{"id":22820,"date":"2022-06-28T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22820"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:38:35","slug":"camosun-fine-furniture-students-show-off-their-chairs-chairs-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/06\/28\/camosun-fine-furniture-students-show-off-their-chairs-chairs-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Fine Furniture students show off their Chairs, Chairs, Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The students in Camosun\u2019s Fine Furniture class of 2022 are hosting Chairs, Chairs, Chairs<\/i> until Sunday, July 10. Not only does this exhibit\u2014being held at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre\u2014have as its title a hilarious play on the name of M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u2019s 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls<\/i>, but it also showcases the students\u2019 many different takes on chairs.<\/p>\n

Program head and instructor\u2014and Fine Furniture alumna\u2014Sandra Carr says that doing chairs for the capstone project is a tradition of the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have students who come in, and in week one of the 10-month program, they\u2019re like, \u2018I\u2019m going to make this chair.\u2019 So, I think there\u2019d be a bit of backlash if I changed it. And chairs in furniture making are iconic, and chairs are very personal in the way we interact with them. They\u2019re unlike any piece of furniture where they\u2019re meant to fit the human body. They\u2019re intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students in Camosun College’s Fine Furniture program (photo by Camosun College).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fine Furniture student Eldie Forget has used the capstone project to design a comfortable and multipurpose meditation stool. Their chair\u2019s design was inspired by their own need for a new meditation stool, as well as the need of others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve created a few meditation schools,\u201d says Forget, \u201cand I\u2019ve done these 10-day silent mediations for many years, and we sit down for many hours in a day, and I\u2019ve always switched between sitting cross-legged and kneeling… It just always felt like I had a big pile of cushions or meditation stools that weren\u2019t very comfortable. The stool kind of came from a need for a piece of seating that could do it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like previous years, the chairs are made of reclaimed, donated Garry oak and arbutus wood. These types of woods are preferred because of Garry oak\u2019s ability to steam bend\u2014a technique showcased in this year\u2019s exhibition\u2014and the arbutus\u2019 natural beauty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re two of my favourite local woods to work in,\u201d says Carr. \u201cThe Garry oak, specifically, is very well suited to doing steam bending, a wood-bending technique that you basically heat up the wood in a steam box and bend it… A couple chairs of this year\u2019s exhibit are using Garry oak specifically to do that technique with them. So, the design kind of centres around using that technique. And the arbutus is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wood was donated by the Vancouver Island Woodworkers Guild after being approved to be cut down for safety reasons or to make way for new developments. This donated wood creates a valuable tie to the community, says Carr, and an opportunity to promote the local organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best thing about these two woods is they come from the Woodworkers Guild,\u201d says Carr. \u201cAnd there\u2019s something really special about using material that\u2019s come from the place we live and work in. So, there\u2019s that tie to that land and a positive tie-in that we\u2019re not cutting down the trees for the material. Instead, the trees have come down for whatever reason. It could be a windfall or, sometimes, development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, Carr hopes her students leave the program with a basic woodworking knowledge and an understanding of what comes next. She hopes her instruction and support give them the confidence to take that next step and thrive in their future careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d hope they leave with a basic knowledge of woodworking, an understanding of what they need to learn next… A direction, perhaps, of what it is they want to do next,\u201d says Carr. \u201cAn exposure and awareness of what the different opportunities are. And I think a sense of personal accomplishment would be a big one, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The students in Camosun\u2019s Fine Furniture class of 2022 are hosting Chairs, Chairs, Chairs until Sunday, July 10. Not only does this exhibit\u2014being held at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre\u2014have as its title a hilarious play on the name of M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u2019s 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls, but it also showcases the students\u2019 many different takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22822,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions\/22822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}