Nov 2025 SoCal — three-day Federal bedside table workshop with a Cartouche recipient. Hands-on veneering, inlay, tambour door, at Palomar College. After several quiet years, SoCal is now one of the most programmatically ambitious chapters in the Society.
Nov 2025 Peach State raised $1,220 for SAPFM national in a single meeting — a member's plan sales plus small-donation tools. First instance of a chapter raising significant funds for the parent organization rather than itself.
Fall 2025 New England formally split into Northern New England and Southern New England. The chapter had grown large enough to subdivide rather than consolidate. Members are encouraged to pick up to three home chapters; many in the region picked both.
Fall 2025 Two members began formalizing the SAPFM partnership with Winterthur — the Delaware museum that holds one of the great American period-furniture collections. The work is to turn occasional chapter visits into something standing: back-room access, curator engagement, more SAPFM members through the door more often.
Feb 2026 The founder of a New England woodworking school taught a 2-day skills demo at Peach State, and led Southern New England's tour of the Yale University Art Gallery the same month. The traveling-instructor pattern is now flowing toward chapters as readily as members travel out.
May 2026 Rock River Valley toured the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee — a private foundation that holds one of the most important American decorative-arts research collections in the country. The Foundation's executive director and chief curator personally led the tour. The kind of access a SAPFM chapter negotiates that an individual maker would struggle to alone.
