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Marc Adams School of Woodworking Instructors
GARRY KNOX BENNETT is an American icon in the field of woodworking and lives in Oakland, CA. He studied metalworking at the California College of Arts and Crafts and is a self-taught furniture maker. His trademark is the combined use of fine metalwork and woodworking. His work is in numerous museum collections, including the Oakland Museum and the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. He is a fellow of the American Craft Council and has been featured in many of today's most popular woodworking magazines. Garry is a giant of a man in every way, combining an enormous talent for sculptural form with a unique genius for finding beauty in unconventional materials, and is as generous a man as you will ever meet. He was featured in a book about his life and work called Made in Oakland, The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett.
Classes
• Makin' It With Garry Knox Bennett
JONATHAN BENSON has been working with wood for 30 years. His award-winning designs combine fine veneers, bent laminations of wood, and turned elements. Jon's work has been exhibited in more than 40 galleries nationwide with representation in five or six at any given time. He has taught all levels of woodworking and furniture design at the college level for over 10 years and has given numerous workshops and lectures on woodworking techniques, the field of furniture design, and the business of woodworking. His work has been featured in many regional and national publications including American Craft, Niche, and Woodworker West magazines. Jon was a frequent contributor to Woodwork magazine and is a frequent contributor to Woodshop News. In addition, he is the author of Woodworker's Guide to Veneering and Inlay. He has also developed many of his own innovative processes in over 20 years of being a full-time studio furniture maker. Participants in Jonathan's workshops always say they come away with practical knowledge they can put to use right away.
Classes
• Veneering With Jonathan Benson• A Twist: Bending, Twisting And Vacuum Forming With Jonathan Benson
MARC 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 American Woodworker and many other magazines. Marc has lectured for "The Woodworking Shows" out of Los Angeles and is considered by almost all his peers to be the greatest scroll saw technician in America. His new book is Scroll Saw Basics (Schiffer Publishing).
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 16 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
• Design! The Secret Weapon With Graham Blackburn• Totally by Hand With Graham Blackburn
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.
Classes
• 17th-Century Carved Box With Allan Breed
JOHN BURT has been operating his own woodworking/ blacksmithing shop for 30 years. Located in San Jose, CA, his shop produces custom furniture, liturgical commissions, and decorative hardware. His interest in Japanese tools and techniques were an extension of his blacksmith and tool making training, having made laminated tools himself. When furniture making became his mainstay, he first integrated Japanese tools, then the techniques, into his approach to creating the most appropriate answer to his client's needs. "Woodwork" magazine did an in-depth profile on John in October 1998. He has taught workshops throughout America, and continues to teach formally and informally at every opportunity.
Classes
• Inspired by Traditional Japanese Craftsmanship With John Burt
TIM CELESKI studied architecture and design before spending over 30 years in business as a designer. Once he discovered woodworking, built a workbench as his first project, 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, 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
• Style & Comfort: The Ultimate in Outdoor Furniture With Tim Celeski
ASA CHRISTIANA is editor of Fine Woodworking. A winding path led him to the magazine in 2000. He attended a technical high school, where he learned the machinist trade and became interested in building things. After college Asa took a number of teaching jobs, first teaching math in the Peace Corps and then English back in the United States. Later, he worked as an editor at two newspapers and then worked his way up through the ranks at Fine Woodworking to his current role as top editor. Asa lives in Thomaston, CT, with his wife and two daughters in a house (and woodshop) he helped design and build.
Classes
• Getting Your Work Published With Asa Christiana
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 UC Berkeley with some sort of degrees in the 1960s, 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.
Classes
• Bending Wood with the Two Michaels: Fortune And Cooper
DOUG DALE has worked at MASW for nine 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. 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
• Great Shop Fixtures and Accessories 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 10 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, CA, where he combines toolmaking, woodworking, and education. Having been a vocational woodworker all of his life, Kevin finally took the 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 And Using Wooden Bench Planes With Kevin Glenn 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 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."
Classes
• Toolmaking With Thomas Lie-Nielsen And John Economaki
PAUL FENNELL was born and raised in Beverly, MA, on the Atlantic coast north of Boston. His earliest memories of woodworking were as a very young boy, sawing and nailing scraps of wood cutoffs together in his Dad's basement workshop. Any further interest, however, was a long time coming, but the reverence for wood first instilled in his Dad's workshop always remained. He was first exposed to woodturning in 1970 through a woodworking course at a local high school Adult Education program. From that moment on he was hooked. Today his work has been featured in nearly every professional woodturning magazine and is collected by private collectors from around the country. Paul has demonstrated at many symposia and local organizations and his work is on collection at the Smithsonian, Detroit Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Wood Turning Center. He is a charter member of the AAW and has been a featured lecturer at their annual symposium seven times.
