Except for brief stints in Nashville and New York for college and graduate school, Elmore Holmes is a lifetime Memphian.  He left a nine-year career as a high school mathematics teacher in 2000 to pursue woodworking full-time.
     Holmes's woodworking education includes courses at the Country Workshops crafts school in North Carolina and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, and a great deal of independent study.  His studio in Midtown Memphis is rarely idle: when not working on a commission piece, Holmes is stretching his skill level on experimental projects.
     When he's not busy in the workshop, Holmes can typically be found exploring the lower Mississippi River in a kayak or canoe.