Call for Applicants: Scholarship Awards for Two Month Woodworking Intensive

HatchSpace, a community woodshop and school in Brattleboro Vermont, is now accepting applications for scholarship awards up to $5,025 towards the tuition costs of From Forest to Woodshop, a two month full-time woodworking program.

Running from September 8 through October 31st, 2025, From Forest to Woodshop, is an 8-week, full-time, 300-hour intensive program in wood furniture and products innovation. Rooted in an integrated approach of study from forest to woodshop, the immersive program offers participants the opportunity to study wood as a material, as well as methods of manipulation that support furniture and product design through sourcing, designing, drawing, cutting, sawing, joining, bending, and glueing. The perfect gap year experience or career-changing accelerator, HatchSpace invites you to spend your fall making something real in Vermont.

The program will be delivered from HatchSpace’s expansive woodworking facility in downtown Brattleboro, a region surrounded by some of the world’s finest hardwood forests. Students benefit from a geography well positioned to gain an understanding of the interconnected field of sustainable forestry and its impacts on wood furniture and products innovation. 

Students will benefit from a wide-ranging team of more than ten experienced and award-winning woodworker educators. Some of the notable instructors include Heather Tauck, who serves as the program lead, is a North Bennet Street School taught custom furniture designer, and Mineck prize-winning greenwood worker and furniture maker, Charles Thompson. Woodworking legend, Garrett Hack will also join, as will the celebrated forester Ethan Tapper, author of “How to Love a Forest.” With such a diverse team of woodworker educators, students are assured to benefit from an equally diverse range of methods in the field. Even Tom Bodett, the celebrated humorist, author and radio personality who is also HatchSpace’s co-founder and a lifelong woodworker, will lead workshops. 

The curriculum includes both traditional and advanced techniques, blending craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. Through project-based assignments, field trips and a rotating roster of expert instructors, students will develop essential woodworking and design skills. They will also gain hands-on experience with a variety of tools, from hand planes to CNC machines, from milling equipment to laser cutters.

Generous scholarships are available and students leave with a Certificate of Completion. Learn more and apply at hatchspace.org/intensive. 

Generous scholarship awards are available to support up to 75% or $5,025 of the tuition cost. Total tuition cost is $6,700 and scholarship recipients must be able to pay for the remainder tuition cost, materials, and any travel/room/board expenses.

Interested participants should learn more and apply by visiting hatchspace.org/intensive.

About Scholarships Awards

HatchSpace seeks to make our programs accessible to early career & economically disadvantaged individuals. We also acknowledge how women, LGBTQIA+ community members, and people of color have historically been under-represented and under-celebrated in trade and craft careers. With this in mind, a limited number of need-based partial scholarships are available. Awards range in amounts up to 75%, though the highest level of awards will be most limited. Those students who wish to be considered for need-based scholarships should indicate their intention on the enrollment form, and we strongly encourage students seeking scholarship funds to apply no later than July 1, 2025. A $600 deposit is still required at time of registration to hold your seat in the program. 

Awards will be determined by July 20 for those who applied by July 1, and any remainder funds distributed on a rolling basis thereafter. We seek to facilitate the entry of qualified candidates and will work hard to make the program financial feasible. That said, in the event a student applies by July 1and the scholarship awarded is not sufficient to meet their individual needs, the student will be eligible for a full refund of their $600 deposit if they un-enroll within one week of scholarship award notification.

07/01/2025