BEACON, NY — Clearwater is pleased to announce Wickham Solid Wood Studio of Beacon, NY has joined as a Corporate Member. Wickham Solid Wood Studio makes custom furniture using responsibly-sourced Hudson Valley hardwoods.
Dedicated to sustainable, artisanal use of our natural resources, Wickham Solid Wood Studio has been retrieving “dead and down” logs from Hudson Valley landscapers since 2004 and custom milling and drying them at their bandsaw mill in Bullville, NY. The company maintains an inventory of over 10,000 board feet of kiln-dried natural edge slabs, featuring the hardwood species common to the northeastern deciduous forest: black walnut, white oak, black cherry, white ash, red elm, among others. Clients are encouraged to visit the studio/workshop on Main Street in Beacon, NY, to select material.
Owner Jessica Wickham’s furniture designs combine natural forms with modernist elements, often employing exposed joinery. The results celebrate the integrity of solid wood. Clients include The National Audubon Society (NYC corporate offices), Scenic Hudson (Long Dock Park, Beacon, NY), Winter Hill/Hudson Highlands Land Trust (Garrison, NY) and The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls (Beacon, NY).
Wickham Solid Wood Studio shares Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc.’s commitment to protecting the environment and improving the health of our waterways. In addition to supporting Clearwater as a Corporate Member and donating black locust benches for the organization’s offices, Wickham Solid Wood Studio provides sawdust for the sloop’s 2 bio-toilets, composting toilets that use sawdust as an artificial soil matrix for bioconversion of human waste into compost.
Wickham Solid Wood Studio is located at 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY. For more information, visit www.jessicawickham.com.
“My appreciation of trees and fine craftsmanship is rooted in my childhood, in my education, and in the landscape of the Hudson Valley. The values promoted by Clearwater are close to my heart and the songs of Pete Seeger have been in my ears since I was a toddler. We are all so proud to be onboard!”
“Clearwater is grateful to Jessica and Wickham Solid Wood Studio for their ongoing support of Clearwater and are delighted to welcome them onboard as a Corporate Member,” said Executive Director, Jeff Rumpf. “We appreciate their commitment to support a healthy environment and the health and wellbeing of the Hudson River with the ongoing in-kind donation of sawdust to maintain the sloop’s bio-toilets.”
Clearwater is a community made up of select group of small and large businesses that share a vision and passion for the Hudson River, and are key to the organization’s success, providing much needed funding for programs. Corporate Members also help in other ways, such as providing materials for our vessels and other in-kind donations. Corporate Members help Hudson River Sloop Clearwater keep costs down in order to deliver our many quality programs to the community.
Corporate Membership offers businesses the opportunity to develop a customized sponsorship program that meets the needs of a company, which can include community outreach programs, on-site presence at Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, educational programs, team building, corporate volunteer days and more!
NOTE: Corporate Memberships may not be accepted from entities associated with tobacco, alcohol, illegal products, gambling, adult services, the arms trade broadly defined, significant environmental polluters or those who countenance environmental degradation or oppressive labor conditions. Since Clearwater programs and actions must be based upon ethical, sustainable and ecologically responsible practices, Corporate Member entities are to be held to the same standards. Corporate Memberships must comply with Clearwater’s policies on conflict of interest, and Clearwater reserves the right to refuse or decline any Corporate Membership application at its absolute discretion.
For more information about the Clearwater Corporate Membership program, visit www.clearwater.org/membership/corporate-membership , or contact Suzanne Smith, Corporate Sponsorship Coordinator, at Sponsors@Clearwater.org, or 845 265 8080, x7161.
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