Portfolio

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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”…