EVENT PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED! View the Event Registration Form For further information contact: Frank (SNOWMAN) Sospenzi, Chairman fsos@tampabay.rr.com Phone: 352-746-5805   sANTA cLAUS, Registrar jrusse6@tampabay.rr.com Phone: 863-424-7941

FEATURED DEMONSTRATORS

See the Featured Turner Demonstrations page for additional information

Cindy Drozda

Cindy hails from Boulder, Colorado. She is a full time wood turner, and has worked with wood professionally for over 25 years. She has demonstrated and taught a variety of wood-turning projects around the US, and internationally.

Her elegant containers and vessels turned from burls and Banksia pods , are sold at the finest shows and galleries. Lidded containers have fascinated me since I was a child hiding my secret treasures, and today they are my most creatively stimulating body of work. When I create a turned container I like to hide a jewel under the lid. When the vessel is opened a hidden treasure is revealed .

Phil Brennion

Phil Brennion is a studio woodturner who resides in Chino Valley, Arizona. He
has been a professional woodworker for almost 30 years, the last 20yrs., focusing on woodturning.

Phil was the first to popularize the Southwest form in turned wood and this quickly became his recognized specialty. Phil is also known for the innovative techniques he has brought to woodturning, including surface smoking and the use of explosive powders to emulate the patinas of ancient vessels.

“Developing new techniques in turning, while holding to good design principles, keeps woodturning exciting for me” - Phil Bennion

Robert has been working with wood since he was a child. He teaches, demonstrates
and writes articles for the American Woodturner magazine. Robert has served on the board of directors for six years and also served as vice-president for the American Association of Woodturners.

One of his Christmas tree ornaments had been chosen to be placed on the White House Christmas tree. He and his wife Susan have been married for over thirty years. They occasionally combine their talents on a collaborative piece. They live in the woods of Pennsylvania in a home they built.

Frank has been turning for 26 years, but entered the international scene in 1993 with a new technique called piercing. Three years later he pushed for the use of an airbrush, color and texture combined with the piercing. In 1995 he introduced a new version of the deep hollowing bar changing the nature of turned objects. Since biology is his training background, he emphasizes his encounters with nature, its creatures and their importance.

He is a champion of exploration, of taking risks, of making a trail where there is no road. In his senior years he is dedicating his life and energies to helping “ amateur artists” to buck the barriers that block creativity.

Frank’s work has been shown in 6 major museums of art. Take his class and learn a new way of looking at a chunk of wood.

See the Florida Turner Demonstrations page for detailed information

Norm Rose of Hudson
"Mastering the Dreaded Skew"

Al Hockenbery of Lakeland
"Suspended Spherical Forms"
"South West Hollow Forms"

Ray Ferguson of Melrose
"Turning Possibilities Beyond A Chunk of Wood"

Dixie Biggs of Gainesville
"Surface Treatments & Natural Expression"

See the Florida Turner Workshops page for detailed information

Ron Browning of Lecanto
"Basic Bowl Turning"

Carl Schneider of Boca Raton
"Turning Techniques"

Larry Ramsey of Fort White
"Lathe Parts & Sharpening Basics"

Joe Rodriguez of Tampa
"End Grain Hollowing"

Friday morning

• Check In - AFTER 9:00 am

Friday afternoon

• Lunch
• Florida turner workshops (pre-paid, reserved - see registration form)
• 2 afternoon rotations by Florida turners (4 to choose from)

Friday evening

• Dinner
• Meet the demonstrators
• Instant Gallery critique
• Florida Turn-A-Round competition

Saturday

• Breakfast
• 2 morning rotations (8 to choose from)
• Lunch
• 2 afternoon rotations (8 to choose from)

Saturday Evening

• Raffles, Scholarship awards (local & non-local)

Sunday

• Breakfast
• 2 morning rotations (8 to choose from)
• Lunch
• Check Out - BY 3:00 pm

Ongoing All Weekend

• Trade Show
• Instant Gallery

Like last year, the Turn-A-Round will be a “team-turn”. However, this year a team can be made up of any 3 turners who want to form a team … they do not have to be from a club or from the same club … they can simply be 3 turners who want to be a competing team.

Teams will be presented with a turning project that they must complete in a given time period. During the event, those attendees not competing are free to watch the competition and cheer their favorite team on, or they can visit with the vendors or other attendees and demonstrators.

At the end of the competition turning time, the winning team will be determined by one or more of our Feature Demonstrators.

Contact the symposium chairman for more information and/or to enter your team ! The winning team will receive the official “traveling” Turn-A-Round cup (and bragging rights! ) for one year.