Bio
Wyatt studied visual arts at Murray State University and has assisted and/or taught at Peter's Valley School of Craft, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Appalachian Center for Craft, the Paducah School of Art and Design and the Paducah Area Technology Center. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and appeared in publications including 500 Cabinets (Larks Books), Making Good (Schiffer Publishing), Maker Moxie (Blurb-Peters Valley), Woodwork Magazine (Woodworking Media) and film appearances include KET Kentucky Life, Wood Artist & Teacher, and The Highland Woodworker, Working with a Master. Wyatt also works and teaches in his studio at the Murray Art Guild and is in the process of building a studio complex near his home by Kentucky Lake in Western Kentucky.
Potential Residency Project
My residencies are aimed at educating and building self-worth with students being actively engaged in designing and building their own creations through open discussions, sketching and hand-on learning.
I offer two different residencies with different projects in each depending on the student ages. Possible residencies include:
Let’s Make Furniture
In this residency students explore and talk about how things are made. Each student will create their own piece of furniture such as a bench, chair or table, from wooden slats and dowel rods. They will learn fun facts about trees and the role of trees in our environment and finish their piece with color and markings to make it truly a reflection of themselves and something they are proud of.
Woodturning
Students will learn the fundamentals of woodturning through creating mallets with basic beads and coves techniques. With their individual creative designs and combinations of these basic shapes, students will design and create their own spindles. Students will then learn about mortise and tenon joinery in building their very own spindle-leg stool.