By Daniel L. Bamberg
Centreville wood turner and carver, Bill Hubbard’s work will be featured at the Kentuck Gallery in downtown Northport during the month of April, beginning on Thursday, April 7 until April 30th.
Hubbard is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in geology. He has served as director of the Alabama Woodturners Assocaition and as a program dir
ector of the Black Warrior Woodturners.
Hubbard will be showing more than twenty pieces of his work during the show. Some of the items will be fore sale. The local wood turner donates the commission from his sales go to the Bibb County Schools foundation.
Hubbard became interested in woodturning after his retirement from the field of Geology in 2003.
“I bought a woodturning lathe and was immediately hooked,” explained Hubbard.
His fascination with turning evolved into carving. He uses exotic as well as domestic woods and has been known to transform a piece of wood from a fallen tree following a storm.
In 2007 Bill turned a tree, which was removed from the former Bibb County Junior High School Building, which burned to the ground in 2008. He made items from that tree which was sold to community members who held a nostalgic fondness for the tree. One of those items is on display at the new Bibb County Board of Education building, which was built in the place of its burned predecessor. April 7, opening night of the display will start at 5 p.m. and run until 9 p.m.
For more information please call (205) 758-1257.
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