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Marc Adams School of Woodworking Instructors
MARC ADAMS has been woodworking professionally for more than 29 years. In 1991, he became a technical consultant to the WWPA, SFPA, AHEC, and the U.S. government, representing the United States on International Quality of Furniture Making. His work has appeared in Design Book Six and Design Book Seven, and his shop was featured in The Workshop by Taunton Press. In addition, his work has appeared in many national publications and has been featured on the front cover of Woodshop News. Marc has worked with the EPA in Washington on current woodworking issues and has been a panel commentator at the prestigious International Woodworking Fair. Marc has won the Indiana Artist/Craftsman of the Year award three times and periodically does TV and radio talk shows on woodworking topics. He co-authored the book Working With Plastic Laminates and currently consults for both the laminate and adhesive industries. His "Technical Technique" video series is the largest-selling video series in the history of woodworking, and he was recently awarded four "Telly" awards. Marc just completed an eight-part series on workshop safety for Popular Woodworking magazine and was a judge for the 2008 Veneer Tech Craftsman Challenge Awards and the 2009 AWFS Fresh Wood Student Competition. He lectures nationally for universities, guilds, and trade shows and does train-the-trainer programs for today's biggest tool manufacturers. In 1998, he was chosen as one of Indiana's Top 40 Under 40 in the local business community and in 2010 was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus award from the world famous Whiteland High School.
Classes
• Joinery with Marc Adams• Basic Woodworking with Marc Adams
• Joinery with Marc Adams
• Laser Marquetry with Marc Adams
• Veneering: A Course of Action for Making Furniture with Adams
• Basic Veneering with Marc Adams
• Marquetry with Marc Adams
• Sculptural Rocking Chair with Marc Adams
• Cabinetmaking with Marc Adams
• Marquetry with Marc Adams
• Joinery with Marc Adams
• Joinery II with Marc Adams
• Apprenticeship with Marc Adams
MICHAEL ASHFORD started hammering copper 23 years ago when he found he had a need for hammered copper door and drawer pulls. After getting a degree in Economics, Michael decided business life was not very appealing so he ventured into an apprenticeship at a local boat yard and learned how to build boats. During this time he picked up a copy of Gustav Stickley's More Craftsman Homes, and he has never been the same since. Michael started out building Stickley furniture in1988 and found he really liked working with copper and soon abandoned furniture making for copper smithing. He is one of a very few craftsmen building hammered copper lighting in the US and has lectured on building hammered copper lamps at the Grove Park Inn National Arts & Crafts Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, and at the Pasadena Heritage Craftsman Weekend in Pasadena, California. He has written on the subject in Style 1900, and his work has been featured in a number of magazines including American Bungalow, The Arts & Crafts Home, Architectural Digest, Mountain Living and Old House Interiors, to name a few. He was also featured on HGTV's Modern Masters. His studio and home are located on six acres where he lives with his wife Cathy and their two dogs near Olympia, Washington.
Classes
• Hand Hammered Copper Lantern with Michael Ashford
JULIE BENDER is an award-winning artist whose strong passion for pyrography is matched by her profound appreciation for wildlife and nature. Julie's art has been exhibited internationally in museums, is represented in several galleries and enhances private collections throughout the United States. As a Signature member of the Society of Animal Artists, she is proud that her portraits can be channeled for conservation and endangered animal awareness, while advocating pyrography's place in the world of fine art.
Classes
• Pyrography: An Introduction to Wood Burning with Julie BenderMARC BERNER has taught and lectured scroll saw techniques in about every state. He is a consultant to the entire scroll saw industry including blade manufacturers. He has starred in three videos on scroll saw techniques and has articles that appear regularly in several woodworking magazines. Marc has lectured for the Woodworking Shows out of Los Angeles and is considered by his peers to be one of the greatest scroll saw technicians in America. His new book Scroll Saw Basics hit the book stores in 2010.
Classes
• The Scroll Saw Potential with Marc Berner
GRAHAM BLACKBURN learned woodworking in his father's shop in London, England. He came to the USA to study composition at the Juilliard School in New York, after which he moved to, and played at, Woodstock -- with groups such as Van Morrison, Full Tilt Boogie, and Razmataz. After building several houses in the mountains, he moved inside to make furniture and has written more than sixteen books on all aspects of woodworking (as well as sailing and philately), subsequently becoming a frequent contributor to magazines including Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking and Woodwork (of which he was also the editor). For many years now, he has taught and lectured extensively across the United States, while continuing to build, write, illustrate, play, and dance. Graham says, "Furniture, like everything else, is all about balance and rhythm."
Classes
• Furniture by Design with Graham Blackburn
CARL BOOTH has been a professional woodworker, teacher and entrepreneur for over three decades. In the early seventies, he started a custom plywood manufacturing company and developed it into the number one supplier of aviation plywood in the world: a multimillion dollar enterprise that employed up to 100 employees. Throughout this time, he was also involved in starting a national bank, pursing many woodworking hobbies, and buying and leasing houses. He eventually sold these businesses and became involved in establishing a commercial real- estate business.
Classes
• What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Own Business with Carl Booth
JOHN BURT trained 38 years ago as a traditional blacksmith and toolmaker under Frank Turley of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He ran his own shop in New Hampshire doing toolmaking, custom hardware, and repair of horse drawn farm equipment. He also worked at a custom iron shop in New York City where he worked on ornamental commissions for the Capitol in Washington, DC, and the Frick Museum in New York. For the past 30 years, he has operated his own woodworking/blacksmithing shop in San Jose, California, where he produces custom furniture, liturgical commissions, and decorative hardware. Because of his wide base of experience, he is uniquely able to bring to the students a variety of approaches and techniques in creating tools and hardware of high quality and unique design. John's blacksmithing skills have significantly enhanced his woodworking endeavors by allowing him to create custom edge tools to accomplish otherwise difficult procedures, as well as custom hardware ranging from miniature hinges, repousse medallions, and large strap hinges. Woodwork magazine did an in-depth profile on John in October 1998. He has taught workshops throughout the United States and continues to teach formally and informally at every opportunity.
Classes
• Blacksmithing Your Own Tools and Hardware with John Burt
TIM CELESKI studied architecture and design before spending over 30 years in business as a designer. Once he discovered woodworking and built a workbench as his first project, he fell in love with the craft, dropped his design career and became a full-time furniture maker and has never looked back. Using his design skills, his main focus is on original-design, high-end, custom, outdoor furniture. His extensive furniture line covers many types of furniture with many design choices from Arts and Crafts to contemporary. His work has been featured in over four dozen magazines. It is in high demand and is in collections all across the country. Over 100 of his pieces are in some of the Greene and Greene masterpieces in Pasadena.
