Karen CornishCommunity Learning Coordinator
Karen is a grower, maker and educator sharing her passion through school and community workshops, and the occasional jar of jam. As Community Learning Coordinator at HatchSpace Karen brings an affinity for customer service, data-driven planning and marketing, and instruction design to her work supporting and growing our education programming. Other fun titles include: Color Farmer, Citizen Scientist, and Lifelong Learner. Trained as a graphic designer, Karen has a diverse background in theater production and textile arts, and has been growing lovely things (plants, children, ideas) for decades. |
Greg GoodmanDirector, Programs and OperationsGreg Goodman has been a professional cabinetmaker for over 30 years. He established Goodman Cabinetmakers in Brattleboro in 2002. His work can be found in fine homes throughout the northeast. His furniture tries to balance simple modernist curves and sculptural forms in dialog with materials selected for their unique organic patterning. Greg has an MFA degree from Long Island University and is a master furniture maker with the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers. |
![]() | Jesse Fox Shop Steward Jesse has a passion for exploring the way things are made. A varied career has taken him from metal shops to wood shops to bicycle shops to music recording studios. He loves to keep machines humming, to help people figure out the best way to realize their design vision, and to lay down a steady beat. In his free time, Jesse likes to set aside power tools and get out the mallet and froe as he delves into making Windsor and ladderback chairs. |
Lars Hasselblad Torres Executive Director Lars is a visual artist with passion for building community spaces where creativity, learning and entrepreneurship thrive. He brings to his role as Executive Director a keen eye for operational detail, a restless appetite for problem-solving, and a deep interest in the status of the arts and crafts in American life. Prior to joining HatchSpace Lars served as Executive Director of Artisans Asylum in Boston, where he led the organization's relocation and expansion efforts. He has also had stints as an appointee to Vermont's Agency of Commerce and Community Development, director the MIT Global Challenge, Innovation Advisor to the US Agency for International Development, and founder of the Booker T. Washington Public Charter School for Technical Arts. |
Tom Bodett PresidentTom is a writer, humorist, storyteller and lifelong carpenter and furniture maker. His love of woodworking and the 40 year pursuit of ever-elusive perfection have produced his most fulfilling creations. As he winds down his publishing and entertainment career the importance of craftsmanship, and the joy it adds to his life, compels him to make more dust and shelves and fewer dust-covered books on the shelf. |
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![]() | Stephen ShrinerTreasurerSteve was bitten by the woodworking bug in high school and has been a long time putterer, believing that the solutions to most problems can be found in his basement workshop. Since moving to Vermont in 1986, he spent most of his career in a local publishing business running their manufacturing, distribution, and facilities operations. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University. |
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Gail FletcherBoard MemberGail Fletcher is a retired educator, having spent 23 yrs in public education. Her last 20 years were with the Springfield, VT School District, working as a Technology Coordinator followed by a return to classroom instruction in the Tech Center where she developed and taught the Information Technology Program. A long time amateur woodworker, retirement has allowed Gail time to further pursue her love of woodworking . Gail earned her B.S, Education in Industrial Arts, from Keene State College and M.A., Teaching With Internet Technologies, from The Graduate Center, Marlboro College. |
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Advisory Board |
![]() ![]() | Bruce BergAdvisory Board MemberBruce comes to woodworking through his interest in furniture design. After retirement from a career in equipment design at DuPont, and moving to Vermont in 2007, his newly-found free time and a need to make pieces for a new house jump-started this work, and formal woodworking classes with Garrett Hack further stoked his passion for the craft. He has served on the boards of Hilltop Montessori School, the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, and is currently on the board of Groundworks Collaborative. Bruce has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. |
Steven VannoyAdvisory Board MemberSteven Vannoy took his first woodworking class at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts in 1990. He has been an amateur woodworking enthusiast ever since. Steven enjoys making musical instruments of all kinds. With a background in computer programming the CNC was a natural tool for him to be drawn to. He is currently psychology professor and is excited to teach hands-on woodworking skills at HatchSpace. |
Douglas CoxAdvisory Board MemberDouglas Cox is a well-regarded violin maker, working in West Brattleboro since 1985. He trained in the late 1960’s as a teenager at the State Violin Making School in Mittenwald, Germany. His German training has been tempered with extensive experience with vintage instruments and his own values of efficiency, simplicity, and freedom and strength of style. Over his 50 years of making, nearly 1000 instruments have been placed in the hands of players internationally, some at the highest levels of prestige. | Jim MahoneyAdvisory Board Member
Jim tinkers with a CNC milling machine at the HatchSpace. He teaches computing at Marlboro College where he's been since finishing a PhD in physics in 1988 at MIT. On Tuesday nights you can find him dancing Argentine tango just up the street. |
Larry CassidyAdvisory Board Member
Larry brings his deep insight into the Brattleboro community to our mission. His lifetime in the Brattleboro area as a worker, real estate developer, investor and philanthropist inform our decisions at every turn. | Bo FoardAdvisory Board MemberBo is Founder and President of Foard Panel Inc. manufacturing structural foam panels in Chesterfield, NH. He is also an accomplished chef and a partner in Hardy Foard Catering and the Porch Cafe. He is the former President of the Board of Directors of the New England Youth Theater, a current Board Member of the Emily Mason Wolf Kahn Foundation, and serves on the national board of the Timber Framers Guild. |