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What is design as it pertains to woodturners?

How can we learn to apply real meaning to the word design, and learn to apply it with intent in the things we create?

How can we evaluate our work and examine ways to better understand the decisions we make in our designs?

How can we learn to ,improve our design thinking and advance our pursuit of high craft?

What can members of a woodturning community do to support each other and learn to build on aesthetic successes and learn intentional aesthetics?

To explore these topics and help us understand how to improve our designs; Stuart will present the group with a structural way to discuss and understand the word design as it pertains to woodturners.

Stuart Kent is the Founding Director of the North Carolina Furniture School. He is an accomplished woodworker with over 30 years of specialized experience in furniture and woodturning.

Stuart has contributed to the field of higher education in furniture design, having authored full undergraduate curricula and innovative pedagogy as an Associate Professor of Design. He has also authored and taught study abroad initiatives for U.S. students to 7 countries.

He is a U.S. Core Fulbright Scholar, a Senior Peer Review Scholar for the Institute for International Education (IIE), and a Senior Mentoring Fellow for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI).

To learn more about Sturat and the North Carolina Furniture School, visit his website here.