Joe Hauger not only displayed his wood carved goods at Bluenose Gopher Public House for the Meander Tour, but additionally did live demonstrations of his work. Hauger started to carve when he was just a child, utilizing soap and popsicle sticks to learn the trade. When he was twelve years old, his aunt purchased a carving knife for him, and a blank of a dog. “So I carved the dog and that’s how I got started,” he says. In college, he didn’t spend much time on the craft, picking it back up again by teaching himself chip carving. “I taught myself by book and then I discovered caricature carving five or six years ago and met someone that did it. He invited me to his carving night and that was really fun so I started doing it again. Caricatures morphed into birds,” he says. Hauger says his sister used to do the painting, but when she moved he learned how to do it himself. He most enjoys speaking to the crowds at Meander. “Not just talking to all sorts of people from all over, but also people who do woodworking, comparing some of what types of projects they work on,” he says. Photo by Jessica Stölen
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