Sawhorse Revolution

Mission

Sawhorse Revolution fosters confident, community-oriented youth through the power of carpentry and craft. As more and more shop classes are pulled from Seattle high schools, Sawhorse Revolution seeks to provide trades, skills, career, and leadership training for the young people most impacted by this loss, offering free-of-cost carpentry and design education programs for students primarily in Central and South Seattle neighborhoods.

Why Give? 

Your contribution to Sawhorse Revolution will directly benefit a more equitable, intersectional vision of the future of architecture, design, and community engagement. We deeply value the opportunity to support our neighbors through unique build projects, and we see the effects ripple out with huge impact throughout our city.

Our Goal: 
Our goal is to raise $15,000 through GiveBIG to support our largest and most ambitious project to date: an Outdoor Community Teaching Kitchen for the Duwamish Tribe, operated by Heron's Nest Outdoor Education. 

The 840 square foot teaching pavilion is created with Heron’s Nest and designed by Mahlum Architects pro bono for the Duwamish Tribe, the original stewards of the land now known as Seattle. Other contributors include Coughlin Porter Lundeen. Our students and industry partners will build this project for about 18 months from fall 2024 - spring 2026. Your funding will help with phase 1, in which youth participants lay our foundation, frame and floor the structure. Once complete, the kitchen will have a specific focus on Indigenous foods, traditional cooking techniques, community food sovereignty, and public culinary workshops of different kinds.

Project History:
In 2022, Sawhorse Revolution began working with Heron’s Nest Outdoor Education, an Indigenous and volunteer-led group working to create safe community spaces for people to gather, learn and grow together. Heron’s Nest is rematriating a 3.56 acre land parcel to the Duwamish Tribe in the Lower Duwamish Valley in Seattle, WA. Sawhorse youth will build an ADA-compliant outdoor community kitchen that resembles the style of a traditional Duwamish Longhouse with cedar beams, flexible walls, and a long rectangular floor plan.