Meet Matt Shewchuk
September 2026 — Matt Shewchuk’s path in woodworking has been shaped by repeated returns to CFC, each one adding focus, skill, and practical momentum. His initial interest in woodworking was…
Meet Benjamin Gray
November 2025 – Benjamin Gray works as a historical trades interpreter at the Genesee Country Village and Museum, where he spends his days coopering high-end vessels and constructing historically accurate…
Meet Aaron Johnson
October 2025 – Aaron Johnson grew up in the house his grandfather built. With early access to the wood shop and a role model in the family, Aaron took to…
Meet Bill Brickey
June 2025 – Meet Bill Brickey, a Workshop and Fellowship alumnus from Moncure, NC. Bill has always enjoyed woodworking. As a child, he helped his dad with cabinet and carpentry…
Meet Louise Prockter
May 2025 – For Louise Prockter, life as Chief Scientist of Space Exploration at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (A.P.L.) was filled with long hours and frequent travel. When…
Meet Hunter Locke
January 2025 – Hunter Locke began woodworking when he and his wife moved into their first apartment. Needing furniture and driven by ambition and a penchant for craft, Hunter bought…
Meet Bob Bing-You
November 2024 – While traveling the state as part of his work at Maine Medical Center as a clinical endocrinologist and medical educator (his ongoing 38+ year career) Bob Bing-You…
Meet Ken Wise
May 2024 – Ken Wise worked as a carpenter for years in mid-coast Maine and in 1990 he took a carving class with Wayne Robbins. It was Ken’s first deviation…
Meet Kelly Harris
March 2024 – With hopes of making a career in woodworking, Kelly Harris first came to the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in 2014 for an immersive and guided experience in…
Meet Maurice VanderLinden
February 2024 – An aerospace engineer by trade, Maurice VanderLinden left the corporate world in 2017, to dedicate more time to personal interests such as woodworking. Maurice began with a…
Meet Allison Samuels
January 2024 – With no formal training and a day job at a residential cabinet shop, Allison Samuels (she/they) came to CFC for a two-week Casework and Tambour Door workshop…
Meet Hoh Kim
December 2023 – Before starting his artistic career, Hoh Kim spent more than 20 years in the executive coaching and consulting industry. His introduction to CFC was in 2016, when…
Meet Michael Danchak
November 2023 – Michael Danchak has been taking woodworking workshops for most of his adult life. The content of the courses varied from different specialties in woodworking, to finishing courses…
Meet Karina Steele
October 2023 – After taking a two week course in furniture making at the California College of Art, Karina Steele fell in love with the design process in combination with…
Meet Brendan Yi Fu Tay
September 2023 – After graduating with a degree in Film and Chinese from Vassar College in 2004, Brendan Yi Fu Tay spent many years seeking the perfect creative outlet. “I…
Meet Christina Vincent
August 2023 – Christina Vincent is the owner, designer, and maker of Christina M Vincent fine woodworking in North Haven, Maine, where she hand crafts each piece of furniture and…
Meet Bobby Sukrachand
July 2023 – In 2012, Bobby Sukrachand took the summer twelve-week Furniture Intensive to establish a baseline of knowledge so he could pursue furniture-making full time. “I think it’s important to…
Meet Susan St John
June 2023 – In 2022, Susan St. John attended a Letter Carving workshop at CFC. “Letter carving requires me to slow down, to attend completely to each minute detail of…
Meet Jesse Shaw
May 2023 – Jesse Shaw came to the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in 2005 to learn woodworking and traditional hand techniques. His intent was to use those skills to upgrade…
Meet John Vogt
April 2023 – After 45 years as a pediatrician, John Vogt traded in his stethoscope for a Stanley Bedrock hand plane. In 2019 he decided not to retire, but to…
Meet Wu Hanyen
December 2022 – Wu Hanyen is a woodworker, movement practitioner, and educator based in Providence, RI. Her studio Work in Use produces high-end movement tools that are meant to be…
Meet Alexander Lohn
November 2022 – Alexander Lohn is the founder of Alessandro & Maria Design, where he designs and builds custom furniture in Pompton Plains, NJ. Originally pursuing a career in Architecture,…
Meet Heide Martin
September 2022 – Heide Martin is the Owner and Creative Director of Heide Martin Design Studio, a boutique furniture and housewares company based in Rockland, ME. Working with her husband,…
Meet Wally Carpenter
August 2022 – Wally Carpenter is a retired IBM semiconductor engineering manager, Northeastern Woodworker’s Association (NWA) past president and the current chair for NWA’s annual Fine Woodworking Showcase event in…
Meet Shayn Smith
June 2022 – Shayn Smith opened a design and build company in 2014, in a northern suburb of Detroit, MI. He specialized in marquetry using lasers to create parts and…
Meet Rick Boss
May, 2022 – Rick Boss found CFC through an ad in Fine Woodworking. His wife is originally from Rockland and they visited every summer for a week anyway, so he…
Meet Emily Appenzeller
April, 2022 – Emily Appenzeller was at a crossroads in her life, making art and music while assisting a local furniture maker in Los Angeles. She came to Maine in…
Meet Adam Markowitz
January, 2022 – Adam Markowitz is a 2014 graduate of the Center’s Furniture Intensive who successfully combines the careers of architect and furniture maker in Melbourne, Australia. When he arrived…
Meet Adam Lucks
October, 2021 – For 13 years prior to attending our Furniture Intensive, Adam Lucks was a highly successful restaurateur in the Milwaukee area, with training from a Le Cordon Bleu-certified…
Meet Kate Casey
September, 2021 – After founding Peg Woodworking in 2014, Kate Casey realized she wanted to bring her technical understanding of woodworking up to par with her skills in sculpture and…
Meet Jonathan Brower
August, 2021 – Since 2012, Jonathan Brower was the proprietor of J. Brower Furniture in Newport, RI. He rebranded in the summer of 2021 and has taken on a partner. …
Meet Limond Grindstaff
July, 2021 – Limond Grindstaff is a full-time woodworking hobbyist and retired telecommunications executive in McLean, VA. He originally came to CFC in 1999 to build his skills through a…
Meet Kendrick Anderson
July, 2021 – Kendrick Anderson is a self-employed furniture maker in Atlanta, GA who works with residential clients, interior designers, and architectural firms. Following graduation from our twelve-week Furniture Intensive…
Meet Leslie Webb
July, 2021 -Leslie Webb is a longtime furniture maker in Georgetown, TX, who recently expanded into retail sales of high-end woodworking tools. When she enrolled in our Nine-month Comprehensive back…
Meet Erik Curtis
June, 2021 – As a self-proclaimed hand-tool purist, Erik Curtis says he knew nothing of “design, space or the way a piece of furniture could influence a person’s daily life”…