Join Wornick Professor Evan Shively as he traces his journey finding form, function, and connection through the sawyer’s craft. 

ASL interpretation will not be offered at the event. The lecture uses a slide presentation. All content from the slides will be read aloud or described. 

Speaker Bio:

Evan was born in Berkeley, CA, and grew up primarily in Boston. He attended Harvard College, and upon graduation moved to the West Coast to pursue his first stint at the confluence of nature and culture, working as a chef in San Francisco for much of his 20’s.

In 1993, seeking a new artistic challenge, he started to teach himself fine furniture-making. This began a consuming and abiding love of trees and wood, as well as a career in art and site-specific design. Twenty-five years ago he founded Arborica, a specialty sawmill that utilizes the salvaged log resource of Northern California. Evan has salvaged thousands of trees otherwise destined for landfills, chipping, or fuel for co-generation plants. The salvaged lumber from Arborica has been used extensively.

About California College of the Arts

Located at the center of innovation and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area, California College of the Arts is home to a world-renowned faculty of practicing artists and entrepreneurs, and a diverse community of makers that are boldly reimagining the world. Offering 22 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs in fine arts, architecture, design, and writing, CCA’s creative culture is built around the ideals of interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, and community engagement.

California College of the Arts campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, respectively, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. We recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples in California and the Americas, including their forced removal from ancestral lands, and the deliberate and systematic destruction of their communities and culture. CCA honors Indigenous peoples—past, present, and future—here and around the world, and we wish to pay respect to local elders, including those of the lands from which you are joining us virtually today. If you are unsure of who’s land you are currently residing upon, we encourage you to visit native-land.ca.

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