BA Harrington

BA Harring­ton received her tradi­tional train­ing in the Cabinet and Furni­ture­mak­ing Program at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. After a decade of build­ing custom furni­ture, she returned to acad­e­mia and her studio art back­ground, grad­u­at­ing from the Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin-Madison with an MFA in wood, and a Master’s Degree in Art History. She is currently Profes­sor of Wood­work­ing, and Direc­tor of the Wood Center at Indiana Univer­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia (IUP).

Harring­ton’s sculp­tural instal­la­tions refer­ence iconic early Amer­i­can furni­ture forms built specif­i­cally for use by women. Her largest body of work inves­ti­gates the Hadley chests, a large group­ing of dowry chests built in Western Mass­a­chu­setts during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.