Brian Boggs manifests furniture designs that honor the soul of the tree while integrating the human experience. Each piece embodies technical mastery, pushing himself and his talented craftsmen to create works of art that transform his clients’ lives in their homes and businesses. Brian Boggs’ designs include the Cio Arm Chair (2022), a winner of the International Society of Furniture Designers Innovation & Design Award. Grand Lily Arm Chair (2016), Sculpted Fanback Arm Chair (2017), and Cio Side Chair (2019), all winners of the GOOD DESIGN™ Award, and the Sunniva Outdoor Swing (2016), winner of the International A’ Design Award.

As a designer of continual innovation, Brian believes we need to do more than just make a beautiful object. He designs inspired by the way nature designs, making every detail relevant, every line purposeful, and using every fiber with the intent to bring joy and comfort to those who experience what he does. Timeless designs emerge naturally as everything he does is grounded in nature and history with an eye to the future.

His furniture adorns the homes of the most discerning connoisseurs, including other professional woodworkers and famous musicians. Woodworkers such as the late Sam Maloof, Christian Becksvoort, Garrett Hack, Tom Lie-Nielsen, and Frank Pollaro enjoy their daily meals while sitting in one of Brian's beautifully crafted and ergonomically designed chairs. Musicians Steve Vai, Phil Collen of Def Leppard, Colin Hay of Men at Work, and author Johnathan Kellerman enjoy hours of guitar playing in their Sonus chairs.

Boggs designed a series of 3 spokeshaves for production by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. The award-winning “Boggs Spokeshaves” are enjoyed by furniture makers around the world. They also sell Brian's DVDs: Hickory Bark from Tree to Chair: Harvesting and Weaving Hickory Bark Seats, and Drawknives, Spokeshaves and Travishers: A Chairmaker's Tool Kit.

His writing may be found in the pages of Popular Woodworking, Woodwork, and Fine Woodworking magazines.

Woodworkers can discover his teachings online through Lessons@BoggsBench.com, his educational portal.

In the early ’90s, Brian helped found an artisan training and sustainable forest management NGO “Greenwood” which has taught artisans and sawyers in Peru, Honduras, and Puerto Rico. Greenwood continues today and many of the artisans trained in those early years still produce today.

Andy builds custom furniture and chairs from his Waldoboro, Maine shop. An ideal day in the shop involves the shave horse, fresh oak, and a sharp drawknife. Andy worked at Berea College in Woodcraft and at Pine Croft from 2017-21. His first book, Backwoods Chairmakers about ladderback chairmaking within Appalachia, was released in early 2024 (publisher Lost Art Press).

Amanda Lee Lazorchack of Please Send Word is a broom maker who is delighted by
traditional craft and botanical dyes. She creates unique sculptural home goods that
speak to the relationship between art, utility and the nature of domesticity. You can find
her work or strike up a conversation at pleasesendword.com.

Hunter Elliott is a broom maker, woodworker, and sculptor living and working in Berea,
KY.

Erin R Miller’s work explores the intimacy and fragility of the human relationship with cloth though a variety of textile and printmaking techniques. Her work is informed by social inequity, consumer culture, and queer identities. She received her MFA in Fibers from Eastern Michigan University in and her BFA in Textiles from Kent State University. While pursuing her education she operated a small garment design business focused on reclaimed and sustainable material. Her work has been exhibited internationally and her designs are in private collections throughout North America and the UK. Her most recent work focuses on comfort and coping through the cultivation of natural dye producing plants and quilting.

Jennifer Zurick is a self-taught artist specializing in black willow bark which she has been harvesting and weaving into baskets since 1973. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship and two Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. Zurick has traveled to Ecuador and Japan as a cultural exchange artist and was honored with a Kentucky 2017 Governor's Award in the Arts. Her work resides in a number of museum collections, including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and has won prizes and awards at national shows and exhibitions. She has exhibited her baskets internationally and created special commissions for Spanish firm Loewe (2019 Salone del Mobile, Milano) and Irthi Contemporary Craft Council in Sharjah, UAE (2019 London Design Fair). Jennifer lives and works in the Appalachian foothills near Berea, KY.

Robell is a furniture maker, teacher, and researcher based in Atlanta, Georgia. His work aims to disrupt the normalization of whiteness in craft and the decorative arts through writing and object making that centers the histories and traditions of Black craftspeople. He has taught woodworking at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Mass Collective (a community makerspace in Atlanta).

