Michelle Holzapfel
Michelle Holzapfel is a self-taught woodturner and carver. She creates vases, bowls, boxes, and still life sculpture from local hardwoods like burls, unmanageable crotches, gnarled branches, center rotten trunks that are left behind in the forest after logging operations have ceased.
She attended Marlboro College, and received her BA from Vermont College. Her work can be found in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Mint Museum, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Wood Turning Center, Museum of Art and Design, and Rhode Island School of Design, among others.
Michelle Holzapfel carving 
Michelle Holzapfel at the lathe 
Michelle Holzapfel, Cushioned Bowl II, 1998. David Holzapfel photograph 
Michelle Holzapfel, Gulliver, 2003 
Michelle Holzapfel, Piazza Pie, 1988 
Michelle Holzapfel, Crazy 8 Vase, Guardian Angel Vase, Gordian Knot Vase, 2002 (l-r) 
Michelle Holzapfel, Quercus Vase, 1998 
Michelle Holzapfel, Domestic Violence #2, 1987 
Michelle Holzapfel, Tranquil Elegance, 2008 
Michelle Holzapfel, Autumn Vase, 2003 
Michelle Holzapfel, Draped Bowl, 2004 
Michelle Holzapfel, Birthday Cake, 1988 
Michelle Holzapfel, Reunion Bowl, 1999