Ross Annels is a studio artist/furniture maker based on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Ross has exhibited, presented, and taught in Australia and internationally, and his work has been featured in Art Monthly Australia, Craft Arts International, Australian Wood Review, 500 Chairs (Lark Crafts, 2008), and 500 Cabinets (Lark Crafts, 2010). With his partner, Tamsin Kerr, he has established The Cooroora Institute, which brings together artists, artisans, and public intellectuals to celebrate, promote and discuss community connectedness to place and environment. His website is rossannels.com.

Adrian Ferrazzutti is a self-employed furniture maker in Guelph, Ontario with 10 years’ professional experience. He is a 1998 graduate of the Fine Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods, where he studied with James Krenov. Adrian writes for Fine Woodworking, which featured one of his chairs on the back cover of the December, 2007 issue, and his work has been widely published in books and magazines. The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded him several grants, and he exhibits his work across Canada and in the U.S. Adrian's website is www.adrianferrazzutti.com.

Mark Juliana left the world of high tech in 2007 to explore more meaningful work and graduated from our Nine-month Comprehensive in 2008. He returned to Ashland, Oregon where he set up a workshop and began to teach locally. In 2011, Mark returned to the Center as a Studio Fellow and in August of that year he joined our staff as Assistant Facilities Manager.

Austin Matheson is a self-employed custom-furniture maker in Miami, Florida, as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture. He studied boatbuilding at the Rockport Apprenticeshop in Maine and is a graduate of the two-year furniture training program at the North Bennet St. School in Boston. Austin works primarily on commission, with a focus on historic styles of the Caribbean. His website is finehandmadefurniture.com

Mason McBrien has been the Center’s Facilities Manager since August, 2011, although he still finds time to accept commissions for furniture and wood turning. After years of self-employment building custom furniture, museum installations, and historic garden architecture in New Hampshire, Mason enrolled in the Center’s 2007-2008 Nine-month Comprehensive and subsequently was awarded a Studio Fellowship. His work has been published in Fine Woodworking and in Lark Books’ 500 Tables (2009) and 500 Cabinets (2010).

Brian Reid is a 1995 honors graduate of England’s Parnham College, where he trained under John Makepeace. For many years he has divided his time between building furniture on commission and teaching at the Center. Brian’s work has been published in American Craft, Fine Woodworking, and Woodwork magazines and exhibited in galleries nationwide. He is a member of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association and, in 2007, was designated a “Searchlight Artist” by the American Craft Council. In 2011 he received a prestigious Artist Award from the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. To see more of Brian’s work, go to www.brianreidfurniture.com.

Tim Rousseau divides his time between building furniture on commission in Appleton, Maine and teaching at the Center. He took the Center’s Twelve-week Intensive in 1998 and then spent two years working in a multifaceted group shop in Hoboken, New Jersey before returning to Maine to set up his own business. In 2002 and 2003 he served as the Center’s Resident Instructor, running the Workshop Program. Since then, he has been a lead instructor for the Twelve-week Intensive and has taught the chair project for the Comprehensive. His furniture is shown throughout the Northeast, and his 13-part video series, “Making a Small Cabinet,” is featured on www.finewoodworking.com. Tim’s website is www.timothyrousseau.com.

Pete Schlebecker designs and builds furniture on commission in Kensington, MD. He has been a studio furniture maker since 1984, earned an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and was on our staff full-time from 2004-2011. His most recent article to appear in Fine Woodworking was “Mitered Edging Made Easy,” in the October, 2010 issue. He has also been featured in videos on their website. Recent exhibitions include the Southern Vermont Arts Center and the 2010 Furniture Society conference at MIT. His website is www.schlebeckerstudios.com.

David Upfill-Brown graduated from Parnham College in 1981 and moved to Australia, where he designs and builds fine furniture. Public commissions include work for the parliaments of Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, and the Solomon Islands. After serving as Academic Director and Principal of the Australian School of Fine Furniture he took the helm as Lead Instructor of our Nine-month Comprehensive from 2004-2009. Publications include Lark Books’ 500 Chairs (2008) and 500 Tables (2009), as well as Fine Woodworking Design Book Eight (Taunton Press, 2009). Currently, David is preparing for a solo exhibition at Bungendore Woodworks in December, 2013.