Classes
• Turning Elegant Hollow Forms with Paul Fennell
MEGAN FITZPATRICK is managing editor of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking. Since coming on board at the magazines five years ago, Megan has progressed from basic homeowner skills to designing and building large-scale furniture pieces for the magazines, including an 8'-tall Shaker-inspired Stepback Cupboard (that doubles as an entertainment center) and an 8'-tall case-on-case bookshelf. When she's not in the shop, Megan is working on a Ph.D. in early modern drama, so be prepared for a Shakespeare quotation or two throughout the weekend.
Classes
• Woodworking for Women with Megan Fitzpatrick
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 Queen's 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 11th year teaching at MASW.
Classes
• Developing the Idea with Michael Fortune• Bending Wood with the Two Michaels: Fortune And Cooper
• Embellishing Your Work With Michael Fortune And Bill Wells
• Apprenticeship With Michael Fortune
• Photographing Your Work With Michael Fortune
• Making the Ultimate Gift With Michael Fortune
• Making a Small Bow Front Chest With Michael Fortune
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 20 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. 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
• Building a Curved-Front Writing Desk with Chris Gochnour
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. He has also operated an architectural fiberglass reproduction company. Grove has worked for Wendell Castle as his studio director and maintains his own studio in downtown Rochester. He is also the creative director for Smith Associates Architects. A furniture society member, award-winning Grove exhibits nationally in galleries and leading shows. Scott lectures and holds workshops nationally on a variety of woodworking, fiberglass construction, and marketing subjects. He has been featured in, and written articles for, a variety of national publications; appeared on Better Home & Garden's HGTV network and Woodworking in Action; and is authoring three books for Schiffer Publications.
Classes
• Taking Your Work from Ordinary to Extraordinary With Scott Grove• Adventures in Mold Making And Bronze Cold Castings With Scott Grove
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 United States, England, and Canada, and is former chairman of the Furniture Masters of New Hampshire.
Classes
• Precision With Hand Tools With Garrett Hack• Effective Sharpening With Garrett Hack
• Tuning Hand Tools with Garrett Hack
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.
Classes
• 18th Century Tall Case Grandfather Clock With Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton• Chippendale Carved Details With Headley & Hamilton
• Philadelphia Serpentine Card Table With Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
MIKE HARRIGAN, along with his wife, Nancy, has been operating his own architectural millwork and custom cabinetry shop for 20 years in northwest Indiana near Chicago. The shop specializes in curved interior trim for homes including casing, baseboard, and crown moldings. Additionally, he designs and builds fireplace mantels, entertainment centers, bookcases, and furniture for the new and remodeled home markets using curved components whereever possible. He left the electrical engineering field and started in woodworking full time in 1989 after completely remodeling and adding onto their home, garnering the towns beautification award. Since starting at MASW in 2001, Mike has taken over 20 classes, completing the Masters of Woodworking in 2004. He won the MASW Excellence Through Education Award's professional division in 2005 and received honorable mention in 2006. When not making sawdust in the shop he is a volunteer fireman and enjoys sailing on Lake Michigan.
Classes
• Curvaceous Legs: For Tables With Mike Harrigan
JEFF HEADLEY, a fourth-generation cabinetmaker, is continuing the family business of reproducing pieces of American furniture built before the 1820s. Mack S. Headley & Sons (not to be confused with Mack Headley Jr. of Colonial Williamsburg) 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 U.S. Park Service. The Headleys have worked for many museums, such as Mount Vernon, The Carlyle House, Mosby's 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.
Classes
• 18th Century Tall Case Grandfather Clock With Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton• Chippendale Carved Details With Headley & Hamilton
• Philadelphia Serpentine Card Table With Jeff Headley & Steve Hamilton
MACK HEADLEY JR., a native of Winchester, VA, is a fourth-generation cabinetmaker with 38 years of experience. He apprenticed with his father in the family shop, and has operated his own business in Winchester, providing collectors, museum curators, and interior designers with accurate 18th-century furniture reproductions and architectural carvings. Mack has been the Master Cabinetmaker for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for 28 years. In Williamsburg's reconstruction of Anthony Hay's cabinet shop, he and his staff investigate the 18th-century cabinetmaker's art with special interest in hand tool use, the application of classical design, and proportion. Mack most enjoys the investigation of 18th-ccentury hand woodworking practices and how they influence and dictate design. He has given workshops throughout the country and has been featured in episodes of "The Woodwright's Shop" and the Taunton Press video Carving A Shell.
