The Wisdom of Our Hands

Doug Stowe

 Woodworker, Educator and Author

March 21, 2023, 7:00 pm

@ The Studio

Human learning follows a simple pattern, from the easy to more difficult, from the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, and from the concrete to the abstract. Hear an author, master woodworker, and teacher describe human growth through the eyes of a maker of beautiful and useful things. Learn about the need to create as a fundamental building block that drives lifelong learning and explore how purposeful engagement of the hands is a way to re-energize American education at large, and one of the best ways to energize both the individual child and that child within ourselves. All are welcome.

Stowe will reflect on his 48 year career in woodworking and the powers we each have in our own hands to shape family, community, human culture and ourselves  in relation to all that.

Bio: DOUG STOWE began his career as a woodworker. The Wisdom of Our Hands: Crafting, A Life, is his 14th book and he also is the author of over 100 articles. He began a woodworking program at the Clear Spring School (AR), to integrate woodworking activities to reinforce the academic curriculum, restoring the rationale for the use of crafts in general education.

He was named an “Arkansas Living Treasure” by the Arkansas Department of Heritage and Arkansas Arts Council for his contributions to traditional crafts and craft education. Retired from the Clear Spring School, he remains an advocate of woodworking education and teaches at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, the Marc Adams School of Woodworking and at woodworking clubs throughout the US. His blog, Wisdom of the Hands was launched in 2006 and has had 2.5 million visits.

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