Instructors & Staff
Taught by makers you’ll look up to.
Every class at the Austin School of Furniture is taught by woodworkers, furniture makers and designers with decades of experience. Everyone is welcome at the bench, whatever your skill level or background. Here’s who you’ll find in the shop.
Measure out the crew.
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The people who run the shop.
They keep the school running. When you write in, call the shop or book a tour, these are the people you’ll hear back from.
Our local instructors
Seven local makers, one shop floor.
Seven woodworkers, furniture makers and designers from right here in Austin teach in our shop. The calendar runs from a one-day Cutting Board to seven Tuesday evenings of Fundamentals.
Each class’s page names who’s teaching it, and each instructor’s bio lists the classes they teach.
Find a class and its instructor- Kathryn SullivanLocal instructor
- Michelle MyersLocal instructor
- Curtis TurnerLocal instructor
- Wayne DelyeaLocal instructor
- Kris BurnsLocal instructor
- Mark MačekLocal instructor
- Austin WaldoFounder · Local instructor
And a guest bench for specialists.
Our guest teachers come through the shop to teach a craft they’ve spent years on. So the calendar goes deep: joinery, marquetry, bent lamination and curved stairs, right beside a one-day Owl Nesting Box.
On the calendar
Also teaching this season
More of the makers whose classes are on the calendar now.
- Alexis DoleseInstructorModern Rocker
- Shota YamaguchiInstructorHand Cut Dovetails
- Tim WebbInstructor · Board memberArched Plant Stand TrioThree Leg Plant StandOwl Nesting BoxCutting BoardBook Tree BookcaseModern Knife Block
- Rudye McGlothlinInstructorGarden Bench
- Frank BurgerInstructorStep Stool
Where the crew started
It started with a few good makers.
In 2017, Austin Waldo saw that Austin wanted more ways to learn woodworking. He’d grown up around his grandfather’s woodshop in Kansas. So he set out to find the best furniture makers, investors and industry partners to plan, open and run a school.
A core group of enthusiastic furniture makers came together, and the Austin School of Furniture was born.
The school is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Its board manages the donations that fund scholarships, living wages for teachers and staff, and the effort to buy a permanent home. Support the school →
- Sheryl LawrenceTreasurer
- Cameron RisonBoard member
- Tim WebbBoard member
- Maria SalmeronBoard member
- Kim McIntyreBoard member
- Dean CruseBoard member
- Austin WaldoBoard member
- Austin Waldo founder
- Philip Morley founding maker
- Shota Yamaguchi founding maker
- Aaron Fox founding maker
- Leslie Webb founding maker