This workshop, specifically for women and nonbinary folx offers participants the opportunity to start exploring our historic woodshop while learning how to make a beautiful handmade marquetry piece. Shelby will teach individuals how to create a mitered box.

This course is appropriate for brand new beginners as well as those with some skill who might like to try out our space.

We think this would make a fabulous friends night out...and you’d both leave with a one of a kind project!

Shaker furniture focuses on the beauty of wood and traditional joinery. Join Shelburne CraftSchool Teacher, Mike Scully to build your own modern wall-hung shaker cabinet. Students will learn safe milling techniques, mitered Maple case construction, frame in panel Cherry doors and the French cleat hanging method. Each student will leave with a completed cabinet.

Create a bench and learn about sustainable forestry, wood properties and selection, milling and building in the process.Forest to Furniture is a course that allows students to learn about the northern forest and to create a table or bench using wood sustainably harvested from Shelburne Farms.We will kick off the course by visiting the woodlands at Shelburne Farms. We will explore natural history, discuss management, and learn not only about the importance of forest ecosystems but also their role in carbon sequestration. You will then carefully select your wood, harvested and milled at Shelburne Farms, based on the properties of the wood and your planned use for your finished product. A simple, locally sourced and prepared meal will be shared. The rest of the course takes place at the Craft School where you will build your beautiful bench.

This course is in memory of Marshall Webb who loved the forests of Shelburne Farms and the woodshed of Shelburne Craft School.

*This course is at both Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Craft School Depending on the Week--we will send you the schedule*

Create a one of a kind cutting board in this day long workshop and learn about wood selection, milling and building in the process.

This course is being offered in honor and memory of Marshall Webb. Marshall, along with his siblings founded the non-profit, Shelburne Farms and also served as the woodlands manager for many years. Marshall spent his lifetime on the land and embodied the vision of the farm as a true working landscape for learning.

In this class, students who have previously turned a basic bowl will learn to turn a natural edge bowl – a bowl where the rim follows the natural contour of the tree’s outside surface. The new challenges in turning this sort of bowl include a heightened reliance on balancing/centering the blank when first mounting it and making clean finishing cuts on an interrupted surface. If you can reliably find and ride the bevel when turning a basic bowl, this project is a great way to take the next step and improve your touch with the tool and your sense of form, and possibly pick up an advanced cutting technique or two.