WAleksandra Zee was born May 22, 1986 in Southern California. She is a self-taught woodworker and installation artist 2011, and is well known for her wooden wall hangings, headboards and table tops that are inspired by the colors and textiles of the desert. Zee creates original and commissioned pieces and also teaches workshops at her studio in Oakland, CA. She tours her art pieces, and speaks to audiences on her craft as a woodworker and interior designer. Her work as a display artist for Anthropologie led to her woodworking career.
WEric Adjetey Anang is a Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter. He was born in Teshie, Ghana and runs the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop. He currently maintains dual residency and splits his time between Ghana and Madison, Wisconsin, where he is pursuing unique projects.
WCarpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the United States, 98.5% of carpenters are male, and it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999. In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.5 million carpentry positions. Carpenters are usually the first tradesmen on a job and the last to leave. Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old-fashioned carpentry is called timber framing. Carpenters learn this trade by being employed through an apprenticeship training—normally 4 years—and qualify by successfully completing that country's competence test in places such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Australia and South Africa. It is also common that the skill can be learned by gaining work experience other than a formal training program, which may be the case in many places.
WA cooper is a person trained to make wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.
WHerman Doomer was a Dutch Golden Age furniture and frame-maker who is best known today for his portrait by Rembrandt.
WBohumír Jaroněk was a Czech landscape painter and founder of the Valašské Muzeum v Přírodě in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. He worked in watercolors and tempera as well as oils.
WJohn Kettell was an early settler, cooper, and explorer in what is Maynard, Massachusetts and Stow, Massachusetts. Kettell's family was taken captive by Native Americans in King Philips War in 1676.