Alexandra Cotter

I fell in love with the art of furniture making through the Independent Study Senior Thesis at The College Wooster. There I developed three tables and nine seats all from discarded wood (including barrels, pallets, doors, drawers, tables, and found wood). The summer following graduation, I enrolled in the Twelve Week Intensive at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. There I was able to hone my skills as a fine woodworker, and gained a better understanding of functional furniture. I created a bench by hand, a cluster of boxes with hand cut dovetails and mortises that mount on an exterior corner, and a table with four different, hand carved legs, and a hand cut verneer compass. These stools shown in the background are now part of the College of Wooster's collection.