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This July we are proud to offer 2 great workshops; on July 20-22, Author & Senior Furniture Conservator, Donald C. Williams, will be he...

Today was the last day of classes, the graduation ceremony is next Monday (5/17/2010). Just like the classes that have passed through these ...

We are wrapping u p really fast, and a lot of great furniture is being turned out by the students. I just wanted to share some more of the ...

Students are in their final section of the 9 month course, Refinishing. Here we take furniture, strip it down to the bare bones, and start ...

We were very fortunate today to have Larry Van Isagam , President and founder of Van Technology, come and spent the day with us to talk abou...

Don Williams came in from Washington D.C. yesterday and today to work with the students, as well as co-sponsor of his visit, The MN Woodwork...

We took another field trip to the Fort Snelling Chapel today, where the students could see how their work held up since their last visit (ve...

In our 1st class back from winter break, we hit the ground running! The students have studied our 2 main text books, and we do some intense...

Today we begin another new section; Methods of Fastening. In this section we look at and learn about the many ways that furniture is fastene...

As we wind down the woodworking section, we have looked at power tools and hand tools, we have learned how to square a board, we have done r...

We are 3 days into our next section of our program, we set color aside for a bit and turn our focus to woodworking. Our students come to us ...

On a week packed with field trips, we visited Schneiderman's Furniture Distribution Center. Our guide was past NIWF Graduate Kathy Mors...