Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction
A fine woodwork show featuring designs by professional woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut. Silent auction to benefit the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Scholarship Fund, which supports individuals who aspire to make woodworking their professional goal. Throughout the weekend, BWG members will demonstrate various woodworking techniques including woodturning, tool sharpening, French polish wood finishing, and chair making techniques.
Sean Stanton from North Plain Farm, Great Barrington, MA will be onsite Saturday and Sunday, offering farm-raised pork sausages and other food items.
Website: www.berkshirewoodworkers.org
Dates: Saturday, September 3, 2022, 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday, September 4, 2022, 9 am to 5 pm
Admission: $5 General Admission
$3 for Berkshire Botanical Garden Members
Location: Berkshire Botanical Garden,5 West Stockbridge Road (Route 102) Stockbridge, MA 01262
The Guild will announce the aspiring woodworkers who are the 2022 recipients of $2,500 scholarships. Silent auction to fund next year’s scholarships. Guild members will be selling their work. Guild members will be demonstrating woodworking techniques.
The Berkshire Woodworkers Guild is a not-for-profit association of 50 professional and amateur woodworkers who live and work in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Columbia County New York, and surrounding areas. Guild members share expertise, tools, and business opportunities, and promote awareness of the benefits and availability of custom woodworking. The Guild represents a range of backgrounds and experience. Members include furniture makers, cabinetmakers, boat builders, sculptors, house builders, wood turners, luthiers, and suppliers of wood products. We practice and advocate for fine woodworking on a professional level and encourage woodworking as an enjoyable hobby.
We are interested in the work of others, in exchanging ideas and techniques, in learning more about woodworking, and in helping one another with advice on skills and materials. To encourage this, Guild members meet once a month in a member’s shop for a brief meeting followed by a demonstration of a technique, tool, or project. These meetings are a time for members to share ideas and learn new ways of approaching their craft.
We are a supportive group, welcoming new members to join those who have been part of the Guild for many years. For 20 consecutive years, the Guild hosted its Fine Woodwork Show at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge MA. After a two-year pause due to Covid, the Guild is excited to return to the Garden this Labor Day weekend for our 21 st Annual Show. This year 19 Guild members will be displaying and selling their work. Live demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the weekend highlighting various woodworking techniques and an important highlight of the show is the Silent Auction. Since founding our guild in 1998, members have supported individuals planning to become professional woodworkers. To that end we have established a Scholarship Fund supported by generous financial donations and by the proceeds from our annual Silent Auction to which guild members donate a variety of beautiful wooden objects. 100% of the proceeds from our Silent Auction go to our Scholarship Fund. As our reputation has grown, our recipients have attended some of the best woodworking and wooden boat building schools in the country. Examples include the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts in Beverley, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, the Krenov School in Fort Bragg, California, the Apprentice Shop in Rockport, ME, and the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, R.I. To date the Guild has awarded $48,000 in scholarships to 33 recipients. The 2022 show will feature 5 scholarship recipients showcasing work completed during their time at the educational institution supported by the awarded Scholarship funds.
2022 Exhibitors
Jim Law, Under Mountain Jointers
Frost White
Joshua & Kristen Kanter, JK Custom Furniture & Design
Peter Thorne, Peter Thorne Furniture & Design
Jeffrey All, All Woodwork
Joel Mark, Joel Mark Museum Quality Furniture
Warren Vienneau, Turnedworks
Brad Simon, Undermountain Instruments
Clarke Olsen, Clarke Olsen Design
Joe Tierney
Thom Lipiczky
David Douyard, Chairmaker
James Daniels, James Daniels Custom Woodworking
Tom Nichols
Hilary Russell, Berkshire Boatbuilding School
John Dunham, John Dunham Woodcraftsman
Christopher Stosiek, CMS Cabinetry
Randy Ezinga, Turn Again Woodworks
Geoff Leibovitz, G Leibovitz Restoration