Please join us on Saturday, April 25 at 10:30 AM
for a demonstration by expert turner
Mitch Jones
in person in the auditorium of the
Folk Art Center, 382 Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC
Open to the public. Free admission.
About the demo
"From Simple to Elegant: How attention to detail can take your work to the next level"
Mitch will demonstrate how to turn an orb, focusing on shape, form and tool control.
Once the orb is off the lathe Mitch will discuss approachable ways to lay out a pattern on our wood, and simple ways to texture it.
To wrap things up, paint application and coloring tips will be covered.
While turning multiple, beginner friendly, projects we will cover how attention to the fine details can take your work to the next level. From a continuous curve to a well thought out foot on a bowl, to small champhered edges on a honey dipper the details are what separates decent from awesome. Fine tool control and simple finishing techniques will round out the subjects covered in this demonstration.
Biography
Mitch Jones is a woodturner from Central Kentucky, who lives in Gatlinburg,Tennessee. He enjoys living in the mountains with his wife, Nikki, and their three cats. In the winter 2014, Mitch took a community class at Arrowmont and was hooked on woodturning. That summer he was lucky enough to get into Rudy Lopez's "Anchor, Bevel Boot Camp" and a lasting friendship was born. Two years later, Rudy introduced Mitch to Scarlette Rouse and those two people have impacted Mitch's art and life as mentors and friends. He began assisting every class between John C Campbell and Arrowmont that he could, and had the opportunity to help Emmet Kane, Curt Theobald, Jerry Kermode and Aaron Hammer early in his woodturning journey. Mitch instructed his first community class at Arrowmont in 2018, and has instructed or assisted over 2000 hours of studio woodturning classes. In 2024 Mitch was introduced to embellishing by Andi Wolfe, and is heavily influenced by her style/mentorship. While Mitch enjoys turning embellished orbs and bowls, his true passion is teaching beginners how to turn wood and supporting schools that are growing arts and crafts. He believes that we have to find more woodturners in order to insure we have a future where we still have clubs and symposiums, and he tries to do his part. In 2025, Mitch taught over 200 beginners, from age 9 to 90, how to turn wood and is trying to match that number this year.
Mitch's Facebook Page
Zoom access
CMW members unable to attend in person are invited to participate free on Zoom
Advance registration for the event is required in order to be provided online access.
To register:
1) Log in to your CMW account online
2) From the Event in the CMW calendar click the REGISTER FOR ZOOM button
3) Choose 'Sign up yourself' and click NEXT
4) Click COMPLETE REGISTRATION. You'll receive two emails from CMW –
one confirming registration and one providing the Zoom link
5) At the time of the meeting or shortly before, choose the CMW email that starts
'This message contains important videoconferencing information...'
Click the URL after 'Link to Event' halfway down the page. This will take you to Zoom.
6) Click OPEN ZOOM, and under that click LAUNCH MEETING.
- If you join before the system is turned on you should see the circling arrow.
- Once the system is on but the Zoom meeting not active you should see the CMW logo.
- When the cameras are activated you will be admitted to the meeting.
- If for any reason you're not getting in, reregister from scratch
Workshop
Mitch will offer a day-long workshop on this topic at the CMW's Turning Learning Center in Arden on Sunday, April 26.
More information and advance registration are available through the separate Event on CMW's event calendar.
A fee will apply.
Active CMW membership is necessary for registration.