Charlie Ryland is a chair maker, teacher, and researcher interested in working with pre-industrial tools, techniques, and styles to unpack their stories and adapt their forms to the modern context. First introduced to the trade in his father's cabinet shop in rural Idaho, and later trained in the North Bennet Street School's Fine Furniture and Cabinet program, his work is motivated by an interest in the overlap between class and craft consciousness, their respective roles in the systems of knowledge creation and dispersal, and the ways in which both can be used to build and shape community through the generation of history, meaning, and solidarity.

Working primarily in wood, Danielle blends traditional and modern methods with ample experimentation and a wide range of tools to make gradients of sculptural and functional objects.
She graduated in 2005 from College of the Atlantic, where she explored music and sound sculpture. While building her senior project, a handmade fiddle-ish instrument constructed from burn pile wood found on campus, she carved her first spoon.
For the following 15 years she worked in restaurants, gardened, managed a sled dog kennel and paid off student loans, all the while carrying around a cardboard box full of random woodworking tools, knowing they were important, but uncertain of where they fit in.
After years of trial and error learning about the craft, she now works as a full time carver and sculptor out of her studio in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Beth Ireland earned an Art Education degree as well as a masters degree in Sculpture and has over 40 years of woodworking experience. With articles published in Fine Woodworking and American Turner and work that has been exhibited all over the country, she is well known and loved. Although Ireland specializes in Woodturning, she is also an experienced stringed instrument Artist making incredible one-of-a-kind musical masterpieces. Her studio in Saint Petersburg, Florida is set up for architectural and Artistic woodturning allowing her to create work that exists in the intersection of Art and Craft.

Aspen Golann is an artist & furniture maker blending early American furniture forms with sculpture and social practice.
Her artwork is exhibited nationally and is published in American Craft, Fine Woodworking Magazine, Architectural Digest, Popular Woodworking, Luxe Magazine, Lost Art Press Blog, American Period Furniture, and others. She serves on the board of A Workshop of Our Own and as an ambassador to the Board of Fine Woodworking Magazine. She has received support for her work from The Windgate Foundation, Winterthur Museum, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and others and is the recipient of the 2020 Mineck Furniture Fellowship from The Society of Arts & Crafts.

Aspen maintains an active teaching practice and in 2020, with the help of the SA+C, founded The Chairmaker’s Toolbox—a project that provides free tools, education, and mentorship for BIPOC, Gender Nonconforming and female toolmakers seeking to build sustainable businesses. In support of the project, she has partnered with Winterthur Museum, Fine Woodworking Magazine, A Workshop of Our Own, The Furniture Society and chairmakers around the country.

Aspen does domestic and international commission work for designers such as Beata Heuman in the UK, The Harvard Design Project in Boston, MA and Building Preservation Associates in Nantucket, MA.

Most recently, Aspen has received a Windgate residency in the wood/furniture design program at San Diego State University and a Critical Craft Fellowship at Winterthur Museum to explore the physical and social history of the Windsor chair.

Kelly Harris is a studio furniture maker and educator. Located in Brooklyn, NY, she builds custom furniture, useful homegoods, and a Tenon Cutter Hand Tool for windsor chair making.
She is a graduate of the North Bennet Street School Cabinet and Furniture Making program, where she studied period furniture. Additionally, holding a BA in political science and gender studies, she ties in her decades long experience of working in the trades and the service industry, with her specialized study of both period furniture and critical thought.
She has taught woodworking classes nationwide at craft and trade schools including: North Bennet St School, Makeville, Fireweed Woodshop, A Workshop of Our Own (WOO) and has assisted classes at Lie-Nielsen and Penland School of Craft. She serves on both the Facilities Committee and the Education Committee at WOO. She received a Critical Craft Studies Fellowship from Winterthur Museum, Penland School of Craft Assistantships, the Future Craftsmen Scholarship from Oneida Air Systems, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Summer Conference Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited at craft and furniture shows in the U.S and has been published in Wood Review Australia.
Kelly’s work is rooted in solid joinery and functionality, while reserving the space for a playful and nuanced design aesthetic that is both elegant and bold.

Dawson Moore lives and works on a sixth generation family farm in Harbor Springs, MI. After reestablishing roots at the farm in 2014, spoon carving became a full time obsession as he gained access to the native trees growing in the local forests. He spent the next several years harvesting his own wood, working it fresh from the log, and learning to use traditional hand tools and techniques to make a variety of spoons and other household items. More recently, he is focusing on designing and building stools and chairs. Even as he incorporates more modern working methods, he still feels a deep connection to the knowledge gained working directly from the woods with hand tools. Every chair still starts with a fresh log and an axe.

