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GRAHAM BLACKBURN was born and educated in London, England, before moving to New York City to continue his studies at the Juilliard School. While subsequently pursuing a career as a professional musician, playing flute and saxophone with various groups, including Van Morrison, he built his first house in Woodstock, NY.

Since then he has written and illustrated numerous books on many aspects of building and woodworking. He is a frequent contributor to various magazines including “Fine Woodworking”, “Popular Woodworking,” and “Woodwork” (of which he was also editor-in-chief). 

In addition to his furniture making, teaching, writing, and illustrating commitments, Graham has also made numerous television appearances as a home repair consultant. He was the national spokesperson for the Boyle-Midway media campaign Secrets of the Master Craftsmen, and for several years has been a featured speaker and presenter for The Woodworking Shows out of Los Angeles.

He currently divides his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Bearsville, NY, where he runs Blackburn Books, publisher of his 17th book, Traditional Woodworking Techniques, and the new interactive video magazine “WOODWORKING … in action.”

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ALLAN BREED began his woodworking career at age 11, when he used to attend auctions and buy antique pieces for himself. At age 19, he worked for the MFA program at Boston University in the restoration department while attending the University of New Hampshire, where he majored in history.

In 1976, he started cabinetmaking full time in Portsmouth, NH. Since then, he has built furniture for the Gardner-Pingree House at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Old South Meeting House in Boston, and the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth.

Allan has lectured for the Dallas Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Henry Ford Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, Christie’s, and Sotheby’s auction houses, to name a few.

In 1989, Allan was commissioned by Christie’s to make a copy of the Nicholas Brown Newport desk and bookcase after they sold the originals for $12.1 million. He was featured on the front cover of “Fine Woodworking” in October 1999.

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JOHN BURT has been operating his own woodworking/blacksmith shop for 28 years. Located in San Jose, CA, his shop produces custom furniture, liturgical commissions, and decorative hardware.

His interest in ironwork began in college, which led him to train under Frank Turley from Santa Fe, NM. John first operated his own forge in rural New Hampshire, where he repaired antique farm equipment and forged tools for local timber framers.

His woodworking began as an adjunct to the forge, but has now become his mainstay. “Woodwork” magazine did an in-depth profile on John in October 1998.

He has taught workshops throughout America and recently lectured for the Furniture Society Conference in California. John’s work can be viewed at Gallery M in Half Moon Bay in California.

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YEUNG CHAN is a native of China and has been working with wood since he was a child. He has come a long way since 1973 when he barely escaped a Maoist “relocation” farm and fled to Hong Kong.

 At age 26, he came to the United States with two suitcases, one set of clothes and $20 in his pocket. He started out as a printer and pattern maker, but found the most reward in making and designing furniture for the Metropolitan Furniture Company in San Francisco, where he created many award-winning furniture designs. 

Yeung realized he wanted to take his skill even higher, so he enrolled in the Jim Krenov program at the College of the  RedwoodsHe now owns his own custom furniture shop in California and currently writes articles on furniture making and tool making.
 
He was recently featured on the front cover of “Woodwork.” His Ming Dynasty-inspired table won first prize in the 1997 “American Woodworker” magazine’s “Excellence in Craftsmanship Award.”  Yeung is the author of Classic Joints With Power Tools by Lark Books.

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CATHY CLAYCOMB has been a nationally-recognized glass artist for the last decade.Her artwork has been displayed in galleries and private collections around the world.
 
She has been featured in “Glass Art,” “Glass Craftsman,” “Creative Design”, “Art In Motion” and “Profitable Glass” magazine.

Cathy is the author of Hidden Images In Glass and is a contributing editor for “Glass Craftsman” and “Profitable Glass” magazine. 

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MICHAEL COOPER has been fooling around with wood and metal-working since he was a kid and hasn’t grown up much since then.
 
After finally graduating from San Jose State College and U.C. Berkeley with some sort of degrees in the 60s, he was shown the door.
 
For 34 years, he faked his way as a college art teacher, teaching sculpture, 3-D design, furniture design and drawing, before being purged from the system. He has somehow won numerous awards and has been encouraged to leave the United States quite officially many times to make things elsewhere.
 
He bends wood well and often joins wood with odd bits and pieces of other materials and has shown his work around Sonoma County, where he currently resides. , he recently sold something big for a lot of money. That sculpture, “Gunrunner,” can be seen on the back cover of “Woodwork” magazine, December 2007.

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DOUG DALE has worked at MASW for four years, and he is in charge of student affairs and all the in-house maintenance. At one time, he held the record for the most classes attended in one summer—17 classes.
 
He obviously has completed his Masters, and in 2005 taught his first class here along with Zane Powell on Machine Maintenance, Jigs and Fixtures.
 
When Doug is not working at the school (or driving to and from the school—he lives in Ohio and drives more than 100 miles one way each day), he is working in his shop making furniture and cabinets and dabbling in restoration.
 
He is a dedicated employee who has motivated and inspired everyone through his wit and enthusiasm. Doug has lectured nationally for the Consumer Woodworking Expo.

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JOHN ECONOMAKI is the founder and president of Bridge City Tool Works, Inc., the premier manufacturer of woodworking hand tools in the world. He is arguably the world’s foremost expert in non-powered woodworking hand tools.
 
