Richard Dlugo
Arts and Craft Fair Experience:
• 1975-1985 — Wooden toys for children and large scale jig-sawn puzzles for adults.
• 2006-2017 — Wood turnings , fine furniture and functional objects exhibited at juried Chicagoland art fairs.
Non-Woodworking Experiences:
• 1960-1968 – Apprentice to pipe-organ builder
• 1968-2000 – Music Teacher, Band Director, Choir Director
• 1985-1990 – Computer program cottage industry developer for educational applications.
• 1987-2013 – Computer Professional, Database Administrator and Webmaster
• Presently and permanently retired
Formal Education: BA, Music Education, Benedictine University, 1968.
Woodworking Mentors of International Notoriety:
• Binh Pho, Surface design, piercing, creating a story in a turning, air brushing.
• Hans Weissflog, Criss-crossed circles and spheres turned on two sides.
• Graeme Priddle, Pyrography and branding, off center turning.
• Steven Hatcher, Inlaying minerals into turnings.
• Cindy Drozda, Multi axis turnings, fine finials.
• Jimmy Clewes, Dying wood, metal inlays, natural edge bowls.
• Alan Lacer, Use of the skew in woodturning.
• Michael Hosaluk, Off-center turning and surface decoration.
• Bonnie Kline, Threaded wooden boxes.
• Alain Mailland, Organic forms from wet madrone burl root stock.
• Ashley Harwood, Ebony jewelry and ornamental finials.
• Graham Blackburn, furniture design and construction.
• Marc Adams, furniture construction.
• Michael Fortune, wood bending, furniture design.
• Numerous seminars with noted artists demonstrating at the annual American Association of Woodturners Symposiums in various cities.
Exhibits
• Rising from the Ashes, 2008-2010. A traveling exhibit, initially hosted by the Morton Arboretum, featuring furniture made from ash trees felled by infestation of the emerald ash borer.
• LaGrange Illinois Public Library, December 2010
• La Grange Art League Gallery, 2015-2018
• Morton Arboretum, Artists Take Root program, 2011
• 2010 to Present: Continuous commissioned exhibits of wood artifacts at Morton Arboretum Gift Shop
• 1975-1985 — Wooden toys for children and large scale jig-sawn puzzles for adults.
• 2006-2017 — Wood turnings , fine furniture and functional objects exhibited at juried Chicagoland art fairs.
Non-Woodworking Experiences:
• 1960-1968 – Apprentice to pipe-organ builder
• 1968-2000 – Music Teacher, Band Director, Choir Director
• 1985-1990 – Computer program cottage industry developer for educational applications.
• 1987-2013 – Computer Professional, Database Administrator and Webmaster
• Presently and permanently retired
Formal Education: BA, Music Education, Benedictine University, 1968.
Woodworking Mentors of International Notoriety:
• Binh Pho, Surface design, piercing, creating a story in a turning, air brushing.
• Hans Weissflog, Criss-crossed circles and spheres turned on two sides.
• Graeme Priddle, Pyrography and branding, off center turning.
• Steven Hatcher, Inlaying minerals into turnings.
• Cindy Drozda, Multi axis turnings, fine finials.
• Jimmy Clewes, Dying wood, metal inlays, natural edge bowls.
• Alan Lacer, Use of the skew in woodturning.
• Michael Hosaluk, Off-center turning and surface decoration.
• Bonnie Kline, Threaded wooden boxes.
• Alain Mailland, Organic forms from wet madrone burl root stock.
• Ashley Harwood, Ebony jewelry and ornamental finials.
• Graham Blackburn, furniture design and construction.
• Marc Adams, furniture construction.
• Michael Fortune, wood bending, furniture design.
• Numerous seminars with noted artists demonstrating at the annual American Association of Woodturners Symposiums in various cities.
Exhibits
• Rising from the Ashes, 2008-2010. A traveling exhibit, initially hosted by the Morton Arboretum, featuring furniture made from ash trees felled by infestation of the emerald ash borer.
• LaGrange Illinois Public Library, December 2010
• La Grange Art League Gallery, 2015-2018
• Morton Arboretum, Artists Take Root program, 2011
• 2010 to Present: Continuous commissioned exhibits of wood artifacts at Morton Arboretum Gift Shop
