Alan Mitchell Alan is the founder and director of the Homestead Woodworking School.  He is a state certified Industrial Education Teacher and taught cabinet making and construction in the public school system for nine years.  For the past seventeen years Alan has owned and operated both a construction business and a cabinet shop.

P. David Richards
David is self-employed, and has extensive woodworking experience.  Accomplished in many of the trades, his real love is restoring and building mid 16th - 19th century buildings.  While working on old houses, Dave always takes into account the techniques used by the historical carpenter.  He believes in the tradition of passing on to his apprentices the skills of the past.

Robert J. LaCivita
Robert has been in the woodworking field for the past 27 years.  He attended Leeds Design Workshops in East Hampton, MA where he honed his skills as an artisan, using traditional techniques for his contemporary style.  He studied industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design.  Upon graduation, Robert returned to Leeds Design Workshops where he spent two years as a resident/instructor.  His work ranges from fine furniture with delicate details to massive architectural woodwork used at King Kaliad International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  He has worked most recently on period millwork projects in the Portsmouth, NH area.

Richard Batchelder
Dick has over twenty years of woodworking experience.  He has also owned and operated a construction business specializing in passive solar, timber framed houses with custom kitchens and interiors.  As a juried woodturner, Dick spends time each week doing custom wood turning.  He brings a wealth of technical and artistic expertise to each class and is a very enthusiastic teacher.

Andy Motter
Andy has been teaching wood turning at the Worcester Center for Crafts for many years.  He is an active member of the Central New England Woodturners, the Granite State Woodturners and the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers.  His experience as a teacher and his expertise as a woodturner combine to make him one of our most effective and requested teachers.

Garrett Hack
Garrett is a professional furniture maker and writer from Thetford, VT. He is a regular contributor to Fine Wordworking magazine and has taught seminars all around the country. He is also the author of The Hand Plane Book and Classic Tools Book published by the Taunton Press.

Leo E. Lambert
Leo is a professional artist, woodcarver, and sculptor.  He has won many awards for his woodcarving, and has held offices in the Woburn (MA) Carving Guild and  the Woburn Guild of Artists.  Leo enjoys sharing his 20-plus years of experience with those who want to learn the craft of woodcarving.

Dr. L. Forbes Getchell
Dr. Getchell has been teaching here since we opened, and is famous for his miniature carved birds.  He adds another dimension to our program by teaching people how to carve, paint, and mount a bird so that it appears to come alive!  His relaxed teaching style and great stories make his workshops extremely popular.

Mrs. Carolyn Brooks

Kevin Gelinas

Howie Lund
Sherwin Williams

Jon Siegel
Jon specializes in wood turning, and has been a professional woodworker for over 30 years.  As head of industrial arts at Proctor Academy, he taught woodworking and metal working.  Jon's business, Big Tree Turnings, creates parts for furniture and architectural use.  Jon has served as President of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers, holds patents on woodturning tools, and has been published in American Woodturner magazine.

Marcel Durette
Marcel is a ten-year alumnus of the Homestead School. Beginning with Andy Motter's Intro to Woodturning class, he went on to attend all of the subsequent one-day workshops that were offered as well as workshops with Ellsworth, Michelson, Martel and other renowned people in the field. An avid woodtruner, he has demonstrated at the Wood Days in Canterbury Village, the Sunapee fair, the Big E and many other small venues. He is an active memeber of the Guild of NH Woodworkers, and the American Association of Woodtruners. Expertise in technique and enthusiasm for the craft come together in Marcel's approach to learning the basic skills as well as the subtleties of woodturning.