I’m thrilled to be sharing a gallery with Ellie Richards and Toomas Toomepuu in Ann Arbor, Michigan this fall. Play is Work was curated by Ray Wetzel and John DeHoog, and features artists working in the furniture-ish realm whose finished works suggest and often highlight an unusual path to completion. Opens September 5th!
Class at Penland School of Crafts, June 4 - 16, 2023
I’m teaching a two week workshop at Penland School of Crafts on surface textures, treatments and finishes and I can’t wait! Come spend a few weeks geeking out with me and my amazing assistant Emma Senft in the mountains of North Carolina!
Class at Pinecroft Woodworking School, July 10-14 2023
This summer I will be teaching a bandsaw box class at the lovely Woodworking School at Pine Croft in Berea, KY. Come take a class with me in July!
Dubuque Museum of Art Craft Invitational - open through October 2022!
I have work in a lovely exhibition at the Dubuque Museum of Art in Iowa - the exhibition features remarkable craft artists from all over the region. My Chess Set will be there on display through October. Go visit!
The chess set container only partially opened
Wharton Esherick Museum Exhibition: Home As Self
I am delighted and honored to have a piece in the annual Wharton Esherick Museum exhibition. This year’s show, called Home As Self, is all about self portraits and my piece CHAIRchair received second place! The show runs through the end of August, and is worth a visit, for all of the works as well as seeing Esherick’s home and studio! For more information check out their website here.
And if you’d like to hear how Wharton Esherick’s furniture and work have influenced my own, tune in on zoom to a conversation between me and the magical Emily Zilber, the Museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs. July 12, at 3pm EST. The link to sign up is here, and it’s free and open to the public!
Boxing Match: Tom Loeser and Katie Hudnall
The amazing Tom Loeser and I have a two-person exhibition up in Gallery #5 at Abel Contemporary Gallery in Stoughton, WI! The exhibition runs through July 17th and if you want to see a bit of the thinking behind me and Tom challenging each other to a boxing match, check out the lovely video of our artist talk in the space!
Container for A Lost Year at the Fuller Craft Biennial, Spring 2022
I’m delighted that my piece, A Container for A Lost Year, will be part of the Fuller Craft Biennial Exhibition this year in Brockton, MA. Check out their website for details and a list of all the artists!
The Longest Distance Between Two Points: Sculptural Furniture show at the Joan Derryberry Gallery of Art in TN
I am thrilled to have a solo exhibition of my work at the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. If you’re in the area, I would love it if you would stop by! Masks are required and the gallery is limited to ten visitors at the time, but is easy to socially distance in and very accommodating! For more information on the location, visit the website here. The show runs from October 26th through November 20th.
Installation View
Installation View
Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet
I am thrilled to have work included in a new croquet-themed exhibition at the Messler Gallery, part of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, ME!
For information on the exhibition and the artists featured, go to the Messler Gallery here: https://www.woodschool.org/wood-school-gallery/current-exhibitions
Check out the virtual tour here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=g5JJZ4KsDA7
World Wood Day 2019 Video
The wonderful folks behind World Wood Day used footage from the 2019 WWD event to make this video about me and my process there as part of the Wood Design Team. Many thanks again to Wendy Maruyama for the opportunity, and to the wonderful team for making it so much fun.
Maine College of Art Visiting Artist Lecture - February 6th!
I’m delighted to be meeting with MECA students all day Thursday and giving a lecture that evening in Osher Hall! Free and open to the public, if you’re in the area please stop in! More info can be found here https://www.meca.edu/event/katie-hudnall/
The Woodworker's Journey: Concept to Creation
I’m absolutely thrilled to have four small wall-hung cabinets included in this exhibition in Maui at Schaefer International Gallery! January 7 - February 23, please stop by if you happen to be in Hawaii!!!
Popular Woodworking Interview!
I did a sweet, little interview with the kind folks of Popular Woodworking about the amazing Making A Seat at the Table Exhibition - follow the link to my interview!
Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking
I am so delighted and proud to have work included in this excellent exhibition at the Center for Art in Wood. If you are in or near Philadelphia between now and mid-January, stop in and see this show! Keep your eyes open for a book project coming out on this work by the magical Laura Mays and Deirdre Visser (the co-curators of this exhibition) - to find out more go to womenwoodworking.org.
Photo by John Carlano
Photo by John Carlano
Photo by John Carlano
ADVENTURES IN WOODWORKING: Anderson Ranch Workshop July 22-26th, 2019
The amazing Sylvie Rosenthal and I will be team teaching a class at Anderson Ranch this July!!! This is a total dream for me, and I hope you’ll join us! For more information visit Ranch’s website here.
Furnitur(ish): A Solo Exhibition at the University of Evansville, IN
I will have dozens of sculptures and drawings in a solo exhibition of my work at the University of Evansville’s Melvin Peterson Gallery from January 14th to February 23rd. Come see the work! If you’d like to come for the opening reception and gallery lecture, the details are here. Thanks to the Indiana Arts Commission for helping to support making the new works with a generous Individual Advancement Program grant!
Transformation 10: Contemporary Works in Found Materials is up through March!
Friends! If you’re traveling near or through Pittsburgh, PA in the next few months, it’s not too late to see my piece, The Seeing Machine, in person at Contemporary Craft! It’s one of several really lovely new works by an amazing group of artists in the show, and I’m super duper proud to be included. For more information on the show visit the Contemporary Craft website.
IU News Feature Interview and Video, July 2018
The fine folks at IU did a little video interview of me talking about work in the faculty show. Check it out on their website!
On Structure at Grunwald Gallery in Bloomington, IN
If you happen to be in Bloomington Indiana this summer, stop by IU and check out the On Structure exhibition at their Grunwald Gallery. I have 4 pieces in this lovely group exhibition curated by Linda Tien and on view through July. The other artists are Hannah Barnes, Jessica Calderwood, Tiffany Carbonneau, Brian Harper, Mie Kongo and Brooke Marks-Swanson. For more information hit up their gallery site here.
The amazing External Affairs staff at Herron School of Art and Design asked me if I would answer some questions for a new series they're doing profiling Herron faculty. Check out my answers here. If you have time, you should also read the first one about Lowell Isaac, one of our amazing teachers in Illustration - my colleagues are so cool! Heck, you should probably just keep an eye on EVERYTHING going on at Herron - it's a great place to work, and a great place to go to school!