A third generation woodworker, Dylan Weller grew up in Santa Fe, NM amid the shavings and dust of his father’s woodshop.  His father, James Weller was a noted Santa Fe craftsman who made Spanish colonial furniture by hand for decades, exposing Dylan to the subtleties of the craft from an early age.  

Dylan left Santa Fe for college and graduate school, where he studied philosophy, religion, and eventually earned a PhD in political theory.  During his time in school, Dylan was drawn back to woodworking as his head was reeling and his hands needed work.  As he returned to the craft, Dylan retained the ethic of his father, preferring the deliberate pace of traditional methods to the efficiency of machine work.

After graduate school, Dylan took a job as a professor in upstate New York for several years.  But as interest from friends and acquaintances grew, Dylan began devoting increased time to building furniture and guitars by hand; eventually taking up woodworking full time.  Seeking to expand his knowledge and repertoire, Dylan is continually pursuing new avenues of woodwork.  From furniture and guitars to caskets and urns, Dylan has found that each form of woodwork informs and compliments the methods and designs of the others, while keeping the work exciting and vital.

After much time away, Dylan and his family were drawn back home to Santa Fe in 2012.  Soon after returning, Dylan became the instructor for the newly founded woodworking club at St. John's College, introducing a new generation of woodworkers to the beauty and traditions of the craft.

In October of 2017, working in conjunction with Shop Architects of NYC, Dylan completed a large commission of custom display furniture for the modern art museum: Site Santa Fe.  The remodel of Site Santa Fe won the 2018 American Architecture Award in the category of Museums and Cultural Buildings.

In 2019 Dylan was commissioned by House Speaker Brian Egolf to design and craft a gavel for the NM House of Representatives along with Master Silversmith Douglas Magnus. The gavel was gifted to the NM House of Representatives in January of 2020.