Larissa Huff is a self-employed furniture maker in Philadelphia, PA. From 2012-2021 she was part-owner of Lohr Woodworking, in Limerick, PA, where she designed and built furniture and taught classes. In recent years, Larissa has exhibited at the American Craft Show in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Furniture Show, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, and Philadelphia’s Center for Art in Wood. She was profiled in the May 2021 issue of Furniture & Cabinetmaking, and has written articles for Fine Woodworking and Woodcraft Magazine. In 2022, she was awarded a residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, in Gatlinburg, TN and a fellowship at the Center for Furniture Craftmanship, in Rockport, ME. Larissa’s website is larissahuff.com.

Will is a native of north western North Carolina. Woodworking in some way shape or form has been a lifelong hobby for him. Will is mostly a hand tool woodworker but does use the powered stuff for material prep and rough dimensioning of stock.
Measuring and documenting vintage furniture, then attempting to figure out the processes past makers used to build it is one of his favorite aspects of the craft. Then using the information and lesson learned from the old pieces to build new furniture.
Will teaches at several woodworking schools in the eastern US.

Erik Curtis is an American woodworker, sculptor, and television personality. He attended the nine-month comprehensive at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in 2012 and has taught at schools around the country. His creative practice combines the sculptural with the functional - in an attempt to blur the line between furniture and art. He also stars as the carpenter on Netflix’s Instant Dream Home.

Joshua Wetherington is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and craftsperson who lives and works in Central Kentucky. Originally from the deserts of Southern California, he finds Kentucky’s lush biodiversity a major source of inspiration. Joshua’s only formal woodworking training was a high school shop class that taught him the fundamentals of machine powered woodworking. This sparked an interest that has lived with him, and has only grown throughout the 20 years since he took that class. Joshua currently enjoys both machine powered and hand tool woodworking with an emphasis in manual wood carving. Most recently, he has ventured away from a more “traditional woodworking” path in an attempt to blur the line between art and craft.

Katie Hudnall received her BFA in Sculpture from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Furniture Design/Woodworking.

Her work has been included in many publications and exhibitions including Crafting A Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft, Making A Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking, and in American Craft Magazine’s February/March 2017 issue.

Hudnall lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she runs the Woodworking and Furniture Program at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. When she’s not teaching she spends her time making tools for problems both real and imagined.

Megan Fitzpatrick is a former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine. She now makes custom furniture out of the Lost Art Press shop in Covington, Ky., edits various woodworking and tool-related books and magazines, and teaches hand-tool woodworking classes.

Kelly Mehler’s professional woodworking career spans four decades of creating fine furniture as a business owner, teaching and speaking to woodworking enthusiasts at trade shows, guilds, and to classes at all skill levels and interests. Kelly built and headed the Kelly Mehler School of Woodworking (now called Pinecroft) for many years before retiring to a less scheduled lifestyle!

Kelly’s work is characterized by the use of classic designs that emphasize the inherent beauty of natural grain patterns and colors of hardwoods. Kelly’s trademark furniture pieces often feature strikingly figured and matched wood that has been carefully air dried and sawed from a single tree. Kelly’s teaching reflects his emphasis on the appreciation of the beauty of wood.

Kelly is the author of The Tablesaw Book (1992/2002, Taunton Press). He is featured in two Fine Woodworking video/DVDs: Build a Shaker Table With Kelly Mehler, and Mastering Your Tablesaw. Kelly has contributed numerous articles to Fine Woodworking magazine, Woodworkers Journal, Popular Woodworking, Woodworker West, American Woodworker, Time/Life woodworking book series, and in other woodworking publications.

Terry has held tight to the traditional ways of chair making passed down by our Appalachian ancestors. As a child, his father and uncles guided him though the woods to learn the best use of each type of tree in these hills.

From the hand crafted log home he raised his children in, to the high chairs where they sat. On to the wooden horses they rocked upon and the hand woven baskets they collected their eggs in. Terry is a true workhorse who raised his family by the world of woodworking and shared his knowledge for all to gather.

Keeping our roots strong by using his master craftsmanship and passing down his skills to his kids and grandkids; He has dedicated his life to working the grain of the trees pulled down by his own two hands.