Fox Friday: The Crooked Spoon

The Crooked Spoon is an intermediate woodworking workshop that aims to empower students with skills and techniques that can be applied to almost any woodworking project. As the name suggests, students in the workshop will fabricate and finish simple kitchen utensils like spoons or spatulas and will leave with the skills and confidence to use them in the kitchen or in the woodshop for their next project.

Takeaway: Students will produce at least two kitchen utensils but can create as many as the time allows. This workshop is open to all levels, and students can learn advanced techniques if desired. Students will have no follow-up work and will leave and be able to use their creations immediately.

Instructor: Abraham Diaz is an artist, student organizer, and master of architecture candidate in his final semester at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the current Graduate Architecture Council President, a Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellow, a Design Futures Forum Alumni, and he is finishing a fellowship with Open Architecture Collaborative as one of twelve inaugural Equity In Practice Fellows. Before attending Sam Fox, Abraham received a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and later spent seven years in fabrication, where he developed a small furniture practice and continued his art practice.