{"id":1026,"date":"2011-09-02T07:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:04:40","slug":"math-profs-woodworking-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2011\/09\/02\/math-profs-woodworking-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Prof&#8217;s Woodworking on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1027\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1027 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Foote2.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Professor Foote\" width=\"180\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Foote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People around Wabash know Math Professor Bob Foote mostly for his excellent classroom teaching, though some know him as a musician in the brass ensemble and civic band.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also an artist and craftsman, who has spent the last decade working as a woodturner \u2014 creating stunning pieces from seemingly ordinary pieces of native timber.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty of Foote&#8217;s pieces are on display at the Mary Bishop Memorial Art Gallery at the Crawfordsville District Public Library. The exhibit, entitled \u00a0<strong><em>\u201cS<sup>1<\/sup> Actions in Wood,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>is on display through the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>The title of his exhibition springs directly from his work as a mathematician:\u00a0<em>S<\/em><sup>1<\/sup> is the mathematical term for a circle, and an <em>S<\/em><sup>1<\/sup><em> action<\/em> is when something is spun in a circle.<\/p>\n<p>The professor began working with wood as a teenager learning from his grandfather, who was a finish carpenter and furniture maker. He picked up the hobby again in 2003 and has participated in the Crawfordsville Art League&#8217;s annual downtown exhibition for the last five years \u2014 earning distinction for his work.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1028 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Foote1.jpg\" alt=\"a person working on a wood lathe\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/>&#8220;When I first set up my shop, I thought I would do general woodworking, but as soon as I started using my grandfather\u2019s old lathe, I knew that was what I really wanted to do,&#8221; Foote said.<\/p>\n<p>He now crafts bowls, vases, and platters, but has also experimented with earrings, small containers, and tree ornaments. His specialty is honoring the wood&#8217;s natural irregularities \u2014 holes, bark, odd growths, and the grain of the wood.<\/p>\n<p>Foote is an artist and member of the Athens of Indiana Art Studios and Gallery in downtown Crawfordsville, where his work is on display and available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People around Wabash know Math Professor Bob Foote mostly for his excellent classroom teaching, though some know him as a musician in the brass ensemble and civic band. He&#8217;s also an artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Foote2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}