Classes
• Make a Garden Gate With Mack Headley
TOD HERRLI has been teaching and lecturing for several years. He has conducted demonstrations for various chapters of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, private clubs, museums, and guilds. Tod's work has been featured at the Indiana State Museum, and he has collaborated with Roy Underhill of "The Woodwrights' Shop." He has also made guest appearances on the "American Woodshop" show, hosted by Scott Phillips. Tod recently produced a plane-making video that provides detailed instructions on building hollows and rounds as well as all the jigs and tools you will need to be a successful plane maker.
Classes
• Side Escapement Planes With Tod Herrli
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 1980s while working as a cabinetmaker. 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, MN , Woodturning in Basic Black, SOFA Chicago, sponsored by the AAW, and National Wood Invitational Exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Ashville, NC. 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 the all the premier woodworking schools in America and was a featured presenter at the 2009 AAW Symposium.
Classes
• Enliven Your Work with Color & Texture With Matthew Hill• Getting Started in Wood Turning With Matthew Hill
• Turning Decorative Lidded Containers With Matthew Hill
GLEN HUEY has been involved in woodworking for 36 years, since the age of 14. His first major piece of fine furniture was a Sheraton Bed-built with his father's help-which he still has to this day. After a decade as a contributing editor with Popular Woodworking magazine, he joined the staff full time in 2007. Today he is a senior editor with both Popular Woodworking and Woodworking magazines and the author of a number of furniture books, including Fine Furniture for a Lifetime, Building Fine Furniture, and The Illustrated Guide to Building Period Furniture. He is the owner and host of "Woodworker's Edge," a multimedia DVD series. In addition, he enjoys teaching woodworking and has conducted seminars for a number of woodworking groups and enthusiasts. 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?
Classes
• Giving Your Furniture A "Leg up" With Glen Huey• Shaker Press Cupboard With Glen Huey
• Finishes That "Pop" With Glenn Huey
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.
Classes
• Making a Veneered Jewelry Box with Bill Hull• Veneering With Bill Hull
BILL HYLTON has been practicing, teaching, and writing about woodworking for well over a quarter-century. Intending to write, he earned a degree in journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter for several years. A job at Rodale Press editing books on gardening and homesteading, coupled with DIY projects, pulled him inexorably into woodworking, dragging him from bean poles and compost bins to chests, cupboards, and cabinets. Bill says: "I've always considered myself a hobbyist, because I learned the way most hobbyists do-by reading books and magazines and practicing in a basement workshop. My day job gave me an incentive to tackle new techniques and new projects, because they led to books we could profitably publish. I never built furniture or cabinets to sell." Retired by Rodale after 27 years, Bill started freelancing in 1998. His projects have been published in American Woodworker, Popular Woodworking, and Woodworker's Journal magazines. He's written dozens of woodworking books, including Woodworking with the Router, Chests of Drawers, Frame & Panel Magic, The Drawer Book, and Illustrated Cabinetmaking.
Classes
• Post & Panel Cabinetmaking With Bill Hylton
MIKE JACKOFSKY, a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of San Diego School of Law, is a professional turner in the San Diego, CA, area who gave up his law practice in 2003 to devote full time to his turning. Mike specializes in hollow vessels but he also turns bowls, including thin, natural edge open bowls, along with off-balance, asymmetrical pieces. Mike enjoys teaching and demonstrating and has been a presenter at the Utah Woodturning Symposium at BYU, The American Association of Woodturners Symposium in Portland, OR, and will be a featured presenter at the Southwest Association of Turners (SWAT) symposium in 2010. His work is on display in the permanent collections of the Sam Maloof Historical Residence Museum in Alta Loma, CA, the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, and the permanent collection of the American Association of Woodturners. In 2006, Mike received "Best of Show" at the AAW sponsored "California Contours" show. He has won numerous awards at the San Diego International "Design in Wood Exhibition," including first place 10 times.
Classes
• Fundamentals Of Vessel Turning With Mike Jackofsky
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 over a decade 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 which are sold all over the world under the Homestead name. He is the author of five books, Hand Applied Finishes, Great Wood Finishes, The Complete Guide to Finishing, Spray Finishing Made Simple (Taunton Press) and Furniture Repair and Refinishing (Handyman Club of America) as well as two videos, "Hand Applied Finishes" and "Spray Finishing Made Simple" (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).
Classes
• Hands-On Finishing with Jeff Jewitt
GREG JOHNSON has been in the furniture making trade for 40 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.
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 With Ray Key
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 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 also hand carved a magnificent walnut chair for the Archbishop's residency for the 1999 visit of Pope John Paul II. His work has been featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters," as well as in a number of local and national newspaper and magazine articles.
