POP Artist Videos & Articles
POP Merit Award
The AAW’s Professional Outreach Program (POP) grants the Merit Award to individuals who have shown exceptional development in their careers as artists and whose artworks have directly influenced or had a significant impact on other artists within the field of woodturning.
POP Artist Showcase
Selected by the Professional Outreach Program (POP), the Artist Showcase recognizes emerging artists with great promise or established artists who have been under-recognized.
Giles Gilson Video Series (18 segments)
Larger than life, Giles Gilson (1942-2015) was both brilliant and irreverent, and enjoyed shocking everyone with the unexpected. A renegade and a truly creative spirit who was unafraid to blast through boundaries, his work demonstrated impeccable technical execution and an undeniable playfulness and embrace of absurdity. (18 parts)
Voices Video Series (15 segments)
Being successful as a woodturner is about more than skill at the lathe. The Voices video series invites you into intimate conversations with successful studio and production turners, as they discuss big concepts and small details. Learn about cultivating creativity, aesthetics, originality, design principles from form to finish, as well as developing the business mindset, with information about business skills, marketing, photography, and pricing.