Prior to Bridge City, John was a designer/craftsman whose work was featured in numerous periodicals, including “Fine Woodworking,” “American Craft” and “Architectural Journal.”

In addition to appearing in many books and reviews, his furniture is in numerous private and public collections worldwide. One of John’s creations, a palm-sized nutcracker, is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

He is a past president of the Contemporary Crafts Gallery (the nation’s oldest craft gallery). John is a degreed educator who brings boundless energy and insightful enthusiasm to his courses. By the way, he prefers to be addressed as “hey, dude.”

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BOB FLEXNER has owned and operated his own woodworking, finishing, and restoration shop in Norman, OK, for the past 30 years.
 
He is well-known as an expert on finishing, currently writing columns on the subject for “Woodshop News” and “Popular Woodworking,” and articles for a number of other magazines. Bob served as editor of “Professional Refinishing,” the magazine for the refinishing trade, from 1999 to 2003.
 
His book, Understanding Wood Finishing, published by New Track Media, is now in its second fully revised edition and is widely regarded as the “bible” of wood finishing. His videos, “Repairing Furniture” and “Refinishing Furniture,” published by Taunton Press, both won national awards. Bob has taught at MASW longer than anyone except Marc Adams himself.
  
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MICHAEL FORTUNE maintains his studio near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he designs one-of-a-kind furniture for private residences across North America. He has taught at Sheridan College, Ryerson University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
 
He was the first woodworker to receive the prestigious Prix Bronfman Award, Canada’s highest award in the crafts. Michael has won dozens of honors, awards, and prizes. His work is on permanent collection at several museums, including Claridge Collection of Canadian Art and Craft in Montreal, Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, and the Ontario Crafts Council Collection.

He was recently inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, awarded a Queens Jubilee medal and has been featured in just about every woodworking magazine in existence. Michael received the Award of Distinction from the Furniture Society in 2007, one of only 14 recipients to date. This is Michael's ninth year teaching at MASW.
 
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CLAY FOSTER began woodworking at the age of 5, when his father gave him a saw for his birthday.
 
Ranging from finely crafted church furniture, casually executed art furniture, and mixed media sculpture, his work is imbued with the gentle sweetness and small wonders of life he experiences every day at his home on the Texas prairie.
 
Clay Foster exhibits with galleries in Santa Fe and San Francisco, and has work in many museums and private collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Yale University, and the Arkansas Art Center.

Clay is a founding member and past vice president of The American Association of Woodturners.

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CHRIS GOCHNOUR discovered the pleasure of building things by hand when he made his own skateboards and snowboards as a teenager.

His enthusiasm for carving turns on a board was eventually replaced by a passion for building things out of wood. With the exception of a one-year sabbatical spent with his wife in Washington, D.C., Chris has spent the last 18 years building custom furniture in Salt Lake City, UT.
 
In addition to teaching at Marc Adams School of Woodworking, he also teaches woodworking at the University of Utah, Salt Lake Community College, and the Traditional Building Skills Institute at Snow College.

Chris is a regular contributor to “Fine Woodworking” and enjoys sharing his passion for traditional woodworking and hand tools with others.

Something of a rag-picker, Chris receives great satisfaction from finding old and neglected hand tools and giving them a second chance at life. When he’s not in the woodshop or searching for old tools, Chris enjoys throwing baseballs, shooting hoops, or kicking soccer balls with his two children, Rosie and Theo.

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SCOTT GROVE is a third-generation artist who has been a sculptor ever since he can remember.  He has an environmental design degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a minor in sculpture.

For more than 30 years, he has developed unconventional methods in his approach to furniture making. As a self-taught woodworker, Grove is known for layers of artistic expression; his pieces are a combination of unique carved textures, radiant veneers and copper polychrome finishes. 

In addition, he has operated an architectural fiberglass company that has created works for such notables as Wendell Castle.
 
A furniture society member, Grove exhibits nationally in galleries and leading shows, including ACC and SOFA.  He has been commissioned by major corporations and prominent private collectors. 

His work is a part of the permanent collection in the Hunter Museum of American Art, and he has won a variety of national awards.  Scott lectures and holds workshops nationally on a variety of woodworking, fiberglass construction and marketing subjects.

He has been featured in or written articles for a variety of publications, including “Fine Woodworking,” “Fine Home Building,” “Woodshop News,” “CWB,” “Freshwood2,” “The Artful Home,” “The Robb Report,” and others, and appeared on Home & Garden’s HGTV.

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GARRETT HACK is a furniture maker, author, and woodworking teacher from Thetford Center, VT, where he also runs a small homestead farm.He originally trained at Boston University’s program in artistry and holds a degree in architecture from Princeton University.
 
Internationally known, his work and Federal-inspired brick shop have been featured in numerous magazines and books, including “Architectural Digest,” “The New York Times,” and “Preservation” magazine. He is a contributing editor at “Fine Woodworking” and has written two books, The Handplane Book and Classic Hand Tools.

Garrett spends about a quarter of his time teaching throughout the U.S., England, and Canada, and is former chairman of the Furniture Masters of New Hampshire.

 
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STEVE HAMILTON, one of Virginia’s native sons, is responsible for building many of the most magnificent pieces of our generation.

He has participated in the building, finishing, and restoration of furniture found in some of the most prestigious private collections in the country.
 
His work can be seen at Colonial Williamsburg, Carlisle House, Mt. Vernon, The White House and the U.S. Parks Service, to name a few.
 
