Michaela Stone is an artist, educa­tor and lecturer working in Rock­port, Maine. She creates furni­ture, sculp­ture and light­ing in steel and wood. She received her BS in studio art at Skid­more College, has completed a variety of resi­den­cies, partic­i­pated in numer­ous exhi­bi­tions and received many awards for her work. She creates pieces which push the para­me­ters of func­tion by placing value on sculp­tural creativ­ity while main­tain­ing the impor­tance of quality crafts­man­ship. Learn more about Michaela at https://​michaelac​stone​.com/​h​o​m​e​.html

Don Miller is a Philadel­phia based wood­worker, instru­ment maker and educa­tor. He holds a BA in German from the Univer­sity of Kansas and an MFA in 3D Design from The Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin-Madison. He is an Asso­ciate Profes­sor in the Craft+ Mate­r­ial Studies program at The Univer­sity of the Arts and inhab­its his own work­shop in German­town, PA. His work ques­tions natural mate­r­ial, func­tional form and histor­i­cal tech­nol­ogy. Learn more at his website: http://​www​.drmstu​dio​.com/

Aspen Golann is a 17th & 18th century furni­ture maker whose work explores gender and power through the manip­u­la­tion of classic Amer­i­can furni­ture forms. She holds a degree in Fine Furni­ture from The North Bennet Street School in Boston, MA and is currently the Wood Shop Coor­di­na­tor of The Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC. Learn more at her website: aspen​golann​.com.

Matthew Gram­ling designs and fabri­cates furni­ture in his Milwau­kee, WI work­shop using locally sourced, sustain­able woods. Gram­ling is also one half of the design collab­o­ra­tion Persis­tent Object. Matthew was part of the local commit­tee for FS19: Ground­work and orga­nized the exhi­bi­tion crawl. Learn more at his websites: matthew​gram​ling​wood​works​.com and persis​tent​-object​.com

Heide Martin is a Maine-based designer-maker and our featured member this month! Coming from land­scape archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning in the Pacific North­west, Heide creates furni­ture and house­wares with simple, high quality mate­ri­als and a Shaker-esque dedi­ca­tion to honest func­tion­al­ity. Learn more on her website: http://​www​.heide​martin​.com/

Jon Billing is a Brook­­lyn-based maker who studied at a lutherie school in Red Wing, MN before taking on furni­ture making. Follow his insta­gram page @bigsandwoodworking to see more of his process, and you can find more of his intri­cate work on his website at: https://​www​.bigsand​wood​work​ing​.com/

Kyle Kulchar started his educa­tion in Furni­ture Design at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michi­gan. After two years he switched to the Func­tional Art/​Sculpture program under Bob Marsh. In 2016 he was selected for the Penland Core Fellow­ship, a two-year program at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina.

Rachel David works primar­ily in steel and non ferrous metals. — ​“I think of furni­ture with a wide inter­pre­tive allowance, some­times I call my work concep­tual furni­ture or art furni­ture. I have a multi faceted prac­tice but the angles divid­ing them are not crisp, furni­ture bleeds into sculp­ture and vica-versa up and upcom­ing archi­tec­tural elements grow seats and tables.”

Geoff McKonly is a furni­ture maker and designer working in East­hamp­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. He is a self-taught wood­worker and started his wood­work­ing career as a builder of wooden boats.