Classes
• Making Beautiful Outdoor Furniture: Coffee Table & Chair with Tim Celeski• Build an Arts & Crafts or a Modern Indoor or Outdoor Bench with Tim Celeski
CATHY CLAYCOMB has been a nationally-recognized glass artist for the last 20 years. 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 a tutorial DVD on copper foil overlay and is a contributing editor for Glass Craftsman, Profitable Glass, Glass Pattern Quarterly and Glass Art magazines.
Classes
• Dancing Glass: Stained Glass With a Twist With Cathy Claycomb
DOUG DALE has worked at MASW for ten years, and he is in charge of student affairs and all of the in-house mainte- nance. 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.
Classes
• Making a Greene & Greene Document Box With Doug Dale• Making a Router Table with Doug Dale
• Making a Heirloom Scandinavian Chest With Angled Handcut Dovetails with Doug Dale
• Machine Maintenance, Jigs and Fixtures With Zane Powell and Doug Dale
VICTOR DINOVI makes one-of-a-kind pieces of functional art--useful, practical objects that evoke multi-level responses. He is a pioneer in sculptural woodworking who mimics the creative tension of nature. His work has been displayed all over the world, including such notable places as the Wharton Esherick Museum, del Mano Gallery, the Royal Museum of Fiji, Meredith Gallery, and the prestigious Pageant of the Masters show in southern California. Victor is one of the few furniture makers to have his work as a part of the White House Permanent Collection. Since 1996 his work has been selected to show in as many as ten American Craft Council Shows and in 1998 was selected to show at the Smithsonian Craft Show. He has been featured in many magazines, including Woodwork.
Classes
• Sculptural Woodworking with Victor DiNovi
KEVIN GLEN DRAKE owns and operates the Glen Drake Toolworks in Fort Bragg, California, where he combines toolmaking, woodworking, and education. Having been a vocational woodworker all of his life, Kevin finally took he plunge in 1999 and attended the College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg to study with James Krenov. Kevin's previous careers as a musician and programmer helped pave the way for the toolmaking business he founded after graduating from that program. His tools are now recognized throughout North America and several foreign countries as must-haves for fine woodworking. He is a contributing editor for Popular Woodworking, a magazine that named his Tite-Mark marking gauge one of the "best 12 tools ever." An avid woodturner and turning teacher, Kevin turns the handles for his tools and leaves his fingerprints on every tool he makes. No stranger to Indiana, Kevin grew up in Indianapolis, attended Purdue, and received a BA in Economics from Indiana University. He exhibits at woodworking shows and clubs around the country and has a long list of tools that are waiting to be made.
Classes
• Making & Using Western Handsaws with Kevin Drake
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 tool design and holds patents and patent pending status on many of his tools, including the Jointmaker Pro, the amazingly accurate Kerfmaker. Prior to Bridge City, John was a designer/craftsman whose work was featured in numerous periodicals, including Fine Woodworking, American Craft, Architectural Journal and most recently Craft in America. 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."
Classes
• Design: Thinking Creatively with John Economaki• Making Beautiful and Functional Hand Tools with John Economaki
J PAUL FENNELL has focused primarily on turning hollow forms for the last 25 of the 40 years that he has been a woodturner. Paul was first exposed to woodturning in 1970 through an adult education woodworking class at a local high school, intending to improve his skills at furniture making. However, that idea ceased immediately when he began working with the woodturning lathes there, and he has never looked back. Paul considers himself basically self-taught. Today, his work has been featured in nearly every major magazine and book with respect to woodturning. His work is in major private collections nationally and internationally, and in many museum collections, including the Smithsonian; Detroit Institute of Arts; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Museum of Art & Design, New York; and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul is a charter member of the American Association of Woodturners and has been a featured lecturer at their annual symposium numerous times and a workshop teacher and demonstrator for schools and local clubs for many years.
Classes
• Back To Basics: Exploring Form with J. Paul Fennell• Turning Elegant Hollow Forms with J. Paul Fennell
JERRY FORSHEE, a life- long DIYer, began his serious furniture and woodworking efforts with a course at MASW in 1997. After many subsequent courses, he completed his Masters at MASW in 2011. Jerry just recently retired after 42 years at Indiana University in a variety of technical and administrative positions and is now looking forward to devoting more time to woodworking and sharing that passion by teaching and assisting instructors at MASW (which he considers his second home).
Classes
• 25 Ways to Machine Mortise & Tenon Joints with Jerry Forshee
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 and 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 and in 2010 became a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking. This is Michael's twelfth year teaching at MASW.
Classes
• Developing the Idea with Michael Fortune• #1 Chair Part I with Michael Fortune
• Getting the Most From Your Bandsaw with Michael Fortune
• Mastering the Curve: Bending, Shaping & Joining wood with Michael Fortune
• Apprenticeship with Michael Fortune
• Photographing Your Work with Michael Fortune
• Jigs and Fixtures for the #1 Chair with Michael Fortune
• #1 Chair Part II with Michael Fortune
DALE FOSS is a professional woodworker and furniture maker who has his shop next to his home near Augusta, Kansas. He has always enjoyed building which led him to build such things as a small wooden racing boat, replica car and two houses. He worked for more than twenty years as a tool engineer in the aircraft industry, making, designing and improving production tools and assembly jigs. This experience was beneficial when he started his business "Adventures in Woodworking" in 1997. Dale learned early on that continuous training is necessary not only to improve your current skills but also to be able to branch out and obtain new types of work in the woodworking field. He has attended MASW since starting his business and completed the Masters Program along with many more classes that apply to the Fellowship Program. He has won the professional division of Excellence Through Education Award at MASW twice and received an honorable mention award. Dale designs and builds furniture for local clients and produces custom corporate awards that are presented internationally. Dale has also created a group of unique marquetry panels for an award-winning project that appeared in Fine Woodworking and Woodshop News.
Classes
• Veneering with Dale Foss
CLAY FOSTER has been a woodworker almost all his life, beginning when he was big enough to hold a hammer. His expertise as a furniture maker is augmented by 25 years of experience in the woodturning field. He is a founding member and past vice president of the American Association of Woodturners and currently serves on the Board of Governors of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. He has work in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Yale University, and the Arkansas Art Center. He has demonstrated and taught at schools and conferences in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. He currently maintains Harmony Studio with his partner Jennifer Shirley in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Classes
• The Simple Beauty of Wood, Field Stone, and Concrete Components with Clay Foster
PETER GALBERT Before specializing in chairs, Peter worked as a cabinet and furniture maker in New York City. In 2001 he moved to upstate New York to concentrate on making chairs from green wood. He recently moved to central Massachusetts where he makes chairs and teaches at woodworking schools internationally. He's been featured in numerous magazines and has written articles on chairmaking for various publications, including Fine Woodworking and American Woodturner. He also writes the Chair Notes Blog and invented and produces the Galbert Caliper, a direct measuring tool for the lathe. Besides woodworking, Pete raises goats and chickens and makes maple syrup for his friends.
