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| Michael Burns has been involved with the program since its inception in 1981 and has been an instructor since that time. He teaches three days a week, administers the program, and builds furniture out of his shop in Fort Bragg. |  |
| .James Budlong, a graduate of the program in 1984 and '85, teaches on Fridays and Saturdays. He is in the process of moving his furniture business to rual Comptche as his cozy wooded ridgetop shop nears completion. |  |
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Formally trained as a biology teacher in his native Denmark, a New World tour brought Ejler Hjorth-Westh to the Mendocino Coast in 1982. His professional involvement with wood began here with boat building. His experience was broadened during several unconventional home building projects and honed during his two years as a student in 1990 through 1992. In succeeding years he has established his own shop with work to engage himself and a series of employees full-time. |
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| Greg Smith was a member of the classes of 1992 and 1993. His sixteen years of professional woodworking includes experience in custom production shops, an artist-in-residency at the Appalachian Center for Crafts, while at the same time creating award-winning fine furniture. |  |
| David Welter, also a two-year graduate of the program and a cabinetmaker, maintains the machine room, purchases wood and supplies, and assists students in capacities too numerous and petty to mention. |  |