Meet Bill Maniotakis, a craftsman who is celebrated inside and outside the Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society (SAWS) organization. Take a look behind the scenes of one of SAWS most productive, versatile and engaged makers!

Exhibition Standards and Boat Building

If you listen carefully in Tom Gorman’s small basement workshop, you can hear the echoes of a distant generation of craftspeople.

What does the Standards Committee look for?

For more than 40 years The Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society (SAWS) Fine Works in Wood Exhibition has been celebrating the best of skills in our woodworking community in Alberta and across Canada.

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Numbers and stories will be the history of the 2023 SAWS Fine Works in Wood Exhibition and Sale

Video from the September 2023 meeting. Fine Works in Wood Exhibition and Sale.

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My experience with SAWS Fine Works In Wood 2023, Standards Committee and Jury.

10 things you should know about SAWS 2023 Exhibition

Rich history of SAWS Exhibitions anchors 40 years of the organization

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SAWS member Dave Anderson is showing some of his photography at the Artists in the Atrium show Oct 15-16 in Olds Alberta.

The 2021 Fine Works in Wood Exhibition has been postponed. The review of entries planned for June 12-13 in Calgary will not take place.

What does the Standards Committee look for?

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The Call for Entries document and Online Entry form are available on the Exhibitions/2021 page.