He apprenticed with Mack S. Headley Sr. and has been a master builder with Mack S. Headley & Sons for 30 years. During that time, Steve has taught building, restoration, and finishing of fine furniture to four apprentices.

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JOHN HAMM designs and builds leaded glass windows and lighting for commission in his Whittier, CA studio. He began his career in glass in 1979.

Trained as an artist from birth by his artist-painter-father, John is a natural who has worked in many media. He found his passion when hired by a museum-quality Tiffany reproduction studio when he was 21 years of age.

He has worked full time as a glass artist since 1984, and has run his own studio, Hamm Glass Studios, since 1989.

Through the years, John has trained a number of apprentices in his studio. His passion and skills have allowed him to become one of the foremost authorities on leaded glass in the Arts & Crafts style. His commissions have included clients from all over the United States.






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JEFF HEADLEY, a fourth-generation cabinetmaker, is continuing the family business, Mack S. Headley & Sons (not to be confused with Mack Headley Jr. of Colonial Williamsburg), of reproducing pieces of American furniture built before the 1820s.The Headley’s shop is located outside of Berryville, VA, in the historic Shenandoah Valley, 60 miles west of Washington D.C.
 
Jeff has written for “Fine Woodworking,” demonstrated on Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” and lectured to many organizations and museums, including Colonial Williamsburg.
He was hired as an instructor by the government and worked for many divisions of the military and The Park Service.
 
The Headley’s have worked for many museums, such as Mount Vernon, The Carlyle House, Mosbys Tavern, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The White House and The Park Service and have done work for many heads of state and other dignitaries.

Jeff lives with his wife, Susan, in Clarke County, VA, between Winchester and Berryville, with their four dogs and three cats. Jeff also raises a small herd of Hereford and Angus cows on the family farm.

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MATTHEW HILL is a full-time wood turner who lives and works in Oklahoma City. He began turning in the mid-1980s while working as a cabinetmaker.
 
From 1992 to 1999, he owned his own furniture-making business. He has a strong interest in design and has spent countless hours developing his special techniques, which are apparent in his turnings. He produces work for shows, galleries, and private collectors around the country.

Teaching is a natural extension of the skill he has acquired and the pleasure he derives from turning. The art and enjoyment of turning are strongly evident in his workshops.
 
Matthew has lectured for The Woodworking Shows, clubs and woodworking programs throughout the country and will be a featured speaker at the 2009 American Association of Woodturning Symposium.


 

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MICHAEL HOSALUK is well-known for his involvement with the Emma Lake Collaboration, a biannual event that unites artists from around the world to make art and share knowledge.
 
Recently he has published a book titled Scratching The Surface, which explores surface design in contemporary wood and addresses why we make objects rather than how.
 
He has exhibited, lectured, and demonstrated extensively throughout the world. His work can be found in many public and private collections internationally. He is a founding member of The American Association of Wood Turners, Furniture Society, and the Saskatchewan Woodworkers Guild, and he has received many awards and honors for his work and commitment to the field of woodworking, including the prestigious Prix Bronfman Award, Canada’s highest award for excellence in the crafts.

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GLEN HUEY is an Ohio native who, with great help from his father, built his first piece of reproduction furniture at the age of 14. It was a Sheraton Bed that he still has to this day.
 
Today he is a senior editor with “Popular Woodworking” and “Woodworking” magazines and is the author of three furniture books, Fine Furniture for a Lifetime, Building Fine Furniture, and The Illustrated Guide to Building Period Furniture.
 
Glen is the owner and host of “Woodworker’s Edge,” a multimedia DVD series (woodworkersedge.com). In addition, he enjoys teaching woodworking and has conducted seminars for a number of woodworking groups and enthusiasts. Glen also holds seminars and classes with the WoodWorks shows.

His focus is primarily 18th and early 19th century furniture because that is the era and style that he enjoys the most. He feels this is the time period in furniture history when the best designs were built. With Queen Anne and Chippendale designs, along with a hearty dose of the Shaker movement, who could ask for better craftsmanship to copy?

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BILL HULL was first exposed to woodworking as a child through his father’s woodworking shop, then later in a school shop program. After college he started picking up various trades such as masonry, carpentry, and cabinetry.
 
In the early 1980s he started his own business that evolved into finish woodworking, furniture making, and veneering.

In the early ’90s Bill started teaching furniture making at Francis Tuttle Vo-Tech, and started a business with two other woodworkers building furniture for the designer market.

In 1995, he left the business to co-found Patternwork Veneering Inc., which specializes in high-end pattern and inlay veneered panels. Bill has lectured throughout the nation for The Woodworking Shows, the IIDA, guilds, and woodworking clubs. He is currently teaching furniture-making classes at Moore-Norman Technology Center in Oklahoma.
 
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JEFF JEWITT runs a full-time finishing supply company, Homestead Finishing Products, yet still finds time to refinish, write, and teach.
 
He has written extensively for “Fine Woodworking” magazine for more than 10 years and has written articles on finishing for “American Woodworker,” “Wooden Boat,” “Popular Woodworking,” “Woodshop News,” and “The Journal Of Light Construction.”
 
