On March 15-17, 2024: sixteen Handshouse directors and advisors gathered in Norwell, MA for a 3-day intensive strategic planning workshop to collaboratively consider the future of the organization. Conducted by the inspired guidance of professional Strategic Planning leader: Lisa Mount of Artistic Logistics.
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Marie Brown, Eva Carter, and Michael Burrey standing in front of the Handshouse Notre-Dame model of La Forêt in St Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University. They worked together with Dr. Lindsay Cook, Art History Professor from Penn State to offer a hands-on Notre-Dame Project workshop with students for Columbia Students in Medieval Reniassance, Historic Preservation, and Art History, to reassemble the 1:10 scale model for exhibition during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.
Say hello to our newest team member at Handshouse! We are elated to expand our staff to welcome Eva Carter (they/them) on staff as an Assistant Director for the fall. Eva is joining us to support Marie with the breadth of administrative-organizational work required to orchestrate the unique types of programming Handshouse offers.
Read MoreIn collaboration with Dr. Lindsay Cook: Professor of Art History and Susan Boynton: Professor of Music, Handshouse Studio brought the Notre-Dame Project to Columbia University to exhibiting our model of La Forêt during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.
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The 2024 Handshouse Studio Board of Directors: Top row, L to R: Rick Brown, Adriana Katzew, Yari Wolinsky, Nat Crosby, Rashin Fahandej. Middle row, L to R: Justin Brazier, Rob Duarte, Brenda Baker, Bob Chabot, Laura Brown. Bottom Row, L to R: Kurt Steinberg, Eric Lemont, Joel McCarty, Marc Holland, Krista Lima.
This past spring, Handshouse organized a strategic planning intensive that helped us understand 5 “bridges” we needed to build to overcome obstacles to our organization’s future. One of these bridges is expanded leadership. So we went spent the summer vetting and invited seven new members to the Board of Directors!
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On October 17th, Handshouse Studio raised our Notre-Dame Project full-scale replica truss on Liberty St in Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate! Why raise an 8100lb replica piece an 800 year old timber structure in the middle of the street for a day? Because of the community, connection and curiosity that it inspires.
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A student attaches mortise and tenon joinery on Truss #10, the most complex truss in the structure.
Handshouse hosted a La Forêt Model Project workshop for Norwell High School students at our headquarters in Norwell. Norwell High School organizes to send groups of students to volunteer for non-profits in the local area each yea, and we used their help to experiment with ways of making a learn-by-doing workshop with the La Forêt Model reassembly process.
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Handshouse Studio Toys for Animals participants are delivering a newly designed set of toys for beloved elephants, Ruth and Emily, tomorrow! We are marking the 14th anniversary of this remarkable collaboration and want to share it with the community!
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Handshouse Studio brought its Notre-Dame Project to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in September and October, 2022. Project representatives return to Athens, GA for another five-day workshop and a February 9 open studio and panel conversation.
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project back to Athens,GA to offer a five-day workshop to continue the 1:10 scale white-oak model recreating one of the oldest sections of Notre-Dame de Paris timber roof.
Read MoreMichael Burrey and Jackson DuBois, both vital participants in the Notre-Dame Project full-scale reconstruction of Choir Truss #6 in Washington, DC in 2021, were invited to work as members of the team of professional French carpenters rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris’s 315-foot timber spire.
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A team of students from Boston Prep Charter School with their toy observing the monkeys at the Franklin Park Zoo
A new group of participants from the Boston Prep Charter School joined the Toys for Monkeys project in collaboration with Handshouse and the Franklin Park Zoo. This unique Handshouse collaboration effectively enriches the lives of many species, human and non-human, who are living together in a shared home at a complex time.
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