Arts & Crafts Picture Frame

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Building An Arts & Crafts Picture Frame

Wednesday: January 25th - 6:00-10:00 P.M. - Three sessions

The traditional Arts & Crafts picture frame is built of quarter sawn oak or mahogany. The styles shown here include ebony square pegs.

All materials will be provided by the instructor

Steps & techniques include:

Milling and dimensioning the lumber
Laying out the mortises and tenons or half-laps
Joining the wood
Adjusting the opening (rabbetting and fixing a backer board)
Staining and finishing
Attaching the hanging hardware

This is a good class for students to experience woodworking without committing to the purchase of tools.

Tuition: $160 plus a materials fee estimated to be $40. Final materials fee will be determined at the end of classes. Three 4-hour sessions, 8 students maximum. A deposit is required to confirm your reservation.

Class is completed Class deposit $50 Entire amount is credited to your deposit. Tuition balance due at first class.

Registration: Please pay the deposit online or by check to register for class.

The Instructor:

Mark Mooney

Mark Mooney and his wife, Kathleen Allen a potter, run Ginkgo Studios in New Kensington, PA. Mark is a fine woodworker and furniture maker and produces unique pieces based on designs by Gustav, Leopold, and John G. Stickley, Harvey Ellis, Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Henry Greene, and Peter and John Hall. These traditional artisans represent Craftsman, Arts and Crafts, Mission, Prairie, and Greene and Greene styles.

Mark has studied with Seattle-based artist and craftsman Thomas Stangeland on Greene and Greene style furniture making at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking; Ben Little and Tom Harris, two Roycroft Master Artisans, on Craftsman style furniture making at their studio in East Aurora, NY; and Master Craftsman Jeffery Lohr on Mission Style furniture design at his studio in Pottstown PA. He has also taken basic and advanced woodworking classes from local artisans and master craftsmen, Max Peterson and Dante DiIanni. Mark is a member of the Pittsburgh Craftsman's Guild, Touchstone Center for Crafts, and the Western Pennsylvania Woodworkers where he also serves on the Board of Directors.

Location:

GNA Woodworks

1454 Fleming Ave
McKees Rocks, PA 15136

South Of Pittsburgh, just off Rt. 51 before the Neville Island bridge

Phone: 412-331-0009

E-Mail: gnawoodworks@gmail.com

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