He has developed finishing products that are sold all over the world under the Homestead name. He is the author of four books—Hand Applied Finishes, Great Wood Finishes, The Complete Guide To Finishing (Taunton Press), and Furniture Repair And Refinishing (Handyman Club of America)—as well as two videos: “Coloring Wood” and “Applying Topcoats” (Taunton Press).
 
He is the recipient of the Golden Hammer First Place writing award by the NAHWW for woodworking media in 1997 (videos), 2004 (magazine article), and 2005 (books and magazine article). He is the only double first place winner (for different media in the same year) in the contest’s history.

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GREG JOHNSON has been in the furniture making trade for 35 years, starting at age 13 in his father's cabinet making and restoration shop in Maryland.

After completing a two-year furniture program at the Worcester Center for Crafts, he worked for his brother Tom in Boston, building and restoring furniture. During this time, Greg found his niche in wood finishing.
 
In 1989, he started working as finisher for designer Wendell Castle in Scottsville, NY. In 1999, he took a management position running the finishing department at a new production company Wendell Castle started called Icon Design LLC.
 
In early 2005, Greg went into his own business full time, Johnson Furniture Restoration, where he offers a full range of services including restoration, conservation, and custom finishing. Greg has written for “Fine Woodworking” and “Woodshop News” and has taught dozens of wood finishing workshops.

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JOHN JORDAN is a wood turner from Cane Ridge (Nashville), TN. Known primarily for his textured and carved hollow vessels, John has been featured in nearly every major turning exhibition the past 25 years. 

His work has received numerous awards, can be found in many corporate and private collections, and is in the permanent collections of more than 25 museums, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, the White House in Washington, the Fine Arts Museum, Boston, the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, England, and the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum in London, to name just a few. 

John is in great demand as a demonstrator/teacher, traveling extensively teaching at universities, craft schools, turning groups and trade shows throughout the world. 

His work, along with articles he has written, is frequently seen in publications in several countries, and can be found in numerous books on woodturning and craft. He has also produced three instructional woodturning videos, which are very popular.

 
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BORIS KHECHOYAN has 30 years of experience in woodcarving and has been recognized internationally for his talents. Born in the ancient Azerbaijan city of Baku in the former Soviet Union, Boris began his woodcarving career in 1978. A natural at the craft, Boris received numerous awards from student exhibitions in Moscow while attending college. 

Boris continued his formal schooling at the University of Architecture in Baku, where he studied various other styles of woodcarvings, including Gothic, Rococo, Empire and Classicism. In fact, some of the pieces Boris produced during this time are still on display at the Art Museum of Baku.
 
Boris became a Master Woodcarver in 1985, after entering his work in exhibitions in Moscow and Armenia, where he received his Master Woodcarvers Certificate.
 
Boris immigrated to the United States in 1991, and in that same year he won the top awards at the International Woodcarvers Congress—a feat that he repeated the two following years. Boris also took first place in “Design in Wood”, in San Diego, CA and the Best of Show at the 2007 Dayton “Artistry in Wood” show.
 
Boris and his work have been featured on HGTV Modern Masters, as well as in a number of local and national newspaper and magazine articles.

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FRANK KLAUSZ is a master cabinetmaker from Hungary. He has worked with wood for more than 50 years. He owns and operates a cabinet shop in New Jersey that specializes in fine furniture reproduction and custom architectural fixtures.
 
Frank writes for a number of woodworking magazines and is a past contributing editor for “American Woodworker.”
 
He lectures throughout the country for woodworking shows, stores, guilds, and universities and has been featured in five instructional DVDs by the Taunton Press, including “Dovetail a Drawer,” “Wood Finishing,” and “Making Mortise and Tenon Joints.” He is one of America’s woodworking icons.

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John Knight became interested in woodworking after watching a coffee table being built on a PBS television program. He quickly learned you couldn’t make a table as easily as they made it look on the show, nor could you make a coffee table in half an hour.
 
At this point, he realized he needed help and began taking classes at MASW. John earned his Master’s certificate from MASW in 2002 and is close to completing the Michael Fortune Fellowship program.

During this time, he has assisted in several workshops and full-week classes.  John is active in his local woodworking club and has been seminar chairman since 1997.

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MITCH KOHANEK has been an instructor for the Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota for the last 31 years, where he runs the National Institution of Wood Finishing. His graduates become the best professional finishers in furniture restoration, spot repair artists, and pre-finishers this country has to offer.
 
His program is the only certified finishing program in America and has been featured in “Better Homes and Gardens,” “Wood” and “Fine Woodworking” magazines, and he has written for “American Woodworker” and “Fine Woodworking” magazines.
 
Mitch has performed an internship at the Smithsonian Conservation and Analytical Laboratory and is a member of the American Institute of Conservation. He has lectured for The Woodworking Shows out of Los Angeles and is a consultant to the entire finishing industry.

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ALAN LACER has been involved in the turning field for more than 33 years as a turner, teacher, writer, exhibition coordinator, demonstrator and past president of the American Association of Woodturners.

His work has appeared in a number of regional and national shows and exhibitions. As a demonstrator and instructor, he has appeared in all 50 states and four foreign countries.

His writings have covered technical aspects of woodturning, finishing, numerous specific projects, stories related to the history of woodturning and the turning traditions of Japan and Germany. He has also produced five videos on his own, with three of them winning a total of five national awards.

In 1999, the American Association of Woodturners selected him as their Lifetime Honorary Member Award for his contributions to the field. He is a regular writer for “American Woodworker” and “American Woodturner” publications.

