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Jameel Abraham
Instructor
Jameel’s interest in woodworking began in both of his grandfathers’ shops. He’s also a painter, oud maker and carver, and co-founder (with his brother and father) of Benchcrafted.
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Eric Cannizzaro
Instructor
I grew up in Vermont where I developed a life-long interest in natural history. After high school I spent several years working odd-jobs and traveling in Central and South America. In 2010 I enrolled at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington to study natural history and ornithology. At Evergreen I found my way to the wood shop where I explored arched instrument making and furniture making over several years. After years of going back and forth between field biology and woodwork I accepted a residency at the Arbutus Folk School in 2017, where I studied the techniques employed in Windsor chair making and adapted them to the tools and materials available to me. In 2019, I apprenticed with Curtis Buchanan, a Windsor chairmaker in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and accepted a residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. I live in Charlotte, Vermont where I make chairs and teach chair making classes. .
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Travis Curtis
Travis E. Curtis is a Nashville native who enjoys making Windsor chairs in both traditional and modern styles. His grandfather, Edward L. Curtis, worked in the finishing department of Gibson Guitar Co. and his grandmother, Charlesie Marie Curtis, was a master carver for Davis Cabinet Co. Both grandparents instilled a love for woodworking, knowledge, and pride in craftsmanship in Travis from an early age. A lifelong amateur turned professional in 2012. He designs and builds Windsor chairs and furniture in his Whites Creek, TN workshop.
Read MoreAlexis Dolese
Instructor
Alexis grew up in a family of builders and artists. While designing and building her own house and working alongside her dad, a long time woodworker, she embarked on a career of building fine furniture. She apprenticed with many talented and successful woodworkers before starting her business in Bozeman in 2019.
Read MoreDavid Douyard
Instructor
David Douyard is a chairmaker building Windsor and ladderback chairs in his shop in northwest Connecticut. He started as an apprentice to a New York furniture maker and later had more formal training at Palomar College studying furniture design. He moved from furniture into building chairs more than 20 years ago having studied under several Windsor and ladderback chairmakers. He has been awarded Top Artisan by Early American Life magazine and has several of his Windsor chairs featured in the magazine. He was awarded Editor’s Choice Award for Seating for a Windsor Sack Back Settee by Popular Woodworking and was recognized by The Society of American Period Furniture Makers. David builds both contemporary and traditional chairs and teaches chairmaking and weaving in his and other shops in the country.
Read MoreAdrian Ferrazzutti
Instructor
Adrian Ferrazzutti is a furniture maker working in Guelph, Canada. He is a 1998 graduate of The College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program where he studied under James Krenov and faculty. He specializes in custom work, consisting of bent wood and veneer. Adrian runs a shared wood shop where he works along with 6 other makers. Together they continually try to inspire each other and advance each others workmanship and sense of design. His shop is always open for visitors, be it to just say hello, have some cuts made or stay longer and see what everyone is up too. Adrian also spends a good portion of his year teaching at schools and art centers in Canada and the U.S.
Read MoreChris Giffrow
Instructor
I’m a mostly self-taught woodworker heavily influenced by Japanese tools, Japanese woodworking, and a love for hand cut joinery.
Read MoreAdam Godet
Instructor
Adam grew up in rural, central New York where making things and using tools were just a way of life. He began dabbling with custom furniture making in 2002, but began doing it in earnest in 2009. Since 2013 he has made commissioned pieces in his Washington, DC shop. In 2021, he left a job with the U.S. Defense Department to pursue his craft full-time. His interests in woodworking include everything from industrial cabinet shop equipment to hand-cutting dovetails. He is an aspiring woodturner.
Read MoreBonnie Hawk
Instructor
Bonnie Hawk is a bivocational furniture-maker and UMC pastor. She is a graduate of the Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship 9 9-month comprehensive program, and a freelance writer for Fine Woodworking Magazine. Her special interest is one-of-a-kind, boutique, porch swings.
