Toryn Davis Black is a fine woodworker based in Asheville, working in Hendersonville, NC. A lifelong seeker, she spent twenty years as a clinical social worker and returned to the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2018. The slower pace of mountain life and the pandemic years allowed her to notice a long-ignored desire for creativity and making.

Coming from a long line of makers, Toryn enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program (2023-2025), where she learned fine woodcraft skills and fell in love with craft. In 2024, she founded Toryn Black Design, creating hand-built furniture and homewares that blend artistry with thoughtful design to bring magic into the everyday, mundane tasks.

This year, Toryn was in the Emerging Art Program with the Craft Guild of the Southern Highlands and showed her work at the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, July 16-19, 2026, in Asheville, NC.

She has a few smaller homewares at Foundations Woodworks in Asheville and Artisans of Main in Weaverville. Toryn also sells objects directly on Etsy. If you see something you like and want to know how to find or buy it, please fill out the form below.

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