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Bob Lang is senior editor of “Popular Woodworking” and “Woodworking” magazines. He is the author of five books of measured drawings of furniture and interiors of the Arts & Crafts movement of the early 20th century that are published by Cambium Press. He is also the author of The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker and Drafting & Design for Woodworkers.

In addition to his editorial duties, Bob designs and builds many of the magazines’ projects, and is responsible for many of the illustrations and measured drawings appearing in “Popular Woodworking.”

 Before joining “Popular Woodworking” in 2004, he spent more than 25 years designing and building custom cabinets and furniture, both in his own shops and in large commercial shops. His work has also appeared in “Fine Woodworking,” “Woodshop News,” and “Woodwork” magazines.

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STEVE LATTA has been a cabinetmaker for more than 25 years. In the late 1980s, his love of period work brought him to the Lancaster/Philadelphia region, where he has focused on furniture of the Federal style.

He teaches furniture making full time at Thaddeus Stevens College in Lancaster, PA and earned his master’s degree at Penn State with an emphasis on the decorative arts. He is a former board member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and continues to serve in the capacity of conference coordinator.
 
Steve’s articles have appeared in “Woodwork” and “American Period Furniture,” and he is a contributing editor to “Fine Woodworking Magazine.” He has lectured on the topic of inlay at Colonial Williamsburg, Winterthur Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, as well as numerous other schools and guilds.
 
Additionally, he does private commissions. Steve lives with his wife Elizabeth and their three children, Fletcher, Sarah, and Grace, in rural Pennsylvania.


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JOE LEONARD is a self-taught woodcarver with more than 37 years of experience. He first started carving after completing a three-year course at Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, OH, where he eventually taught for 1 ½ years. Gaining interest in carousel horses and animals, he started restoring figures for collectors throughout the world.

Leonard has won numerous awards for his carvings, including several best of show awards. He has been featured in “Fine Woodworking,” “Equine Image Magazine,” “Carving Magazine” and “The Carousel News & Trade.”
 
One of his largest and more prestigious commissions was designing and carving 17 large Armored Carousel Horses for the Euro Disney Carousel outside Paris, France. Two of his larger carvings, an Armored Pegasus and a Griffin, are in a traveling museum exhibit called Mythic Creatures. The exhibit started in New York at the American Museum of Natural History and continues to The Field Museum in Chicago, The Boston Science Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, The Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, and to The Fernbank Museum in Atlanta in 2011.

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THOMAS LIE-NIELSEN has been making hand planes since 1981, having worked for several years at Garrett Wade, and having grown up around his father’s traditional boat-building shop in Mid-Coast Maine.

He is self-taught in machining, casting, pattern making and all other necessary metal and woodworking skills.

Lie-Nielsen currently employs about 75 people, who make about 100 various hand tools, planes, saws, chisels, and workbenches. He is also the author of Complete Illustrated Guide to Sharpening, which is published by the Taunton Press.

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DON McCONNELL made his first wooden plane in the late 1970s while hand building furniture in the cabinet shop of the Ohio Village. He has continued his plane-making activities over the following years while building custom furniture in the traditional style and executing one-of-a-kind architectural woodwork, including carving elements of geometric handrails.

His work has been featured in several magazines and exhibits. Additionally, he has demonstrated plane making at several arts festivals as part of a grant from the Traditional Arts program of the Ohio Arts Council.

A contributing editor for “Popular Woodworking” magazine, Don is also co-author of the newly published Hand-Saw Makers Of Britain. Don is a partner in Clark & Williams, the only contemporary commercial company making traditional Western-style wooden planes. More than 200 Clark & Williams planes are currently in use in the conservation and historic trades departments of Colonial Williamsburg.

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MIKE MAHONEY is a bowl maker from Orem, UT, who has been turning for more than 22 years with a focus toward making wooden bowls for art and utility.
 
While in college pursuing an industrial arts degree, Mike discovered the lathe and was immediately drawn to its versatility and his ability to create on it. He received his degree with an emphasis in woodturning and wood science. Most of the wood Mike uses to turn his bowls is from unwanted trees that have been removed due to death or disease—trees that he finds usually contain the most character and beauty. The natural beauty of wood, which lends itself to both natural and classic forms, inspires him.
 
Mike’s bowls can be found in world-renowned galleries and in private collections. His work is in the White House, as well as in galleries such as Appalachian Springs, Washington D.C., New York Museum of Craft, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gallery, Simon Pearce Gallery, and Sansar Gallery in Bethesda, MD.

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JEFF MERTZ is a design editor for “Wood” magazine, where he has been responsible for designing nearly half of the projects featured in its pages for the past seven years.
 
Before joining the staff at “Wood,” he was a hobbyist woodworker for 15 years. He continues to build projects at home for his family and does commissioned pieces for clients where he lives in Des Moines, IA.  Jeff has been designing and building projects that range from traditional to contemporary and from candle holders to slant-front desks.

In addition to the furniture projects, Jeff focuses on teaching techniques, process, and concepts, not just projects during the classes he teaches.  Jeff utilizes a very practical manner in his design and teaching that will help you take your projects to the next level. His primary focus when working at his shop at home is to build pieces from the Arts and Crafts era, influenced by designers such as the Stickley Brothers, Harvey Ellis, Elbert Hubbard, and the Greene brothers.

