Learn the basic skills needed to start building your own furniture in the week-long Beginning Furnituremaking course starting August 29. Learn to edge, join, and glue boards; lay out joints; cut tapered legs; join rails to legs with mortise and tenon joinery; make breadboards; and fit, join, and make a drawer. For more information and to sign up, click here.
We encourage you to support this milestone in Yestermorrow’s history by making a contribution to our 30th Anniversary fund.
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Designing and Building a Sustainable Future August 2010 Newsletter
Upcoming Innovative Homes Tour: As part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts, we will be giving a tour of five Mad River Valley residences exemplary in their architectural details and efforts to go green through energy efficiencies, renewable energy, and use of local materials. The $50 admission includes transportation for the day and lunch at Yestermorrow. The tour runs from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM on August 21. All proceeds go to benefit our scholarship fund. Reserve your spot today: 802-496-5545.
Final Touches: Natural Building Intensive
Over the past couple months, students in our natural building intensive have been busy constructing a home in Middlesex, VT. In the next few weeks, the home will be nearing completion and will be graduating our 4th NBI class. Come see their great work and congratulate the students at the open house from 4-6PM on August 20. You can also read more about the project here. Call the office at 802-496-5545 for directions to the site.
Calling All AIA Procrastinators Still have AIA credits that need to be filled before the September 30 deadline? Check out these upcoming classes that can help you fulfill your needed requirements:
Summer Lecture Series Wrapping Up
Join us for our final two nights of our free Summer Lecture Series Wednesdays August 11 and 18. Community designer, David Hohenshau, will be sharing his experience working alongside communities to help encourage participation, communicate, design and plan for the future they want. Our final night, co-founder of New Frameworks Natural Building and Yestermorrow instructor, Ace McArleton will share recent natural building projects in the Northeast. Read more about the lectures here.
Did you miss our Super Insulation Symposium in June? You can watch the whole discussion online: Part I, Part II.
Instructor Profile: Erik Hegre Erik is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon Art Department teaching digital design and fabrication and while pursuing certificates in Ecological Design and Technical Teaching. Hailing from the design build offices of the 2morrow Studio and Kimo Griggs Architects, he has critical eye on contemporary craft and the environmental impact of the built environment. His previous experience ranges from handicap accessible tree houses, to home design-build, to the design and production of architectural components utilizing digital fabrication in the design build process. Erik's upcoming Sustainable Treehouse Design & Construction class still has spots available. Sign up here.
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Still have AIA credits that need to be filled before the September 30 deadline? Check out these upcoming classes that can help you fulfill your needed requirements:
Erik is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon Art Department teaching digital design and fabrication and while pursuing certificates in Ecological Design and Technical Teaching. Hailing from the design build offices of the