Classes
• The Continuous Armchair: the American Windsor with Peter Galbert
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. Chris has spent the last 23 years building custom furniture in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition to teaching at MASW, 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. Somewhat of a rag-picker, Chris receives great satisfaction from finding old and neglected hand tools and giving them a second chance at life. In addition to restoring old tools, he recently restored a 100-year old home and adjacent structure to serve as his furniture-making studio. When he's not in his studio, Chris enjoys taking walks with his Labrador and spending time with his wife and two children.
Classes
• Wall Hung Tool Chest with Chris Gochnour• Parent/Child Making a Skateboard or Longboard with Chris Gochnour
• Making a Dovetailed Blanket Chest: the Best of Both Worlds with Chris Gochnour
PETER GEDRYS discovered his artistic side quite by accident. He was laid off work one winter and while knocking on doors, an antique dealer hired him to strip furniture. Peter says, "The furniture bug bit me, and since they wouldn't show me anything in the way of finishing, I decided to learn on my own." Early in his restoration career, he realized the key to reproducing a period look lay in successful color matching. This skill became the foundation for his business Architectural Finishes. His resume includes 18th and 19th century furniture for museums and private collections as well as new and historic interiors. Expanding his artistic interests led him to gilding, the art of gold leaf. This has led to diverse projects from frame restoration to architectural elements. Passing along his knowledge, he is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking magazine. Spare time finds him lecturing and teaching throughout the country. While teaching in the restoration department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, he also taught a popular grant program for minority women. He lives in rural Connecticut with his wife Kathy and their cat Doom Star.
Classes
• Finishing Techniques with Peter Gedrys• Gilding and Leafing; a Priceless Art with Peter Gedrys
SCOTT GROVE is a third-generation artist. As a self-taught woodworker, he is known for layers of artistic expression; his pieces are a combination of unique carved textures, radiant veneers and copper polychrome finishes. Scott maintains his own studio in downtown Rochester, New York, where he has worked for Wendell Castle as his studio director and is currently creative director for Smith+Associates Architects. He recently won the 2010 Grand Prize as well as Honorable Mention Awards from the Veneer Tech Craftsman Challenge for his pioneered veneering methods and design. His work is a part of the permanent collection in the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Memorial Art Gallery. He has also won the NICHE Award for his trompe l'oeil carving and a DuPont Prize for innovative use of materials and received an NEA grant for an environmental interactive sculpture. He has been featured in a variety of publications including Fine Woodworking, Fine Home Building, Woodshop News, CWB, Freshwood2, The Artful Home and The Robb Report and has appeared on Home & Garden's HGTV Network. His new book, Advanced Veneering, hit the bookstores in September 2011 and was published by Schiffer Publications.
Classes
• Cold Bronze Casting and Mold Making with Scott Grove• Apprenticeship with Scott Grove
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 and has recently acquired the nickname of Browndew.
Classes
• Building a Virginia 1798 Slant Front Desk with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton• Making a Federal Executive Document Box with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
• Miniature Highboy: A Jewelry Chest for Your Wife with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
STEPHEN HATCHER showed an aptitude for realistic drawing at a very early age. Upon finishing high school he earned income painting murals in homes. Though art has held a lifetime interest for Stephen, several years at the University of Washington led to degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Retiring from engineering in 2004, Stephen turned his focus to woodturning and stone carving, where combining these techniques led to his unique style of artwork. Almost immediately upon embarking on this new career, Stephen was invited to participate in national and international art exhibits, had his work acquired by notable collectors, and had his artwork included in numerous books and magazines (including being selected as the most innovative wood artist in 2007 by Southwest Art Magazine. In addition to MASW, Stephen teaches design, inlay, and finishing techniques at several other renowned schools, as well as demonstrating or lecturing at symposiums across the country. Stephen resides on Oyster Bay in Western Washington State with his wife Brenda, numerous pets, and a 1000 square foot shop/studio.
Classes
• Woodturning As a Sculptural Tool with Stephen Hatcher• Translucent Mineral Inlay with Stephen Hatcher
JEFF HEADLEY, a fourth generation cabinetmaker, is continuing the family business, Mack Headley & Sons (not to be confused with his older brother, 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, Virginia, in the historic Shenandoah Valley, 60 miles west of Washington D.C. Jeff has written for Fine Woodworking, demonstrated on "The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill," 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 Headleys 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, Virginia, 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.
Classes
• Building a Virginia 1798 Slant Front Desk with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton• Making a Federal Executive Document Box with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
• Miniature Highboy: A Jewelry Chest for Your Wife with Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
CAROL HEDIN is no stranger to the MASW family.Carol started taking classes here in 2000, and if it weren't for starting her own business, Sublime Design, getting married to Mark Hedin, and having a 4 year old son, she also would have completed her Masters at MASW (well before her husband). Carol also runs the Sublime Design Gallery and Gifts shop in Bloomington, Indiana.
Classes
• Epoxy Surface Treatments for Woodworkers with Mark and Carol Hedin
MARK HEDIN is no stranger to the MASW family. Mark completed his Masters at MASW in 2010. He was the Student of The Year here that same summer and now works here full time. When not at the school, he runs Heartwood Builders, a company that specializes in high-end home building.
Classes
• Epoxy Surface Treatments for Woodworkers with Mark and Carol Hedin
Matthew Hill was born and raised in Oklahoma and the landscape of his childhood remains an important influence in his life. His sense of beauty developed in the absence of the grand and in the presence of the hidden, the subtle, the small. Matthew began turning in the early 1980's while working as a cabinet maker. He currently turns full-time at his home shop in Oklahoma City. His most recent shows include A Nation of Enchanted Form: Woodturning Artists Across North America; Contemporary American Woodturning Exhibition at the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota; Woodturning in Basic Black, Sculpture Object Functional Art (SOFA) Chicago, sponsored by the AAW; and National Wood Invitational Exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina. Matthew has pieces in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu as well as in most major private collections in the United States. Matthew has taught at most of the premier woodworking schools in America and was a featured presenter at the 2009 AAW Symposium.
Classes
• Fundamentals Of Woodturning with Matthew Hill• Boxes, Boxes and Boxes with Matthew Hill, Jeff Vollmer & Stephen Proctor
NANCY HILLER trained as a furniture maker after dropping out of Cambridge University. She earned a City and Guilds of London certificate in furniture making in 1980 and then worked for furniture and cabinet shops in the UK before returning to the United States. Since 1995 she has operated NR Hiller Design, Inc., which specializes in period- authentic furniture and built-ins for homes and offices from the late-19th through the mid-20th centuries. Nancy's furniture, cabinetry, and writing have been featured in magazines such as Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Old-House Interiors, American Bungalow, Old House Journal, and Cottages and Bungalows, in addition to two books--Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases and Built-In Furniture--both published by the Taunton Press. She is the author of two books, The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History and A Home of Her Own, both published by Indiana University Press. Nancy lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her partner, Mark Longacre, and stepson Jonas.