Classes
• Carving Shells, Scrolls And More With Boris Khechoyan• Introduction to Classical European Carving With Boris Khechoyan
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.
Classes
• The Essential Woodworker with Frank Klausz
BONNIE KLEIN has been involved with woodturning since the early 1980s. In 1986, she designed the small Klein Lathe that has been in production for over 20 years. In 1992, she introduced the Klein Threading Jig as an accessory to the lathe for cutting threads in wood. Bonnie produced five turning videos (now available on DVD) and in 2005 wrote a woodturning project book. Her popularity as a demonstrator and educator has resulted in invitations to countries around the world, as well as all across the United States. In 2007, she was a featured demonstrator in the international symposiums-in South Africa, Canada, and Britain. In 2003, The American Association of Woodturners awarded Bonnie as an AAW Honorary Lifetime Member in recognition of her contributions to woodturning.
Classes
• Spindle Turning And More With Bonnie Klein
MITCH KOHANEK has been an instructor for the Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota for the last 31 years, where he runs the National Institute 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. 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.
Classes
• Spot Repair and Touch-Up Finishing with Mitch Kohanek• Hands-On Finishing With Mitch Kohanek
• Taking the Fear Out Of Finishing With Mitch Kohanek
• Furniture Restoration, Repair, And Refinishing With Mitch Kohanek
• Rubbing out To Create a Perfect Finish With Mitch Kohanek
• Getting Started in Spray Finishing With Mitch Kohanek
SILAS KOPF has been making furniture since 1973. He is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in architecture. He apprenticed to Wendell Castle for two years. In 1988 he was the recipient of a Craftsman's Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts. Subsequently he studied traditional marquetry technique at the Ecole Boulle in Paris. His work centers around an emphasis on marquetry decoration. He is the author of A Marquetry Odyssey and has produced a DVD, "The Master Techniques of Marquetry." He has exhibited work widely throughout the United States. His studio is in Easthampton, MA.
Classes
• A Marquetry Odyssey With Silas Kopf
ALAN LACER has been involved in the turning field for more than 34 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, and 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.
Classes
• Woodturning with Alan Lacer• Woodturning with Alan Lacer
• Husband & Wife Woodturning With Alan And Mary Lacer
• Woodturning II: The Next Level With Alan Lacer
• Son of Skew: Fear Not With Alan Lacer
MARY LACER was introduced to woodturning in 1980 and has turned more than 100 different kinds of domestic and exotic woods. She has given numerous demonstrations for students at career days and craft shows, exhibited woodturnings in galleries, written articles for magazines and served as a woodturning assistant for weeklong summer and elderhostel classes at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. Mary was founder of the Minnesota Woodturners Association in January 1987, which has grown to more than 180 members. She was elected to the board of directors of The American Association of Woodturners and has been administrator since 1990. AAW is an international organization with over 10,500 members. In 2005, Mary received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAW.
Classes
• Husband & Wife Woodturning With Alan And Mary Lacer
BOB LANG is senior editor of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking magazines, and the author of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Shop Drawings for Craftsman Interiors, Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays and Hardware, and Shop Drawings for Greene & Greene Furniture. He is also the author of The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker and his latest is book is 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 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. His work has also appeared in Fine Woodworking, Woodshop News, and Woodwork magazines.
Classes
• Craftsman Joinery: Build a Stickley #74 Bookrack With Bob Lang• Designing With SketchUp With Bob 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 has been nominated for the Order Of Canada.
Classes
• Inlay and Engraving With Grit Laskin
STEVE LATTA lives in the Lancaster/Philadelphia region, where he focuses on a wide range of furniture but is most often associated with work of the Federal style. Since the mid-1990s he has taught furniture making full time at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster, PA. Steve is a contributing editor at Fine Woodworking and has been published in Woodwork, American Period Furniture, and The Catalogue of Antiques and Fine Art. He has lectured on the topic of Federal furniture and inlay at Colonial Williamsburg, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, and numerous other schools and guilds. He is a former member of the executive council for the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and currently serves as conference coordinator. He does private commissions and lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children, Fletcher, Sarah, and Grace, in rural Pennsylvania.
Classes
• Pictorial Imagery In Traditional Furniture With Steve Latta• Decorative Details Steve Latta
• Build a Classic Bookcase 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, published by Taunton Press.
Classes
• Hand Planes With Thomas Lie-Nielsen And Christopher Schwarz• Toolmaking With Thomas Lie-Nielsen And John Economaki
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
• Traditional Woodworking Techniques With Phil Lowe
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. In addition to practicing the mysterious art of traditional hand-tied "webbed and sprung" upholstery, he has been fortunate to collaborate on some minimally intrusive furniture projects with Don Williams Sr., furniture conservator at the Smithsonian, including work on some historic chairs that are now displayed in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mike is a charter member of the Professional Refinishers 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, on both upholstery and restoration topics.
