10 Facts About Rude Osolnik

Rude Osolnik, was an American woodturner, author, and educator.

Rude Osolnik is considered an important figure within the American studio woodturning movement and in contemporary woodturning in the United States.

Rude Osolnik was the department head in the woodcraft industry program at Berea College for forty years.

Rude Osolnik was born March 4,1915, in Dawson, New Mexico.

Rude Osolnik graduated in 1937 from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Rude Osolnik taught at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky from 1937 until 1978, initially working in the industrial arts department and later as the department head in the woodcraft industry program.

Rude Osolnik took a break from teaching to serve in the US Navy during World War II.

Rude Osolnik spent a lot of time working at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Rude Osolnik has work in museum collections, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Rude Osolnik died of congestive heart failure on November 18,2001, at Poverty Ridge in Berea, Kentucky.