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Make Time During the Shortest Month
Take a mental health break with any of our classes – escape into learning as you share time and laughter with old and new friends. Whether online or in-person, you’ll leave energized and proud of what you’ve accomplished. Grab a friend virtually and go online to learn how to make authentic Risotto in your own kitchen or dig into geology with…
Read More...Lisa Ann Peterson
Lisa Peterson doesn’t remember a time when she hasn’t been making something. She is a spinner, knitter, quilter and weaver, creating rugs on an antique floor loom as well as doing free form weaving. She repairs and maintains old looms with her daughter, in addition to teaching weaving classes to all age groups and ability…
Read More...Kevin Nyenhuis
Kevin Nyenhuis is an avid paddler and woodworker. Enchanted by the upper St Croix as a canoe instructor 30 some years ago, he has raised his family in Marine, and on the waters of the region. Kevin teaches our build-your-own-paddle classes and is also the mayor of Marine on St. Croix.
Read More...Natalie Norman
Natalie Norman has been part of the cultural needlework community for over 20 years, participating as a vendor, demonstrator, and teacher at venues such as ASI, Gammelgarden, and Marine Mills Folk School. Sponsored by the Swedish Embassy in Washington, DC, her embroidered work was featured in a traveling exhibition that visited five major American cities…
Read More...Karen Engelbretson
A local artist from Grant, Karen Engelbretson has been making needle felted birds since 2008. She regularly teaches needle felting at St. Croix valley locations. Karen is a semi-retired graphic designer currently working with organizations to communicate the need to improve water quality and restore wildlife habitats.
Read More...Laurelei Creuzer
A teacher from Osceola, WI, Laurelei Creuzer has been teaching Psyanky Egg Dyeing for over thirty years. Laurelei enjoys crafts of all kinds, including her newly acquired Nålbinding skill at a recent Marine Mills Folk School class!
Read More...Janet Ames
A long time resident of Marine on St. Croix, Janet has a fine arts degree and professionally works as a teacher with at-risk and Special Education students. She is never far from wool, creating fiber garments and accessories using knitting, crocheting, naalbinding and other fiber arts techniques.
Read More...What’s Up at MMFS?
Interested to learn the secrets of spoon carving from a master carver? We’ve got one spot left for this weekend’s 2-day session, grab it! Or how about starting the year off with a clean slate and clean hands, using hand-made soap, made by you? Gather all your favorite memories about a special person and create an Heirloom Bear, for a…
Read More...Learning Is Good For You!
We’re probably all thinking about changes we want to make in 2022, fewer desserts, more exercise, more check-ins with that irritating uncle. Skip the ‘should do it’ and embrace the ‘fun and good for you’! Johns Hopkins, Mayo, your mother – all point out that learning at all ages is good for you. Researchers now know that…
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