Roger Myers - Founder & Craftsman
After retiring as a senior executive with a major global corporation, a job that required extensive travel and time commitments, Roger returned to his lifelong passion of furniture making and after exploring a number of options applied to and was accepted into the furniture program at the acclaimed North Bennet Street School in Boston, MA. His education also includes a background in engineering and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Juried Member and current Chairman of The New Hampshire Furniture Masters
Juried Member of The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen
Life Member of The Society of American Period Furniture Makers
Immediate Past Chair of The American Furniture Masters Institute
Member and past president of The Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers
Teaching
Roger is passionate about providing educational opportunities to others in the area of woodworking and fine crafts and teaches and demonstrates throughout the region. The New Hampshire Furniture Masters of which Roger is the current Chair, is equally committed to teaching and education and through its nationally acclaimed Prison Outreach Program has trained residents of the New Hampshire and Maine State Correctional Facilities, including the new NH Woman’s Correctional Facility. For more information on how to support this activity, please visit the website of The New Hampshire Furniture Masters.
Roger offers private woodworking instruction at his workshop in Rollinsford, NH and more information on this can be found buy clicking on the button below.
He is also on the faculty of The Homestead Woodworking School and teaches select classes and workshops throughout the year. Visit their website for more information.
The Seacoast Waldorf School in Eliot Maine is a wonderful organization and Roger heads the woodworking program there, teaching woodworking one day a week to students in grades 5 through 8.
Roger can also be found teaching and demonstrating at the Woodcraft store in Portsmouth NH on a regular basis. Check their website for events.