FIVE TON MONKEY

Michael has been a full-time craftsman since 1976 with extensive experience in furniture design, woodturning, architectural millwork, pattern making, and stringed musical instruments. He has been artist in residence at the Arrowmont School of Craft, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the International Turning Exchange program at the Woodturning Center in Philadelphia. He draws on his diverse experience as a maker to contribute to the interesting projects at 5TM. He is also an enthusiastic instructor and has been invited to teach at many of the top craft schools across the USA, as well as international and regional woodturning symposia, and over 90 chapters of the American Association of Woodturners. In addition to custom furniture, he is known for his intricate containers that often combine bent wood with turned, carved, textured, and kinetic forms, which have won numerous awards and are in many private and public collections.