Keep Craft Alive

In an area with a nearly nonexistent building code, this builder has cornered a niche market for high-performance homes.

This builder was introduced to craft as a child, and his decades-long career includes historic preservation as well as education.

This painter specializes in veneer plaster, a multilayer finishing system used to add color, texture, and dimension to a wall, fireplace, or range hood.

This art-program director focuses on providing spaces for young people to have opportunities to work with their hands.

This teacher spends much of his time advocating for folks of all backgrounds to enter the trades.

For this construction-business owner, client communication is key to her company's success.

Known for his broadcasting and writing career, this carpenter and furniture-maker founded a nonprofit woodworking school.

The new head of Keep Craft Alive finds inspiration from the building community he's now acquainted with, looking to not only encourage others to join the trades, but to hold those who are already in committed to the highest of standards.

Dan is one of the principal minds behind the Pretty Good House movement, an approach to holistic home building that emerged from an informal building-science discussion group he has helped organize for nearly ten years.

A willingness to collaborate has helped Elizabeth Disalvo and her architectural firm to offer lower-cost energy-efficient pre-desgned prefab homes.