Blog for the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, including school updates, class offerings, and students writing about their experiences.
Calling All PTSW Alumni!
Please join us for the weekend of Oct. 6-8 for the Port Townsend School of Woodworking Alumni Weekend! We'll gather as many of you as possible together for a few days of social and educational activities, shop tours, and the presentation of our annual Founders Award in a smaller, more casual gathering than in previous years.
Read MoreIndigenous artist and professional musician Camas Logue has completed the Foundations of Woodworking and Traditions of Furniture intensives. He plans to return for Art of Furniture, or Built Environment, or both.
Read MoreThe sun has finally returned, at least for a mid-March morning, bringing light and love off the snowy Olympics down to the sound and through the large window beside me. As a student in the inaugural run of the school’s Furniture Making Intensive, it is easy to feel like a beaver stowed away in his lodge chewing bark as winter rages outside, paying mind only to their design drawings, cutlist and project schedule. But a morning such as this calls one to poke their head out of the woodpile and take-in that which inspires and guides (at least for this beaver).
Colin Kaferle, Furniture Intensive, Winter 2017
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