2026 Featured Presenters
Brittney Carbone
@Brittney Carbone Art
Brittney Carbone is a mixed-media artist and educator who brings an experimental, artistic approach to woodworking with epoxy. With over a decade of teaching experience and a background across painting, drawing, and textured surfaces, she focuses on pushing the boundaries of material and process. Her work has been exhibited and recognized for its innovative use of epoxy, fusing traditional techniques with modern experimentation to create multi-dimensional pieces that inspire curiosity and exploration.
PRESENTING:
Epoxy without rules: Experimentation becomes innovation
Most of us are taught to use epoxy a certain way, one that is measured, controlled, and predictable, but what happens when you stop asking what’s “right” and start asking what’s possible? With intentional experimentation through texture, depth, and dimension, there’s much to uncover through new visual and structural possibilities. If epoxy ever feels familiar or limiting, this session is an invitation to see it differently.
MICHAEL ALM
@Almfab
Michael Alm is an artist and woodworker creating educational YouTube videos for makers who value curiosity, problem-solving, and craftsmanship. Through Alm Fab, his Seattle-based studio, Michael’s known for his thoughtful design, patterned plywood expertise, and a scrappy, intuitive approach shaped by years of artistic practice.
PRESENTING:
HOW TO PATTERN PLYWOOD
Michael Alm has developed a method for taking the edge grain of plywood and through a series of cuts and glue-ups, turn those plies into a multitude of patterns. He will demonstrate how the patterns are made using tools that are accessible to most woodworkers.
Daniela Tenuta
@GrayElephantGoods
Daniela is a talented wood artist and small business owner specializing in intricate scroll saw and intarsia work. Her work blends technical precision with artistic expression. Her work has been featured in Woodworking and Scroll Saw Magazine.
Demonstrating:
UNLOCKING YOUR CREATIVITY WITH A SCROLL SAW
This hands-on session will guide participants through the creative process and possibilities of the scroll saw, from basic techniques to building confidence in your own designs. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, explore tools and materials up close, and gain practical insight into turning ideas into finished pieces.
Audi Culver + Ivy Siosi
@siosidesign
With foundations in art—Audi in photography and Ivy in printmaking and sculpture—woodworking became our self-taught path to transforming hard work into functional living art pieces. We invested in tools and embraced the learning curve as an essential part of the process - accepting inevitable failure, learning from it, and slowly developing a distinct design language that continues to evolve.
Presenting:
Our Story/Inlay Demonstration
Audi and Ivy will discuss their backgrounds and how they were lead to woodworking. Talk about the challenges in making a living in this field, and discuss the importance of design, craft, form, function, and how to find your voice in this social media-heavy woodworking world. They also will be demonstrating their inlay technique!
Rex Krueger
@RexKrueger
Rex Krueger is a woodworker, author and content creator living in Celeveland, OH. He also owns Compass Rose Toolworks.
Presenting:
Your Shop Needs a Sawbench
Modern woodworkers turn hand-sawing into a painful chore. Sawing at a standard workbench is slow and puts massive strain on your back. The centuries-old sawbench solves all of these problems and you can build one from 3 pieces of 2x4 construction lumber.
Ashley Pieper
@ShallowCreekWoodcraft
Ashley Pieper is a professional studio furniture designer, maker and teacher in central Pennsylvania working out of her home shop. She uses a hybrid approach to woodworking using both hand tools and power tools.
Presenting:
The Cabriole Leg; execution of technique and using the form for contemporary design
Ashley will explain laying out the cabriole leg on blank stock, which special points are important in the leg being correct, and how to go through the process of cutting and shaping a cabriole leg. She will go from the technique involved in building a cabriole leg, on discussing how to use the period form for contemporary design.
Brian Boney
@Boneyboardswoodshop
Brian is a woodworker, woodturner and maker out of Central New Jersey. He has been part of his local woodturning club for 4 years where he teaches and demonstrates woodturning
Stetson Mumma
@Whitewaterwoodco
Stetson is the owner of Whitewater Wood Company in Southeastern Minnesota. He specializes in creating custom hardwood and epoxy pieces ranging from cutting boards to furniture. After hundreds of deep pours and custom commissions, he has developed practical, repeatable techniques for producing reliable results while avoiding the costly mistakes that can derail a project.
Demonstrating:
Intro To Turning/ Pen Making
This hands-on session will teach the basics of woodturning with traditional tools. Attendees will be able to ask questions about all things woodturning and will be able to try out a lathe while making a pen that you will be able to take home. Brian will be doing these demonstrations a few times during the event, so make sure to get there to watch and have an opportunity to set up on a lathe!
PRESENTING:
Epoxy WITH Rules: Tackling the Common Errors With Deep Pour Epoxy
Success with deep pour epoxy isn't about luck, it's about understanding the process. In this fast-paced session, Stetson will walk through the variables that have the biggest impact on every pour, from choosing the right epoxy and preparing your slabs to proper mixing techniques and managing your shop environment during the cure. You'll leave with a better understanding of why pours succeed, why they fail, and what you can do to stack the odds in your favor.