BETTY SCARPINO is one of the most talented wood artists in America and has been in demand worldwide as a teacher and demonstrator. She has a degree in industrial arts with a specialty in woodworking from the University of Missouri. Her work is in many public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia. She has been featured in Wood Art Today, Woodwork, Fine Woodworking, American Woodturner, Scratching the Surface, and New Masters of Woodturning. Her work has been shown in dozens of national juried exhibitions. She was selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Collectors of Wood Art in 2015 and is the American Association of Woodturners’ 2020 Honorary Lifetime Member. Betty lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.