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 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 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 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 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’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 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 is a Multi Media artist and Assis­tant Profes­sor at Univer­sity of Central Florida.

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 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 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 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.

Esther Cho is a Korean-Amer­i­­can inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist, designer, and paper­maker based in Madison, WI. She holds a MFA in wood­work­ing and furni­ture design from Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin-Madison and a dual BFA from Virginia Common­wealth Univer­sity in Craft & Mate­r­ial Studies and Inte­rior Design. She is currently pursu­ing her second MFA from the Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin with a focus in Design Studies and material culture.

Kevin Reiswig is a furni­ture maker and wood sculp­tor whose work focuses on exper­i­men­ta­tion with mate­ri­als, forms, and a diverse range of processes. His working style can be both freeform and incred­i­bly metic­u­lous, depend­ing on the piece or the stage of a given project. Kevin makes deci­sions based on feeling and intu­ition, reach­ing into a life­time of expe­ri­ences to inspire and inform his work.

Jay T Scott is a furni­ture maker, wood­worker living in Olympia, WA. His work is a reflec­tion on how we live and how we respond to objects. It reflects his prac­tice of working the way we love, pursu­ing excel­lence and attend­ing to the details and possi­bil­i­ties of each piece.

Tom Stark is currently a 4th semes­ter student at the Vermont Wood­work­ing School study­ing Fine Furni­ture Design and Woodworking

Porter is currently a 4th semes­ter student at the Vermont Woodworking School

This week we are featur­ing two more students from the Vermont Wood­work­ing School’s 3rd semester program.

This week we are featur­ing two students from the Vermont Wood­work­ing School’s 3rd semester program.

Jomo Tariku is an Ethiopian Amer­i­can artist, indus­trial designer, and a pioneer of modern African design. In 2017, he launched his name­sake collec­tion featured in numer­ous publi­ca­tions includ­ing Elle Décor, Archi­tec­tural Digest, and Inte­rior Design. His work is also included in the perma­nent collec­tion of major museums includ­ing the MET, The Mint and LACMA.

Learn more about Jomo:

https://​www​.jomo​fur​ni​ture​.com/
@jomofurniture
https://​www​.face​book​.com/​JomoF…

Rob Spiece is a furni­ture maker and teacher living in Berea, Kentucky. He is the Direc­tor of Wood­craft at Berea College Student Craft. He creates his own designs as well as custom furni­ture with simple lines and elegant forms, focus­ing on design, joinery & finish­ing. Rob has had arti­cles published in Wood­craft Maga­zine, Fine Wood­work­ing, and Furni­ture & Cabinetmaking. 

Learn more about Rob:

https://​www​.robert​s​piece​.com/

https://​www​.insta​gram​.com/robe…

Peter Antor received his MFA in Metal­smithing and Jewelry with a minor in Wood­work­ing from Edin­boro Univer­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia in 2016 and his BFA in Metal­smithing and Jewelry from Grand Valley State Univer­sity in 2011. Peter works with a wide range of mate­ri­als from precious metals to concrete and wood. His body of work ranges from sculp­tural jewelry to func­tional light­ing. Archi­tec­ture has a large influ­ence on his work and designs.

Recently he opened a design and fabri­ca­tion company in Chicago where he creates orig­i­nal and commis­sion-based work. His favorite part of this prac­tice is ideation and the subse­quent problem solving of turning that idea into a tactile piece: first, choos­ing what mate­r­ial would best express the idea, then decid­ing the proper tech­niques and tools to turn the raw mate­r­ial into some­thing beau­ti­ful. Peter’s studio is located in the Mana Contem­po­rary build­ing in the Pilsen neigh­bor­hood of Chicago.

https://​www​.peteran​tor​.com/

https://​www​.insta​gram​.com/​p​e​t​e​r​a​ntor/

Lauren is a South­ern Cali­for­nia based artist and furni­ture maker. She received her AA in Arts and Human­i­ties from Chaffey College in 2017 and in 2021, completed her BA in Applied Design at San Diego State Univer­sity with an empha­sis in Furni­ture Design and Wood­work­ing. Since 2012, she has worked at The Maloof Foun­da­tion and in 2017, Lauren began her appren­tice­ship with master crafts­man Larry White, Sam Maloof’s first employee circa 1962.

Lauren’s work ranges from furni­ture to sculp­ture with no limi­ta­tions on mixing media. Lauren teaches regu­larly at The Maloof Foun­da­tion as well as Allied Wood­shop in Los Angeles, CA.

During the pandemic, Lauren co-created an online student plat­form with artist/​maker Esther Cho, through The Furni­ture Soci­ety’s FS Connects project, to provide resources, discus­sions, and commu­nity for craft students across the country.

Find Lauren on the web: https://​lauren​ver​dugo​.com/

Andy Buck spent much of his youth living in Geneva, Switzer­land while his father, an expert in trop­i­cal medi­cine, worked for the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion. Immersed in an inter­na­tional envi­ron­ment, Buck gained an appre­ci­a­tion for multi­cul­tur­al­ism and was first exposed to the many cultural and geograph­i­cal wonders of the world. Inspired first by African and Oceanic arti­facts through his father’s frequent travels, his fasci­na­tion with unique artis­tic perspec­tives and global inter­pre­ta­tions of the natural world has guided his creative prac­tice as a furni­ture designer and artist. An active maker for more than 25 years, Andy Buck has exhib­ited his work in galleries and museums through­out the United States, in Europe and Australia. Bring­ing together tradi­tional crafts­man­ship, inves­ti­ga­tions in form, pattern, and color­ful painted surfaces, his work of furni­ture and sculp­ture is included in both public and private collec­tions. Based in Upstate New York, Buck main­tains a studio and leads the Wood­work­ing and Furni­ture Design program at the Rochester Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy where he has been teach­ing for the last 22 years.

Find Andy on the web: http://​andy​buck​.com/​h​o​m​e​.html

Teresa Audet is an artist and furni­ture maker from Minneapo­lis. Audet holds a BFA in Furni­ture Design from the Minneapo­lis College of Art and Design and has studied at the Mount Fuji School of Fine Wood­work­ing in Yamanashi, Japan. She has been awarded several grants includ­ing two Artist Initia­tive Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and an EFASO grant from the Furni­ture Society. She partic­i­pates in artist resi­den­cies and teaches at craft schools nation­wide. Audet is currently an MFA candi­date at the Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin-Madison expected to grad­u­ate in 2023.

Find Teresa on the web: http://​www​.tere​saaudet​.com/

Richard Oedel has been making furni­ture since he was a teenager. His primary shop is in Boston, where he shares a 5,000 sq ft space with the other members of Fort Point Cabi­net­mak­ers. He divides his time between Boston and his other design space in Wolfeboro, NH. A past Chair­man of the New Hamp­shire Furni­ture Masters, his work is sold and exhib­ited inter­na­tion­ally. Federal furni­ture is one of his specialties. 

He has been featured in Fine Wood­work­ing and Wood­shop News, as well as other peri­od­i­cals and books. A sought-after keynote speaker, he was also the Chair of the national Furni­ture Society Confer­ence in 2010 at MIT. 

His work is in private and public collec­tions as well as the collec­tions of the Metro­pol­i­tan Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.