ROSS DAY
22828 Rulling Ave NE
Poulsbo, WA 98370 USA
rosswday@outlook.com
360.930.1438
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
- 30 year woodworking/design professional
- 24 year college adjunct faculty: furniture design and construction
- Wide and deep body of work: designer / maker / teacher / writer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ross Day Fine Furniture Seattle, WA 1983 – present
Business: Personally designed, hand built studio furniture / architectural woodwork
Market: individual collectors / interior design and architectural professionals
Solo and group gallery / museum shows
Published print articles by / about Ross Day
Juried awards / collected artist
Adjunct Faculty: Bellevue College: Interior Design Dept. Bellevue, WA 1992- 2015
Instructor: Furniture Design and Construction* (required AA degree studio course)
Instructor: Design and Fabrication* (required BAA degree studio course)
Adjunct Faculty: Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME 2004, 2006, 2010
Instructor: Design and Craftsmanship* (2 week intensive workshops)
Adjunct Faculty: Seattle Central Community College: Wood Construction 1990 – 2003
Instructor: Fine Furniture-making* (3 quarter program elective evening course)
* Created/developed all curriculum above
Board of Directors: Northwest Fine Woodworking Seattle, WA 1996 – 2000
Served 2 – 2 year terms formulating policy and artistic direction for the Gallery
Designed store front graphic concept, look, and signage
Interior space planning, designed and built sales counter/store fixtures
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
College of the Redwoods Fort Bragg, CA 1986 – 87
Certificate: James Krenov Fine Woodworking Program
Olympic College Bremerton, WA 2014
Technical Design: Autocad 2d
Renton Technical College Renton, WA 2013
Machining Certificate: Vertical Mill Machining Certificate: Lathe
Seattle Central Community College Seattle, WA 1979
AAS Degree – Wood Construction / Cabinetmaking Program
Seattle University / Northwest Theological Union Seattle, WA 1988
From the Terrestrial to the Celestial: Art and Spirituality (with Dr. James W. Washington Jr.)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Master Class” FWW magazine Jan/Feb 2015
“6 Great Ways to Build a Bed” FWW magazine #220 July/Aug 2011
“Ross Day Gets Ripe” (cover article) Woodwork magazine #144 Dec. 2008
“In the Modern Style” (inclusion) Taunton Press 2003
“A Well Organized One Man Shop” FWW magazine #153 Winter 2001/2002
“Extraordinary Built-ins” FWW magazine #149 May/June 2001
“A Krenov Student’s Notebook” FWW Magazine #146 Winter 2000/2001
“With Wakened Hands” by James Krenov (inclusion) Cambium Press 2000
“Commissioning” and “Furniture Gallery” (inclusion) Furniture Studio 1/The Furniture Society 1999
“A Sofa for Somebody Else” Home Furniture magazine #13 Nov. 1997
“Built-In Furniture” by Jim Tolpin (inclusion) Taunton Press 1997
SOLO SHOWS
“2˚ East 3˚ West” NW Fine Woodworking Seattle, WA 1997
“Elegant Simplicity” NW Fine Woodworking Seattle, WA 1989
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
“Faculty Show” Ctr. for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME 2006,08,10
“Multiplicity” Neuberger Museum of Art SUNY / Purchase, NY 2008
“25th Anniversary Show” NW Fine Woodworking Seattle, WA 2005
“Hold that Note” Wharton Esherick Museum Paoli, PA 2002
“Early Spring Show” Pritam & Eames Easthampton, NY 1998
“Krenov” Pritam & Eames Easthampton, NY 1995
“Chairs – Embodied Objects” Western Washington University Museum Bellingham, WA 1993
“West Coast Invitational” Highlight Gallery Mendocino,CA 1998,90
COLLECTIONS
Anne Gould Hauberg Seattle, WA
Nanette & Allan Harvey Seattle, WA / Tucson, AZ
Bebe & Warren Johnson Easthampton, NY
Margaret Minnick Seattle, WA
Roger Wallace Seattle, WA
Margaret Adams & Jiri Zapletal Kirkland, WA