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…