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Kate Hawes has been working with wood for over 25 years. Their work ranges from traditional custom furniture pieces to inventive sculptural forms and carvings. They have a certificate in cabinet and furniture making from the North Bennet Street School and completed a residency at the Anderson Ranch Art Center. They co-founded and ran a cooperative wood shop in Brooklyn, NY for twelve years, as well as ran a custom furniture business. They have taught woodworking at the Craft Students League, Makeville Studio, Peters Valley School of Craft, and the American Folk Art Museum. In 2022, they completed a Masters in Critical Craft Studies from Warren-Wilson College.

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View fullsize A vintage celery container full of linseed oil. The Beech spoon is drinking it up, soaking its parched cells. 🤓 + celery emoji. #celery
View fullsize This spoon was made at Haystack at the end of an amazing week of spoon-mischief. Thanks to Leo, my TA who brought rotary tool magic into my life, I carved my first bowl with a Dremmel. The shape of the spoon must have come from this beautifully rende
View fullsize Spoon with squashed orbs posing on some really special brown lichen. #mainelichen #sugarmaple #haystackmountainschoolofcrafts #reliefcarving
View fullsize I spent a week with 10 amazing students and this is what they made. My goals for the class were “Attention, curiosity, and fun” and I feel that this gorgeous lot of spoons were for sure made in the glow of all three. Woodworking can be at
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View fullsize The wet soaking rain, I moved a slug to take its food. An old maple log covered in mucus, trails of it. The spoon, the drawing, the idea of it came quickly. The slug all the while growing more color on a different log-terrain. Did it frown at me over
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View fullsize A pair of spoons, curved in their own two ways. Both started at the Ulster Spoon Jam last week. Wood gifted by Roni @ronpill and Katie Rose. Following the growth of trees, noticing thistle, walking by clouds on water. What a mess we’re in.
View fullsize My crooked oak spoon and others are on sale in this online queer crafty extravaganza. Thank you @bugloverphat for the queer summer fun! And yes my spoons are made with mushroom fortified (rein)deer piss. Absolutely. See the hoho holiday market link