Classes
• Basic Upholstery With Mike Mascelli
MARY MAY is a professional woodcarver in Charleston, SC. 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 United States as well as out of her studio in Charleston. Mary is a member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and has recently participated as one of the demonstrators for their Mid-Year Conference.
Classes
• Fundamentals Of Carving With Mary MayJEFF 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, and 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.
Classes
• Hand-Cut Dovetail Blanket Chest With Jeff Mertz• Doors and Drawers With Jeff Mertz
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 26 years and has participated in numerous juried shows in galleries and museums across the country. Because this doesn't keep him busy enough, 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 magazine and teaches around the country. Away from the shop, Jeff is an avid cyclist, runner, and skier, depending on the availability of clear roads or snow-covered slopes.
Classes
• Designing Chairs: A Systematic Approach with Jeff Miller
JOHN MORGAN has spent the past 30 years researching kinetic sculpture. 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 pursuit, funded primarily through Morgan's vocation as a professor of graphic design, is the passion that drives his creative research. His narrative product springs form a unique marriage of art, design, woodwork, and engineering. Pieces from his limited editions produced over the past 14 years have been shown in American Craft and American Woodworker magazines and have been exhibited in craft galleries and museums in the United States, Britain, 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 from the Arkansas Arts Center's Toys Designed by Artists. His automatons are held by individual collectors across the country and are represented in corporate collections in the United States and Japan.
Classes
• Whirligig Magic: Parent & Child Woodworking with John Morgan• Kinetic Sculpture: The Mechanics of Woodworking with John Morgan
RICHARD SCOTT NEWMAN grew up in New York City, originally intending to have a career in aeronautical engineering. After three turbulent years of college he realized that engineering was not as satisfying as building boats, banjos, and model airplanes, so he turned on, tuned out, and dropped in to the School of American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966. This was way more fun, so in 1969 he set up his own shop, and since then has supported himself as a furniture maker, with occasional side trips making banjos and teaching swing dance. He is known for making elegantly detailed, meticulously crafted furniture, and for his love and mastery of esoteric and sophisticated technology (but not computers!). His work has been shown in some of the finest galleries and museums across the country, and is in many collections, among them the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Detroit Institute of Art. He has written for Fine Woodworking and spent three years teaching full time at RIT at the turn of the century. He is looking forward to sharing his knowledge, experience, and some of his tricks with the Marc Adams woodworking community.
Classes
• Making Fine Detail Tools With Richard Scott Newman• Taming The Impossible: Jigs, Fixtures, And Gizmos For Precision With Richard Scott Newman
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, Woodwork and Woodworker's Journal magazines, and is listed in Wood magazine's "Gallery of Woodworking Greats." Gregg has won several awards, including the grand prize in the 2008 Veneer Tech's Craftsman Challenge.
Classes
• SketchUp Primer With Gregg Novosad• Marrying Technology with Creativity: Divine By Design With Gregg Novosad
DAVID & SALLY NYE are world renowned for their tireless efforts in researching and preserving the almost-lost Old World folk art of fan-carving. Their research has taken them across Europe and Scandinavia. The Nyes soon found themselves in the unique position of teaching native Europeans their heritage about the fan bird along with its legends and customs. They have recorded this symbolism and history in their books Fan-Carving and More Fan-Carving. It is their passion to teach others how to do fan-carving along with its history. They encourage these new carvers to go forward and teach others so it will be preserved for future generations. David and Sally are retired from professional careers: David from 32 years of teaching high school Spanish and history; Sally as a quality assurance engineer. They reside in Fennville, MI, on the family homestead.
Classes
• Fan Carving With David & Sally Nye
DAVID ORTH has worked for 28 years as a furniture builder, sculptor, designer, and teacher. He has gathered unique design ideas and building techniques from several faraway places he has lived, including Costa Rica amd Guatemala. David approaches craft from a deep sense of its importance to our lives, a way to think more honestly, a way to feel more genuinely, and a way to collaborate in social life and with nature around us. Although David has focused most of his efforts on woodworking, he also works extensively in bronze, steel, and concrete. He has completed many prominent furniture projects for Frank Lloyd Wright homes, synagogues, and churches in the Chicago area. He has taught or lectured at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Marc Adams School of Woodworking, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and many others. New Art Examiner ranked Orth's furniture among the "most sophisticated work, displaying an articulate, loving sense of craftsmanship drawn from the past . . . sustained conceptually by . . . humor and personal vision. . . . [It is] highly sensual . . . finely tuned . . . consistent . . . truly 'art furniture.'
