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 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.
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.
Read MorePhilippe Villeneuve and Remi Fromont, Chief Architects of the Notre-Dame de Paris reconstruction in Paris greeting Rick Brown Co-Founder of Handshouse Studio in front of the full-scale replica of a Notre-Dame de Paris wooden roof truss reconstructed by Handshouse Studio participants using Fromonts hand-drawings of the cathedral’s medieval timber roof structure.
Read MoreThe Catholic University of America and the National Building Museum, partners in Handshouse Studio’s Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project, host restoration architects of Notre-Dame de Paris, who will help hand-raise a 8100-pound full-scale reconstruction of a Notre-Dame roof truss. Events in Washington, DC Monday, Sept 26th!
Read MoreThe Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project exhibition at the Millennium Gate Museum ended with a gorgeous sunny day of demonstrations and presentations in Atlanta, GA. The Full-scale reconstruction of Notre Dame’s choir truss #6 stood on the Western terrace of Millennium Gate enjoying its last moments amongst the Atlanta community.
Read MoreFilmmakers Rian Brown and Jake Hochendoner follow Handshouse Studios’ group of American timber framers in their efforts to accurately reconstruct a full-scale wooden truss as a gift, in an act of global solidarity, to repair the roof of Notre Dame of Paris cathedral that burned in 2019. A Studio Orsopolis and Divided Line production
Read MoreThis conversation will feature Lindsay S. Cook, PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ball State University; Tonya Ohnstad, AIA, NCARB, MNAL, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America; Traditional Carpenter Gerald David of GFD Woodworking, and Rick Brown of Handshouse Studio. Register HERE for this Free Online Event
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