Michael Gilmartin has been a wood sculpturer and furniture maker for 28 years, the last 26 of which have been in Atlanta, Georgia. His art furniture graces many homes and offices throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Japan. The Gilmartin Rocker is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia,  and his companion chair, the Avos Chair is in the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has also toured in a past 3 year traveling exhibition, "Celebrating the Creative Spirit, that visited six museums throughout the Southeast.

Mr. Gilmartin is the recipient of many national awards, the most recent being the prestigious Adex for design excellence.

His work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Mobile Times Register, Wood Shop News, Maxim, Departures, The Design Journal, and Fine Furniture International. Pictures of his work are also used as illustrations in the new edition of the McGraw Hill text book Psychology.