BA Harrington is the daughter, granddaughter, and sister of carpenters, carrying deep craft lineage into contemporary practice. She learned woodworking through reproducing historical furniture forms and now holds an M.F.A. in Wood and M.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with training from the Cabinet & Furnituremaking program at North Bennet Street School in Boston. Since 2012, she has been Professor of Woodworking and Director of the Wood Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Harrington's practice engages early American furniture as a site for feminist intervention. Her work references late-seventeenth through early-nineteenth century domestic objects while using contemporary materials, video, and collaborative strategies to interrogate the gendered labor embedded in craft history. She has received the Center for Craft's inaugural Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship and held Windgate Artist Residencies, positioning her among a growing cohort of women-identifying woodworkers revising and reclaiming craft narratives.
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