Posts by Celia Wirth

Aimee Van Ostrand Aimee Van Ostrand, L.Ac. is a Licensed Acupuncturist and owner of Healing Within Acupuncture & Wellness Studio in Stillwater and White Bear Lake. Aimee holds a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She began teaching tai chi at her studios to encourage patients to maintain a life-long practice of movement and breath.…

Aleks Knezevich Aleks Knezevich has been in the service industry for 22 years and has worked as a bartender for elite catering services in New York City, restaurants in the Iowa City and Minneapolis area, and even owned his own mobile bartending service. Aleks is also a professional musical theater actor in the Twin Cities,…

Amanda Buttinger Amanda Buttinger here…I’ve been a Rick Steves’ Europe tour guide and guidebook researcher for 15 years. While waiting to take you all back out on the road,  I’ve been doing virtual travel gatherings with Gather2Travel.com. I’ve lived in Spain for 23 years, more than half my life, yet I am still fascinated by…

Amanda Yadav Amanda is a Minnesota native who grew up in a family of gardeners and started growing microgreens to keep her green thumb in shape during the long Minnesota winters. She now owns Fiddlehead Farm LLC and grows a menu of over 45 different varieties of microgreens for restaurants, co-ops and farmers markets in…

Amber White Amber White is an artist and maker who grew up in rural northern Minnesota and is currently located in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. She is a professional artist and adult-onset deer hunter who creates a myriad of 2D and 3D artwork for gallery and outdoor installation as well as antler jewelry, tallow body…

Andrea Martin Andrea Martin is a Saint Paul artist and educator. She has been cutting paper for ten years and started working as a full time artist after retiring from teaching science. Andrea exhibits her work at art fairs and exhibitions regionally, nationally, and internationally. She belongs to several art organizations including MN Center for…

Barb Casey Anna Lowenthal Walsh is a Minneapolis based artist and maker. She loves to design and build working with wood, paint and textiles, and to consistently experiment with new materials. Recent projects in wood include the build of a teardrop camper last summer, and a backyard warming hut last winter. She paints both quiet…

Barb Casey As a professional marketing copywriter and oil painter, Barb Casey is a little obsessed with expressing verbs and adjectives in paint.  She applies a similar creative process to both writing and painting:  analyze the subject, define the key message, edit extraneous information – and make the most important thing memorable.  She has lived…