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Woodturner Robert Rosand has a degree in psychology and completed two years of graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His love of the craft led him to work in carpentry, and fine cabinet making, and has developed into his own style of designing and turning wood. Articles on woodturning in Fine Woodworking magazine drew his attention to the lathe, and he has been turning wood ever since.
In the specific area of wood turning he is mostly self-taught, and he has perfected his style in more than 20 years of devotion to his work. In the last couple of years, Robert has devoted some of his time to writing articles on woodturning. His articles appear regularly in American Woodturner, the quarterly journal of the American Association of Woodturners as well as the American Woodworker. He is also the page editor for the Turning Tips section of the American Woodturner. Mr. Rosand has demonstrated at the American Association of Woodturners (AAW) national symposium, and his work was recently selected to appear in a book entitled The Art of The Lathe.

Robert Rosand is a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsme n, American Craft Association and is a founding member of the American Association of Woodturners.
His works are in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. His recent awards include the Steinman Center Award, “Best Collaboration” at the State Craft Festival, Lancaster, PA, first and second prize at the Yellow Springs Craft Gallery sponsored by the Pennsylvania Guild. In 1990 a turning was accepted by “Woodturning: Vision and Concept II” at the Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN. His birdhouse ornaments have consistently won awards at the Vita birdhouse competition, Doylestown, PA. In 1993, an ornament turned by Robert and painted by his wife Susan was selected to be placed on one of the White House Christmas trees.
From 1991 to 1996 Robert was recognized by the board of the AAW for outstanding contribution to the field of woodturning. Robert’s ornaments were selected as the commissioned holiday ornament by the Friends of the Paler Museum of Art at the Pennsylvania State University in 1994. In 1995, Robert and Susan won the William Brubaker Memorial Award for woodturning at the Pennsylvania Best Gallery Exhibit ‘95. In 1996, Robert was a demonstrator at the American Association of Woodturners national symposium. A collaborative piece with basket maker Darryl Arawjo was recently selected in the American Association of Woodturners 1997 “Turned for Use” exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.
Robert lives with his wife Susan and two cats in a house that he built in the woods of Pennsylvania.