Classes
• Built In Cabinets: Design, Construction and Installation with Nancy Hiller
MICHAEL HOSALUK is recognized as one of the most creative woodturners in the world, He lives in rural Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts of Canada and lifetime member of the Saskatchewan Crafts Council and Saskatchewan Woodworkers Guild. Michael is a founding member of the American Association of Woodturners and The Furniture Society. He is a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Innovation in the Arts and the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Craft and multiple winner of the Premiers Prize for Excellence in Craft. He has been co-coordinator of the Emma Lake International Collaboration which has taken place biannually since 1994. Michael has exhibited his works in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, China, Korea and Japan, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Queen Elisabeth II, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Royal Ontario Museum. Michael authored Scratching the Surface: Art and Content in Contemporary Wood. He has lectured all over the world and remains active in his community as curator, educator and artist.
Classes
• Bending In Woodturning with Michael Hosaluk
TODD HOYER was first introduced to the lathe in 8th grade wood shop in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Arizona State University majoring in manufacturing engineering and design technology from 1970-1975. In 1976 he moved to Bisbee to set up his studio where he still works. Todd has been invited to over 100 group and solo exhibitions. His work is included in many museums including the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Detroit Institute of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, along with many private collections. He has taught extensively over the last twenty years in the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia, sharing his knowledge of wood and its visual uniqueness.
Classes
• Wood & It's Relationship to the Turned Vessel with Todd Hoyer
LYNNE HULL had her first experience on a lathe in the 8th grade when girls, for the first time (1969), were given the option of taking home economics or industrial arts. She registered for the shop class. This is where Lynne learned to turn wood, plastic and metal. She was mesmerized by the process and pursued it in undergraduate school at the University of Washington where she received a BFA in Metal Arts. In graduate school at the School for American Crafts (RIT) in Rochester, New York, Lynne was introduced to the metal spinning process, which involved working on a lathe but not in a subtractive process. Metal spinning is a forming process where sheet metal is stretched over a wooden pattern while rotating on the lathe. She found this process exhilarating and over the last 30 years has not tired of the infinite possibilities this process has to offer. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, her artwork is shaped by its natural beauty and diverse landscapes. Lynne enjoys contrast and comparison, and she uses the vessel as a sculptural format. Lynne says, "In my work I connect the old with the new, the east with the west and the technical with the artistic".
Classes
• Metal Spinning for the Woodturner with Lynne Hull
GREG JOHNSON has been in the furniture making trade for over 40 years, starting at age 13 in his father's cabinetmaking 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, New York. 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.
Classes
• Professional Finishing Results with Greg Johnson
RAY KEY has been turning wood for over 40 years. His work is in many major private collections worldwide and in the permanent collections of a number of museums, such as Stoke Museum, Crafts Study Centre (British Council), Parnham House Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, Contemporary Craft Museum (Honolulu), Detroit Institute of Arts & Crafts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, to name a few. Ray has written numerous major articles on woodturning and has written three books: Woodturning Design, Woodturners Workbook and Woodturning with Ray Key. In 1973 he was selected for membership in the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen and in 1987 was elected the founding Chairman of the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain, of which he was made a Life Member in 1997. Two rare honors have come his way in recent times. In 2001 he was made a Life Member of The Association of American Woodturners, the only non-North American afforded this honor, and in 2002 he was made a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Turners by presentation.
Classes
• Pure Form: Woodturning with Ray Key
MITCH KOHANEK has been an instructor for the Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota for the last 33 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 completed 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.
Classes
• Decorative Finishes With Flair with Mitch Kohanek• Hands-On Finishing with Mitch Kohanek
• The Basics of Wood Finishing with Mitch Kohanek
• Furniture Restoration, Repair & Refinishing with Mitch Kohanek
• Getting Started in Spray Finishing with Mitch Kohanek
• Lacquer Systems with Mitch Kohanek
• Taking Control of Color: the Next Step in Finishing with Mitch Kohanek
ALAN LACER has been involved in the turning field for more than 36 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 five foreign countries. His writings (over 150 published articles, tips or columns) 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 after his appearance on the PBS program "Woodturner's Workshop," he became known to all his fans at MASW as the "TURNminator".
Classes
• Woodturning with Alan Lacer• Son of Skew with Alan Lacer
• Woodturning II: The Next Level with Alan Lacer
• Husband & Wife Woodturning with Alan and Mary Lacer
• The Making of Woodturning Tools, Jigs and Accessories with Alan Lacer
• Woodturning with Alan Lacer
MARY LACER was founder of the Minnesota Woodturners Association in January 1987, which has grown to over 200 members. Mary has served as administrator, managing director, assistant director and executive director of the American Association of Woodturners. In 2006, Mary received a Lifetime Achievement Award from AAW.
Classes
• Husband & Wife Woodturning with Alan and Mary Lacer
BOB LANG is executive editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine and the author of Woodworker's Guide to Google SketchUp and five books of measured drawings of furniture and interiors of the Arts & Crafts movement of the early 20th century including Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays and Hardware, and Shop Drawings for Greene & Greene Furniture to name a few. 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 magazine's projects and is responsible for many of the illustrations and measured drawings. Before joining the magazine 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. During the last five years of this period, he served as project manager for a number of large commercial and residential projects, developing working drawings in AutoCAD and planning and supervising the fabrication and installation of custom cabinets and millwork. His work has also appeared in Fine Woodworking, Woodshop News, and Woodwork magazines.
Classes
• Designing with SketchUp with Bob Lang• Real Details of Arts & Crafts Furniture with Robert Lang
WILLIAM "GRIT" LASKIN, a professional guitar maker since 1971, builds steel-string, classical, and flamenco guitars that are known and coveted around the world. In 1997, he received Canada's prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts and is the only instrument maker to be so honored. He is also an elected fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and is included in the "Who's Who in Canada" as well as the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. In addition to building instruments, Grit is known internationally for his engraved inlay art. His most recent publication is A Guitarmaker's Canvas: The Inlay Art of Grit Laskin. To encourage the growth and public awareness of the luthier (makers and repairers of stringed instruments) craft, he co-founded the Association of Stringed Instruments Artisans. This is the international trade organization geared to professional builders and repairers of musical instruments. As president, in 1993 he authored the first code of ethics for luthiers. Most recently, for his groundbreaking work and for his contribution to the art, craft, and music communities in Canada, he was awarded in 2010 the Estelle Klein Lifetime Achievement Award.
