Barry Biesanz

Barry Charles Biesanz, also known as Barry Biesanz Hiltunen (born September 1, 1948, in New Orleans) is a woodturner who became a Costa Rican citizen in 1998.

Life
As a 17 year old Detroit high school student, Barry received national press coverage for protesting the Vietnam war. Newsweek quoted him in a 1966 article on "The Teenagers" as saying "I got my hair cut. But now they are regulating ideas and I can't get my ideas cut."  Another publication on the attitudes of 1966 teenagers, The young adult; identity and awareness also quoted him on this.

Barry Biesanz moved to Costa Rica in 1971 and founded Biesanz Woodworks in 1972.

Woodturning Press Coverage

 * 2006		"Biesanz Turns Out Masterpieces in Escazú" The Tico Times
 * 2005		 "Barry Biesanz He Found Woodturner's Heaven" Woodturning Design Spring 2005
 * 2004		Beneath The Bark: Twenty-Five Years of Woodturning. Christensen, Kip & Nish, Dale. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Brigham Young Museum of Art, Provo, Utah.
 * 2002		"Artisan's Work Prized By Many" The Leader Post, May 31, pg 53
 * 2002 		"Costa Rica for Wood Art" Edmonton Journal May
 * 2002		"Plant Tree, Save Culture" Harbour City Star, June 5
 * 2001		"Wood From Start to Finish Stars in Tour," Tico Times, December 14, 2001
 * 1997		"Crafts with the Scent of Wood," Costa Rica Today, Jan 23, 1997
 * 1995		"Un Encuentro Feliz," American Woodturner, September 1995 pg 28 by Connie Mississippi
 * 1995		"Bowled Over by Costa Rica," Excerpt from The Dallas Morning News, August 13, 1995 pg 7G by Terry Hong
 * 1994		"Arbolitos a su alcance," La Nacion Rincón Verde, Viva pg 2 by Vanessa Bravo, October 19, 1994
 * 1993		"Biesanz, A Master Craftsman in Wood" Costa Rica Today April 29
 * 1993		"Taipei International Exhibition of Traditional Arts and Crafts: Selected Overseas Exhibits" January 16 - 29th pp 96
 * 1993		"Barry Biesanz Master Woodworker," American Airlines Guide Magazine
 * 1992 		"Magia de Madera" La Nacion, shopping section, September 15–22, page 8
 * 1992 		"Noted Woodworker Backs Need to Conserve Forests” Tico Times Special Supplement January 1992
 * 1991		 "Queen Sofia of Spain buys Biesanz Art, Tico Scene, Tico Times, April 26, 1991
 * 1991 “The Noble Woods of Costa Rica – God Creates Them, Biesanz Works Them”  Join Us – Costa Rica Awaits You Magazine, page 54
 * 1989/1990 		"Featuring the Work of Barry Biesanz" International Woodworking, Cover article, Winter edition Vol. VI, No. 1
 * 1989 		"Northwest Highlights" WestArt, April 14, 1989 Exhibition with Moulthrop and Ellsworth
 * 1987 		"Shopper's World, Costa Rican Wood" New York Times, August 23, page 10012
 * 1987		"Shopping for Costa Rican Handicrafts" International Herald Tribune, August 28, 1987
 * 1984		 “Barry Biesanz” Tico Times, June 1, 1984 by M.E.Esquivel