Classes
• Composite Boatbuilding Techniques For the Furniture Maker With David Orth• Bronze Sculpture with David Orth
MYRA PERRIN is a furniture maker and wood sculptor who received her BFA in Furniture Design from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, IN. She was a presenter at the 2006 Furniture Society Conference and her work was recently featured in Woodworker's Journal magazine. Myra received her PMC Level I and Level II certification from the PMC Guild. She has studied with several metal smiths including Betty Helen Longhi, Blaine Lewis, and Kate Wolf.
Classes
• Making Jewelry With Myra Perrin• Hand-Forged Hardware With Myra Perrin
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 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 then finished with airbrush and piercing techniques. His works has 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 CA. He has had solo exhibitions at del Mano, Joie Lassiter, and Bob Crutcher galleries and East meets West International Exhibition in Tacoma, WA, 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; Museum of Art and Design, NY; University of Michigan Museum of Art; Long Beach Fine Art Museum; and the private collections 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 upcoming 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 Museum, a restored Georgian-style mansion in Lancaster, Ohio.
Classes
• Making a Shaker Rocking Chair With Kerry Pierce• Making a Shaker Candle Stand with Kerry Pierce
FRANK POLLARO is the owner of Pollaro Custom Furniture, Inc., a 20-person fine furniture shop in Union, NJ. Founded in 1988, Pollaro specializes in replications of Art Deco furniture, specifically the work of Ruhlmann. Pollaro's work is collected by connoisseurs and leading art collectors on five continents. The furniture features rare and exotic materials combined with impeccable craftsmanship. Frank is considered to be a leading expert on veneering and inlay work. He has lectured nationally on veneering, business, and the work of master furniture designer Ruhlmann. Pollaro's clients include numerous Forbes 400 Members, CEOs and celebrities, including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Eddie Murphy. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Art & Antiques, Departures magazine, the Malibu Times, the New York Times and the Newark Star-Ledger as well as on HGTV's "Modern Masters." His articles on the craft have been published in Fine Woodworking, Woodshop News, Woodshop Business, Custom Woodworking Business, and many others. Pollaro was awarded a U.S. Design Patent for an original design of a Steinway piano and has built more Steinway Art Case pianos than any firm in history.
Classes
• Mastering Your Woodworking Business With Frank Pollaro
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
• Great Shop Fixtures and Accessories With Zane Powell and Doug Dale• Basic Cabinetmaking With Zane Powell
STEPHEN PROCTOR is 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, D.C., and has been featured in Fine Woodworking, Vogue, The Times of London, American Craft, and Corporate Showcase. Stephen is an excellent instructor who is unparalleled when it comes to problem solving and hand skills.
Classes
• Hand Skills With Stephen Proctor• Using the Tablesaw in Ways You Never Imagined With Stephen Proctor
• Curved Elegant Boxes with Stephen Proctor
TIM PURO is a professional furniture restorer and on-site furniture spot repair artist. His extended family was involved the antique furniture trade while he was growing up, and he repaired and refinished his first piece of furniture when he was 13 years old. Tim started his furniture restoration business part time in 2002 after taking a furniture spot-repair course at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking with Mitch Kohanek. In 2005 the volume of furniture work grew so great that Tim was able to leave an 18-year career in banking and pursue furniture restoration full time in his adopted hometown of Bloomington, IN. Tim has studied furniture finishing, repair, and restoration at the National Wood Finishing Institute in Minneapolis, MN, and has taken courses in furniture conservation offered by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute. He has been a featured speaker at the Midwest Tool Collectors Association and at the MASW Segmented Turning Symposium. In addition Tim has served as an assistant in finishing and furniture restoration classes at MASW since 2004. Tim hopes someday to take up hobby woodworking again and build a piece of furniture just for himself!
Classes
• Refurbish Furniture without Refinishing With Tim Puro
RON RAMSEY, a third-generation woodcarver with more than 38 years of experience as a professional woodcarver/sculptor, lives in Grass Valley, CA. He received his first set of tools from his woodcarver grandfather at age 11 and spent his adolescence experimenting with various carving and woodworking projects. Starting in 1971, he served a two-year apprenticeship at the professional woodcarving studio of his then father-in-law, Glen Coppedge, in Roseville, CA. In 1984, Ron moved to Europe, where he spent a year perfecting his dynamic high-relief style. He established a studio in Zermatt, Switzerland, displaying work at the Capricorn Gallery and completing commissions for clients in Switzerland and Italy. After returning to the United States, Ron served a stint as artistic director of Artistic Woodworks, a woodcarving studio in Vermont. In 1986 Ron returned to the Grass Valley, where he re-established his woodcarving studio. Ron has taught woodcarving at Sierra Nevada College and woodcarving for children through arts in the schools programs. His work has appeared in Design Book Six, Wood, Technology and Processes, Wildlife Art, Log Home Living, and Log Home Design Ideas.
