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The Furni­ture Society is a volun­teer orga­ni­za­tion. We rely on volun­teers such as those listed below and could­n’t do what we do without them. We are grate­ful to those who are, and have been, so giving of their time and exper­tise. Thank you!

We hope you will consider support­ing this orga­ni­za­tion by volunteering. 

Inter­ested in learn­ing more about how you can volunteer? 

Email Pam at education.​director@​furnituresociety.​org

Kate Davidson

Featured Members

Kate David­son is a wood­worker, craftsper­son, and educa­tor whose work ranges from func­tional furni­ture to sculp­tural play. Orig­i­nally from New England, she began working in histor­i­cal restora­tion carpen­try while living on the coast of Maine, even­tu­ally enrolling at the Vermont Wood­work­ing School and later grad­u­at­ing from UW Madison’s Wood­work­ing and Furni­ture MFA program. Her pieces have been exhib­ited nation­ally, includ­ing at the Esher­ick Museum and Museum for Art and Wood in Penn­syl­va­nia and through Craft Desert in San Diego, and she has partic­i­pated in resi­den­cies at Penland School of Craft and the Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship. Most recently she spent the 2024 summer as the Wood­work­ing Studio Coor­di­na­tor at Peters Valley School of Craft, before begin­ning a new posi­tion at Contem­po­rary Craft, in Pitts­burgh. Besides creat­ing her own multi-media pieces, her work focuses on the impor­tance of collab­o­ra­tion and commu­nity in craft and woodworking spaces.

IG: @katekatecameron

Darcy Resch

Newsletter Intern

As a grad­u­ate of North­ern Michi­gan Univer­sity, Darcy Resch majored in Art and Design with a concen­tra­tion in Wood­work­ing and Furni­ture Design. Start­ing in 2025, Darcy will be pursu­ing a Master of Archi­tec­ture at the Univer­sity of Melbourne in Australia. Until then, she will work as a Project Coor­di­na­tor and Wood­worker at Signa­ture Wood­work­ing in Minnesota while also being a content writer for The Furni­ture Society. Her furni­ture speaks a contem­po­rary and mini­mal­is­tic language focus­ing on line and negative space.


Past Volunteers

Teresa Audet

David Fleming

Alex Jarus

Kristin LeVier

Geoff McKonly

Mya Rae Nelson

Lisa Nguyen

Ellie Richards

Megan Tilston

Lauren Verdugo

Chelsea Witt

Alex Zimmer­man