I have been preparing my shop, finish room, office, and home for guests that
come this afternoon from the American Folk Art Museum in NYC. There
will be only 11 today, and then another 25 or so next Saturday. They planned trips to see work from their museum featured at Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR and arranged a side
trip to Eureka Springs to visit Eleanor Lux, Arkansas Living Treasure
for 2016, and me, ALT for 2009. Craftsmen rarely get this kind of
attention. So I have tried to make the most of it, pushing a few
projects to completion, like the triptych boxes I've had in mind for
years now.
I got the first set of 27 individual samples
of wood completed and will install them and brass pulls on the doors
sometime today before guests arrive.
As you can see, the woods of Arkansas, are diverse in color, texture, hardness, workability, and even in smell (though you can't sense that here).
Make, fix, create, and offer to others the opportunity to learn likewise.
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