[1][2] He was the department head in the woodcraft industry program at Berea College for forty years.
[3] Osolnik was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1994.
[3][4] He took a break from teaching to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
[4] He also spent a lot of time working at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
He died of congestive heart failure on November 18, 2001, at Poverty Ridge in Berea, Kentucky.