Classes
• Design & Inlay: A Guitar Makers Story with Grit Laskin• Fretboard Inlay: The Secrets of Dealing with Radius and Frets with Grit Laskin
Steve Latta makes both contemporary and traditional furniture and teaches woodworking at Thaddeus Stevens College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is a Contributing Editor to Fine Woodworking Magazine and has published extensively in related journals and magazines. He has lectured at Colonial Williamsburg, The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and Winterthur Museum as well as numerous other schools and guilds. He has worked with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks bringing modern inlay tools to market as well as instructional DVDs on the subject of inlay. He serves as Conference Coordinator for and is a long-time member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers. Steve lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children, Fletcher, Sarah and Grace in rural, southeastern Pennsylvania.
Classes
• Machines: Safety, Set-up & Uses with Steve Latta• MORE Decorative Details with Steve Latta
• Pattern Inlay & Decorative Borders with Steve Latta
• Making a Sofa Table with Steve Latta
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.
Classes
• Handplanes & Their Uses with Thomas Lie-Nielsen and Christopher Schwarz
PHILIP LOWE has been involved with woodworking since 1968 and is the author of many articles in Fine Woodworking magazine. He is featured in the Time-Life series on woodworking and has done videos for the Taunton Press including "Carve a Ball-and-Claw Foot with Phil Lowe," "Making a Sheraton Bed," and "Measuring Furniture for Reproduction." He has taught at Boston's North Bennet Street School and has given seminars at guilds, schools, and stores throughout North America. He is a conservator for the Peabody Essex Museum and is one of the most respected furniture makers in all of America. Phil is the director of the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts.
Classes
MIKE MASCELLI has been a student and practitioner of the upholstery trade for 35 years and divides his time between the worlds of classic cars and classic furniture. He has been fortunate to collaborate on some minimally intrusive furniture projects with Don Williams, Sr., Furniture Conservator of the Smithsonian, including work on some historic chairs that are now displayed at the US House of Representatives. Mike is a charter member of the Professional Refinisher's Group (PRG), founded in 1998 to connect professionals in the refinishing and conservation trades. He has published a number of articles for the PRG website and SAPFM Period Furniture Journal.
Classes
• Basic Upholstery with Mike Mascelli
MARY MAY is a professional woodcarver in Charleston, South Carolina. She has trained with a variety of master carvers around the world and has focused on studying the traditional styles and techniques of classical woodcarving. Mary focuses mainly on carving antique furniture reproductions and architectural decorations. She teaches workshops at various locations throughout the US, as well as out of her studio in Charleston. Mary is a member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and has been a guest on "The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill." She has made several instructional DVDs on how to carve classic elements in period furniture.
Classes
• Fundamentals of Carving with Mary May• Traditional Carving on Curved & Turned Works with Mary May
BILLY McCLAIN started taking woodworking classes in 1992 at Penland School of Craft before starting the two-year program at Haywood tech school in North Carolina. In 2005 He took his first class at MASW and within three years he had completed his Masters. In 2009 was awarded the John C Coolidge Award as student of the year at MASW; a title that has only been awarded to 7 other students. Later that year he attended the three month intensive program at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine. Over the last two years Billy has been assisting at Penland and continues to take workshops around the country. He currently makes his living as a general contractor in Asheville NC.
Classes
• Curio Cabinets of Curiosity with Billy McClain
DON McCONNELL, co-owner of Old Street Tool, Inc., made his first wooden planes in the late 1970's while building furniture in the cabinet shop of the Ohio Village. He continued his plane making activities over the following years while building custom furniture in traditional styles and undertaking one-of-a-kind architectural woodwork including carved elements of geometric handrails. His work has been featured in several magazines and exhibits. A former contributing editor for Popular Woodworking magazine, Don is also co- author of Hand-Saw Makers of Britain. More than 300 Old Street Tool planes are currently in use in the Conservation and Historic Trades departments at Colonial Williamsburg.
Classes
• Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes with Larry Williams and Don McConnell• Raise Your Woodworking Profile: Using Molding Planes with Larry Williams & Don McConnell
BRIAN McNALLY discovered a glass cutter in his father's dresser drawer at the age of ten; fortunately for him, he was not strong enough to make a scribe on his bedroom window. After completing his undergraduate degree in art with an emphasis in ceramics, he was accepted to work under Laura Andreson at UCLA in 1970. A new glass blowing program was being undertaken at UCLA in the same department. In less than one year Brian had abandoned clay to work with hot glass. He was awarded the first masters degree in glass in 1972, in glass sculpture. Brian and Steven Correria started a hot glass studio in studio in Santa Monica in 1972. Brian was also accepted to work on his MFA degree in glass at Rhode Island School of Design, working under Dale Chihuly. It was during this time he picked up a glass cutter and learned to use it correctly. He has been building one-of-a-kind works at his studio in Santa Barbara since 1976. Brian is also a handball player and wrestling coach.
Classes
• Lead Copper Foil: The Flavor of Arts & Craft with Brian McNally
JEFF MILLER turned to woodworking after a career as a classical musician and brings a musician's sensibility to his furniture designs. He has been making award-winning furniture in his Chicago studio for 28 years and has participated in numerous juried shows in galleries and museums across the country. Jeff has written three books: Chairmaking and Design (Linden Publishing), Beds (Taunton Press), and Children's Furniture (Taunton Press). He has also contributed to Taunton's Furniture for All Around the House and Storage Projects for All Around the House. Chairmaking and Design, and its companion DVD "Chairmaking Techniques" (Taunton Press), both won Stanley Tools/ National Association of Home and Workshop Writers' "Golden Hammer" awards for best how-to book and video in 1997. Jeff also writes frequently for Fine Woodworking and Popular Woodworking magazines and teaches around the country. His next book, on the fundamentals of craftsmanship, is due out the fall of 2011.
Classes
• Making Your Own Jigs for Accurate Mortise & Tenon Joinery with Jeff Miller• Making a Slat Back Chair with Jeff Miller
MICHAEL MOCHO has been a full-time craftsman since 1976 with extensive experience in furniture design, woodturning, architectural millwork, pattern making, and stringed musical instruments. He operates a small shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, producing commissioned furniture, contract woodturning, and decorative containers for the gift market. He has completed residencies at the Arrowmont School of Craft, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Woodturning Center's International Turning Exchange program in Philadelphia. Michael is an acclaimed and enthusiastic instructor, and has taught at many of the top craft schools across the USA, several national and regional woodturning symposia, and has presented programs for over 35 AAW chapters. He is known for his intricate containers that often combine bent wood with turned, carved, and textured components, which have won numerous awards and are in many private and public collections.
Classes
• Your Turn: Starting Out Right on the Lathe with Michael Mocho• Turned Boxes and Beyond with Michael Mocho
KEITH NEER lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spent most of his career as a senior executive with the Kroger Co; woodworking, while a passion, was only a hobby. That is until he retired six years ago and started Clermont Woodworking and Design, Inc. Now woodworking is a full time business, and as a one man shop, Keith not only designs and builds 4-6 custom pieces of furniture a year but also teaches woodworking locally and in his own shop. In addition, he has been published in Popular Woodworking, earned a Masters at MASW, assisted Michael Fortune, and will complete his Michael Fortune Fellowship in 2012.
