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Matt Monaco operates a full-time woodturning studio in the Ozark region of Missouri, and is one of few modern traditional woodturners in America having trained & apprenticed within the handmade trade landscape as a working professional — Working closely within the high-end professional furniture production, Shackleton Thomas Furniture & Pottery as full-time in house wood turner; which preceded a time period of training, educational rigor, and skill development while earning a living as a full-time item producer within both the wholesale tradeshow, and retail craft circuit. At the center of Matt’s work is his understanding & mastery of Fine Form, tool control, sharpening and cutting execution as an expression of traditionally crafted design as fine art – in producing forms & items that are made to be as tactile as they are sublime, and created with intent & purpose. Matt is also a Fine Woodworking Contributor & Ambassador who values both the integrity of traditional woodturning and mastery of the craft as an art, as well as diversity and mutual equity within the handmade craft and woodworking idiom.
Matt’s 2026 FWS photo gallery:
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