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Matthew Harding is an established furniture designer/maker, wood carver and sculptor from Australia with over twenty years of experience working in wood and arts related fields.  His works encompass large-scale public sculpture, furniture design, fine art exhibitions and lecturing. Harding’s aesthetic influences are from the natural world and geometry. He views his art as a playground for manipulating a wide range of materials and processes, forging links between cutting edge technologies such as laser cutting and computer controlled routing to more traditional craft based skills such as carving.  Harding has exhibited his art extensively in Australia and received numerous grants, commissions, and awards.  Harding was selected for a Churchill Fellowship to research carving, sculpture, and furniture design in 1998. Michael Mocho of Albuquerque , New Mexico 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.    Mocho most recent works involve smaller objects – mostly turned containers – presented in the context of larger vessel or cabinet.  Experienced with fine national residency programs, Mocho looks forward to working collaboratively with his fellow woodturning residents. Andrew Potocnik has had from his early youth, a fascination with creating things in wood.  His appreciation of wood for its color, smell, feel, grain and other intrinsic qualities has made him an accomplished wood turner and teacher.  He continues to challenge the conventions within the woodworking field to explore and celebrate the material nature of once living matter.  Photonic was born in 1963 in Melbourne , Australia and received his Bachelor of Education (Arts and Crafts) from Melbourne College of Advanced Education.  He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and also in other major cities around the world. Marcus Tatton of Tasmania , Australia came to workworking from an early age and is university trained in wood sculpture and furniture design.  He became a drum and percussion instrument maker and has developed his own line of drums created from logs, workshops, and performances.  A Woodcarving Instructor at Australian School of Fine Furniture, Tatton is active in teaching children and adults, through classes and demonstrations, the techniques and therapeutic benefits of woodcraft.  His expectations for the ITE residency are uninterrupted time to develop a new body of work, collaboration with other residents, and perhaps even a “Making Your Drum” workshops. Joël Urruty of Middletown , New York has his MFA in Woodworking and Furniture Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology.  Urruty has been a woodworking instructor at numerous schools as well as an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University .  Presently a full-time artist, Urruty has an extensive exhibition history and has received numerous awards for his abstract figurative wood sculptures.  He hopes that through the ITE residency he will gain more knowledge of woodturning and looks forward to exchanging ideas and aesthetic concerns with his fellow artists. Visit his website: www.joelurruty.com Linette Messina of Philadelphia has been selected as the photojournalist for the 2004 ITE Residency Program.  An emerging young artist, she has already developed extensive experience in documentary photography from employment with the City of Philadelphia , among other sources.  Messina will capture the process of the residency through the story telling of photographs and interviews.  A 2000 graduate of Drexel University , she will bring a well-trained eye and youthful energy to the residency program. Visit her website: www.moodycamera.com Michael Sandor Podmaniczky of Wilmington, Delaware has been selected as the 2004 ITE Resident Fellow Scholar.  Mr. Podmaniczky is the senior Conservator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum and is an Associate Professor with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.  He has an extensive record of publications, professional presentations and lectures at such venues as: the Delaware Art Museum, Sotheby's Decorative Art Institute, Fine Woodworking and WoodenBoat journals.  As former owner of Invisible Hand Woodworks, Mike Podmaniczky, who is also a highly skilled wood craftsman and boat builder, brings years of intellectual and creative experience in the wood art and furniture field to the summer residency program.