Classes
• Sculptural High-Relief Carving With Ron Ramsey
HARLEY REFSAL is a professor of Scandinavian Folk Art at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, that has been teaching courses in Scandinavian-style figure carving throughout North America as well as in Scandinavia for over 25 years, and more recently has also begun teaching seminars in working in horn, bone and antler---the plastic of the pre-industrial era. He holds a degree in Norwegian Folk Art from Telemark University College in Norway, is the author of numerous articles and books on Scandinavian figure carving including Woodcarving In The Scandinavian Style, and has been decorated by the King of Norway for his contributions to Norwegian Folk Art.
Classes
• Stacked Handled Fillet Knife With Harley Refsal And Mike Schelmeske
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 United States. Some of the stair work is featured in William P. Spence's Constructing Staircases, Balustrades & Landings as well as on HGTV and in 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.
Classes
• Pickin' Stick with John Ressler• Making an Acoustical Guitar with John Ressler
• Make an Electric Guitar With John Ressler
JEFF SCANLAN is a professional magician by trade and thus enjoys puzzles and things that make you think. In 1996, he started thinking how to make Impossible Bottles (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. Jeff is considered by the magic and puzzle community to be one of the very best in the United States at this art form today. He sells his bottles throughout the world, has had his bottles displayed in the Northwestern University Museum, and has been featured in both Conceptis Puzzles magazine and in the Linking Ring (the largest magic magazine in the world). Jeff is continually working on new bottle creations. He's trying to following 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
• Bottle Magic With Jeff Scanlan
MIKE SCHELMESKE is a versatile traditional craftsman from Grand Marais, in the heart of birch country, on Minnesota's north shore of Lake Superior. Mike regularly teaches courses at North House Folk School in Grand Marais on designing and creating canoe and kayak paddles, as well as a variety of Scandinavian-inspired utensils, tools, and wooden items for the home. He often is invited to demonstrate his highly impressive skills with a carving hatchet. He is one of the featured craftsmen in the award-winning book Celebrating Birch.
Classes
• Stacked Handled Fillet Knife With Harley Refsal And Mike Schelmeske
PAUL SCHÜRCH 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 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 has won many national awards for his furniture pieces, and continues to exhibit at selected galleries across the United States.
Classes
• Advancing Your Veneering Skills with Paul Schurch• Stone Inlay With Paul Schurch
CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ is the editor of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking magazine, and a long-time furniture maker and hand-tool enthusiast. He began working with wood at age 8 when his family members built their first home on their farm outside Hackett, AR, using hand tools because there was no electricity. After college, Chris became a newspaper reporter but studied furniture making at night at the University of Kentucky. Despite his early experiences with hand tools on the farm, Chris remains an avid student and advocate of traditional hand techniques. Chris is also a contributing editor to The Fine Tool Journal, the host of five DVDs on traditional tools (produced in conjunction with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks) and the author of the books Handplane Essentials, Workbenches: From Design and Theory to Construction and Use, The Art of Joinery and The Joiner and Cabinet Maker.
Classes
• Nine Essential Hand Planes with Christopher Schwarz
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.
Classes
• Formal Decorative Carving: A Basket of Fruit With Alf Sharp• French Polish: The Ultimate Finish with Alf Sharp
• Making a Hepplewhite Shield-Back Chair With Alf Sharp
• History of Furniture Styles through the Ages With Alf Sharp
JENNIFER SHIRLEY has been working with wood for 13 years and woodturning for 11. 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 U.S. craft schools 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 Fundamentals Of Bowl Turning With Jennifer Shirley
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 Crafts Report, 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 Butterfly Leaf Table With Thomas Stangeland• The Essential Details Of Greene & Greene With Thomas Strangeland
MARK STERNER is a devoted computer geek and woodworker who enjoys combining these passions to promote woodworking. Currently he is a trainer for Apple retail, the owner of a fledgling one-person woodworking business, and co-producer of the iWoodWork Podcast-a monthly video series devoted to helping new and intermediate woodworkers avoid the pitfalls he experienced before he found the Marc Adams School of Woodworking.
