Instructor

Michael started woodworking after his daughter went away to college about eight years ago, starting with a spoon carving class at Pratt Fine Arts Center. He fell into a warm and welcoming Seattle spoon carving community. He’s one of the organizers of the Seattle Spoon Club, a member of the Seattle Woodturning Club, and the lead organizer of the Pacific Northwest Spoon Bash, a weekend-long carving festival at Rainbow Falls State Park in Chehalis. At Pratt, Michael predominantly turned bowls, harkening back to his high school ceramics class. He has taken a number of furniture-making classes at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Since moving to Bainbridge Island with his wife in the spring of 2025, Michael has set up a “much-improved shop” in his garage to use when not at BARN. He loves working with burl, figured, and crotch woods — all abundant here in the Pacific Northwest.