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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreHandshouse 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.
Read MoreHandshouse 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!
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreHandshouse Studio hand-raised their Notre-Dame Project’s 8100-pound white oak replica of Choir Truss #6 and brought a 5-day La Forêt Model Project workshop to the Sam Beaufort Woodworking Institute and at the Great Lakes Woodworking Festival in Adrian, MI.
Read MoreHandshouse Studio has created a new website; to begin exploring ways to create an interactive archive of living cultural heritage related to the Gwoździec Synagogue and other 17th century wooden synagogues of the Polish Lithuantian Commonwealth; launching a new chapter of the Wooden Synagogue Project.
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