The Furni­ture Society is honored to announce its stew­ard­ship of the $25,000 unre­stricted John D. Mineck Fellow­ship support­ing emerg­ing and early-career furniture makers.

TFS’ Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Monica Hampton was invited to speak to the board of direc­tors of the Fine Objects Society (FOS) during their first-anniver­sary members’ retreat in German­town, NY. Monica shared an overview of The Furni­ture Society’s history, current initia­tives, and strate­gic vision, high­light­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for align­ment between the two organizations.

Congrat­u­la­tions to TFS member Morgan Hill. Her neck­lace, Smörgås­bord, was recently acquired by the Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Museum through the gener­ous gift of Diane Charnov and museum purchase through the Windgate Foun­da­tion Living Artists Acqui­si­tions Fund, 2025.18

Over the course of two days, The Furni­ture Society explored Manhat­tan and Brook­lyn studios, galleries, fabri­ca­tion studios, and the ener­getic hub that is the Inter­na­tional Contem­po­rary Furni­ture Fair (ICFF).

Furni­ture maker, educa­tor, and author Mark Sfirri received the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Wood­turn­ers 2024 Profes­sional Outreach Program (POP) Merit Award. Merit Award recip­i­ents are indi­vid­u­als selected by the Commit­tee who have shown excep­tional devel­op­ment in their careers as artists and whose artworks have directly influ­enced or had a signif­i­cant impact on other artists within the field of woodturning.

Decem­ber 2, 2023 – January 20, 2024

Mark Sfirri, the 2008 curator of Across the Grain — A Regional Wood Exhi­bi­tion, returns to WAC to curate InGrained – An Exhi­bi­tion of Penn­syl­va­nia Furni­ture, Sculp­ture and Wood­turn­ing, the 2023 Craft­Forms’ compan­ion show. In addi­tion to being a furni­ture maker and sculp­tor working in wood, Sfirri is also a teacher, researcher, writer, collab­o­ra­tor, photog­ra­pher, and printmaker.

John Sheri­dan’s Broken on the Rock of War has been selected for the nation­ally juried exhibit, Our True Heroes, at the Gilroy, CA, Center for the Arts

The National Base­ball Hall of Fame and Museum in Coop­er­stown, New York, has acquired a set of unusual base­ball bats titled ​“Rejects from the Bat Factory,” created by Mark Sfirri of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The Inter­na­tional Society of Furni­ture Design­ers (ISFD) is an orga­ni­za­tion dedi­cated to excel­lence, inno­va­tion, educa­tion, and orig­i­nal­ity in the prac­tice of furni­ture design and serves as the unified voice of the furni­ture design commu­nity.

Each year the ISFD spon­sors the INNO­VA­TION + DESIGN Compe­ti­tion, a juried compe­ti­tion designed to cele­brate inge­nu­ity among profes­sional design­ers and emerg­ing students who antic­i­pate a career in the custom wood and related home furnishings industries.

Boston’s Society of Arts + Crafts announced that Sophie Glenn is the 2022 recip­i­ent of the John D. Mineck Fellow­ship, a high-profile award with an unre­stricted $25,000 prize given annu­ally to an early-career furniture artist.