Dennis Wilson

Educated in Iowa and Illinois, Dennis had a ten year career teaching English and Drama at international schools in Taiwan, England and Morocco. In 1985 Dennis and his late wife relocated to Chestertown, New York where he taught English at North Warren Central School from 1985 until retirement in 2002.

Shortly after retiring from teaching, Dennis attended an Arts and Crafts Fair in Ludlow, Vermont and saw the beautiful chip carvings of Wayne Barton, a teacher at the school. He had always loved wood, appreciating its finished beauty and appreciating the opportunity to learn to carve it. Later he took Wayne’s class, Introductory Chip Carving, and was “hooked!” During subsequent summers, Dennis took several of Wayne’s advanced classes and during the last few years have carved over two-hundred pieces including breadboards, lamps, stools, geometric floral and free form plaques, jewelry boxes and decorative plates. Dennis has become a chip carving teacher myself. In June, 2016, he taught an introductory chip carving class at the Adirondack Folk School and will teach several classes at AFS this year. He has also been invited to teach chip carving at The View Art Center in Old Forge, NY, and at the Fletcher Farms Arts and Crafts School in Ludlow, Vermont.

Dennis resides in Chestertown and is a member of NorthCountryARTS in Glens Falls and a former president of the Our Town Theatre Group in North Creek. Dennis is also a Board Member of the Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne. His carvings are for sale in the Adirondack Folk School gift shop, in the LARAC gift shop, Glens Falls, in the McKernon Gallery, Hudson Falls and in the Birds Of A Feather Gallery in Chestertown.