Facilities
The Workshop Building
Twelve-week Intensive students at work in the Satterlee Building bench room.
The Fine Woodworking Library has computers which provide students with internet access.
Left to right: Workshop Building, Satterlee Building, and
Gallery Building.
Photo credit: Kate Fletcher.
Our campus comprises four buildings on twelve acres of meadow and woods along the Oyster River in Rockport, Maine. Courses are held in the 4,200 square-foot Workshop Building and the 5,600 square-foot Satterlee Building. The Studio Fellowship Program is housed in the 5,400 square-foot Thomas Miller Jackson Building, which also holds the Woodturning Studio.
Each of these buildings has a bench room, a classroom, and a machine room. Bench rooms are outfitted with European-style workbenches, one per participant. Classrooms are furnished with tables and benches suitable to specialized activities such as drafting, carving, and finishing. Machine rooms are equipped with high-quality machinery of a scale appropriate to the advanced amateur and small professional shop.
Each machine room has full dust-collection and is furnished with 10" tablesaws, a 12" sliding tablesaw, 8" and 12" jointers, 12" and 15" thickness planers, 14" and 20" bandsaws, drill presses, a lathe, a chopsaw, a scrollsaw, a slot mortiser, grinders, a stationary disc/belt sander, and an oscillating spindle sander. Additionally, the Satterlee and Jackson Buildings are equipped with shapers. All facilities offer a plentiful assortment of hand tools and hand-held power tools for your use. The Woodturning Studio is equipped with Oneway 1640 lathes.
The fourth building on campus is home to the Messler Gallery, the school office, and the Fine Woodworking Library, which houses a large collection of books, periodicals, instructional discs, and videos. The reading area is comfortably furnished, and has WiFi access and two computers that provide internet access.