Karl Stauber

Karl Stauber has been engaged in wood turning and furniture making for over 40 years. For the last 30 years he has focused primarily on bowl and platter making. He approaches each piece of wood with a conceptual design on paper or in his head. Wood is attached to a lathe and as the wood is spun using gouges and other tools the intended design is worked into the piece. The design evolves based on the size and what he finds within wood, striving to bring forth the organic patterns that are unique to each piece of wood, without compromising the original design concept. Pieces that do not meet his design criteria end up in the burn pile.

Karl Stauber has had the privilege of studying with many of the top wood turners in the United States at Northouse Folk School, Grand Marias, MN, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. He has studied with David Ellsworth, Jacques Versery, Trent Bosch, Nick Agar, Avelino Samuel, Rudy Lopez and Jeff Trapp.



His work has been included in exhibitions at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Wilson Library, the Annual Conference of the American Association of Woodturners (Philadelphia) and Sawtooth School for Visual Arts. His work resides in numerous private collections including the NC artists collection of the Chancellor’s Residence at UNC-CH.