Schedule of Classes
Spring 2025 Season
Beginner Classes
beginner | one Saturday
Traditional Bowl Turning
Apr 18 - 20 | $775
Learn the most effective approaches in turning side grain vessels. Discover your own design aesthetic, creating your best work using traditional woodturning tools.
Taught by Matt Monaco.
beginner | three-day intensive
Cornhole Set Family Build
Apr 12 | $150
Build and paint a cornhold board using simple materials and techniques. Ticket price includes one adult and one child.
Taught by Ali Wilder.
beginner | half day Saturday
Make a Maple Wood Frame
Apr 19 | $155
Learn some woodworking basics including working on the table saw, and go home with a custom-sized, beautiful maple wood frame.
Taught by Shelton Walker.
beginner | weekend intensive
Introduction to Turned Bowls
Mar 29 & 30 | $445
This class will introduce students to woodturning or provide an opportunity for more experienced students to refine their skills. Go home with at least one small bowl!
Taught by Hel Hamilton.
beginner | weekend intensive
Woodshop Essentials: The Table Saw
Apr 23 | $95
Learn how to safely and confidently use this versatile and powerful woodshop machine.
Taught by Blake Johnson.
beginner | one evening
Intermediate Adirondack Chair
April 5 | $135
Build this classic chair, incorporating hardware and joinery that allows the chair to be folded and carried.
Taught by Jesse Pompei.
beginner | one Saturday
Spoon Carving for Beginners
Apr 26 | $195
Learn to carve a spoon from a tree. This is a great class for beginners, as well as folks with some experience carving who are looking to brush up or reengage.
Taught by Lee Scheffey.
beginner | one Saturday
Introduction to Turned Bowls
May 3 & 4 | $445
This class will introduce students to woodturning or provide an opportunity for more experienced students to refine their skills. Go home with at least one small bowl!
Taught by Hel Hamilton.
beginner | weekend intensive
Woodshop Essentials:
Milling Rough Lumber
May 7 | $95
Learn how to mill rough lumber flat and square, using essential woodshop machines: the jointer, planar, table and miter saws.
Taught by Rowan Norlander-McCarty.
beginner | one saturday
Introduction to Table Making
May 2-4 | $640
Learn the fundamentals of woodworking and furniture-making through the process of making a small side table.
Taught by Sophie Glenn.
beginner | three day intensive
Woodshop Essentials:
The Router Table
May 21 | $95
Learn how to use this versatile, high precision machine for a variety of tasks, from edge profiling to joinery and so much more.
Taught by Blake Johnson.
beginner | one evening
Spoon Carving for Beginners
Jun 7 | $195
Learn to carve a spoon from a tree. This is a great class for beginners, as well as folks with some experience carving who are looking to brush up or reengage.
Taught by Lee Scheffey.
beginner | one Saturday
Fundamentals of
Bowl Turning
Jun 21 & 22 | $445
This class will cover everything from selecting the right piece of wood, to safe machine operation and techniques, to final polishing.
Taught by Rick Angus.
beginner | weekend intensive
Fundamentals of
Bowl Turning
May 31 & Jun 1 | $445
This class will cover everything from selecting the right piece of wood, to safe machine operation and techniques, to final polishing.
Taught by Rick Angus.
beginner | weekend intensive
Woodworking Fundamentals: Cutting Board and Shaker Side Table
Jun 16-20 | $980
Build two beautiful and functional pieces while learning the fundamentals of woodworking.
Taught by Char Miller-King.
beginner | week-long intensive
Learn to CNC: Programmer Course
Jun 7 & 8 | $380
Up your woodworking game: learn CNC software and machinery in one weekend intensive.
Taught by Rowan Norlander-McCarty
beginner | weekend intensive
Build Your Own Furniture: Woodworking with Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione
Jun 23-27 | $895
Learn to design and build minimalist furniture using Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione, picking up essential woodworking skills.
Taught by Rowan Norlander-McCarty.
beginner | week-long intensive
Woodshop Essentials:
Milling Rough Lumber
Jun 4 | $95
Learn how to mill rough lumber flat and square, using essential woodshop machines: the jointer, planer, table and miter saws.
Taught by Rowan Norlander-McCarty.
beginner | one evening
Intermediate Classes
Intermediate
Adirondack Chair
Apr 5 | $165
Using the traditional design, we will incorporate hardware and joinery that allows your Adirondack chair to fold and be carried.
