JANINE WANG discovered woodworking while studying to become an architect, and once she got her hands on the materials she couldn’t go back to drafting at the desk or computer again. She has worked for years in the retail home design industry while keeping one foot firmly rooted in the woodturning and hand-crafted world. Today she teaches woodworking and woodturning full time, helping to spread the joy and empowerment of building the environment we live in, one object at a time. Janine lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Bucks County Community College and the nonprofit organization TinyWPA. She holds a BA from the Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a member of the AAW, has exhibited widely and done residencies at craft institutions including the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Arrowmont School of Craft, and the Museum for Art in Wood.