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Jere Osgood


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Education
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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Jere Osgood (born 1936) is a studio furniture maker and teacher of furniture and woodworking. He taught for many years in the Program in Artisanry at the Boston University.

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Jere Osgood was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. He studied architecture at the University of Illinois but left after two years to pursue furniture design and fabrication. Thereafter, he enrolled at the School of American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology and learned furniture making under Tage Frid. Osgood was also influenced by the work of Wharton Esherick. He completed the four-year program in about two years, receiving his B.F.A. in 1960. He supported himself while in school by fabricating and selling small wood objects of his own design. Osgood was interested in the modern furniture being made in Scandinavia and studied in Denmark in 1960-61.

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On his return the United States, Osgood established a studio in New Milford, Connecticut, where he made small objects. In the late 1960s he began to make large projects and explored different techniques of laminating wood. He published his explorations of lamination between 1977 and 1979 in Fine Woodworking.

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Osgood taught briefly at Philadelphia College of Art, then at Rochester Institute of Technology for three years. In 1975 he moved to Boston University where he worked with Dan Jackson and Alphonse Mattia to build the "Program in Artisanry".

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Today Jere Osgood resides in Wilton, New Hampshire, where he continues to design and build furniture in his own studio. He is a member of The Furniture Society (and a recipient of that organization's Award of Distinction) and New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association.

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