Read MoreOwain Harris
Instructor
Owain Harris is a self-taught woodworker who operates a furniture studio in Gonic, NH, where he designs and builds custom furnishings for galleries and residential clients. He began his career in wood as a framing carpenter in 1997, and worked as both a finish carpenter and remodeler before moving into the shop full-time in 2008. Owain is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen and the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association. His work has received multiple awards, including a Pinnacle Award from the International Society of Furniture Designers and a Veneertech Craftsman Challenge Award. Owain has been featured in numerous publications, including Fine Woodworking and NH Home Magazine. Owain shares his passion for furniture making and design through teaching at various craft schools and institutions including The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Marc Adams School of Woodworking and the University of New Hampshire. He currently serves as Chair Person for the American Furniture Masters Institute, the nonprofit organization that oversees the NH Furniture Masters and the Prison Outreach Program that teaches the craft of fine furniture making to inmates of the Maine men’s prison and both the NH men’s and women’s prison. His work may be seen at owainharris.com
Read MoreLaura Kishimoto
Instructor
I am a designer/maker living in Denver and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. I was initially drawn to furniture design because it occupies a unique position between the fields of fine art and design. Furniture can both exist as a product, addressing a specific need, or as a stand alone sculptural object. And in both cases, a user/viewer is necessary to complete the piece of furniture: whether to give it function by physically engaging with it or to give it meaning by imbuing it with their emotional narrative. My creative process is defined by a constant balancing act between my intentions as a designer and the will of my material. With each piece, I strive to create a spatially complex, cohesive object that appears to have formed organically without human intervention.
Read MorePatrick Moore
Instructor
Patrick has more than ten years of accredited schooling from around the world. A member of the Timber Framers Guild, the International Log Builders Association and the prestigious Compagnons Du Devoir where in 2013 he became the first person from the western hemisphere to be received as a Compagnon Passant Charpentier Du Devoir in France. This is where he completed his masters with the esteemed Association Ouvrière des Compagnons du Devoir du Tour de France and La Grande Ecole Des Hommes de Metier en Compagnonnage, a private university in France. He obtained his Canadian recognized Red Seal carpentry certificate in 2009 and two diplomas; one in heritage masonry and the other in heritage carpentry.
Read MoreMike Pekovich
Instructor
Mike has studied furniture making, fine art, and graphic design, and he’s been putting those skills to use designing and building furniture for over 30 years. For the last 20 of those, he’s also been busy as the art director at Fine Woodworking magazine and most recently as the author of The Why and How of Woodworking, where his aim is to communicate woodworking how-to in a clear and inspiring way.
Read MoreKate Swann
Instructor
Renowned for her exquisite textural and surface embellishment work, Kate Swann is a master craftswoman of fine wood furniture and sculptural works. Her unique artwork has received much praise and many of her designs are recognized as signature works: published, collected and widely known.
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Bob Van Dyke
Instructor
After 18 years as an award-winning chef, Bob began a career in woodworking and teaching. Furniture making had provided an outlet to the pressures of the restaurant business until 1993, when he started the Harris Enterprise School of Fine Woodworking. In seven years of operation, the school gained national exposure and recognition. In 2000 he formed a business partnership to open the Manchester, Ct., Woodcraft store and the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. The school was an instant success and the demand for classes so great that a second shop was built to allow two classes to run simultaneously. Bob continually strives to expand his skills and knowledge by working commissioned furniture pieces and new projects for upcoming classes. He is a contributing editor at Fine Woodworking Magazine and has been featured in Woodshop News. Bob’s approach to teaching centers on the belief that people learn by doing rather than by watching. Successful contemporary furniture making also depends on utilizing a sensible combination of machine woodworking and handwork. Bob’s classes feature hands-on woodworking projects that require the mastery of a combination of hand tools and machines.
Read MoreCass Dahlen
Instructor
Cass Dahlen manages Bad Axe Tool Works. She has been with the company since the beginning of September 2020, starting as a saw maker and quickly moving to the logistics side as her time with the company progressed. Her preferred saw to make is the No. 9. She assembled the shop prototype, so is partial to this being her favorite. Outside of work, you can catch her in her workshop creating a stained glass piece or enjoying nature with her pup, Ripley.
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