Kather­ine Edmonds is a craftsper­son, designer, and educa­tor based in Corval­lis, Oregon. She honed her tradi­tional craft skills at the Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship. To further her knowl­edge in tradi­tional wood­work­ing, Edmonds appren­ticed with two master furni­ture makers, spend­ing a year working with Richard Shrader in Athens, Georgia and another year working with Pat Megowan in Corval­lis, Oregon. 

Kather­ine has held over thirty-five differ­ent jobs, doing her best to sample all corners of the job market. Primar­ily, she has worked in some form of educa­tion, includ­ing ski instruc­tion, white­wa­ter kayak­ing guide, college profes­sor, preschool teacher, and of course wood­work­ing instruc­tor. Recently, learn­ing to fully embrace her neuro­di­ver­gence and kines­thetic learn­ing and living style, she has once again returned to the phys­i­cal­ity of craft. Currently, she teaches classes and mentors wood­work­ers at High­land Wood­shop, a commu­nity wood­shop in Corval­lis, Oregon, which she co-oper­ates with two business partners. 

Edmonds loves exper­i­ment­ing with new mate­ri­als and tech­niques, contin­u­ing to expand her knowl­edge base as a craftsper­son. Presently, she finds herself focused on marquetry and pyrog­ra­phy as tech­niques to merge her inspi­ra­tion and skillset. She finds that her phys­i­cal expe­ri­ences with the natural world often find their way into her designs, expand­ing her knowl­edge about ecolog­i­cal and biological processes.

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.