Michael Clarke-pearson
Michael Clarke-Pearson was born and raised in
North
Carolina. He’s the youngest of four: left-handed and right-brained. He
spent
summers in high school working for a local builder as a framing
carpenter, but
made the shift to the far more exacting craft of furniture building as
a
college student at Brown University. There, during any free hours not
spent in
the lab and greenhouse studying plant enzymology, he built a door and a
table
out of wood salvaged from an ailing American Elm, one of the last on
campus.
Now Michael lives in New York, and has maintained
his
passion for both science and woodworking. His most recent works include
a bench
crafted from reclaimed cherry and a chair with a hand woven cane seat.
He will
be starting medical school in August 2008 at UNC Chapel Hill.