Stephan Micheletto-Blouin

Stephan Micheletto-Blouin earned his BFA from the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University and his MFA from East Carolina University’s wood design program. He is also a graduate of the College of the Redwood’s program in Fine Woodworking (Krenov School). He has professional experience as a bench woodworker and a luthier, both of which inform his work and teaching. He maintains an active practice and exhibits his work nationally.

 

Stephan is a woodworker who is both grounded in traditional approaches to the work and committed to understanding its place in a contemporary world. He is a believer in the special opportunity gained by the designer/maker to holistically understand and express significance in their work. In his words, “We embed ourselves in the process of making, from understanding the material and the techniques we use to work it, through to its final design expression. We get depth of understanding and meaning. Insight is gained in knowing both how to make stuff and why that stuff gets made.” Stephan makes furniture and objects that embody this ideal. 

 

A dedicated educator, Stephan has taught woodworking and design across many levels and formats, from workshops to University classes. The consistent thread is the depth of the discipline and its ability to benefit all students who encounter it. Woodworking offers insight. Teaching makes it visible and brings it to folks where they are.

 

Career Highlights:

• Permanent Collection: Rocky Mount Art Center. Rocky Mount, NC.
• Exhibitions: Resilience and Adaptivity. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN.
• Variations 2026: Marblehead Arts Association. Marblehead, MA.
• Against the Grain. Tennessee Craft Art. St. Petersburg Fl.