As of August 31st, 2019, Good City will officially be owned and managed by Mr. Chris Proctor instead of myself.

We’ve got one more workshop to announce today. This one is a refinishing workshop being taught by Chris Timm (one of Chris Gochnour’s mentors mentioned in Episode 2 of the Teach With Your Hands podcast.)

We're also ready to announce three new workshops for this summer! Drumroll please! 

We’re happy to announce that we’ve got a handful of woodworking and embroidery workshops planned for later this summer! We’re really excited about the topics and instructors, and can’t wait to tell you more.

For some reason, many of us have developed this narrative that learning and doing are separate. First you learn how to do something. Then you do it. But is that really true?

Sometimes when students come to you asking for help, your knee jerk reaction is to solve their problem for them. But sometimes, the better way to handle the situation is to ask them a question, instead. One like, “What do you think?”

Some people have bought into the craft-is-dying story so hard that they can look me, a 24 year old female maker, in the eye and say that millennials don’t care about craft, that traditional knowledge is dying, that in the next 20 years, a table saw in a high school will be an anachronism. Bull crap. Want a different story? Let me tell you one.

In the modern world, where the responsibility to be “right” is becoming easier and easier to hand to a computer, our ability to explore, make connections, and be wrong is going to become more and more important.

One of the major themes of Chris Gochnour’s episode of Teach With Your Hands can be summarized with this sentence: “Deliver a good product.” So, what is a good product?

On the first episode of Teach With Your Hands, Matt Kenney made a pretty strong assertion, that you shouldn’t be teaching until you have a rock-solid understanding of the content. And yet, many teachers (like Chris Gochnour in episode 2) also agree that teaching is essentially a learning experience.