Rude Osolnik

Rude Osolnik (1915–2001), was an American woodturner, author, and educator. He is considered an important figure within the American studio woodturning movement and in contemporary woodturning in the United States. He was the department head in the woodcraft industry program at Berea College for forty years. Osolnik was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1994.

Biography Rude Osolnik was born March 4, 1915, in Dawson, New Mexico. He was the child of Slovenian immigrants. the High Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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