About Us

Matt Monaco operates a full-time woodturning studio in the Ozark region of Missouri, and is one of a few modern traditional woodturners in America having trained & apprenticed within the handmade trade landscape as a working professional since youth— Followed by working within the high-end professional furniture production Shackleton Thomas Furniture & Pottery as a full-time in house wood turner; which preceded a time period of training and skill development while earning a living as a full-time item producer within both the wholesale tradeshow, and retail circuit. At the center of Matt’s work is his understanding, mastery, expression of fine form, tool control, sharpening, and cutting execution as a reflection 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.