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JOHN MORGAN has spent the past 29 years researching forms of kinetic woodwork. Early emulations of folk art whirligigs and animated toys evolved into wall hung motorized electric tableaus and then smaller, hand cranked, automata designed to fit on the corner of an executive’s desk.
 
This esoteric pursuit, funded primarily through John’s vocation as a professor of design, is the passion that drives his creative research. His narrative product springs form a unique marriage of art, design, and engineering.

Pieces from his limited editions produced over the past 13 years have been shown in “American Craft” and “American Woodworker” magazines and have been exhibited in craft galleries and museums in the US, UK, and Japan. He was awarded the Best of Show by the Wharton Esherick Museum’s Toying with Wood exhibition and has received numerous purchase awards form the Arkansas Arts Center’s Toys Designed by Artists.His automata is held by individual collectors across the US and is represented in corporate collections in the US and Japan. 

John resides in Opelika, Alabama with his wife and two daughters, who serve as eager and critical barometers of the success of each of his attempts to deliver a dose of humor through the crank handle of a wooden machine.

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SANDOR NAGYSZALANCZY is a former senior editor of “Fine Woodworking,” West-coast editor of “American Woodworker,” and regular contributor to “Woodworker’s Journal.”
 
Sandor Nagyszalanczy (pronounced Shawn-door Not-sa-lon-see) is the author and photographer and more than a dozen books on woodworking, tools, and home improvement topics, as well as innumerable magazine articles. His work has received 10 “Golden Hammer” awards from the National Association of Workshop Writers, including an unprecedented eight consecutive first-place wins (2001-2008). 

With a degree in design from the University of California Santa Cruz, Sandor has been a designer/craftsman of custom furniture and cabinetry for the past 30 years. His work has been featured in dozens of woodworking exhibitions and galleries, publications, and the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
 
A Master Craftsman member of California’s renowned Baulines Guild, Sandor has appeared in numerous television programs including The History Channel’s “Modern Marvels” series, ABC’s “World News Tonight,” and “DIY Tools and Techniques.” He is also a consultant to a major international tool manufacturer, helping design and develop innovative new power tools.

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GREGG NOVOSAD has been around woodworking since he was a child, watching his dad build cabinets in their garage with the simplest of tools.

From that humble beginning, he went on a lifelong journey evolving his skills as a self-taught woodworker, building bars and stereo cabinets in college to ultimately running a woodworking company. 

After college, Gregg started an IT consulting firm, where he gained an appreciation for a structured approach with special attention to developing employee skills.

After 14 years, he sold the business and intensified his woodworking journey. After building his first marquetry piece, Gregg had his “Ah Ha” moment and focused his attention on veneer work utilizing both the analytical and creative sides of his brain. Gregg currently runs Divine Design, a decorative veneering company.

He has been published in “Fine Woodworking” and “Woodwork” magazines, and has won several awards, including Grand Prize winner of the 2008 Veneer Tech’s Craftsman Challenge.

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GRAEME PRIDDLE was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1960. He moved to Northland in 1986 while working for Telecom as a radio technician. He took voluntary severance in 1989 after 12 years service and started woodturning in 1990.

Graeme now lives and works on a 100-acre bush block 30km North-East of Whangarei with his wife and three children. Graeme has won numerous awards for his turned pieces, which have been included in exhibitions around the world.

He is very active in the woodturning world and commits his time and talent to many creative endeavours. He has served on the committee of the New Zealand National Association of Woodturners for five years. He has been instrumental in establishing and coordinating the New Zealand ‘CollaboratioNZ’ Conferences for eight years and continues with an active interest in this event.

Graeme has demonstrated and taught for numerous woodworking and woodturning groups and at many turning events throughout the world. This April, he was invited to demonstrate at the Southern States Symposium in North Carolina, and will be traveling for two months teaching at Art & Craft Schools in North Carolina, Tennessee, and New Jersey.
 
In 2008, Graeme was invited to the Emma Lake International Collaborative Conference and, later that year, he was a featured demonstrator in Austria at a three-day event for Magma, one of Europe’s leading woodworking tool and machinery suppliers.

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ZANE POWELL has been a professional woodworker for more than 29 years. In 1987, he supervised the residential cabinetry division at Classic Woodworking, specializing in design and building complicated casework.
 
In 1992, he started his own company that specializes in fine furniture. He has been the lead assistant at MASW since it started in 1992.

His work has been featured on the front cover of “Builder Architect Magazine” and in “Indianapolis Monthly” magazine and Better Homes And Gardens “Wood” magazine. Zane is one of the reasons our school is what it is today.

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STEPHEN PROCTOR is currently a furniture design-maker who lectures throughout the world. He has an M.A. degree in furniture design from the Royal College of Art in London, England.
 
From 1975 to 1988, he was involved with the Wendell Castle School in Scottsville, NY, and became dean there in 1981. He has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has lectured at woodworking schools throughout North America.

His furniture has been exhibited in London, Tokyo, Basle, New York, Chicago, and Washington, and has been featured in “Fine Woodworking,” “Vogue,” “London Times,” “American Craft,” and “Corporate Showcase.” Stephen is an excellent instructor who is unparalleled when it comes to problem solving and hand skills.

