DINWIDDIE DRYSTONE MASONRY

In April of 2010, Joe led a 6-day workshop at Penland School of Crafts. Participants constructed new steps and retaining walls beneath the dining hall and cafe.

In June of 2009, Joe led a one-day workshop at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in North Carolina. Participants constructed a section of drystone sitting wall adjacent to the Center's pottery studio.

In October of 2008, Joe led a two-day workshop in drystone masonry construction for staff of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in Louisville Kentucky. Participants built two headwalls around culverts in Seneca Park.

In October of 2008, Joe and Frank Jenkins led a six-day workshop on drystone masonry retaining wall construction at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. One group of participants disassembled and rebuilt a curved, failing retaining wall, and the other group built a new curved retaining wall.

In summer of 2008, Joe led a one-day workshop for homeowners in Asheville, North Carolina on construction of a flagstone patio.

In June of 2008, Joe Dinwiddie led a five-day workshop on drystone masonry at Touchstone Crafts in Farmington, Pennsylvania.  Workshop participants built a set of stone steps, a straight retaining wall, and a curved, stepped retaining wall in front of the pottery studio, and in the process widened the path to make it handicap accessible.

Throughout the Spring and Summer 2008, Joe Dinwiddie led one-day workshops in traditional drystone masonry at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in Black Mountain, North Carolina. These workshops covered the fundamentals of drystone masonry for landscape projects - how to design projects and figure the amount of materials needed, tool selection and use, safety, and durable building methodology.

 
In Spring of 2008, Joe Dinwiddie led a half-day workshop in drystone steps construction for the Henderson County Master Gardeners.  

In 2008, Joe Dinwiddie gave presentations to the North Carolina Master Gardeners in Henderson County, the Weaverville Garden Club, the Weekend Gardener Seminar series at Westmoreland County Community College, Pennsylvania, and the Men's Garden Club of Asheville, North Carolina.

 
In Fall 2007, Joe Dinwiddie taught a 70-hour course on drystone masonry at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in Enka, North Carolina.
 

 
In fall of 2007, Joe Dinwiddie and Frank Jenkins led a three-day workshop on drystone masonry in Mars Hill, North Carolina. Participants constructed a drystone foundation for a log cabin with stone salvaged from an abandoned chimney.
 

 
In spring of 2007, Joe Dinwiddie led a two-day drystone masonry workshop at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. The student rock crew constructed a curved, stepped retaining and sitting wall, eventually 60' in length.
 

 
In Fall of 2006, Frank Jenkins and Joe Dinwiddie co-taught a five-day workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Participants worked on the construction of a 20'-long L-shaped freestanding drystone fence.