Exciting News From Historical Woods of America!

We are pleased to announce that National Treasures: History in the Making will be on display at two prominent locations this summer.

A pdf file of the original catalog can be viewed here We will be adding the new work to this catalog soon and will have CD's available at both upcoming venues.

We will have the entire body of work, including the furniture, as well as several new pieces recently created by artists and studio furniture makers who have recently joined us, as well as new pieces by artists whose initial pieces have previously sold. 

National Treasures will be a featured exhibit this year at the American Association of Woodturners annual symposium in St. Paul, Minnesota. June 24th- 26th, 2011

All work will be for sale at both of the upcoming venues, so come see the body of work early if you would like to own a piece of museum quality wood art, or studio furniture, with a great historical connection to early America! We will be set up in the instant gallery area, close to the EOG auction exhibit.

The second venue is The Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus Ohio. National Treasures: History in the Making will be on view starting July 10th, and will end August 21st. National Treasures will run concurrently with another prominent exhibition Boxes and Their Makers

Again, all works are for sale during the exhibition. Inquiries for purchase will be directed to William Jewell of HWA.

William Jewell will be giving a presentation about the exhibit, as well as a Q&A session on Sunday afternoon August 21st. Oscar Fitzgerald will be speaking about the Boxes and Their Makers exhibition as well.

 New participating artists who have completed their pieces include: Norm Sartorius, J. Paul Fennell, Po Shun Leong, David Nittmann, Emmet Kane, Duncan Gowdy, Michael Puryer Michael Bauermiester and Philip Weber, 

 Here are a few of the recently completed pieces you can expect to see at the upcoming venues. 

As the artists complete their new pieces. and submit their photos, I'll post them here as well.

Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

                                     Duncan Gowdy

                                      Binh Pho

                                     Joey Richardson

 J. Paul Fennell

 Michael Puryear

                                     Micheal Bauermiester

                                      David Ellsworth

                                      Po Shun Leong

                                      Po Shun Leong

                                     Po Shun Leong

                                      Po Shun Leong

Norm Sartorius

Norm Sartorius

                                     Norm Sartorius

                                     Norm Sartorius

                                      Norm Sartorius

                                      Norm Sartorius

                                     Emmet Kane

                                     Emmet Kane

                                     Janel Jacobson

We look forward to seeing everyone at the symposium soon. Meanwhile, please feel free to contact me if I can answer any questions about the exhibit or the new pieces.

Take care,

William Jewell

National Treasures: History in the Making (on view again)

National Treasures will be on view again for one day only on Sunday, September 26th at a special collectors brunch in Bethesda, Maryland, that has been arranged by the Collectors of Wood Art.

This brunch is the last weekend event planned by CWA in conjunction with the Fleur and Charles Bressler's "A Revolution in Wood"  opening at the Renwick September 24th,2010.

Please visit CWA's website to glean more information about their plans for the entire week  surrounding the Bressler opening at the Renwick Gallery .

If anyone would like to come by the Hilton to view the body of work, please contact me to arrange your visit, as this is an invitation only event. 540 273 1349

All pieces are for sale and we would welcome visitors for a private viewing. 

Recently, Washington D.C's Fox 5 Morning News with Holly Morris came to do a feature story on Historical Woods of America. The crew showed up at 5:45 AM and left at 10:00 AM. Holly's main forte is to find interesting stories, businesses and events around the D.C. metro area to report on during weekday mornings. At 6:45 she did a one minute introduction to the audience letting them know where she was reporting from. Then at 7:40, 8:40 and 9:40, we did four minute live segments. 

Although I'm very pleased with the way things went, I wish that I had time to cover more details in each of the three segments. Four minutes goes by quickly when you're nervous!

Here's the link if anyone wants to see the three segments.

Furniture Society Conference/ AAW Symposium Exhibits

I had a great time at both of these recent events. It was so nice to see the artists who are participating in the National Treasures exhibit again, as well as meeting a lot of great artists, furniture makers and designers that I hadn't met in person before.

We've signed up several more wonderful artists for the exhibit recently, including-

Judy Kensley Mckie, Vladimir Kagan, Alfred Sharp, Michael Puryear, David Lamb, Joe Tracy, Duncan Gowdy, Giles Gilson, Po Shun Leong, David Nittman, J. Paul Fennel, Philip Weber, Michael Bauermeister, Graeme Priddle and Norm Sartorius. We're still in the process of adding more great artists and furniture makers to the roster and will keep you posted.

One of the many highlights was to meet Vladimir Kagan and his wife Erica. We had a short but very nice conversation at the FS conference and have since spoken about his participation in the National Treasures exhibit. He's thinking of doing a small to medium sized sculpture. I was also pleased to see that Vladi was kind enough, and obviously impressed enough, to take the time to write about National Treasures on his blog.

Both venues presented a bit of a challenge while setting up, but I feel that the end result was worth the efforts. There were a lot of great compliments from many of the attendees, collectors and fellow woodworkers.

Better that the compliments though, I'm pleased to announce that two pieces  from the exhibit sold at the AAW symposium. The first was Binh Pho's  "The Architect of the American Dream", and Jacques Vesery's "A Fascination With Cherry Trees" Both pieces went to two major wood art collectors.

Jacques and Binh already have fresh wood and are working on new pieces to replace the sold work.

I also had the opportunity to visit with a good friend and sculptor Than Smith, who lives just south of Boston.  I haven't seen Than for 5 yrs. and finally got to meet his new wife for the first time. We had a nice BBQ, caught up a bit and visited his hometown Duxbury.

Because I had to do the" being in two places at the same time" thing, I didn't have the time I would have liked to hang out with all my new found friends, but it's always great to see everyone and hopefully, the next time we're all together, we can have some fun.

National Treasures will be on view again for one day only on Sunday, September 26th at a special collectors brunch in Bethesda, Maryland, that has been arranged by the Collectors of Wood Art.

This brunch is the last weekend event planned by CWA in conjunction with the Fleur and Charles Bressler's "A Revolution in Wood"  opening at the Renwick September 24th,2010.

Please visit CWA's website to glean more information about their plans for the entire week  surrounding the Bressler opening at the Renwick Gallery .    

On the road again with National Treasures

We are pleased to announce that National Treasures will be on view again soon! The third week in June, we will be exhibiting the furniture pieces at the Furniture Society's annual conference, which is on the campus of MIT in Boston this year. The same week,(June 18-20), the sculptural and lathe turned art will be on display at the American Association of Woodturners annual symposium at the Hartford Connecticut convention center.

As a reminder, all of the artwork is for sale, with the exception of Jere Osgood's Cherry Hall Table (Sold). If you have an interest in purchasing one of these museum quality pieces, please contact me via email or phone.

HWA is currently seeking national and international museum venues who would be interested in exhibiting National Treasures: History in the Making for future dates. If your organization is interested, please contact William Jewell to discuss the availability and fees.

We will continue to add  top quality artists as we go forward with this project. Our goal is to have 50 artists involved by the time we're done, so stay tuned!

Jacques and I are also pleased to announce the addition of a few more exciting artist to the exhibit. 

We welcome Michael Puryear, Norm Sartorius, Philip Weber, and David Nittman to our list of incredibly talented and respected artists.

 More artists and information will be added soon.

All the Best,

William