There are three principal furniture forms to master as a designer and woodworker: container forms, surface pieces, and seating. This woodworking studio course will focus on seating – stools, benches, and chairs, and the functional, structural, and aesthetic challenges they present, along with issues of human scale and comfort (ergonomics), and the metaphorical meanings of seating in diverse cultures. Students should have introductory woodworking experience, and they will advance their design and technical skills by building a simple chair using essential woodworking tools and processes, paying attention to sustainable wood sourcing and use, and focusing on the making process as well as the products. Students will learn to work safely and effectively with basic woodworking hand and power tools, and how design, material, and time constraints can inspire creative solutions. Working together they will acquire a deeper understanding of how mind, hand, and tools work together to shape wood into expressive and functional furniture forms.
This is one of three elective courses that comprise the Woodworking Foundations: Craft, Culture, & Sustainability Certificate at Evergreen. Students must complete the required core coursework before taking this course.
Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:
4 - Woodworking Special Topics: Seating
Registration
Students must have proficiency in basic woodworking skills prior to entering this class. This can be demonstrated by having taken either of the following courses:
Woodworking: Enclosures and Containers
Woodworking: Frames and Surfaces
Students who have other previous woodworking experience may also be prepared for this course and should reach out to the faculty to discuss. Email Bob Leverich at leverich@evergreen.edu.
Academic Details
This offering is connected to the Woodworking Foundations: Craft, Culture, and Sustainability Certificate at Evergreen. For more information visit: https://www.evergreen.edu/academics/professional-continuing-education/w…
Woodworking, carpentry, furniture design
$175 required fee that covers project supplies and studio usage.