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Leslie Granbeck is a feltmaker and instructor born and raised in Minneapolis. Since 2007, Leslie has been sharing her knowledge of fibers and their magical transformation into felt. She teaches traditional wet felting, nuno felting, and her favorite – sculptural seamless felting. Her classes are full of color, creativity and adventure. They also include a…

Judy Sell has been creating dishes and vintage jewelry for over 25 years. She has been on HGTV: Crafters Coast-to-Coast and has been a Minnesota State Fair, Fine Arts, Blue Ribbon winner. She teaches mosaic art and our vintage jewelry tree classes.

Wayne Manthey is a nationally known drum maker and teacher of drum making.  His approach is spiritual, honoring the animals who provided the hides and the trees who donated the wood. “As I started making drums, I was especially interested in the vibration of rawhide and the sound it makes.  Once I was able to…

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…

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.

John Hanson is an artist, woodworker and soap maker from Minneapolis. He has been teaching soap making for over four years, with many of his classes resulting in wait lists. He sells his soap products in over twenty local stores including at his first customer, the Seward Co-op.

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.

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!

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.