Nearly Whole Lunette (Detail)
Milk painted poplar, bleached ash / 2024
Learn more about Josie
- About
Josie Vogel is an artist, woodworker and educator living and working in central North Carolina. While obtaining a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, she fell in love with woodworking and has since then, developed her arts practice out of her ever growing woodshop. Whether in the form of sculpture, furniture, or small goods and hand carved utensils, her work prioritizes craft, utility and the inherent beauty of the material.
She is currently the Director of Woodworking at the Sawtooth School of Visual Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- Region
- Greensboro, NC
- Website
- www.josievogelstudio.com
- Media
- Woodworking, carving
- Professional Status
- Program director, educator, artist, woodworker
Portfolio
Nearly Whole Lunette (Detail)
Milk painted poplar, bleached ash / 2024
Almost New Lunette
Ebonized white oak, milk painted poplar / 2024 18" × 18" × 18"
Droplet
Bleached red oak, fresh cut peonies / 2023 6" × 7" × 2"Droplet is a simple functional vessel that sustains a small arrangement of flowers, or perhaps just one large bloom. The form was an experiment in visual balance and an exploration of the surface tension of a droplet of water.
Osage Vase Series
Osage Orange, Dry Florals / 2023Series of 6 dry vases carved in Osage Orange
Spoons
Lunettes, Nearly Whole and Almost New
Milk painted poplar seats, bleached ash and ebonized white oak under carriages / 2024 18" × 36" 18"Staked stools, one bleached and the other blackened. The stools are paired and posed in opposition to one another.
Burnt Brush
Charred butternut, tampico fiber / 2023 8" × 5" × 1"One of a series of four hand held brushes
