About Me

My name is Jimmy Lewis, 

I am a woodworker and fiber artist. I studied Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University in the class of 2023. In 2018, I was a teaching assistant in the Champlain Longboats program at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, VT. From 2018 to 2021, I worked as an attendant in the wood studio at the NC State Crafts Center. In 2021, I was brought on as instructor, instructing classes such as cajon building, fan bird carving, and pen turning. In the years of 2022 and 2023 my submissions in the NC State Arts Sale were awarded the 3D Artist Visual Award. The latter year being judged by talented artist Clarence Heyward. In the summer of 2023, I was accepted into the work study program at John C. Campbell Folk Arts School. Here I participated in Nantucket basket weaving, coopering, as well as contributing back to the school through volunteered service. 

Currently I live in Raleigh, North Carolina and am finishing up an era of creating carved birds. I am interested in pushing the technique of fan carving to be abstract or represent other forms. The rhythm and repetition of the technique lends itself to large patterning of fans. Check back here or on my instagram to follow my work.