Classes
• Principles of Woodworking Through the Eyes of a Simple Table with Keith Neer
DAVID ORTH operates a woodworking and metalworking shop in the rural, hill country just northwest of Chicago. He is known for out- of-the-box techniques applied to residential furniture, small boat building, liturgical furnishings, sculpture and more. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lectured at the Illinois Institute of Technology and many other design schools. Although David has focused most of his career on woodworking, he also works extensively in bronze and steel. He has completed many prominent furniture commissions for Frank Lloyd Wright homes and ceremonial objects for synagogues and churches. His most recent public work is a 21-foot wood and bronze wall sculpture for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Louisville, KY. Author James A. Mangum describes Orth's work as " ... primal, ethereal, lyrical ... rock and roll, the blues, arias."
Classes
• Hammer Veneering with David Orth
BINH PHO was born in Vietnam. After the war ended in 1975, refusing to accept the reality of Communism, he planned his escape to freedom. After four long, hard years, he came to the United States in 1979 and went on to continue his education, earning his bachelor's degree in 1982. He picked up woodturning as a hobby in 1992 and has been turning ever since. Binh currently resides in the Chicago suburb of Maple Park, Illinois. He works primary on thin wall vessels, created on the lathe and then finished with airbrush and piercing techniques. His works have been included in major exhibitions such as Sculpture Object Functional Art (SOFA) in Chicago and New York and Small Treasures and Turned Wood Exhibition from del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California. He has had solo exhibitions at del Mano, Joie Lassiter, and Bob Crutcher galleries and East meets West International Exhibition in Tacoma, Washington, and Naruko, Japan. Binh's work is included in many corporate and public collections, including the White House; The Renwick Gallery - Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Long Beach Fine Art Museum; and the private collection of Hillary R. Clinton. River of Destiny is a biography of Binh's life and works.
Classes
• Thin Wall Vessels: Surface Design with Binh Pho
KERRY PIERCE is the author of 19 books in the woodworking field, including the recently published Hand Planes in the Modern Shop. Eight of his books have been main selections of the Woodworker's Book Club. One was an alternate of the Book-of-the-Month Club. He is also the author of more than 150 magazine articles in the woodworking field. Most of these appeared in Woodwork, Popular Woodworking, Woodcraft, and Woodshop News. He served as contributing editor of Woodwork magazine 1995 to 2007. His furniture has appeared in a number of regional shows including "Ohio Furniture by Contemporary Masters" at the Ohio Center for the Decorative Arts. In the summer of 2009, he had a one-man show in the gallery of the Georgian, a restored Georgian-style mansion in Lancaster, Ohio.
Classes
• In The Shaker Style with Kerry Pierce
ZANE POWELL has been a professional woodworker for more than 30 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.
Classes
• Basic Cabinetmaking with Zane Powell• Make a Beautiful European Style Cherry Cabinet with Zane Powell
• Making Tambours & Angled Corner Cabinets with Zane Powell
• Machine Maintenance, Jigs and Fixtures With Zane Powell and Doug Dale
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, New York, 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.
Classes
• Handskills; The Foundation of Working Wood with Stephen Proctor• Trompe L'oeil: Sculpting & Shaping to Trick the Eye with Stephen Proctor
• Boxes, Boxes and Boxes with Matthew Hill, Jeff Vollmer & Stephen Proctor
TIM PURO has been restoring and refinishing furniture in Bloomington, Indiana, since 2002. He has studied furniture finishing, repair and restoration at the National Wood Finishing Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has taken courses in furniture conservation offered by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute. He has served as an assistant in finishing and furniture restoration classes at MASW since 2004. Tim is a self described "shellac-a-holic," and he enjoys encouraging woodworkers to try a variety of finishes and finishing techniques.
Classes
• Fine Finishing with Hardware Store Materials with Tim Puro
JOHN RESSLER is a lifetime woodworker, starting with his own shop on the family farm as a young boy. He is part-owner of Designed Stairs, one of the largest custom wood stair manufacturers in the United States. Their work has been featured in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago as well as on HGTV. John's love of wood and music led him to pursue custom guitar and folk instrument building. He has produced dozens of custom instruments over the past decade and has taught this fine art to over 100 first- time instrument builders. He is the author of the book Pickin' Stick: Building a Stringed Instrument.
Classes
• Making An Acoustic Guitar with John Ressler• Making a Mountain Dulcimer with John Ressler
• Making a Cutaway Guitar: Contemporary Guitar Methods with John Ressler
JEFF SCANLAN is a professional magician by trade. As a magician he enjoys puzzles and things that make you think. In 1996, he started thinking how to make Impossible Bottles (since he's a magician he calls his bottles "Bottle Magic"). In 2000, after almost four years of breaking bottles and ruining many decks of cards and other various items, Jeff finally conquered putting a deck of cards, still sealed and with the cellophane wrapping on into a Mistic Juice bottle. Since that time his bottle work has grown, and he has put in many other items such as bars of soap, tennis, golf and ping pong balls, padlocks, packs of cigarettes, baseballs, scissors and even a pair of gym shoes. Currently, there are twelve people in the world who have mastered this art form. Jeff is considered to be the best. His bottle work can be seen displayed in both the library of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, and the College of Magic in Capetown, South Africa. His work has been extensively written about, most recently in the Linking Ring and Games magazines. Jeff is continually working on new bottle creations. He's trying to follow in the footsteps of the most famous Impossible Bottle maker - Harry Eng. In fact, Jeff uses Harry's work as his inspiration and has already duplicated six of Harry's bottles.
Classes
• Parent/ Child Magic Class with Jeff Scanlan• Bottle Magic with Jeff Scanlan
PAUL SCHURCH is the proprietor of Schurch Woodwork in Santa Barbara, California. He is a well-respected, European-trained master craftsman, instructor and designer, with his marquetry furniture on exhibit in public and private collections around the world. His formal training includes a 1972 Swiss apprenticeship as a Church Organ Builder and 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 has won many national awards for his furniture pieces and continues to exhibit at selected galleries across the US.
Classes
• Making a Veneered Keepsake Box with Paul Schurch• Stone Marquetry with Paul Schurch
• Cabinets as Fine Furniture with Paul Schurch
CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ is the editor of Lost Art Press, a publishing company that specializes in producing books and DVDs on hand woodworking. He was an editor at Popular Woodworking magazine for almost 15 years where he worked to rebalance the scales of media coverage of handwork and machine woodworking. He is now a contributing editor for Popular Woodworking and The Fine Tool Journal. Chris is the author of six books on handwork including Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use and The Anarchist's Tool Chest. He is a long-time woodworker; he built his first workbench when he was 11.
