Peter Korn, the Center’s Executive Director, has been a furniture maker since 1974. He is the author of Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship (Taunton Press, 2003) and The Woodworker’s Guide to Hand Tools (Taunton Press, 1998). Prior to founding the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in 1992, Peter spent six years as Program Director at Colorado’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center and four years as adjunct Associate Professor at Drexel University. His award-winning furniture has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums and his most recent article, “Thinking with Things: Design as Discovery” appeared in the December/January 2012 issue of Woodwork.

Peter’s approach to woodworking calls for a balance between traditional hand skills and effective machine use. “Craftsmanship,” says Peter, “is more than a set of skills; through the process of creating an object, we transform ourselves.”

Eben Blaney builds furniture on commission and creates one-of-a-kind pieces for exhibition in Edgecomb, Maine. He is represented by the Stable Gallery in Damariscotta, ME and was juried into Maine Wood 2012 in our Messler Gallery, where he won the Best New Maker award. In the coming year, Eben will be showing at CraftBoston Spring, the Philadelphia Invitational Furniture Show, and the Paradise City Arts Festival in Marlborough, MA. As a finalist in the Farnsworth Art Museum seating competition, his bench will be in the Messler Gallery exhibition “Designing Benches” early in 2013. Eben’s website is www.ebenblaney.com. 

Giraffe Table by Eban Blaney, maple, plane, and ebony, 2006

Peter Buley is the founder/principal of Analog Modern, a Brooklyn-based furniture and design studio. Inspired by traditional joinery, and both ethically and aesthetically drawn to using regional hardwoods and locally reclaimed materials, Analog Modern draws modern lines from traditional craft. After a Twelve-week Intensive and summer assistantship at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Peter transitioned from working on wheelchair-accessible treehouses in the States and international development projects throughout Asia to settle in New York City. His website is analogmodern.com.

Mark Juliana left the world of high tech in 2007 to explore more meaningful work and graduated from our Nine-month Comprehensive in 2008. After assisting in our summer workshops he returned to Ashland, Oregon where he set up a workshop and began to teach locally. In 2011 Mark returned to the Center as a Studio Fellow and in August of that year he joined our staff as Assistant Facilities Manager.

 Demilune Table by Mark Juliana, rosewood, walnut, and holly, 2008

Yuri Kobayashi is a furniture maker and sculptor in Providence, RI. Born in Japan, she earned a B.A. in architectural design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and then a certificate in woodworking from Shinrin Takumi Juku in Takayama City. From 2003-2006 she studied in the graduate furniture design program at San Diego State University, where she earned an M.F.A. Currently she teaches in the furniture program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Yuri exhibits her work nationally and has been awarded several competitive residencies, grants, and fellowships, including Windgate Artist-in-Residencies at SUNY Purchase in 2010 and the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2011.

Craig Satterlee builds furniture on commission in his Marietta, Georgia workshop. He also offers private instruction and has taught extensively in the Atlanta area, including courses at the local Woodcraft store and the Dogwood Institute of Fine Woodworking. Craig has been making furniture for twenty six years, following an early retirement from corporate healthcare. He is a graduate of the Twelve-week Intensive and has taught at the Center for the past fourteen years.