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"4 Day Festival of Woodcarving"
GMWC 52nd August Show and Sale
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Birds of Vermont Museum - Huntington, VT
In 2023, we reached a milestone, with our 50th Annual August Show and Sale in downtown Waterbury Vermont. To celebrate our next 50, we decided to move the Annual Show to the Birds of Vermont Museum. As we are already doing our 3 day class there just before the Show, this has sort of created a "4 day Festival of WoodCarving". The move was very successful, and all decided this we wanted to continue for 2025. To meet some scheduling issues our Show this year will be held on Saturday, August 23, 2025. This is a good opportunity to get together with fellow carvers, show your work, and get more people interested in woodcarving. We can think of our Annual Show as a large outdoor CarveIn where we invite the public to join us. Please mark your calendars and plan on joining us to celebrate our 52nd year of our Annual Public Carving Show. This is an excellent opportunuity for anyone interested in woodcarving to visit the Museum, see the amazing display of handcarved birds and outside, members of the GMWC will ahve tables setup to display our carvings as well as the results of our 3 day Heron carving class held before the Show, please plan to join us. |
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June 14, 2025 CarveIn Report
Host: Bob Lindemann - Moretown, VT
Once again after almost 25 weekends including rain at least one day, it was lightly raining very early and in the low 50's but as we started carving things began to clear up. By 10:30 carvers kept arriving till we had 11 carvers busy filling the floor with chips. making a pile of chips on the floor, including Bill and Bruce which we had not seen for a few months. Of course the snack table had enough cookies, donut holes, grapes to carry us through the morning. We talked about the August class and the two sizes of Herons we will be offering. The number is quickly reaching our 10 carver limit. By lunchtime the sun was shining as the grill was lit for the natural casing hotdogs, b-b-cue beans and potato salad people had brought to share, finished off with rhubarb strawberry crisp and ice cream. As usual no one went home hungry. After lunch, we kept carving, talked about other projects and the upcoming Show. One of the advantages of the CarveIns, members had brought wood and carving patterns to share as well as several blanks. We worked till about 2:30.
July 12, 2025 CarveIn
Host: Dave Tabor - Randolph, VT
For the past several Years, Bill Stinson despite numerous floods and road
closures has hosted our July CarveIn, this year he has to take a year off,
so at the CarveIOn Dave Tabor has volunteered to host us at Magee Office
Products on July 12th. As this will just before our August Class and Show,
we will be using part of the day to work out all the details of our "4
Days Festival Of Woodcarving" at the Birds of Vermont.
Directions:
Magee Office Products - 463 VT-12 South, Randolph, VT 05060
Take Exit 4 off I-89. At the end of the ramp, turn downhill toward the
convenience store and McDonald's. Travel straight about 2.6 miles until
you see Cumberland Farms on the left. Turn left at Cumberland Farms bringing
you onto Main Street. Follow Main Street for about 1.1 miles and Magee
will be on the left, just out of the village. Magee is a long brown building
diagonally across from Tire Warehouse. Look for a huge granite sign-post
in front of the building, as well as GMWC Carve-In signs. Park in the lot
on the left. Enter using that side door. Magee Office Products on Google
Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Magee+Office+Products/@43.9079206,-72.6616911,19z/data=!3m1!4b1
The Green Mountain Wood Carvers was organized about 65+ years ago by Collise Brown from Waterville Vermont to bring together people interested in the art of wood carving. At present, we have about 75 members from Vermont as well as other states across New England.
Members of the club meet the second Saturday of each month for a "Carve-In". The Carve-Ins' are held at members houses and shops across the state, and provide an opportunity for members to gather, work on a projects and share ideas. In addition to our monthly Carve-Ins, each August, the Club plans a week long series of events including a carving class, and our Annual August Show and Sale held in Waterbury Vermont.
You don't need to be an accomplished carver to join the GMWC, our members range from first time carvers to professional carvers. Members work in all aspects of wood carving including relief, chip, caricatures, birds and wild fowl. Are members are always willing to help new carvers get started.
Follow the website links to find information about our various activities, contact information, our membership form and a copy of our newsletter, News & Notes.
As of 11/18/20, the GMWC is now recognized as a Non-Profit Organization with tax exempt status of 501(c)3.
Green Mountain Wood Carvers
PO Box 1283
Stowe, Vermont 05672