Southwest Area Turners: Demonstrators 2012

Demonstrators 2012

SWAT 2012 LEAD DEMONSTRATORS

SWAT 2012 is pleased to announce its line-up of lead demonstrators. The following have agreed to join us in Waco next August:

	Barbara Dill— Barbara received a BS degree in Nursing from the University of Tennessee in 1968. Her career took her to Europe and to East Africa in the early 70’s and her photographs were her souvenirs. She received a Masters of Psychiatric Nursing from Boston University in 1980 and coordinated psychiatric aspects of emergency departments at Boston City ED and at Medical college of Virginia’s ED. [expand title="More info"]Barbara’s first experience with carving wood was in 1988 at a carving class in Richmond, VA. Wood became her passion and in 1989 was able to retire from a 21 year career in nursing. She first studied woodturning in 1990 at Arrowmont with Michael Hosaluk; then in ’91 with Ray Key; then in ’92 with David Ellsworth. She has attended symposiums, workshops and demos through the years. In 1998 she started teaching beginning woodturning at the Hand Workshop in Richmond (now the Visual Arts Center).She was always fascinated with multi axis turning and in 2006 her focus turned to multi axis turning. Tired of running into dead ends with her candle holders, she decided to see if there was a way to sort out the confusion of this aspect of turning. If an obsession is to wake up with a new “what if” most mornings, then she was obsessed.Barbara enjoys teaching and sharing her knowledge.She has made an instructional DVD and has published articles in the American Woodturner. She was an Emerging Artist at the 2011 National Symposium and will demonstrate at SWAT in Texas, at the Appalachian Center for Craft and at Arrowmont, as well as turning clubs in many states.”My interest is to experiment with the many forms that can be turned on a lathe without the use of jigs or chucks. I’m just not a very good jig maker”.[/expand]Barbara’s web site
	Cindy Drozda, Boulder Colorado, has worked with wood professionally since her first “real” job at age 19, where she taught herself to work with wood. The need to make a pair of chairs brought her to woodturning, but it was the pictures of bowls, vessels, and boxes in the back of Dale Nish’s book that really got her hooked. Before settling on woodturning as a career Cindy worked as a cabinet maker, rebuilt airplanes, machined metal, and made hang gliding equipment. [expand title="More info"]Today, her pieces are exhibited at the finest art shows and galleries. Her elegant lidded vessels and boxes with delicate finials bring a contemporary flair to classic forms. A jewel hidden under the lid symbolizes the treasure that life reveals when we make the effort to look deeper. Her trademarks are precise techniques, fine details, and pleasing forms.Cindy shares her knowledge and passion as an international demonstrator and teacher, as well as through her instructional DVD/videos. A member of the American Association of Woodturners and 4 chapters, she sees the sharing of ideas in the woodturning community as vital to the health and growth of individuals, the community, and “Wood Art” in today’s world. She is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, the American Craft Council, and four AAW chapters. She has written several articles for the AAW Journal, including a recent one on “Finial Design”. Cindy will coach you to new levels of excellence in your woodturning!In 1988, Cindy participated in the first successful west-to–east crossing of the US by non-powered hang glider, and in 1998 she flew an experimental airplane to Oshkosh for the world’s largest airshow. Woodturning is her latest exciting adventure![/expand] Cindy’s web site
	Michael Hosaluk is recognized internationally and in Canada as one of the world’s most creative wood “turners”. Born in 1954, in Invernay, Saskatchewan, Hosaluk is self-taught. [expand title="More info"]Hosaluk’s work covers a wide range of objects and materials including functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces. His work is humorous and elegant, possesses character and gesture and is full of reference to architecture, nature and culture. Hosaluk’s work has been exhibited throughout Canada, in Europe, China, Japan, Australia and the United States.Hosaluk’s pieces can be found in the permanent collections of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace; Zhao Xiu, Governor of Jilin Province, China; Idemitsu Corporation, Tokyo; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Yale University Art Gallery; Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Royal Ontario Museum.He has lectured and demonstrated extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Norway and Israel. In 2003, he participated in the French Association of Turned Wood’s conference Artistic Woodturning Worldwidein Puy St. Martin, France. Hosaluk has also been the coordinator of the biennial International Wood Furniture/Turning Conference since 1982. Hosaluk is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and earlier this year became an Honourary Lifetime Member of the Saskatchewan Crafts Council. He is active on the Steering Committee of the Furniture Society of North America, and is on its Advisory Board. Hosaluk’s work has recently been profiled in numerous publications including Fine Woodworking; American Craft; and Woodwork magazines. Hosaluk is also the subject of a book published in 2002 by Guild Publishing, titled Scratching the Surface: Michael Hosaluk. Michael Hosaluk lives and has his studio near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. [/expand] Michal’s web site
