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Currently on vacation, but wanted to remind everyone of the upcoming Triangle Woodworkers Association meeting, Tuesday July 18th. I will check in on this site infrequently because I am becoming reacquainted with dial up! :crybaby2: However, if you have a question feel free to email/PM me as I check email about every other day. I will eventually check in! Tough up here in upstate NY - blue skies, highs in upper 70s, low 80s - on the lake! :eusa_danc
-Rick
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Program Topic: Furniture Design Speaker: Denese Grohs
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M.A. Industrial Education & Technology, Appalachian State University, 12/1981. Additional courses in Art Dept., ASU.
Denise Grohs has been an active professional woodworker and furniture maker since 1976. In 1982, she opened her custom woodworking business, Miters Touch, where fine custom furniture and cabinets are built, along with a continually growing collection of art furniture. She is an adjunct Instructor at Appalachian State University and has taught Advanced Woodworking (2002). In recent years, Denise participated in art and woodworking shows, lectured at Appalachian State Univ., and appeared in panel discussions about art furniture at NCSU Visual Art Center. In the past, she taught materials/methods classes ASU Art Dept. She is a member of the Furniture Society, High Country Home Builders Assn., Hands Gallery
Denise describes her approach, "Domestic hardwoods like cherry, walnut and curly apple stimulate my creativity. Their richness, beauty and texture help my ideas evolve. I tend to design using two contrasting woods and you will find asymmetry, organic shaping, texturing and sometimes other media - metal, glass, ceramics - in my work. Certainly the woodworking greats have influenced me, especially James Krenov and George Nakashima, but my direction is my own. I am not into ornate decoration or furniture as a doctoral thesis of woodworking gimmicks. I just design pieces that I hope will provide beauty, subtlety and pleasure for their owners, while being used as furniture."
-Rick
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Program Topic: Furniture Design Speaker: Denese Grohs
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M.A. Industrial Education & Technology, Appalachian State University, 12/1981. Additional courses in Art Dept., ASU.
Denise Grohs has been an active professional woodworker and furniture maker since 1976. In 1982, she opened her custom woodworking business, Miters Touch, where fine custom furniture and cabinets are built, along with a continually growing collection of art furniture. She is an adjunct Instructor at Appalachian State University and has taught Advanced Woodworking (2002). In recent years, Denise participated in art and woodworking shows, lectured at Appalachian State Univ., and appeared in panel discussions about art furniture at NCSU Visual Art Center. In the past, she taught materials/methods classes ASU Art Dept. She is a member of the Furniture Society, High Country Home Builders Assn., Hands Gallery
Denise describes her approach, "Domestic hardwoods like cherry, walnut and curly apple stimulate my creativity. Their richness, beauty and texture help my ideas evolve. I tend to design using two contrasting woods and you will find asymmetry, organic shaping, texturing and sometimes other media - metal, glass, ceramics - in my work. Certainly the woodworking greats have influenced me, especially James Krenov and George Nakashima, but my direction is my own. I am not into ornate decoration or furniture as a doctoral thesis of woodworking gimmicks. I just design pieces that I hope will provide beauty, subtlety and pleasure for their owners, while being used as furniture."