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JOHN RESSLER is a lifetime woodworker, starting with his own shop on the family farm as a young boy. He is part owner and operations manager of Designed Stairs, one of the largest custom stair companies in the US. Some of the stair work is featured in William P. Spence’s “Constructing Staircases, Balustrades & Landings” as well as HGTV and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
 
John has worked to develop training programs at Designed Stairs with the late Roger Cliffe. John’s love of wood and music led him to pursue custom guitar and folk instrument building as well as conducting workshops to teach others this fine art.

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DAVID REILLY received his first set of carving tools at age 12 and used them more for building model airplanes than for carving.
 
After a period of furniture making in the 1960s, he started using carving tools for their intended purpose when he wanted to decorate furniture he was constructing for his two small daughters.

He started teaching carving in 1974 and now teaches at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, Woodcraft stores in the Chicago area, trade shows, private students, and was featured in all the woodcarving segments in the DVD magazine “WOODWORKING@HOME.” His love of relief carving has been fostered by his teacher, friend and mentor, Dimitrios Klitsas, who he first studied with at MASW.


 

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CORY ROBINSON has taught furniture design since spring 2003 at the Herron School of Art, where he still resides as an integral part of the furniture design faculty.

After receiving his MFA from SDSU, under the guiding force of Wendy Maruyama, Robinson came back to Herron to help steer the furniture design program through the school’s transition into a brand new 170,000-square-foot facility and into a new era of the school’s 100- plus-year history. Robinson has been responsible for securing and executing nearly $200,000 worth of external grants, which have allowed the Herron furniture program to transform into one of the most recognized BFA furniture design degrees in the Midwest.

In 2006, Robinson served as a co-chair of the Furniture Society Conference in Indianapolis and his work has been published in Michael Hosaluk’s Scratching the Surface, as well as Furniture Studio 3 and Furniture Studio 5, both published by The Furniture Society. Robinson creates commissioned work, as well as bodies of work for gallery exhibition.
 
Currently, he has representation with Function + Art in Chicago and ARTBOX in Indianapolis, and continues to show his furniture and art in exhibitions around the country, most recently exhibiting in Contemporary Craft at the JRB Gallery in Oklahoma City, OK.

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MARK SACKMAN has been a professional woodworker for 19 years. He owns a custom cabinet and furniture business in Fontana, CA, and has served for three years as the president of the Inland Woodworkers Association.

In 2003 he completed the Masters of Woodworking program at MASW and will finish the Fellowship program this year.

This will be Mark’s third year teaching at MASW. He has also taught several woodworking and cabinetmaking classes through his business and the Rockler woodworking stores in southern California.

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BETTY SCARPINO is one of the most talented wood artists in America and is in demand worldwide as a teacher and demonstrator. She has a degree in industrial arts with a specialty in woodworking from the University of Missouri.
 
Betty is a regular contributor to “Woodworker’s Journal” as their woodturning column editor. Her work is in many public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, and the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia.
 
She has been featured in Wood Art Today, Woodwork, Fine Woodworking, The Art Of Woodturning (Time-Life Books), and Scratching The Surface, and is the author of New Masters Of Woodturning.

Her work has been shown in more than 25 national juried exhibitions. Betty lives in Indianapolis, IN, and she is currently the editor of “American Woodturner” magazine.

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PAUL SCHURCH is the proprietor of Schürch Woodwork in Santa Barbara, CA. He is a well-respected European-trained master craftsman, instructor and designer, with his marquetry furniture on exhibit in public and in private collections around the world.
 
His formal training includes a 1972 Swiss apprenticeship as a Church Organ Builder with continuing journeyman work at the International Boat Building Training Center in England. Paul regularly spends time in Europe to study and preserve the dying art of traditional furniture conservation, and to continue learning, practicing and teaching new styles and techniques of surface decoration using wood, metal and stone.
 
He has been teaching veneering, marquetry and furniture design seminars at MASW since 1997. As a consultant and a contributing educator to the trades, he has been featured on covers of “Fine Woodworking,” “CWB,” and “Woodworker West” magazines and has had articles and pictures of his work featured in national magazines and furniture design books since 1985. He had won many national awards for his furniture pieces, and continues to exhibit at selected galleries across the US.  

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ALF SHARP lives in Woodbury, TN, where he moved his family 35 years ago from Nashville. He had dropped out of law school in favor of the manual arts, and began the long process of self-education in fine furniture-making. At one point, his business had grown to a small factory with 25 employees, but that was not the dream.
 
Since 1981, he has been working in a small studio next to his house, custom crafting the finest possible furniture, mostly in American and European 18th century traditional styles. His work has been featured in “Colonial Homes,” “Southern Living,” “Architecture Of The Old South,” “Fine Woodworking,” “Woodwork,” “The Tennessee Sampler,” “Historic Preservation,” Furniture Studio 3, and many other books and magazines. 

Alf is the recipient of the 2008 Cartouche Award from The Society of American Period Furniture Makers. He is a member of the executive committee of the Furniture Society. Recent work can be seen in the 2008 February issue of “Woodwork” magazine.

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Jennifer Shirley lives in Indianapolis, where she is a full-time director of the evening news on a local television station. Her passion for woodturning has given her opportunities to participate in juried art shows and competitions.

She is a contributing writer for “Woodturning Design Magazine” as well as being a participant in several “Woodworkers' Journal” articles.

