This Wednesday, we officially start our second year of Studio H with 13 new students from Bertie County. We’ll be teaching, like last year, 2 blocks per day, for a total of 3 hours of the school day. Our students are juniors from the Bertie Early College High School, and will earn transferable college credits this semester. Because the farmers market construction from last year bled into the fall semester, and also because of scheduling limitations for students, we chose to condense this year’s program

Studio H year 1 students at the grand opening of the Windsor Farmers Market (which they designed and built). We are excited to announce that our Studio H high school design/build program in Bertie County, North Carolina, has been awarded an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts! The $40,000 grant will help fund the second year of Studio H, which offers students high school and college credit, as well as paid summer jobs to design and build full-scale architecture projects for

This Thursday, November 17th, the first ever public exhibition of Studio H’s work will open at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition, entitled “Studio H: Design. Build. Transform.” will highlight the products and process of our first year of the Studio H program, including the chicken coops and farmers market pavilion. We hope folks in the Portland area will attend! We will also be in Portland for a public lecture at the Ziba Auditorium on Friday, December 2nd at 6pm. Below