FOLK ARTISAN MARKET
North House Folk School
Unplugged | Sept 15-18, 2016
FOLK ARTISAN MARKET Traditional northern craft is the soul of North House. Meet the hands at work behind beautiful and useful items for sale at the Folk Artisan Marketplace. Each day, our artisaninstructors will gather to demonstrate their craft and share in the community and camaraderie that follows whenever creative people gather. Items will be available for purchase. Find information on featured demonstrations at right.
Featured Artisan Demonstrators
Witness hands at work as the featured artisans of the Folk Artisan Marketplace demonstrate their crafts. Demos will be 30-45 minutes in length and will offer a glimpse into the rich history and culture of traditional northern craft.
Friday, September 16
1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm
Michael Seiler: Intro to Lapidary/Agate Cutting Larry Schmitt: NĂĽlbinding Beth Homa: Birch Bark Weaving Jarrod Stonedahl: Spoon Carving
Saturday, September 17
10am Mary Schliep: Rosemaling: Norwegian Folk Art 11am Noon 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm
Liz Bucheit: Saami Inspired Adornment Ramon Persson: Swedish Birch Bark Boxes (Featured Guest International Instructor) Jo Wood: Bead Embroidery April Stonedahl: Black Ash Basketry Robert Burns: Iron Work and Tools Beth Dooley, Featured Chef
Liz Bucheit www.crowntrout.com Liz Bucheit creates jewelry and body adornment inspired by Scandinavian folklore and myth. A goldsmith for over 30 years, she holds a Master’s degree in metalworking and jewelry from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and has trained in traditional jewelry and metalworking techniques in Ireland and Norway. Liz has won numerous competitions and has been awarded grants from the MN State Arts Board, McKnight Foundation, Sons of Norway and the SE MN Arts Council. Liz is a speaker on the topic of Norwegian filigree work and conducts workshops and classes in jewelry design and fabrication. She owns and operates Crown Trout Jewelers with fellow goldsmith and partner Michael Seiler in Lanesboro, MN.
Beth Homa-Style www.homa-style.com Beth Homa-Style is a full time basket weaver in Saint Paul, Minnesota. After studying painting in college and working as a caseworker for the homeless, she interned at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN. At the Folk School, Beth learned many traditional crafts including boat building, but mostly different styles of basketry. This sparked her obsession with birch bark, which is now her main medium. She locally and sustainably harvests and processes her own materials by hand. Beth is always trying to figure out what she can make out of birch bark next and how to share this durable and beautiful material with people.
Jo Wood www.jowoodbeads.com Jo loves gardening, walks in the woods, and every kind of textile art. An award winning bead and fiber artist, she has practiced her skills with needle and thread for over 40 years, making everything from tipis to wedding ensembles. She has shared her knowledge and passion for hand stitching with students both regionally and nationally since 1997. Jo is a bead artist inspired by nature. Through her work she shares her connection with the abundance, peace and beauty of this place. Visit her website!
April Stone Dahl www.woodspirithandcraft.com April’s fascination with Black Ash basketry started in 1998 when she took one year to study a new basket in everyday use. Amazed by this vessel’s durability, she spent much of the following year learning by doing: learning through weaving. When ready, she went on to share her skills by providing demonstrations and workshops for a variety of groups, programs and events in her home, community, regionally and internationally.
Robert Burns www.wildernessironworks.org Robert has been fascinated by metalwork and traditional crafts particularly in how they connect to history, since childhood. Robert began studying blacksmithing under James Hoffman learning the American colonial style of blacksmithing. He then went on to learn the craft of bladesmithing joining the American Bladesmith’s Society (ABS) where he hopes to achieve the rank of master smith. Robert works full time out of his shop in Chaska, Minnesota creating knives, woodworking tools, and historic reproductions.
Larry Schmitt As a child, Larry learned many textile techniques from his parents including n책lbinding. Since the early 1980s, he has been teaching and researching n책lbinding and has written a number of instructional manuals. These workbooks are some of the only resources on n책lbinding in English. Larry has taught and exhibited n책lbinding throughout the country and has even had students from Norway and Germany, but he considers North House home base. His classes at North House reflect his continuing interest in traditional textile crafts.
Ramon Persson www.ramonpersson.se North House welcomes the return of featured International Guest Instructor, Ramon Persson from Sweden. Ramon is a craft consultant from the Östergötlands Handicraft Society and was a long-standing traditional craft instructor at the famed Swedish Folk School, Sätergläntan, where he taught knife making, baskets, birch bark basketry, green woodworking and classic woodworking tool making. In recent years, Ramon has been devoted to his work in and around his workshop.
Mary Schliep Mary started rosemaling in 1989 and has been busily painting ever since. Mary specializes in the Valdres and Telemark styles (each defined by the geographic region where they found their beginning in Scandinavia). Mary has been a consistent teacher at North House ever since the school’s first catalog. She demonstrates the traditions of rosemaling annually at Norsk Hostfest - North America’s largest gathering of Scandinavian heritage enthusiasts.
Michael Seiler www.crowntrout.com Michael is co-owner of Crown Trout Jewelers in Lanesboro, MN and has been working in the metal arts since 1995 mastering the techniques of fabrication, stone setting, wax carving, stone cutting and stone inlay work. Michael has been awarded grants from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board for his signature stone cutting and lapidary talent. His goals are to create new and innovative techniques in stone setting and ring design combining lapidary and metal work. An avid guitar player, one of Michael’s recent endeavors includes handcrafting gemstone guitar picks from exotic jaspers, agates and even petrified dinosaur bone!
Jarrod StoneDahl www.woodspirithandcraft.com Jarrod has been working with wood and bark professionally since 1996. He and his wife April make and sell their handcrafts for a living through their business Woodspirit. He teaches workshops across the country and internationally. Over the years he has made birch bark baskets, birch bark boxes, wooden spoons and bowls, as well as cradle boards, birch bark canoes, snowshoes and toboggans. His main focus is woodturning using only a foot powered lathe, and carving spoons with axe and knife. He has spent time in museum archives here in the states, Sweden and the UK, studying and researching older work which is influential part of his inspiration as a craftsperson.
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