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Rude Osolnik (1915–2001), was an American woodturner, author, and educator. He is considered an important figure within the American studio woodturning movement and in contemporary woodturning in the United States. He was the department head in the woodcraft industry program at Berea College for forty years. Osolnik was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1994.

Biography

Rude Osolnik was born March 4, 1915, in Dawson, New Mexico. He was the child of Slovenian immigrants. Osolnik graduated in 1937 from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Osolnik taught at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky from 1937 until 1978, initially working in the industrial arts department and later as the department head in the woodcraft industry program. He took a break from teaching to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He also spent a lot of time working at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Osolnik has work in museum collections, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

He died of congestive heart failure on November 18, 2001, at Poverty Ridge in Berea, Kentucky.

See also

• List of woodcarvers
• Bob Stocksdale

References

1. Liebenson, Bess (June 21, 1998). "To Find the Beauty Inside the Wood, Ask a Turner for Insight". The New York Times. pp. CN 14. ISSN 1553-8095.
2. Malarcher, Patricia (August 8, 1993). "Crafts; Bowls Showcase the Wood-Turner's Art". The New York Times. p. WC 13. ISSN 1553-8095.
3. ^ "Rude Osolnik, a master wood "turner", dies at 86". New Bedford Standard-Times. AP Press. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
4. ^ "Obituaries". Lexington Herald-Leader. November 21, 2001. p. 18. Retrieved 2023-11-28 – via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ Kardon, Janet; Coe, Ralph T. (1994). Revivals! Diverse Traditions, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-century American Craft. H.N. Abrams. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-8109-1955-6.
6. ^ Stubbs, Del (Spring 2002). "Rude Osolnik Memories and Tributes" (PDF). American Woodturner. Vol. 17. American Association of Woodturners. pp. 38–41.
7. "Rude Osolnik". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
8. "Vessel". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
9. "Candle Holder". Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (DIA). Retrieved 2023-11-28.

External links

• Oral history interview with Rude Osolnik, 2001 May 1 from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

• 1915 births
• 2001 deaths
• American people of Slovenian descent
• American woodworkers
• Berea College faculty
• Bradley University alumni
• Deaths from congestive heart failure
• People from Berea, Kentucky
• People from Colfax County, New Mexico
• Woodturners
• Fellows of the American Craft Council