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Two full three day passes are included in the raffle prizes this year.
Your three-day full conference registration entitles you to a full day of activities on Sunday, September 14, including lunch and behind-the-scenes tours of Old Salem and the furniture collection at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
CLASSES
Our exciting line-up of classes is brought to you by Popular Woodworking Magazine. The 2014 Woodworking in America full conference education program consists of two full days of education classes on everything woodworking, as well as a full day of offsite activities on Sunday. It's the complete package to allow passionate woodworkers to make the most of the weekend experience. The full day of activities on Sunday is only for Full Conference Pass holders.
NEW FOR 2014! Full Conference Pass holders can enjoy a Welcome Breakfast & Marketplace Exclusive Sneak Peek on Friday, September 12 from 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
SPEAKERS
Popular Woodworking Magazine has once again assembled an incredible lineup of some the country’s best woodworkers to share their know-how with you. Get up-close-and-personal with these famous woodworkers as you learn how to perfect your hand- and power-tool skills with their guidance.
Returning this year is woodworking icon Roy Underhill, along with WIA favorites Frank Klausz, Don Williams, Graham Blackburn and Peter Galbert.
Acclaimed woodworkers Phil Lowe, W. Patrick Edwards and Drew Langser, among many others, will be speaking at WIA for the first time.
Check back soon for a full list of WIA 2014’s speakers and the opportunity to learn more about each speaker and to see a full list of the classes he or she will be leading.
Dale Barnard [Description]
Nationally acclaimed wood and glass artist Dale Barnard (a.k.a. "The Cabinetmaker") has been featured on HGTV’s Modern Masters, and twice in Popular Woodworking Magazine; his work is currently on display at the Indiana State Museum in its captivating Fearless Furniture Exhibit.
Chuck Bender [Description]
Popular Woodworking Magazine's Chuck Bender began his woodworking career at the tender age of 12 making pieces for family and friends in his basement. In high school, he studied under Master Werner Duerr and later worked for a number of high-end cabinet shops before starting his own custom furniture business, and later, the woodworking school Acanthus Workshop.
Jerome Bias [Description]
Jerome Bias makes furniture using 18th-century woodworking techniques, and has a passion for furniture made in North Carolina during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the furniture of Thomas Day.
Matt Bickford [Description]
What started as a hobby for Matt Bickford a decade ago has become a full-time pursuit. In March of 2010, he "turned pro" and began making and selling traditional wooden moulding planes through his business, M.S. Bickford.
Graham Blackburn [Description]
Graham was born and trained in London, and now lives in Woodstock, N.Y., where he built his first house more than 25 years ago. He's spent decades designing and making custom furniture.
Tom Caspar [Description]
American Woodworker, Tom Caspar apprenticed in a small Swedish cabinetmaking shop more than 30 years ago in Minneapolis, where he still lives. "The Erickson shop practiced the ideal blend of hand tools and power tools," Tom says. "I was lucky.
Matt Cianci [Description]
Matt Cianci is a professional saw doctor who offers sharpening, repair and sales of handsaws old and new. He specializes in saw sharpening and repair for vintage saws, and teaches saw filing, restoration and saw making classes at several woodworking schools around New England.
Brian Coe [Description]
Brian Coe is director of exhibition buildings and furniture maker, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, N. C. He specializes in building historically accurate reproductions of furniture and tools originally made between 1750 and 1830.
W. Patrick Edwards [Description]
Patrick Edwards is a furniture maker and conservator, and the country's leading expert on French period marquetry. He was honored with the 2014 Cartouche Award from the Society of Period Furniture Makers. Patrick studied physics at the University of California at San Diego, and began working at Maxwell Labs after graduation.
Megan Fitzpatrick [Description]
Megan Fitzpatrick studied English literature and journalism as an undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, and worked at two Cincinnati newspapers just out of college.
Peter Galbert [Description]
Peter Galbert is a full-time chairmaker and instructor, whose work is internationally exhibited and collected. He teaches at his historic workshop in central Massachusetts as well as at craft schools across the country, and also creates and makes tools for chairmaking (among other things, he invented the innovative Galbert Caliper, a direct reading caliper for spindle turning).
Glen Huey [Description]
American Woodworker, Glen D. Huey changed his focus from home-building to building 18th- and early 19th-century furniture after completing a large built-in bar almost two decades ago – the success of that project helped nudge him into the furniture shop (it didn’t hurt that the change meant a heated shop instead of working outside in Midwest winters.)
Frank Klausz [Description]
In woodworking circles, the name Frank Klausz practically is synonymous with no-fuss, tight-fitting hand-cut dovetails, and he's taught countless woodworkers to cut joints of all sorts by hand through his videos, seminars and magazine articles.
Drew Langsner [Description]
Drew Langser has been doing traditional woodworking since 1972 when he apprenticed with master cooper Ruedi Kohler in the Swiss Alps. Drew was introduced to Swedish spoon and bowl carving in 1977 under the tutelage of Wille Sundqvist.
Phil Lowe [Description]
Phil Lowe has been involved with woodworking since 1968 and is the author of many magazine articles on the craft. He is featured in the "Time Life" series on woodworking and in videos with The Taunton Press including " Carve a Ball and Claw Foot," "Making a Sheraton Bed" and, most recently, "Measuring Furniture for Reproduction."
MESDA [Description]
Robert Leath, Johanna Brown, June Lucas of MESDA; The curatorial staff of MESDA is highly regarded and has lectured at museums across the country. Robert Leath is Chief Curator & Vice President of Collections & Research.
Will Neptune [Description]
Will Neptune is a furniture maker and master carver who lives and works near Boston. He credits two summer courses at Boston University with inspiring him to pursue woodworking as a craft.
Wilbur Pan [Description]
Wilbur Pan lives in New Jersey, and is a woodworker who has long had an interest in understanding the use of Japanese tools. He has written articles on Japanese tools for Popular Woodworking Magazine, and on his blog, Giant Cypress.
Roy Underhill [Description]
Roy Underhill, a former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg (and the living history museum’s first master housewright), is the host of the PBS show “The Woodwright’s Shop,” the longest-running how-to show on television.
Don Williams [Description]
Don Williams is a Virginia-based conservator, educator, author and finisher, and has over the past 40 years worked on preserving and restoring some of the most interesting objects in our nation’s public and private collections.
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