Posts by Jen Thompson

Jeff Bartol is a fine arts painter, trained in architecture and graphic design at the University of Minnesota. He currently lives in Forest Lake, MN, and his paintings can be viewed at JeffBartolArt.com. Born in rural Boulder CO, Jeff grew up surrounded by a pastoral farm life, shadowed by the Rockies and fed by Boulder…

Erin is a Twin Cities-based artist & educator. Book Arts has been their main creative expression for 20 years. Erin has been teaching at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts since 2010, and is pleased to bring the love of boxes to Marine Mills Folk School.

For more than 20 years, Linda has been a book designer for numerous publishers and authors. She has also hand bound her own sketchbooks, calendars, and photo albums using everything from expensive decorative papers, her own printed and designed papers, repurposed papers, miscellaneous fabrics, or whatever is lying around the house. Many of her handmade…

Etoile designs and creates beautiful wool items including wreaths, trivets, bowls, flowers, pine cone arrangements and pin cushions. Her most popular item is a hand-crafted wool rose that can be used as an essential oil diffuser. The beautiful colors and unique textures of wool provide great inspiration for her art. Her wool creations are made…

Linda M. Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a bioregional herbalist, myco-herbalist, traditional food educator, traditional skills educator and community organizer. She dedicates her life to connecting with the green world and sharing the earth’s wisdom. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. Linda has…

Marcia Dressel is a retired teacher-librarian with a lingering passion for picture books. She enjoys creativity in many forms including the kitchen arts, watercolor painting, old school correspondence, community choir, and play-acting.

Sara Wait is the founder of Slow Burn, a boutique beeswax candle company based in St. Paul, MN. With a background in mindfulness and sustainable practices, Sara creates handcrafted, locally sourced candles designed to inspire intentional living and a connection to nature. Her workshops invite participants to slow down, learn a timeless craft, and enjoy…

Stephanie Gard Buss is a mixed-media artist living and working in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She loves working with both natural and vintage items and creating assemblage is her passion.

Kara Lundin is a Community Wellness Practitioner who focuses on both traditional folk and clinical approaches to herbalism. She holds a Certificate of Integrative Health from Red Rocks Community College in Denver, CO. Kara grows and forages most of the plant medicine she uses for herself, her family, and the community.

Karen has a lifelong interest in textiles, craft and art. She’s had an active and interesting life with a BS in Home Economics Ed., MA in Art History and M.Div. She’s a Women’s Army Corps veteran and retired Episcopal Priest. She’s lived in Italy and Germany and traveled a lot! Karen knits and sews and…

Mary Anne Kinane has been and still is an artist and art teacher (50 yrs).She has been showing her work regionally, nationally, internationally, won awards, and doesworkshops in many places in Minnesota. She is a graduate of Moorhead State University, and hastwo masters from St Mary’s University: BS, M Ed, M AA