	Todd Hoyer was born in 1952, in Wisconsin. He was raised in Phoenix, AZ., where he attended Arizona State University majoring in manufacturing engineering and design technology from 1970-1975. He moved to Bisbee in 1976 and set up his studio. [expand title="More info"] He has been invited to over 100 group and solo exhibitions. His work is included in many museums including the National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Institution, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, along with many private collections. He has taught extensively over the last twenty years in the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia. [/expand] [expand title="Demo Descriptions"] Wood and its Characteristics This class will study wood and its unique characteristics as related to the turned form. It will cover cell structures and their orientation in the log and how it relates to wood movement, shrinkage and cracking. It will include spalting, insect damage, staining, curl, burls, weathering etc. Emphasis will be on using these features as decorative elements on the vessel forms. Turning Crotches This session will discuss crotch figure and how to orient the bowl or vessel to show the unique figure. A turning demonstration will be used to show how a winged form can be turned from a small crotch. Vessel Orientation Why guess what you might get? This demo will teach you how to look within a log and how to orient a vessel to highlight the grain patterns. Reducing a bowl size to center a pattern or highlight will be emphasized. Bigger is not better. Open and closed forms will be discussed with a handout available to the audience. [/expand] Email
	Johannes Michelson — I started turning wood at age nine; my father bought a lathe for my brother and I when he bought a shop full of machine for our impending renovation of a barn and made the statement “there you can play on this for a while so you can keep your finger a little bit longer. Meaning; stay away from the other machines! [expand title="More info"] Bro and I had a great time turning gifty items for our family members for a number of years but that fell by the wayside when we became old enough to drive and got cars. I picked up turning again at age 30 so I could turn the balusters and newels for the stairs I was building. Soon after I learned of the crafts world existence and I moved into natural edge bowls, once I discovered that someone was already doing that I decided I needed my own “thing”! I went into the production of large constructed Vases some of which had natural edged neck parts. These were great fun to make and they fit well with my architectural scale tendencies being the builder/stair builder that I had become. Problem was that my “thing” was too big; most collectors had neither the space nor the pocketbook for these vases. I turned my first hat in 1990; it was a ten year old idea at that time but needed to come out and when it did it sure grabbed hold real quick—an instant hit!!! After twenty one years and 5000 hats of all sizes I am still totally enthralled by the process and will probable always make hats simply because there are hats that only I can make. I’ve given away the store on the basic hat making process but there are the nuances of shape and special materials that I find hard to “share” even with my good abilities as teacher. So I will make only the hats that my followers don’t make! I have gone back to some vessels and am focusing on forms that I don’t see out there, mainly one piece turning of wet wood thin as hats—my own thing!Meanwhile I am happy and proud to be the leader of the “WoodHat Movement” [/expand] Johannes’s web site
	Joe Ruminski—Joe will join us from Fairview, North Carolina. His art pieces often feature piercing and exquisite color. He also specializes in turning sculptural pieces and multi-center turnings. Many of you enjoyed his demonstrations at AAW last June. Joe’s web site
	Hayley Smith—Hayley is from Bizbee, Arizona, and, yes, she is the wife of Todd Hoyer. You will enjoy the clever use of color and texture that Hayley is able to accomplish with relatively simple (and inexpensive) tools.
	Steve Sinner—When someone suggested that we have a hollow turning demonstrator, we took it to the extreme. Steve, from Bettendorf, Iowa, has turned hollow vessels larger than some of our children and then decorated them with the most imaginative and creative designs possible.