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Biography

Mitch Jones is a woodturner from Central Kentucky and  lives in Gatlinburg,Tennessee. He enjoys living in the mountains with his wife, Nikki, and their three cats. In winter 2014, Mitch took a community class at Arrowmont and was hooked on woodturning. That summer he was lucky enough to get into Rudy Lopez's "Anchor, Bevel Boot Camp" and a lasting friendship was born. Two years later, Rudy introduced Mitch to Scarlette Rouse and they have both impacted Mitch's art and life as mentors and friends. Mitch began assisting every class at John C Campbell and Arrowmont that he could. He had the opportunity to assist Emmet Kane, Curt Theobald, Jerry Kermode and Aaron Hammer early in his woodturning journey. 

Mitch instructed his first community class at Arrowmont in 2018, and has instructed or assisted over 2000 hours of studio woodturning classes. In 2024 Mitch was introduced to embellishing by Andi Wolfe, and is heavily influenced by her style/mentorship. While Mitch enjoys turning embellished orbs and bowls, his true passion is teaching beginners how to turn wood and supporting schools that are growing the arts and crafts movement. He believes that we have to find more woodturners in order to ensure we have a future where we still have clubs and symposiums and he tries to do his part. In 2025 Mitch taught over 200 beginners, ages 9 to 90, how to turn wood and is trying to match that number this year.