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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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Michael Burt
Instructor
Michael Burt is a long-time furniture maker who leverages technology to help him explore curves and and flowing bent lamination work. His work was recently showcased in Fine Woodworking Magazine's Readers Gallery.
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Eric Cannizzario
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. .
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 MoreChris Giffrow
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Alex Grabovetskiy
Instructor
Alexander Grabovetskiy was recognized as the 2012 International Wood Carver of the year, and his piece Wall Decoration was awarded first place. His work utilizes the same approaches used for centuries by master woodcarvers, including techniques employed by Grinding Gibbons.
Read MoreAspen Golann
Instructor
Aspen Golann is an artist and a 17th & 18th century-style furniture maker living in North Carolina. Her furniture work mixes art with classic American furniture forms to make subtle statements about gender and power in the world of craft. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and is published in Fine Woodworking, Lost Art Press, Luxe, Art New England, and artscope.
Read MoreRolf Gjertsen
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Owain 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 MoreTaeho Kwon
Instructor
Taeho Kwon attended East Carolina University and majored in Commercial Arts, studying Interior Design, and has been a Furniture designer for 27 years and a woodworker for 24 years. During those years, he spent numerous years learning and practicing in building Buddhist temples, Hanok (traditional Korean house), and traditional furniture to acquire the knowledge of complex joinery passed down for thousands of years. While gaining skills through participating in Buddhist Temple and Hanok building, Taeho spent almost 15 years researching the traditional joinery that can last 1,000 years which are forgotten art in our current time. His plan has been to utilize this advanced joinery in his furniture design, as represented in his Sitting Bench / Coffee Table, Entry Table, and most of the furniture he creates. He then decided to pass down his knowledge to all woodworking enthusiasts by having workshops across the US. Since then, he’s been teaching for the last ten years. All his workshops involve complex joinery by making unique projects designed by Taeho or modified from traditional Korean design to suit modern living while utilizing the forgotten methods to last for hundreds of years. Taeho now lives in Southern California, works as a speciality builder for numerous designers and architects for six to nine months, and teaches for numerous woodworking and crafts schools in the US for about three months of the year. He has won many awards in the "Design in Wood" annual competition in San Diego, including Master Woodworker Trophy.
Read MoreLaura Mays
Instructor
Laura Mays has a degree in architecture from University College Dublin and a higher certificate in Furniture Design and Manufacture from GMIT Letterfrack (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology), both in Ireland. She followed that with two years in the Fine Woodworking program at the College of the Redwoods (now The Krenov School) in Fort Bragg, Calif., where since 2011 she has been the program director.
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 MoreDarrell Peart
Instructor
He started his career making and selling small wooden items at Seattle’s Pike Place Market. To broaden his experience, he then worked for many years in various high-end custom shops throughout the Puget Sound area gaining an extensive background in both commercial and custom furniture making. The influence of Greene & Greene can clearly be seen in Darrell’s work, but he has rarely exact reproductions. Exploring new design work is where his passion lies, and has brought him acclaim in the woodworking world. Darrell also writes and lectures about design, woodworking, and the history of Greene & Greene. He has written articles for Home Furniture, Today’s Woodworker, Fine Woodworking, Woodwork, Popular Woodworking, American Woodworker, Woodworker West, Style 1900, British Woodworking, 360 Woodworking, The SAPFM Journal, and Australian Wood Review.
Read MoreChris Schwarz
Instructor
I’m a furniture maker, writer and publisher who works from a storefront in Covington, Ky. I am one of the founders and the editor of Lost Art Press, which publishes books on hand tool woodworking. And I am one of the founders of Crucible Tool. In 2019, I closed my commission book, and I now build pieces on spec only and sell them via my blog at Lost Art Press.
Read MoreKate Swann
Director/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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Sally
Lazy Shop Dog Extraordinaire
We all know who's really in charge!
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