Janine Wang

Janine is an artist and educa­tor currently based out of Corval­lis, Oregon. She was trained as an archi­tect and went on to study furni­ture design in order to get closer to the mate­ri­als we work with, and to make sense of the world through making. Through the support of many mentors and work envi­ron­ments, she now contin­ues to explore the intri­cate ways we build things and spread mate­r­ial knowl­edge, and is an assis­tant profes­sor of wood­turn­ing and furni­ture design within the Wood Science and Engi­neer­ing depart­ment at Oregon State Univer­si­ty’s College of Forestry.

She has a formal educa­tional back­ground in archi­tec­ture and furni­ture arts from the Cooper Union and Rhode Island School of Design respec­tively, has garnered a working educa­tion from the wonder­ful wood­work­ing and produc­tion indus­try in Philadel­phia, done resi­den­cies at various craft insti­tu­tions includ­ing the Museum for Art in Wood, Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship, and Goggle­works Center for the Arts, and has learned to teach through her work with craft schools all across the country, Bucks County Commu­nity College, and the nonprofit orga­ni­za­tion Tiny WPA. She believes a hands-on approach is crucial in good design, and is excited to share in this as much and as often as she can.