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Woodworking in America: Larissa Huff

Woodworking in America: Larissa Huff2021-02-112021-02-10https://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/popwood logos-01.pngPopular Woodworking Magazinehttps://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/larissa-table-saw-portrait.jpg200px200px We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Harris Desk We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Larissa Huff, a maker and woodworking instructor from Pennsylvania. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? Like so many traditional craftspeople before me, I started woodworking by answering a Craigslist ad. After college, I moved to a new city and was in search of a teaching job. I hadn’t transferred my teaching certificate from FL to PA yet so, I was looking for non-traditional instructor jobs to hold me over. Jeffry Lohr was looking for a woodworking apprentice with teaching skills and some understanding

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Wharton Esherick Museum Receives a Surprise Gift of $10 Million

Wharton Esherick Museum Receives a Surprise Gift of $10 Million December 13, 2020 16:47 Subject Line Please provide verification code Cover of Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind by Mansfield Bascom. The Wharton Esherick Museum in Malvern, Penn., received an unexpected endowment gift of $10 million. The museum made the public announcement on Friday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The news of the gift was shared earlier with the museum s co-founder shortly before he passed away this fall. The surprise gift came from Arkansas-based Windgate Foundation, and represents a windfall for a small institution with a 2020 budget that was $424,000, before the crippling impacts of covid-19. 

Wharton Esherick Museum receives transformational gift

WHYY By Julie Siglin looks at the sculptures displayed in Wharton Esherick s home studio. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The Wharton Esherick Museum, tucked into the woods of Valley Forge Mountain outside Malvern, Pennsylvania, has received a $10 million endowment gift from the Windgate Foundation. The artist house and studio museum of the seminal woodworker of the American Studio Craft Movement normally operates on an annual budget of $400,000. This gift is 25 times that amount. “This is completely transformational,” said executive director Julie Siglin. “It’s an endowment. We will be able to draw 4% [annually,] which is our existing budget.” Julie Siglin, executive director of the Wharton Esherick Museum stands at the entrance to the artist’s home studio. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Wharton Esherick Museum near Philadelphia gets $10 million gift