Haniel Wides
Artist, furniture maker, and educator working at the intersections of craft, queer theory, and collective care.
Awards, Residencies & Recognition
2026
Studio Fellow, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (4-week funded residency)
2025
Session 1 Woodshop Fellow — Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Funded, 2-week residency)
AFH Artist Fellow, Sustainable Artists Working in 3D — Artists For Humanity (8-month funded fellowship)
2024
Teaching the Teachers, Chairmaking Workshop Fellowship — Jeff Lefkowitz & Chairmakers Toolbox
Solidarity Craft Conference Guest Planner — Berea College (Honoraria)
2023
Michael Puryear Scholarship, Furniture Society
Queering Wood Craft, Museum for Art in Wood (Honoraria)
2020 / 2024
Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, and Collaborative Cultural Work, Institute for Expanded Research + Press Press
2020
Haraizumi Art Project Virtual Residency (Funded)
2019
Haraizumi Art Project Residency — Shizuoka, Japan (Funded)
2017
Why We Work, Baltimore Museum of Industry (Portrait)
2016
Grit Fund Grant Recipient, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Exhibitions & Public Presentations
2025
Artists For Humanity Fellows Showcase, Artists For Humanity — Boston, MA (Exhibition & Artist Talk)
Empire Waste, Peabody Essex Museum — Salem, MA (Exhibition & Artist Talk)
Cut Once, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA
2024
Small Woodworks, Society of Arts + Crafts — Online Exhibition & Catalog
2023
Fine Furnishings Show, WaterFire Arts Center
Queering Wood Craft: Eroticism and Craft, Museum for Art in Wood — Led two-part lecture and moderated community discussion
2020
Why a Rainbow, Haraizumi Art Project — Shizuoka, Japan (Solo Installation)
2019
Ridgelines, Haraizumi Art Project — Shizuoka, Japan (Solo Installation)
2018
Commune Diverge Shift Connect: A Press Press Chronicle, Institute for Expanded Research & George Peabody Library — Baltimore, MD (Nomadic installation)
2016
XXChange: Women & Gender Nonconforming Artists and Makers, Area 405 — Baltimore, MD (Co-curator; Grit Fund Grant supported)
Made in Baltimore Maker Showcase, Second Chance — Baltimore, MD
Education
2024
Certificate, Cabinetry and Furniture Making
North Bennet Street School — Boston, MA
2018
Fundamentals of Welding & Intermediate TIG Qualification (AWS D17.1 Aerospace)
Earlbeck Gases and Technology — Baltimore, MD
2012
B.F.A.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art — New York, NY