She demonstrates at regional woodturning symposiums and is a member of the local and national chapters of the American Association of Woodturners. Jennifer is a frequent studio class assistant and a regular instructor here at MASW.

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TAL SIEGMANN knew at an early age that he had talent with creating and fixing things, but it wasn't until the turn of a new century that he turned professional. Although trained as a veterinarian, Tal chose to pursue his passion for design and creation of furniture, putting dogs and cats behind him.

In 2000, Tal opened up his company (Design Wood) in Southfield, MI and began designing one-of-a-kind "high end" pieces for clients all over the Detroit area. Relatively self-taught and trained, his work can be seen in religious institutions, private homes and work spaces.

His main love is working in the areas of marquetry and veneer. From immense detailed wall units to small vessels, Tal's enthusiasm for wood is evident. Although he considers himself to be one of the "newbies" in the field, his love for woodworking spans beyond his actual years.




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THOMAS STANGELAND has been crafting fine furniture for more than 18 years. Recently, he was commissioned to furnish the Greene & Greene Presidential and Vice Presidential suites at Disney’s new Grand Californian Hotel. He studied woodworking with master furniture builder/designer Emmet Day, working primarily with the clean curves and sumptuous details of the Art Deco style.

Over the years, Thomas has trained 10 apprentices. He is a member/owner of Northwest Fine Woodworking (NWFWW) and a member of Northwest Designer Craftsman, a juried crafts organization. He participated in the founding conference of Woodworkers Alliance for Rain Forest Protection (WARP). His work has been featured in “Fine Woodworking,” “Home Furniture,” “Woodshop News,” “Woodworker West,” and “The Craft Reports,” to name a few.

Thomas has also served as a lecturer at the Historic Seattle Bungalow Home Show and at Bellevue and Seattle Central community colleges.

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ALAN STIRT has been a professional woodturner for more than 38 years.  His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian, the White House and the American Craft Museum. 

He has demonstrated and taught about woodturning and design in England, Ireland, New Zealand, and Canada as well as throughout the U.S.
 
In 1997, Al was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership in the American Association of Woodturners for his commitment and contributions to the field of woodturning.

In additional to his functional bowls and platters, for the last 25 years he has been making ceremonial objects to try to address emotional and spiritual needs.

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DOUG STOWE is a professional furniture designer/craftsman and box maker
working with American hardwoods. He is the author of three box-makingbooks, Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques, Simply Beautiful Boxes, and The Complete Illustrated Guide To Box Making.
 

In addition, his book Making Elegant Custom Tables won the 2003 Golden Hammer Award for best how-to book.
 
His boxes and furniture have been featured in “Woodworker’s Journal,” “Woodwork,” and “Fine Woodworking.” He is a contributing editor and frequent contributor for “Woodwork” magazine.

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GARY STRIEGLER is a second-generation home builder with more than 32 years’ experience. He is the president of Striegler and Associates Inc., a custom home-building firm specializing in highly detailed interiors featuring curved trim.
 

Gary is a frequent contributor to “Fine Homebuilding” magazine and the “Journal Of Light Construction.” His work has been featured in “Luxury Home Builder” and “Custom Builder” magazines.
 
Gary has taught sold-out classes at MASW for the last five summers. He has done teaching and consulting work for Dewalt, Kreg, White River, and Wood Master tools. He has taught nationally for The Woodworking Shows and JLC live shows and clubs around the country.







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MALCOLM TIBBETTS has been a wood worker most of his life and has been a segmented woodturning artist for the past 16 years. His work resides in many prestigious collections and museums around the world, and he has won numerous awards for his art.

He shares his passion for this unique art form by conducting demonstrations at national symposiums, woodworking schools, and club meetings. As the author of the highly acclaimed book The Art of Segmented Woodturning and as the producer of segmented turning “How To” DVDs, he is recognized as one of the most innovative segmenters in the world.

Malcolm was the driving force behind the first-ever segmented turning symposium, Exploring Possibilities, at MASW. He lives in South Lake Tahoe, CA.

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ROY UNDERHILL forged his hand tool woodworking career while homesteading high in the mountains of New Mexico. He further honed his skills while serving as a master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, until the constant fife and drum parades finally ground him down.
 
Despite more than 35 of self-inflicted lacerations, Roy carries on his campaign of subversive woodworking with his long-running PBS television series, “The Woodwright’s Shop” and his new book, The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge. His many articles have never appeared in the pages of “Fine Woodworking” (under his own name).
 
He now teaches at his own Woodwright’s School in North Carolina. When not working wood, he enjoys skiing in the money bin and stacking the Nobel prizes in the backyard.

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JOEL URRUTY was born in San Francisco, CA in 1968, the son of Basque immigrants. He earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial technology at San Francisco State University. 

He apprenticed as a furniture maker under David J. Marks, Master Craftsman, and later went on to earn a Masters of
Fine Art in furniture design and woodworking from the School of American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has taught in various institutions, such as Philadelphia University and University of the Arts, and has taught workshops at Penland School of Craft, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Peter's Valley Craft Education Center, Arrowmont School of Craft and MASW. 

Joël is a full-time artist who creates abstract figurative sculptures. His studio is in Hickory, NC where he works alone carving and
creating unique, one-of-a-kind sculptures. His work has been shown in Japan, as well as various galleries and museums throughout the United States. He has also been widely published in various art and craft magazines an