Queenie—Shop Dog

Shaun Devine

Experience: Shaun, a graduate of Northern Illinois University, taught in the Chicago Public Schools for eight years. Tired of that, she quit to compete on the U.S Kendo team. She worked for two years as a photographer. After that she spent about five years as a restaurant manager. She saved her money so she could quit her job and complete a one year unpaid apprenticeship at The Chicago Bauhaus Academy. Upon the death of the founder, Berthold Schwaiger, she cashed in her retirement, emptied her savings account and opened The Chicago School of Woodworking with her business partner Mark Hamester.

 E-mail: shaun@chicagowoodworking.net

Experience: Mark, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, served for 23 years in the United States Marine Corps where he held a variety of instructional billets. Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, Mark taught basic woodworking at the Chicago Bauhaus Academy.

E-mail: mark@chicagowoodworking.net

 

Queenie has been working at the Chicago School of Woodworking for  3 years now. Shaun adopted her from PAWS when she was 9 months old. Her perceived duties include serving as a canine alarm clock for Shaun and defending the shop from every dog that walks past her door. Queenie also provides dog therapy for those times when you should have measured twice. She likes long walks and belly rubs.

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Mark Hamester

Educating the quality-minded hobbyist in the art of woodworking.

Guest Instructors

Nick Artemakis

Nick has been building custom speakers for over 40 years. A woodworker and hopeless audio electronics tinkerer, he established Electric Woods in 1986 in the Ravenswood neighborhood.

A somewhat “eclectic” woodshop, Electric Woods has offered a wide range of quality custom cabinetry, furniture, finishing, and furniture repair, but always specializing in custom speakers and entertainment centers.

Supervisor

Mike Tipp

Mike is an award winning scroll saw craftsman and artist whose work is admired and appreciated wherever it is shown. Although he has had a lifelong interest in woodworking, he first started scrolling eight years ago after seeing a scroll saw demo at a home center. Now he can be found most weekends and evenings in his home workshop “making sawdust” on one of his two scroll saws. Currently president of the Chicagoland Scrollers chapter of the Scrollsaw Association of the World (S.A.W.) the title he is proudest of is “Grandpa”, but only when so named by his four direct and six exchange grandchildren, offspring of Japanese exchange students he and his wife hosted in the seventies and eighties. Mike is thankful to his wife, Karen, for supporting his woodworking and to his dog, Beau, for teaching him about love in its purest form.

Chris Lesser

Chris Lesser arrived at woodworking through his experiences studying woodcut printmaking at The Art Students League in New York City and building wooden boats with Bronx youth at Rocking the Boat (http://www.rockingtheboat.org/ ). He has worked as an educator with numerous organizations including the New York City Department of Education and the adult literary workshop People and Stories (http://www.peopleandstories.org/ ). He is currently studying at The College of The Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program (http://www.crfinefurniture.com/ ).

Lake Bluff artist Carole Floate has the background of teacher and principal.  She has been turning wood since the mid 90’s and has been teaching since the late 90’s at the local Woodcraft stores in northern Illinois, has taught at the Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, the Clearing in Door County , WI, has demonstrated at many woodturning symposiums throughout the United States.  She is an active member of the Chicago Woodturners, Wisconsin Woodturners, Collectors of Wood Art, on the Foundation Board of the College of Lake County in Illinois and participates as an active volunteer in the arts community.  She has been published in several major wood turning magazines.  She had taken many hands on classes with many of the major wood turners and at the present time has been embellishing her work with marbling and texturing.  In her classes you will learn the workings of the lathe, safety, and the skills for using the various tools needed to create turned wood pieces.  As an artist Carole will help you with the design and shapes of your pieces.  You can see some of her work found on her website at: www.cfloate.com 

Clint Stevens is a woodturner who has had a passion for wood since before graduating Utah State University.  After a career in engineering he opened a woodturning studio and gallery in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood where he tackles architectural and artistic woodturning projects.  Over the years Clint Stevens has benefited from regular studies with woodturners from around the world.  He has years of experience teaching woodturners in safe low stress environments where his students learn the joy of the lathe.  Clint is an active member of the American Association of Woodturners and the Chicago Woodturners.