Matt Monaco operates a full-time woodturning studio in the Ozark region of Missouri and is one of very few young modern traditional woodturners in America having apprenticed & trained as a trade professional.  Matt has worked closely within a high-end professional furniture production landscape —Shackleton Thomas Furniture & Pottery as a full-time maker/item producer. At the center of Matt’s work is his understanding and mastery of tool control, sharpening, and cutting execution as an expression of traditionally crafted design as fine art — in producing forms and items that are made to be as tactile as they are sublime and created with intent and purpose. Matt is also a Fine Woodworking Contributor & Ambassador who values both the integrity of traditional woodturning and mastery of the craft as an art, as well as diversity within the handmade craft and woodworking idiom.