DESIGN & WOODWORKING SKILL LEVELS: 

3-D design

Open to all - Students of any skill and knowledge level.

Joshua Enck

Level I - Students are new to woodworking and design and have no formal training.
Level II - Students have experience working with stationary machines and power tools
and are familiar with basic principles of joinery and 3-D design.
Level III - Students have some formal training in 3-D design, experience with a variety
of materials and fabrication processes, and know how to use machine and hand tools
competently and safely. Students have a portfolio of their artwork.
Level IV - Students have advanced skill and knowledge of furniture design. Students are
highly motivated and have multiple portfolios of their artwork.
Contact Artistic Director Doug Casebeer with questions at 970/923-3181 x238 or
Studio Coordinator Jason Schneider at 970/923-3181 x234.

SKILL LEVEL: Open to all
CONCEPT:  We gain confidence in our abilities
as designers by taking risks in developing
ideas and seeing them to fruition. In this class
we work through a series of short exercises
that challenge us to work quickly through the
development of an idea into 3-D form. Each
assignment is thematic: investigating function and form; part to whole relationships; how
the body and the form occupy space; installation, scale, additive and subtractive processes;
organic and man-made forms, mass, volume
and visual weight. We discuss the importance
of craftsmanship, quality and design sensitivity
in our individual work.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Paper, cardboard, wire,
papiér-mâché, reed, found materials, etc.
Sketching, drawing and painting using a variety of media. Translating ideas into forms that
can be investigated, developed and refined in
a short amount of time.
ACTIVITIES:  We have a design project each
day. Students work both individually and in
small groups. We have daily discussions for
each assignment and desk reviews throughout the day.
FACULTY: Joshua Enck received an M.F.A. from
the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a
critic in the Divisions of Foundation Studies and
Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School
of Design and the recipient of many awards
and fellowships, including a 2006 Rhode
Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. 
www.joshuaenck.com

Tuition: $675 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $875
Studio Fee: $95  Code: W0102  Enrollment Limit 12
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