Woodworking Certificate

Miah McClinton: Woodworking Certificate

May 14, 2018

By Francesca Genello

Many of the students that enroll in our courses are looking for something different. Whether it’s a new hobby, skill, inspiration, career or life change - these students are itching for something unconventional. With our course catalog of nearly 100 creative courses that emphasize the importance of sustainability, craft, and fundamental skills, our curriculum offers that source of inspiration to develop your passions.

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Lindley Brainard: WWC Alum and Instructor

December 18, 2017

By Chrissy Bellmyer, Operations Director

For years, Lindley Brainard had dreamed of becoming a furniture maker, but struggled to find a way into the field. One day in 2010 she realized that she had flagged five different emails from Yestermorrow, advertising its first-ever Woodworking Certificate 12-week intensive course, to be read later.

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Moving from Woodlot to Woodshop

February 16, 2012

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
As the 2012 Woodworking Certificate Program enters its third week, students are honing in from forests to fine woodworking. The 11-week intensive course began with sawyer Nick Zandstra, who took students out into the woods on Yestermorrow's campus to analyze trees and the wood they produce, and eventually demonstrate felling and small-scale...

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