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After graduating from High School in Eau Claire, Josh Swan, class of 2002, made his way out to the International Yacht Restoration School, in Newport, Rhode Island, where he found great satisfaction with the rules and practices of traditional wooden boat construction, so as to decide that he wanted to try to pursue a career in the field.

Having worked initially at McGreivey's Canoe Shop in Cato, New York, in the UW-Madison Department of Art later, as an Artisan-in-Residence and finally at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, as the museum's boatbuilder-in-residence, building and restoring wooden boats and canoes, he managed to accumulate knowledge and develop skills, which allowed him, to pursue a succesful career in the boatbuilding industry.

In the Fall of 2006 he received a grant from the Center for Wooden Boats, in Seattle Washington, that allowed him to travel to Norheimsund, Norway and spend six weeks at the Hardanger Fartoyvernsenter, a dynamic waterfront boatyard focusing on keeping alive the relationship between a village and its place on the water.

Josh Swan is now "a one man wooden boatworks", located on the South shore of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin, specializing in building and restoring wooden boats and canoes and feels very grateful for the opportunites and experiences he has had so far.