Welcome to the Rochester Woodcarvers club!
Join us at the next meeting of the 2010-2011 seasonFred CogelowSaturday, September 18, 2010
Special location - September meeting only
Plumbers & Pipefitters Union Local 6 Meeting Hall
1470 Industrial Dr NW
Rochester, MN 55901
click here for a map to the building
Fred Cogelow, a renowned woodcarver from
Willmar, unveils one of his carvings at the Willmar Public
Library. The carving, entitled “Old Man Kench (... and the Ladies)”, is a
relief sculpture Cogelow said he carved from a piece of butternut more
than 25 years ago. It was donated to the library by Tom Torgerson of
Willmar, who purchased the carving several years ago.
(Image and information courtesy of West Central Tribune)Fred has provided the following summary of what he can discuss during the meeting:
"i'm willing to talk about most anything of interest to your carvers. in the past, i have done some critiquing of
works/designs brought for such porpoises, and missile-aneous stories
about my own carving history. given a lack of suggestions, i'll be
disposed to discussing at some length the genre of carving in
mezzo-relief, with discussion of design and execution, and samples of my
own work along with edifying incomplete endeavors of the late Dave
Rasmussen."
If you have any specific requests for Fred to discuss, please send a note to rochcarve@gmail.com and I'll forward them to Fred for his consideration.
Here is the planned agenda:
9:00 - start of regular club meeting
9:00 - 10:00 - club business, show and tell, and coffee break
10:00 - 11:30 - Fred - session 1
11:30 - 12:30 - lunch at the meeting - we will invite club members to bring "pot luck"
12:30 - 2:00 - Fred - session 2
2:00 - adjourn
Here are some photos of selected works by Fred:
"Deck of 51"
"Untitled segmented demo piece for classes"
"In Hac Petra" - Peter's denial of Christ
"Mission accomplished"
Fall 2010 Community Education Classes
The Rochester Community Education classes have been scheduled and you can find details about the two available in Rochester on our web site by clicking here.
2010 Festival of Trees 
The 2010 Rochester Woodcarvers Festival of Trees project continues under construction but it will be ready for the Hiawatha Homes Festival of Trees event in November.
Check out additional photos of the 2010 project and see the history of prior
Rochester Woodcarvers trees at
Festival of Trees.
Rochester Woodcarvers 34th Annual Shownow complete!
The Rochester Woodcarvers held their 34th annual woodcarving show on March 20-21, 2010 and was very well received! Photos of Elinor Lamb, our featured carver; People's Choice competition carvings; and carvings donated to the club for our raffle can be found
here.
Thanks for all your support! We'll see you next year!
9/1/2010 - updated 2010 Festival of Trees house project photos
8/31/2010 - incorporated Hiawatha Home's 25th Anniversary image on Festival of Trees page
8/25/2010 - modified the Festival of Trees page and home page
8/7/2010 - added Festival of Trees project progress
7/30/2010 - added Fred Cogelow meeting topic information and Fall 2010 Community Education classes
5/27/2010 - updated September meeting topic/Festival of Trees status/2010-2011 meeting schedule
5/11/2010 - added May 2010 newsletter
5/10/2010 - added photos of Stenman relief carving class to Local Classes page
4/29/2010 - added Walter Lange to our May meeting announcement
4/26/2010 - added May 2010 meeting notice
4/12/2010 - added April 2010 newsletter
3/31/2010 - added proposed changes to club constitution and bylaws for member review
3/28/2010 - updated home page for April meeting and added 2010 carving show photos
3/16/2010 - added YouTube video link for Rah Rah Rochester segment on the carving show
3/12/2010 - added March newsletter
3/4/2010 - updated annual carving show information
2/16/2010 - updated annual carving show information
1/24/2010 - added February meeting topic
1/13/2010 - canceled January meeting because of church conflict, added Winter 2010 classes
1/12/2010 - changes to club officer page - list of officers
1/5/2010 - update for January 2010 meeting
11/25/2009 - added new Festival of Trees photos in a link to a Picasa photo album
11/21/2009 - added December meeting, Festival cabin photos and club logo embroidery
11/19/2009 - added color flyer and bookmark files to Annual Show page, also added 2011 show date
11/14/2009 - new photos of the "Cabin in the Woods" added to Festival page
11/5/2009 - update for change in November meeting topic and added photos of Festival project
10/14/2009 - updated 2009 Festival of Trees carving "sign-up" list of carved items
9/27/2009 - added information about October speaker Konstantinos Papadakis
9/5/2009 - added 2009-2010 meeting schedule
7/17/2009 - added Summer 2009 newsletter
7/5/2009 - added the existing Festival of Trees carving item list to the FOT page
6/13/2009 - added April/May 2009 newsletter and other updates
5/9/2009 - created links to the 2009 show photo albums
4/29/2009 - added May meeting topic information
4/4/2009 - removed the Annual Show information from the home page
3/21/2009 - update for April meeting topic
2/23/2009 - update for Shawn Bakken's March meeting topic
1/29/2009 - added John Gordon's November-December 2008 newsletter
1/18/2009 - update for Janel Jacobson's February presentation
1/7/2009 - added new Woodcarvers/Community Education classes for Winter/Spring 2009
12/21/2008 - update for January club meeting
12/3/2008 - added Laurie Reed's Festival of Trees summary
11/30/2008 - added the 2008 Festival of Trees photo album
11/16/2008 - updated home page for December meeting and photo history of prior Festival of Trees
11/13/2008 - added Sept/Oct newsletter
10/18/2008 - added November meeting topic and new information about the 2008 Santa's workshop
10/5/2008 - adding 2008 Festival of Trees design information
9/29/2008 - changes for October meeting topic
9/23/2008 - changes to September meeting location
9/4/2008 - updated the September meeting presentation information
8/14/2008 - removed summer events, added Moore Roughouts to Related Links section
8/6/2008 - added new woodcarving classes in Local Classes link
8/4/2008 - removed Olmsted County Fair club display information
7/26/2008 - added meeting topics and speakers for September through January 2009
7/15/2008 - finishing new site creation
7/14/2008 - 1st pages of new site established