The Furniture Society Educational Grants Program announced five winners for 2022.
The program promotes excellence in the furniture field through financial assistance for professional development or for special projects of an educational nature. The program is open to all current members of the Furniture Society.
Five partnering institutions in the program are: Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont, Haystack, John C. Campbell, and Peters Valley. "Without their support and generosity, this program would not be possible," said a spokesman.
This year's jurors for the program were Katherine Lam, Joshua Enck and Karen Ernst. "The quality and quantity of submissions this year was beyond our expectations," they said. They had the difficult task of reviewing so many worthy applicants making their job both a delight and a challenge.
Here's a look at the winners.

Patterson O'Sullivan (Anderson Ranch Arts Center) says on her website, "I am a craftsperson living in Asheville, North Carolina, on unceded eastern Cherokee land. I am grateful to follow a making practice that keeps me close to the earth. With one foot in the world of making and another in the world of somatic healing and earth-based ritual, it is my joy to create furniture and objects for healing spaces."

Teresa Audet (Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts) is an artist and furniture maker from Minneapolis. Audet holds a BFA in Furniture Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has studied at the Mount Fuji School of Fine Woodworking in Yamanashi, Japan. She has been awarded several grants including two Artist Initiative Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and an EFASO grant from the Furniture Society. She participates in artist residencies and teaches at craft schools nationwide. Audet is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison expected to graduate 2023.

Kailee Bosch (Haystack Mountain School of Crafts) says, "I am an artist and maker based in Fort Collins, Colorado. I grew up woodturning in my fathers shop, but have since expanded my interests towards a variety of different materials and outcomes. I like to think of my current practice as making both functional objects and speculative designs. I graduated with my BFA from Colorado State University in May of 2020.

Anna Hitchcock (John C. Campbell Folk School) is an artist and woodworker based in Rhode Island. After graduating from Macalester College with a major in Studio Art, she studied at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, and interned at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Her sculptural work integrates fiber and wood to address the experience of sexual assault and the complexities of navigating public vulnerability as a woman and a survivor. She has exhibited across the country and internationally, and her work is currently featured in the Newport Biennial.

Rebecca Juliette-Duex (Peters Valley School of Crafts) was introduced to the value of craft at an early age. During visits to her mother’s childhood home in rural Western Pennsylvania, she observed how her grandparents found solace in their own handcraft; her grandfather, a coal miner, in his woodshop and her grandmother with needle and thread or yarn. An immersion in weaving (2017 – 19) and woodworking (2019 – 21) at Haywood Community College has been an opportunity to build the skills necessary to honor the legacy of her grandparents. Rebecca’s work brings wood and fiber into conversation to tell the story of her own creative heritage and to inspire others to do the same.
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