Kimberly Winkle
September 21-25
This workshop introduces novice woodturners to the essential principles of woodturning while encouraging creative exploration through color and surface enhancements. Kimberly guides students through proper tool selection, sharpening methods, and safety practices, using standard turning tools such as gouges, scrapers, and parting tools, while demonstrating core turning techniques that build confidence and control.
Participants practice both spindle and faceplate turning, as they create a range of small objects such as candlesticks, a small footstool, and more. In addition to technical skills, students explore elements of design and ways to personalize work through surface embellishment with milk paint.
Students experiment with painting, texturing, and other decorative approaches to bring individuality, charm, and creative expression to their finished pieces. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid foundation in woodturning and new ideas for expanding their creative practice.
Kimberly Winkle is Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. She exhibits her painted furniture and objects at venues such as SOFA Chicago, Wanted Design NYC, and the Architectural Digest Design Show in New York. Publications include Fine Woodworking, Woodworker, and Woodworker West magazines, as well as 500 Chairs (Lark Books, 2008) and 500 Tables (Lark Books, 2009). In addition to teaching, Kimberly has participated in residencies at the International Turning Exchange in Philadelphia, the Windgate Artist Residency at SUNY Purchase in New York, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Appalachian Center for Craft in Tennessee. Honors include four Niche awards, a State of Tennessee Individual Artist Award, and the 2014 John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship from Boston’s Society of Arts and Crafts. Her website is kimberlywinkle.com.
Open to all.
