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Event Series Event Series: Tool Workshop (Greenpoint Library)

Tool Workshop (Greenpoint Library)

Saturday, February 15th at 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Join us and learn how to work with wood. Taught by educators and artists Derek Haffer and Jim Osman, you will leave with hands-on experience of how to operate tools (available in our Tool Library) and how you may use them in your own projects.

No registration – 12 spots available, come early, space is limited.

For adults and teens 14+ (accompanied by parent).

All patrons must sign a liability waiver to participate.

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February 15, 10:30am-12:30pm: Working with Wood-Routers and Sanders

March 8th, 10:30am-12:30pm: Poking Holes in Things-Drills, Impact Drivers and Hammerdrills

March 22nd, 10:30am-12:30pm, Tool Workshop: Cutting Things-Circular Saws, Jigsaws/Reciprocating Saws

 April 5th, 10:30am-12:30pm, Tool Workshop:  What Can I Do With This Tool? Angle Grinders, Dremels, Multipurpose Oscillating Tools


Derek Haffar is originally from upstate NY, received an MFA from Bard College and is currently part time faculty at Parsons School of Design and Adjunct professor at Pratt Institute. He has worked for several name artists as fabricator, assistant, for Mathew Barney, Red Grooms, Tom Otterness among others. His work for the Wildlife Conservation Society as an exhibit specialist has had a lasting impact on the way that his work is constructed as well as how industrial art practices impact the environment. His work is iterative nature with an emphasis on sustainability. He is an interdisciplinary artist, molding, casting, painting combining and overlapping medium’s themes and mediums. His most recent work is writing, he is focusing on nonlinear poetry that is beat like and nostalgic. Work in progress is a romance story of a bee and a buttercup.

Jim Osman was born in New York City. He received a BA & MFA from Queens College. He has had solo exhibitions at McKenzie Fine Art, Robichon Gallery, Lesley Heller Workspace, Long Island University and Dartmouth College. His work has been included in group shows at the Brooklyn Museum, Equity Gallery and University of Texas at San Antonio.  He has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Parsons School of Design and a NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. He became a member of the National Academy in 2019.Mr. Osman taught courses in three-dimensional design and sculpture at Parsons School of Design for 22 years. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Organizer

Brooklyn Public Library
Phone
718.968.7275
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Brooklyn

Venue

Greenpoint Library
107 Norman Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222 United States
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