Instructors

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.

Cami Andersen (she/her) is a librarian and crafter located in North St. Paul, MN. She was born and raised in Brainerd, MN, and draws inspiration from the “Up North” lifestyle and nature aesthetics, as well as her undergraduate experiences living in Sweden. Her primary crafts include cross-stitching, Bargello embroidery, and bookmarks made of recycled books…

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…

For more than 30 years, Mary Anne Kinane has been a painter, calligrapher, and art educator. Many know the pen & ink drawings of houses, churches, and other architectural structures, and watercolors and acrylics of gardens and nature of Ms. Kinane. Nature and gardens keep on inspiring Mary Anne’s calligraphy designs and other artwork.

Meet Peg Medcraft, a devoted art educator and passionate creator. With ‘CRAFT’ in her surname, her creative path was destined. Affectionately known at school and in the community as “Crafty,” Peg has inspired over 2,000 learners during her 35-year teaching journey, nurturing a love for art and ceramics.

Annabella Sardelis is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose working mediums include calligraphy, natural dyes, and textiles. In 2013 she founded INDIGO & SNOW, an atelier dedicated to sustainable design in the Twin Cities. Her focus aesthetically is on the creation of functional items, and seeing the beauty in utility, specializing in hand-dyed and painted…

Greig Tennis started his lifelong musical journey as a percussionist and, by the time he was in high school, was giving drum lessons to up to 20 students per week. Later, he became the Drum Sergeant of the Macalester College Bagpipe Band and gave lessons to college students in the distinctive style of Scottish bagpipe…

Amanda Lane has been getting her hands dirty for over 20 years, working in garden centers and greenhouses throughout Minnesota. Specializing in houseplants, annuals, and succulents, her passion for plants runs deep. With her solo venture, Collectively Unearthed, Amanda has been teaching hands-on classes with a focus on community, creating connections, and unearthing the inner…

I have been playing with colors and fibers my whole life.  I began sewing when I was very young, knitting in 4th grade.  I have done most very craft that requires fiber of some kind. The Shirret Rug has intrigued me for many years, making something useful out of cast-off wool fabric is so satisfying.  

Meagan’s love of plants began early and has only deepened over the years. Meagan’s particular plant passions include home food crops, succulents, herbs, and edible flowers. She also loves sharing her love of the natural world and has been teaching life sciences in Saint Paul Public Schools for more than a decade. She holds a BS…

Sarina Partridge is a musician, song-leader and educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She feels most alive when learning, creating and sharing songs, and enjoys singing with a wide variety of music projects – Eastern European and Yiddish song, old-time music, community song-leading… and everything in between. Sarina has traveled around the world to study with master…

Liz Rog is a songleader in the global Ubuntu tradition which welcomes all voices to weave songs and community. Liz delights in helping people rediscover their ancestral birthright of group singing. She lives in the Driftless of Northeast Iowa and enjoys traveling to other towns and regions to help in the re-seeding of the earth with…

Gabriella lives on her family’s small farm in Stillwater and has grown seeds for their massive garden for over ten years. Keeping our land and waterways clean is a passion that has led her to stuff journals full of trash and treasures gathered from riverbanks, ditches, and rescued from the bin at her retail job.…

Dawn Pivec is the owner and acupuncturist at Loon Holistic Health (loonholistichealth.com) in Scandia, MN. She has supported thousands of people in their healing journeys  since 2013. This session will help you to understand new possibilities for your healthcare.