Students will learn fundamental woodworking and hand tool skills to create their own dovetail box with a sliding lid. By discussing the nature of trees and the organic composition of wood, they will learn to work with the material efficiently and gain a deeper understanding of one of our oldest and most valuable traditions. The class will cover some simple math and geometry as well as structural and artistic design concepts which will help us to make a strong and beautiful box.

Instructor: Greg Alexander graduated from USC with dual degrees of music composition and political science. Mr. Alexander studied guitar building and began building instruments in Columbia in 2011, having two guitars on exhibit at the SC State Museum. He worked at Camp Pinnacle in North Carolina for 6 weeks, where he was a counselor for 13-14 year olds and taught multiple classes daily on nature skills to groups aged 7-17. He is a full-time woodworker.