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The artist largely responsible for the rebirth of intarsia, Judy Gale Roberts began creating intarsia with her father, Pat Dudley Roberts, around 1974. The two designed custom wood murals, among other artwork, for some of their clients.

In 1984, Jerry Booher came on board, and Judy began to design and create one-of-a-kind pieces on a smaller scale for private collections. Jerry, a tool and die maker before switching careers, studied and refined the process that Judy and her father used and became an expert on the scroll saw. It was also in 1984 that Jerry sent pictures to the National Woodcarvers Association asking if they knew of a name for this technique of woodworking. The Association wrote back with the name “intarsia,” stating that the only place they had seen it was in Italy.

Throughout the 1980s, Judy and Jerry attended juried shows and won a number of ribbons for their intarsia work. In the process of competing in shows, the two began to educate and expose the world to the art form called intarsia. Judy has continued promoting intarsia even after Jerry’s death in 2016.

In 1997, Judy was the first woman and one of the first 10 people to be inducted into Wood magazine’s Woodworking Hall of Fame. Her work has been featured in Wood magazine, Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, and Patrick Spielman’s The Art of the Scroll Saw.

At present, Judy teaches beginner, intermediate, and advanced intarsia classes from her studio located 30 minutes from Dollywood near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The pattern business continues to grow, and now more than 500 intarsia patterns are available, including 20 different “classrooms in a tube” (patterns with in-depth instructions) for people who cannot make it to the foothills of the Smoky Mountain in person to take a class. Visit Judy’s website www.intarsia.com and check out her newsletter The Intarsia Times.