Gail Fredell

I am a fourth gener­a­tion native Cali­forn­ian, born and raised in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area. I grad­u­ated from UC Berke­ley with a degree in Archi­tec­ture in 1974, and after four years of working as a general contrac­tor, I returned to school and received my MFA in Wood­work­ing and Furni­ture Design from Rochester Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in 1980.

Since then I have pursued a career of studio furni­ture work, educa­tion and arts admin­is­tra­tion. I have main­tained work­shops in the Bay Area, the moun­tains of Colorado and North Carolina, and now Fall River, MA. I have taught exten­sively in work­shop programs across the country, and from 1993 to 2001 I served as the Furni­ture Program Direc­tor at Ander­son Ranch Arts Center near Aspen, CO.

In 2012 I was invited to teach in the Foun­da­tion Studies and Furni­ture Design Depart­ments at RISD, and I have since then moved perma­nently to the area and continue to teach part-time at the College. I live in West­port Point, MA and work at the Smoke­stack Studios in Fall River, MA.

My furni­ture is in the perma­nent collec­tions of SF MOMA, the Oakland Museum, The Fuller Craft Museum, Stan­ford Univer­sity Memo­r­ial Chapel and The AIDS Memo­r­ial Grove in Golden Gate Park.