Teresa Audet, a 2011 Furniture Society-Powermatic Student Workshop Scholarship recipient, was recently featured in Woodworker's Journal and talks about how receiving the scholarship allowed her to continue making furniture after graduation.

From Woodworker's Journal:

Winning the scholarship and attending the workshop, she said, was "really great! It was right after I graduated from school, and it helped me keep making things after I graduated."

Read the full feature at Woodworker's Journal 

Groovystuff sponsors education-to-industry cross cooperatives and design challenges by partnering with schools such as Purdue University and Auburn Universtiy. They're looking for an intern for the summer of 2012!
Download details of the internship opportunity (PDF) 

About Groovystuff
Committed to sustainable manufacturing and environmental accountability, Groovystuff’s vision is to assist its retail customers in growing their businesses sustainably. Founded in 1998 by Chris Bruning, Groovystuff designs, produces, and distributes unique reclaimed teakwood home furnishings at upper-medium and high-end price points. Based in Dallas, it has permanent showrooms in High Point, NC (The Suites at Market Square, G-1025), Las Vegas (World Market Center, B-146), Dallas, TX (Dallas World Trade Center, 6th Floor, Showroom 6684), and once a year at the International Casual Furniture Market in Chicago, IL (The Merchandise Mart, No. 8-4046). For more information, please visit www.groovystuff.comwww.groovystuff.com or www.facebook.com/groovystuff.

The Rhode Island School of Design's Continuing Education program is offering a Studio Furniture Seminar in Spring 2012. Details are below!

Studio Furniture Seminar
Semester: Spring 2012
Age Range: 18+
Date(s); Saturday 05/05/12 - 05/05/12
Time: 9am-5pm
Sessions: 1
Contact Hours: 8

2012/CS-APRL-3050-01

Oscar Fitzgerald

Using illustrations from the Renwick Gallery's premier collection, this seminar highlights the most important makers in the development of the studio furniture field from the First Generation in the 1950s and 1960s, who emphasized wood and technique, through the Second Generation in the 1970s and 1980s, who focused more on design. The second lecture introduces an eight-point checklist to evaluate the oeuvre of a cross section of the most prominent furniture artists. The third lecture identifies the talented designers who have emerged since the 1990s and lead the field today. Participants then have the rare opportunity to meet with the founder of RISD's furniture department, Rosanne Somerson, during a tour of student projects in the woodworking studio.

Applies to: AS-E

Tuition [Non Credit]: $305.00

The Furniture Society is soliciting nominations for the 2012 Furniture Society Conference presentation of Faculty Selects. The final images chosen from your nominations will be featured in a digital exhibition at the Society's 2012 conference, Design, Community & the Sublime, June 14-16 at the Maine College of Art, Portland ME.

The final selections will also be featured on the Society's website in an online showcase, and will be digitally displayed throughout the 2012 conference. Since this is a digital exhibition, works need not be shipped. This conference provides students with a wonderful opportunity for prominent exposure to a large, important and focused audience in the furniture field.
Read the full call for nominations and download a nomination form 

A message board is now available for the 2012 Furniture Society conference. Make connections, share a ride, ask a question, or join the disucssion about anything related to the 2012 conference.
Visit the FS2012 conference message board 
Visit the Society's forum 

Conference chairman Kern Maass, coordinator of the industrial design program at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., says this year's conference location has a lot to contribute to the society's mission because it is steeply rooted in the values of the Shakers, boatbuilders and other professional woodworkers, along with their collaborative works with other artists and craftspeople in the area.
Read the full article at Woodshopnews.com