In 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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Notre-Dame Project in the streets of Ann Arbor!
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.
Getting inside Notre-Dame with Norwell High School students
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 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 Gift of Repair
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 MoreNotre-Dame Project in France!
Michael 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 MoreThe Notre-Dame Project goes to the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute!
Handshouse 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 MoreA New Chapter of the Wooden Synagogue Project
Handshouse 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 MoreThe Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project Continues!
The 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!
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Prototype and sketch of the Swivel Box Puzzle Feeder by Mallory DePoe
Monkeys?! Marvelous!
This is the time of year, The Toys for Elephants project class would normally be delivering a fleet of enrichment toys to Emily and Ruth, the Elephants at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford. Circumstances this year turned out to be a little bit different. Students in the 2020 Massachusetts College of Art and Design Toys for Elephants class did not let these circumstances get them down however, they just found a slightly smaller group of clients at the zoo. The Monkeys!
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