Taught by Jesse Pompei.
intermediate | one Saturday
Woodworking Level 2 for Women+
May 10, 11, 17 & 18 | $670
Designed to empower and build community, this intermediate class is open to women, transgender, and non-binary people.
Taught by Gail Grycel.
intermediate | two weekends
Intermediate Bandsaw Box
May 30 & 31 | $175
Learn advanced techniques to craft a unique curve-shaped box with a drawer, all while mastering the versatility of the bandsaw in this intermediate-level class.
Taught by Duane Karlen.
intermediate | two half-days
Woodturning Classes
Introduction to Turned Bowls
Jan 11 & 12 | $445
This class will introduce students to woodturning or provide an opportunity for more experienced students to refine their skills. Go home with at least one small bowl!
Taught by Hel Hamilton.
beginner | weekend intensive
Fundamentals of
Bowl Turning
Mar 1 & 2 | $445
This class will cover everything from selecting the right piece of wood, to safe machine operation and techniques, to final polishing.
Taught by Rick Angus.
intermediate | weekend intensive
Fundamentals of
Bowl Turning
May 31 & Jun 1 | $445
This class will cover everything from selecting the right piece of wood, to safe machine operation and techniques, to final polishing.
Taught by Rick Angus.
Introduction to Turned Bowls
Mar 29 & 30 | $445
This class will introduce students to woodturning or provide an opportunity for more experienced students to refine their skills. Go home with at least one small bowl!
Taught by Hel Hamilton.
beginner | weekend intensive
Fundamentals of
Bowl Turning
Jun 21 & 22 | $445
This class will cover everything from selecting the right piece of wood, to safe machine operation and techniques, to final polishing.
Taught by Rick Angus.
Traditional Bowl Turning
Apr 18 - 20 | $775
Learn the most effective approaches in turning side grain vessels. Discover your own design aesthetic, creating your best work using traditional woodturning tools.
Taught by Matt Monaco.
beginner | weekend intensive
Introduction to Turned Bowls
May 3 & 4 | $445
This class will introduce students to woodturning or provide an opportunity for more experienced students to refine their skills. Go home with at least one small bowl!
Taught by Hel Hamilton.
beginner | weekend intensive
beginner | weekend intensive
beginner | weekend intensive
Youth & Family Classes
Cornhole Set Family Build
Apr 12 | $150
Help us kick off the fall season - and many more family and youth classes to come! - with a Cornhole Set Build class. Open to families. Each Child must be accompanied by one adult. Taught by Ali Wilder.
beginner | one evening
Spring Vacation Tween Camp
Apr 14-18, 2025
Make a wooden automaton! We’re collaborating with Brattleboro’s River Gallery School of Art to host a fun and creative woodworking + art camp for middle-school age students during the April school vaction break.
Rosie’s Girls Camp
2 Sessions | $300
July 14-18 or July 21-25
Our annual collaboration with Vermont Works for Women returns!
A woodworking camp for middle-school aged girls and gender-expansive youth.
beginner | one week
Summer Camps
2 Sessions | $300
July 28 - Aug 1 or Aug 4 - 8
Save the dates! We’re collaborating with the Brattleboro Boys & Girls Club to host two woodworking camps this summer. Details and registration coming soon. Email education@hatchspace.org for more information.
Free Events & Series
Visit our Calendar of Events for Dates and More Information
Monthly Meetup Nights
Join us for an informal Meetup featuring projects by HatchSpace members and class attendees. Hear about their current creative works, chat with other woodworkers, tour the space and learn. Light refreshments will be served.
Join us monthly on Wednesday evenings - see our Calendar of Events for upcoming dates.
Free & Open to the Public.
HatchSpace CNC Club
Whether you're just starting to explore the world of CNC (computer numerically controlled) woodworking or you're a expert, this club provides a supportive space to share knowledge, learn, and create.
Join us 3x monthly on Friday afternoons and Wednesday evenings - see our Calendar of Events for upcoming dates.
Free & Open to the Public.
Lunch Time Tool Talks
Join us for our monthly Lunch Time Tool Talk. Bring your lunch, learn something new!
Join us monthly on Mondays at noon - see our Calendar of Events for upcoming dates.
Free & Open to the Public.
BIPOC Maker Night
Co-hosted by The Root Social Justice Center and HatchSpace, our BIPOC Affinity Spaces are an opportunity for anyone who identifies as Black, Indigenous, and a Person of Color to come find and create community around woodworking. Bring a project to repair, to make and to share!
Join us every Monday from 5:30 to 8:30pm except on federally recognized holidays.
Free and open to the public.