the University of Washington led to degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. During his 20-year career as an electronics entrepreneur, Stephen developed numerous cutting-edge devices for the wireless communications industry. Retiring from this field in 2000, he returned to art through his interests in woodturning and stone carving. Merging these techniques led to his unique style of artwork.

Mike Mahoney has been a professional wood turner since 1994. His bowls are featured in galleries across the United States. Mike's work is sought after by collectors all over the world. He is often requested to demonstrate and teach for woodturning clubs, craft schools and symposia. He has traveled around the world to discuss and demonstrate his craft and is considered an authority in woodturning.

Mike Mocho lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been a self-employed woodworker for over 20 years and has produced original designs and commissions in the areas of custom furniture, architectural millwork, prototype development and fabrication. He has been employed as an instructor in the Fine Woodworking Program at Santa Fe Community College since 1997. Mike's most recent works involve smaller objects - mostly turned containers - presented in the context of a larger vessel or cabinet. Experienced with fine national residency programs, Mike looks forward to working collaboratively with his fellow woodturners.

Regional Demonstrators

Bill Berry               -Turnig Tree Crotches
Tom Crosby            - Two-axis Potpourri
Kirk DeHeer          - Demystifying Sharpening
Tom Farrell            - Basic Metal Spinning
Anthony Harris     - Hand-chased Threaded Box
Bruce Hoover         - Sanding Secrets
 Lyle Jamison             - Hollow Form Turning using a
                                 Captured Boring Bar and Laser
James Johnson      - How to Turn Pods
Gene Kircus           - Carving a Vessel
Brian Laing            - Turning Finials
Janice Levi             - Secrets of Turning Backyard Pine
Frank Penta           - Turning Multi-axis Birdhouses
Bill Rubenstein     - Tips and Tricks
Don Ward               - Turning Closed-end Pens

ALTERNATES

Anna Rachinsky    - These Earrings are Nuts
Larry Zarra            - Turning Miniatures


Wichita Falls, Texas
October 16, 17 and 18

Lead Demonstrators

Make your plans now to attend the second largest annual woodturning symposium in the world. Again this year, the SWATurners Symposium will feature an internationally known slate of lead demonstrators as well as a full roster of local demonstrators from the Southwest. Our featured lead demonstrators are

Stuart Batty’s style of woodturning is a development of an orthodox British spindle turning style that he has altered or modified to suit modern tools and steels. He uses very simple tools and grinds them to enable him to create his pieces. He has spent much of his time teaching the traditional skills he learned as an apprentice turner and he has demonstrated his skills at over 55 international symposia in 12 different countries.

Jimmy Clewes is not your ordinary woodturner. Upon a first meeting one would think of him as a renegade, a free thinker and not within the stereotypical image of a woodturner. His charming British style, unending wit, creative mind and magnetic personality are only some of the attributes that make him popular in the woodturning demonstration circuit.

Jamie Donaldson’s formal wood education began in his high school shop class. He continued an informal love affair with wood and woodworking as the years rolled by - college (BA Philosophy), marriage, Army (Vietnam), and profession (horse photographer). The wood flame was rekindled in 1986 when he added a lathe to his wood shop tool inventory. He attended his first turning workshop in 1987. Here was a process that encompassed material, skill, form, logic, artistry, tools, and not deferred gratification. Additional workshops served to expand his skills and expectations, and collecting at craft shows and galleries brought substance to his newfound passion. Each teacher he selected led him down a new path of interest and exploration. He learned to make many of his own tools and to see the potential beauty in all wood.

Steven Hatcher was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1953. He showed an early aptitude for realistic drawing, and after finishing high school earned income as a painter of murals. Though art has been a lifetime interest, several years at