Ted Harlan is a graduate of the Berea College and a product of the rich Berea, KY crafts heritage. While in Berea, he had the opportunity to study with many of this country’s finest and best known woodcrafters. He served as an assistant to master wood turner Rude Osolnik for two years and ran the Westervelt endowed woodcraft community program for three years. For the past 18 years he has operated a full time woodworking studio, where he has created work ranging from store design and fixturing to architectural woodworking and one of a kind commissioned pieces of furniture, as well as individual instruction. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institutuion Craft show, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Orange Co. Museum of Art in California as well as in national and international galleries.