Each week we feature a member on our website and promote them through our social media accounts and weekly emails.
Alison McLennan
Featured Member
Alison McLennan is the owner of AJM furniture based in Alameda, CA. She grew up in Providence, RI and attended Cornell University, where she majored in Entomology. After college she moved to Oakland, CA and rediscovered her lifelong interest in art and her passion for making things.
Jordon Jones
Featured Student Member
Jordon Jones is a designer studying in Iowa City, IA. She is passionate about a variety of design including furniture, product, and jewelry. Drawing inspiration from her experiences both past and present, she gives each one of her pieces its own identity.
Richard Oedel
Featured Member
Richard Oedel has been making furniture since he was a teenager. His primary shop is in Wolfeboro, NH, where he recently moved full time. His work is sold and exhibited internationally and is the past Chairman of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters.
Justin Cockrell
Featured Student Member
Justin R. Cockrell (they/them) is a craft artist, printmaker, and storyteller from Columbus, Ohio, currently living, learning, and making in Richmond, Virginia. Their practice is rooted in the objects and materials related to the concept of“home” and explores ways that queerness, grief, and race can shape domestic space.
Adrien Segal
Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Drawing from landscape, science, history, emotion, and perception, her interdisciplinary work bridges the gap between scientific rationality and the emotional nature of human experience.
Peter Scheidt
Peter Scheidt’s (he/him/his) work is concept-driven yet firmly grounded in the craft of furniture. He builds and teaches in Ames, Iowa where he is Assistant Professor of Wood + Material Studies at Iowa State University.
Benjamin Allen
Featured Student Member
Benjamin is a furniture maker based in south-central Pennsylvania and a member of the PA Guild of Craftsmen and Lancaster Designer Craftsmen. He builds furniture that is elegantly designed and finely constructed using wood that he has hand-selected for each piece.
Nucharin Wangphongsawasd
Nucharin Wangphongsawasd (aka Nucharin with the long last name) is an Artist and Woodworker based in Bangkok, Thailand. She has a background in Industrial Design. She pursued her graduate studies in Woodworking & Furniture Design at the School for American Crafts at RIT. Her works are inspired by repetitive patterns from nature and manmade objects, driven by an exploration of forms in the creation of each piece.
Jan Rybczynski
Jan Rybczynski (Yawn Rib-chin-ski) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer from Boulder, Colorado. This past spring he graduated with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Furniture Design and a concentration in Nature, Culture, and Sustainability Studies. He is currently working as a Student Trustee with the Furniture Society!
Stephen Thrasher
Stephen Thrasher is an engineer and woodworker in Somerville, MA. His work explores technology and craft, specifically how CNC can shape wood in new and interesting ways. He graduated with a Furniture Design Certificate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2022.
Graham Johnston
Graham David Johnston is a craftsperson, educator, and designer based in Savannah, Ga. He specializes in technical woodworking, historic preservation and teaching the fundamentals of furniture making. After graduation Graham hopes to find a career that allows him to gain more experience educating new woodworkers, as well as continuing to explore his craft.
Kailee Bosch
Kailee Bosch is from Fort Collins, Colorado. She has a BFA in Sculpture and Pottery from Colorado State University. Her work stems from her background in woodturning, growing up in her father’s shop, and has evolved to include a variety of materials and processes. Kailee is interested in and blending traditional craft practices with digital fabrication, making both functional objects and speculative designs.
Vermont Woodworking School
4th Semester Students
For the third year in a row, the Vermont Woodworking School recognizes the importance of their students belonging to a community and organization that supports the field in which they have chosen to study and create a potential career for themselves. We are thrilled to feature and highlight their 4th-semester students this week.
Vermont Woodworking School
3rd Semester Student
For the third year in a row, the Vermont Woodworking School recognizes the importance of their students belonging to a community and organization that supports the field in which they have chosen to study and create a potential career for themselves. We are thrilled to feature and highlight their 3rd-semester student this week.
Vermont Woodworking School
2nd Semester Students
For the third year in a row, the Vermont Woodworking School recognizes the importance of their students belonging to a community and organization that supports the field in which they have chosen to study and create a potential career for themselves. We are thrilled to feature and highlight these 2nd-semester students this week.
Adam Manley
Adam John Manley is assistant professor of Furniture Design and Woodworking at SDSU. Adam has exhibited both nationally and internationally, is the past president of the board of the Furniture Society, and is co-founder, along with colleague Kerianne Quick, of the contemporary craft zine/journal, CRAFT DESERT.
Michelle Foran
Michelle Foran is an artist and furniture maker born in Toronto, Canada. She received a B.F.A. from the Ontario College of Art and Design University and is currently undergoing a second undergraduate degree in furniture design at Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada. She is presently the 3D floating intern at Anderson Ranch in Colorado, assisting in the wood and furniture, sculpture, and digital fabrication studio workshops.
Norman Pirollo
Norman Pirollo is a furniture designer + maker and woodworking educator based in Ottawa, Ontario. His furniture studio combines both hand and power tools with an emphasis on hand tools. The aesthetic he prefers is a contemporary one of clean, simple lines with honest workmanship. The furniture
designs evolve from a series of sketches and drawings with a final rendering that closely resembles the furniture piece.
Lisa Sacco
Lisa Sacco is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in furniture and sensory objects. Lisa currently lives in Providence, RI and completed an MFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design this past May.
Larissa Huff
Larissa is a woodworker and teacher who makes custom furniture and other functional wooden objects in Philadelphia. When she is not designing and building furniture in her own workshop, she’s on the road teaching and making at shops and schools around the country.
Grant Stuart
Grant Stuart’s interest in constructing and deconstructing things led him to woodworking. His dedication to the craft kicked off in high school in a tiny closet in his parent’s backyard. To further his understanding and love of the craft, he attended a summer at the Krenov School of Fine Woodworking. While there, he learned about the Appalachian Center for Craft, where he now attends classes with Annie Evelyn seeking a BFA.
Emma Senft
Emma Senft is an artist and woodworker based in Montréal, QC and Madison, WI. She creates furniture and sculpture using wood, textile and decontextualized construction materials. Emma has been a studio fellow at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and has exhibited at galleries across the U.S. and Canada. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Robert Aiosa
Robert Aiosa is a Multi Media artist and Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida.
Kayla Della-Nebbia
Kayla Della-Nebbia is a multidisciplinary artist from Hamilton, Ontario. She works primarily in wood and glass, creating functional pieces of furniture and blown and cast glass objects. She is currently in her 3rd year at Sheridan College, in the Craft and Design program.
Matthew Hedgepath Smith
Matthew Hedgepath Smith is a Woodworker and Furniture maker living in Austin, TX. He studied Wooden Boat building in the Pacific Northwest and Fine Furniture Making in the Northeast.
Amanda Yoder
Amanda Yoder was born and raised in a small town outside of Raleigh, NC to a family of DIYers. After studying musical theatre at East Carolina University, she moved to NYC to continue pursuing a career in the performing arts. She has since moved back to NC where she started a small urban farm and studying furniture making and design at Haywood Community College.
Sarah Grace Cheek
Sarah Grace Cheek is a designer, maker and artist based in Earlysville, VA. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Craft & Material Studies where she focused in furniture and textile design.