Classes
• Build an 18th-century Workbench with Christopher Schwarz• Handplanes & Their Uses with Thomas Lie-Nielsen and Christopher Schwarz
• By Hammer & Hand: The Dovetail School with Christopher Schwarz
ALF SHARP, after a half-hearted attempt at a law degree, discovered his true vocation in fine furniture making. Thirty-five years later he's still at it with as much enthusiasm, fueled in part by the support and stimulation provided by The Furniture Society and teaching at Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Specializing in 18th and 19th century American and English design, Alf also enjoys Beidermeier, Art Deco, Chinese, and contemporary design. His own original work has, most often at least, a toe-hold in tradition. He has pieces in historical homes and museums and in fine private homes throughout the US. He is the recipient of the 2008 Cartouche award from The Society of American Period Furniture Makers. He is a President of the Furniture Society. When not absorbed in the woodshop or playing with his grandchildren, he enjoys restoring and driving classic British sports cars. Recent work can be seen in the February 2008 edition of Woodwork magazine and in Studio Furniture -- Today's Leading Woodworkers, a Lark 500 book.
Classes
• 18th-Century Carving: Making a Chippendale Carved Footstool with Alf Sharp• Making a Grandfather Tall Case Clock with Alf Sharp
• Sawing, Sorting & Stacking: How to Harvest a Log with Alf Sharp
JENNIFER SHIRLEY has been working with wood for 15 years and woodturning for 12. Her work has been shown in several national exhibits and publications and is in many private collections. She is a frequent demonstrator at regional woodturning guilds and symposiums around the country. Jennifer teaches at several craft schools in the US and is a member of the American Association of Woodturners. Her passion for making turned objects feeds her love for teaching others the art and craft of woodturning. She is a frequent studio assistant and instructor here at Marc Adams School of Woodworking.
Classes
• The Fun-Damentals of Bowl Turning! with Jennifer Shirley• A Touch of Texture with Jennifer Shirley
STEVE SINNER has a degree in Industrial Education from Iowa State University, followed by a 33-year career in industry and social services facilities management. In 1975, he read Dale Nish's Creative Woodturning, which sparked what has become a passionate interest in artistic woodturning. By 1998 he was turning fulltime, and in 2001 he and his wife Anne added a studio to their Bettendorf, Iowa, home. Steve concentrates on developing intricate surface decoration using silver leaf, acrylics and ink on hollow vessels turned primarily of maple, walnut or cherry. His works are found in museums, galleries and collections from New York to California and have been featured in several of the arts and crafts publications in the United States, England and Australia. The Cheongju International Craft Biennele in South Korea has exhibited his work three times and in 2003 awarded him a special citation. He has work in four midwestern museums and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. His work is included in the books Masters : Woodturning: Major Works by Leading Artists and Wood Art Today 2 which features his newer ultra thin "Spool" series. In addition to woodturning, Steve plays bass clarinet in the Bettendorf Park Band and has been a volunteer firefighter for over thirty years.
Classes
• Creating & Embellishing Deep Hollow Vessels with Steve Sinner
MARC SOMMERFELD has been a teacher and cabinetmaker for over 32 years. While running his own cabinetmaking business in LeMars, Iowa, he developed his internationally famous system for pocketholes that makes cabinetmaking easy and fast. He has produced and starred in a video series dedicated to his new tongue and groove system and has a new video just released on the process of making cabinets. Marc has demonstrated and lectured all over America and is the owner of Sommerfelds Tools for Wood, which boasts his namesake line of router bits. Marc is an award-winning designer whose products have changed the way we do woodworking.
Classes
• Cabinetmaking Made Easy with Marc Sommerfeld
THOMAS STANGELAND has been crafting fine furniture for more than 25 years. His work appears in various collections around the country and on several continents. He was commissioned by the Disney Company to build the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Suites for the Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim. Over the years, Tom has trained 15 apprentices. He is a member/ owner of Northwest Fine Woodworking (NWFW) 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. Tom has also served as a lecturer at the Historic Seattle Bungalow Home Show and at Bellevue and Seattle Central community colleges.
Classes
• Making a Greene & Greene Dining Chair with Thomas Stangeland
MARK STERNER is a devoted computer geek and woodworker who enjoys combining these passions to promote woodworking. He's been in charge of the MASW webpage for the last two years, he's the owner of a one-man furniture making business, and he's the co-producer of the iWoodWork Podcast--an internet video series devoted to helping new woodworkers avoid the pitfalls he experienced before he found the Marc Adams School of Woodworking.
Classes
• Web Pages for Woodworkers with Mark Sterner
CRAIG VANDALL STEVENS designs and builds one-of-a-kind furniture for exhibition and commission. He studied furniture making at the College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program under the instruction of master cabinetmaker, James Krenov. His work is exhibited around North America and Japan. Craig has received numerous awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. Craig has also been a featured craftsman on the Home & Garden Television program, "Modern Masters." He teaches furniture making workshops throughout North America and has given presentations at conferences and furniture programs in Takayama, Japan. Craig is also responsible for reproducing many of the original architectural carvings for the historical renovation of the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, and he designed and carved a 51-foot-long frieze and other architectural elements for the Ohio Supreme Court Judicial Bench in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of several woodworking books, including the new release, The Fine Art of Marquetry; Creating Images in Wood using Sawn Veneers by Schiffer Publishing as well as Artistry in Chip Carving and Chip Carving Nature.
Classes
• Hand Sawn Veneer Marquetry with Craig Stevens• Decorative Chip Carving with Craig Stevens
DOUG STOWE is a professional furniture designer/craftsman and box maker working with American hardwoods. He began his career as a woodworker in 1976, making custom furniture and small boxes. In 1995, he began writing how-to articles for a variety of woodworking magazines. He is the author of four box-making books: Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques, Simply Beautiful Boxes, Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide To Box Making, and Basic Box Making. 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 Woodworkers Journal, Woodwork, American Woodworker and Fine Woodworking. His most recent book is Building Small Cabinets, published by Taunton Press. In 2001, he began a woodworking program at the Clear Spring School, designed to integrate woodworking activities to stimulate and reinforce academic curriculum, restoring the rationale for the use of crafts in general education and demonstrating its effectiveness. In 2009 he was named an "Arkansas Living Treasure" by the Arkansas Department of Heritage and Arkansas Arts Council for his contributions to traditional crafts and craft education. He maintains a strong advocacy for hands-on learning through his blog, "Wisdom of the Hands."
Classes
• Various Jigs & Fixtures of a Modern Boxmaker with Doug Stowe• Simply Beautiful Boxes with Doug Stowe
• Tricks to Installing All Kinds of Hardware with Doug Stowe
GARY STRIEGLER is a second-generation home builder with more than 32 years' experience. He is the president of Craftsman Builders 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.
