Stuart Batty
Stuart Batty is a third-generation apprentice woodturner with over four decades of professional turning experience. Under the expert tutelage of his father, Allan Batty, a world-renowned master spindle turner, Stuart began woodturning at 10. By the age of 16, Stuart had become an accomplished production spindle turner and instructor and had gained wide notoriety for...
Max Brosi
Max Brosi is an innovative Irish sculptural woodturner, his background is in Furniture Design and Making, which he studied at The Furniture College in Letterfrack, Connemara, Ireland. He first gained recognition for his abstract and narrative multi axis tube compositions, turned from wet wood that distorted as they seasoned. Since taking part in the Windgate...
Kip Christensen
Kip Christensen, PhD, is a well-known woodturner who has been active in the woodturning community for over forty years. In 2022 he was recognized for his contribution to woodturning by receiving the Honorary Lifetime Member award from the American Association of Woodturners. He has a particular interest in woodturning education and has been invited to...
Beth Ireland
Beth Ireland earned her undergraduate Fine Arts degree from the State University College at Buffalo, and an MFA in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has been running her company, Beth Ireland Woodworking since 1983. Her business provides woodworking with a specialization in architectural and artistic woodturning. She has received three Windgate...
Elizabeth Weber
Born and raised in Tennessee, Elizabeth she first specialized in engineering, earning an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In 2015 she began woodworking with her first creations including several pieces of furniture in the Arts and Crafts style, but she eventually turned to smaller objects and now specializes in...