Joanna Werch Takes
-
Michael Bowen: Woodworking for the Birds
Michael Bowen used to work in housing construction – and, in a way, he still does.
-
Laurie McKichan: Learning By Doing
Although she grew up “in a very crafty family” with a background in sewing, cross-stitch, tin punch and all kinds of Girl Scouts crafts, it wasn’t until she was grown up and trying to furnish an apartment that Laurie McKichan took up woodworking.
-
Robert Brou: Antique Furniture to Organic Forms
Robert Brou’s first foray into woodworking came when he was hired to restore and reproduce antiques for a New Orleans gallery in the late 1990s.
-
Malcolm Tibbetts: A Segment of Woodturning
Each ring, in turn, is made from stave-constructed cylinders that have been turned, cut apart and reassembled in the proper dimensions for the piece: an example of Malcolm’s specialty, segmented woodturning.
-
Paul Jensen: Cooking Up Culinary Woodworking
Paul Jensen has been around wood all his life: with a dad who was a carpenter and cabinetmaker, “Wood was my toy,” he said.
-
Pat Morrow: An Artist in Any Form
Pat Morrow had been a photographer for the Kansas City Star Sunday Magazine, a painting major in college, and a producer/director in Chicago before the idea occurred to her to become a woodworker.
-
Katie Hudnall: Woodworking with History, Not Mystery
While Katie Hudnall doesn’t use a lot of jigs in her own woodworking – just a few that she turns to time and again – “I admire people who do work that way, and I’m fascinated by them.”
-
Glen Guarino: Striving for Beauty
Glen Guarino has loved woodworking since he was a boy – and, as a retired high school shop teacher, passed along that love to other boys and girls.
-
Michael Cullen: Woodworking Combines Engineering and Art
Michael Cullen has been doing some woodworking since he was a kid, building terrariums in his dad’s friend’s shop and taking shop classes in high school.
-
Denise DeRose: Turner of Handbags
Denise DeRose has been a woodturner for a while — ever since she inherited her father’s shop, along with his love for wood – but she’s only been following her current focus in turning for about a year.