Classes
• Podcasting for Woodworkers: Taking Your Work To the Internet With Mark Sterner
CINDY STEWART had a young interest in woodworking that culminated in the purchase of her first scroll saw over 20 years ago. By 1992, she was scrolling and designing items for Wildwood Designs. She has designed some of the most intricate scroll saw, intarsia, and segmentation patterns available today, combining the art of scroll sawing with basic and advanced woodworking techniques. Cindy is now the CEO of Wildwood Acquisitions Corp., the parent company of Wildwood Designs and Cherry Tree Toys. While her duties keep her busy, she still designs and builds more than 100 new woodworking projects every year. Cindy's work has won many awards, including induction into the Hall of Fame of the Scroll Saw Association of the World and the 1998 Excellence Through Education Award at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Her techniques have been honed through the years through personal challenge and learning from others. Cindy has completed the Masters program at MASW.
Classes
• Intarsia With Cindy Stewart
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 three box-making books, 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. 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.
Classes
• Simply Beautiful Boxes with Doug Stowe
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.
Classes
• Custom Architectural Woodworking With Gary Striegler
CURT THEOBALD is a full-time segmented wood turner who lives and works in southeast Wyoming. He began turning in the early 1990s while working in a production cabinet shop. From 1996 to 2002 he owned his own custom cabinet business. Knowledge of wood properties and precision in segmentation characterize his work. He produces work for galleries, shows, and private collections around the world. Curt has created several instructional videos on segmentation and has taught segmented woodturning to woodworkers across the United States as well as in Canada. He feels that each piece he designs and turns is a learning experience and provides him with a sense of accomplishment as he sees the finished vessel come to life.
Classes
• Segmented Turning: Pushing Your Skills to the Next Level With Curt Theobald
MALCOLM TIBBETTS has been a woodworker most of his life and has been a segmented woodturning artist for the past 17 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 vice president of the AAW and as president of the Web-based organization Segmented Woodturners. He lives in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Classes
• Segmenting Sculpture With Malcolm Tibbetts
JEFF VOLLMER was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, and attended the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He worked for a major retailer for 23 years, the last 10 years as a buyer. 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 band-sawn 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 has taught puzzle box classes for several years. He says working with wood is much better than having a job!
Classes
• Really Cool Bandsaw Puzzle Boxes with Jeff VollmerGEORGE WALKER has been a woodworker for over 25 years and is currently working on a series of videos on furniture design produced by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. The series focuses on the design links between furniture and architecture. He explores the basic principles of form and proportions and how they can be used to tackle design problems regardless of whether the style is modern or traditional. In early 2010 George will begin writing a regular design column for Popular Woodworking magazine titled "Design Matters." A frequent author and speaker, George has a knack for helping woodworkers apply solid principles to create warm and inviting designs.
Classes
• Design Matters with George Walker
BILL WELLS attributes his woodworking influences to two vastly different sources: Alfonse Heinlen, owner of Creative Woodcraft, a custom furniture shop in Detroit, with whom he interned in 1976-1977; and Michael Fortune, with whom he interned in 2003-2004. After working with Alfonse, Bill knew he wanted to make furniture, but it wasn't until he met Michael that he knew what kind of furniture he wanted to make. "I always loved the look of flowing curves in some contemporary furniture," he says. "The bending and joinery techniques needed to build furniture with curved components is a wonderful, and ongoing, challenge." Bill has been making furniture full time in his studio in Ypsilanti, MI, since taking early retirement from a local steel mill in 2003. His work has been featured in the book 500 Tables (Larkin Press), has been juried into the Milwaukee Fine Furniture show, and has received several awards in fine art shows in the Detroit area and Chicago. He has also been honing his teaching skills, giving demos to local woodworking groups and assisting Michael Fortune in teaching classes at MASW for the past five years.
Classes
• Embellishing Your Work With Michael Fortune And Bill Wells
DON WILLIAMS began working as a professional artisan in 1972, eventually opening his own furniture restoration shop before gravitating toward 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, D.C., 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. He 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
• Boullework: Traditional Marquetry with Don Williams
PAUL WOODRICH has over a quarter-century of laser processing and system integration experience. He has a complete knowledge of all standard laser systems and routinely consults on new laser-processing techniques. He routinely combines laser processing into his woodworking projects.
Classes
• A Modern Approach to Marquetry: Laser Cutting with Paul Woodrich
MARC ADAMS has been woodworking professionally for more than 28 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 magazine. 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.
Classes
• Joinery with Marc Adams• Sculptural Rocking Chair II With Marc Adams
• Basic Veneering With Marc Adams
• Marquetry With Marc Adams
• Sculptural Rocking Chair with Marc Adams
• Apprenticeship With Marc Adams
• Basic Woodworking with Marc Adams
• Sculptural Rocking Chair with Marc Adams
• Joinery with Marc Adams
• Cabinetmaking with Marc Adams
• Joinery II With Marc Adams
• Marquetry with Marc Adams
• Joinery with Marc Adams
• Joinery with Marc Adams