Classes
• Interior Architecture: Unique Cabinets For The Home with Gary Striegler
Carl Swensson is a professional small shop craftsman with more than 30 years' experience. He studied architecture at Kent State University but decided on a woodworking as a career because he preferred a scale that allowed him to both design and build. He studied machine tool techniques at Laney College in Oakland, California. Master craftsman Makoto Imai's example in the late 70s continues to inspire his study of hand tool techniques. He is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking, and his work has appeared in Home Furniture and Fine Home Building. In 1995 he was invited to help in the construction of a traditional Zen Buddhist temple in Japan. His main responsibility was the construction of the temple's eight entrance doors. He has been a teacher for more than 28 years.
Classes
• Making a Shoji Screen with Carl Swensson
MOHAMMED TAHERI has always enjoyed drawing. At the age of sixteen, he began exploring 3D with plaster and clay, and then quickly evolved to woodcarving, sculpture, design and building musical instruments. Mohammed has been a professional woodworker/carver for more than 25 years and has won numerous awards and prizes for his work in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Many of his sculptures have been purchased and retained by the Iranian Contemporary Museum of Art. Among his original works, he has done a number of replicas of old art pieces, such as an eagle leg grand piano for Steinway & Son's legendary collection which was made in 1903 as a gift to Theodore Roosevelt. He has taught sculpture, wood carving and soap stone sculpture for well over a decade.
Classes
• Carving Soap Stone with Mohammed Taheri• Carved Architectural Elements with Mohammed Taheri
MALCOLM TIBBETTS has been a woodworker most of his life and has been a segmented woodturning artist for the past 18 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 three 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 which was held at MASW. He currently serves as the president of the newly formed Segmented Woodturners Association. He lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.
Classes
• Segmented Turning: Where Precision Partners with Turned Elegance with Malcolm Tibbetts
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 thirty years 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 back yard.
Classes
• Building and Using The German Springpole Lathe with Roy Underhill• Make a Roubo One-Piece Bookstand with Roy Underhill
JAY VAN ARSDALE apprenticed early on with his father and grandfather in his family's blacksmith shop in Burgin, Kentucky. After graduating from Centre College, in Danville, Kentucky, in 1970, he came to the Bay Area where he completed his MFA in sculpture at Mills College in Oakland, California. Jay was inspired to become involved with Japanese woodworking in the mid 1970's after seeing a demonstration by Daiku Makoto Imai, from whom he learned for a number of years. Jay has given demos/lectures and other presentations for many organizations including the Japan Society, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, the Exploratorium, Academy of Science, UC Berkeley and others. He is the author of Shoji, designing, building and installing Japanese Screens, and contributing editor on The Complete Japanese Joinery. Jay recently produced a two DVD set on the history, preparation, and use of traditional Japanese hand planes. He currently teaches traditional Japanese hand tools and joinery at Laney College in the wood tech department and at Merritt College in Landscape Horticulture department. Jay is a licensed building contractor who lives and works in a bamboo grove in Oakland with his wife and daughter.
Classes
• Traditional Japanese Daiku Woodworking with Jay Van Arsdale
JEFF VOLLMER was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Jeff was always a hobbyist woodworker who enjoyed making really fun and weird things. In 1989, he made his first puzzle box. This was the beginning of Royal Woods, his own part-time business. In 1992, he made a full-time commitment to making bandsawn boxes, and Royal Woods really took off. Today, Jeff and his wife, Lynn, work together making puzzle boxes and selling them at art shows and in fine galleries. Their work is represented in all 50 states and in Europe. Jeff has written articles for Popular Woodworking, and in 2010 he authored his first book, Puzzle Boxes Fun and Intriguing Band Saw Projects. Jeff says working with wood is much better than having a job!
Classes
• Really Cool Bandsaw Puzzle Boxes with Jeff Vollmer• Boxes, Boxes and Boxes with Matthew Hill, Jeff Vollmer & Stephen Proctor
CRAIG WALKER has spent the last thirty years as a Stihl Power Tool Representative. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Indiana State University in Industrial Arts Education and a Master of Arts Degree in Vocational Education from Ball State University. Craig is a Stihl Gold Level Certified Service Technician. He is a remarkable chain saw carving expert. Craig and his wife, Joy, own and manage over 55 acres of forest land in the hills of Bartholomew County near Columbus, Indiana.
Classes
• Chain Saw Safety by Stihl with Craig Walker
DON WILLIAMS began working as a professional artisan in 1972, eventually opening his own furniture restoration shop before gravitating towards museum conservation. He studied history, political science, economics and architecture before finally receiving the interdisciplinary Technology of Artistic and Historic Objects B.A. from the University of Delaware while he was employed at Winterthur Museum. Don joined the world's largest museum complex in Washington, DC, in 1984 as a Furniture Conservator and directed the graduate Furniture Conservation Training Program. He is now a Senior Furniture Conservator, with special interests in coatings and related technology, and the historical materials employed in marquetry. Don is the expert co-author of Saving Stuff (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and has written numerous articles and monographs and made hundreds of presentations for both scholarly and general public audiences.
Classes
• Inspired by Andre Boulle: Making a Boullework Box with Don Williams
LARRY WILLIAMS was honored in 2006 with the "Living Treasure" award from the Arkansas Department of Cultural Heritage for his efforts in reviving the traditional craft of making wooden planes. Lie-Nielsen recently released Larry's DVD on plane making. Larry worked in architectural woodworking for 25 years and began experimenting with plane making in the late 1970s. His work and articles have been featured in a number of woodworking books and magazines. Larry is a co-owner of Old Street Tool, Inc. which produces traditional Western-style wooden planes.
Classes
• Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes with Larry Williams and Don McConnell• Raise Your Woodworking Profile: Using Molding Planes with Larry Williams & Don McConnell
J. Christopher White lives in Loveland, Colorado, but spends long hours in the rugged canyon lands of West Texas hunting for very specific shapes of dead standing wood, primarily West Texas juniper and aged Mesquite. Through his hands, these aged and weathered woods are transformed into a variety of subjects that flow into graceful movement. The message of each woodcarving is then amplified and refined by a poem. While the messages are drawn from scripture and his faith, the subjects that this Christian artist uses are as variable as nature. His studies in Wildlife Biology at Texas Tech University and five years of studying human anatomy at the National Institute of Fine Arts are both evidenced in his portfolio of birds, fish, mammals, and moving depictions of men, women and children. His signature style of realism flowing into stylized forms and ultimately abstract bands of fluid twist and spins has continually won him top honors at national and international competitions, including Best of Show at the International Woodcarvers' Congress in 1994 and Best in World, Interpretive Wood Sculpture at the Ward World Champion Wildfowl Carving Competition 2006 and 2009. He has published two books: Expressions In Wood and Parables: Wood Sculptures.