Chiaki O’Brien is a SAORI Leaders Committee Certificate recipient. She began SAORI Weaving in 1996 in Japan. She worked as an instructor for the SAORI head office/school in Japan before moving to Minnesota in 2004. She’s been teaching a variety of ages and abilities at schools (including special education classes), at facilities for people with…

Coralette Damme works primarily as a printmaking artist and has a BFA in studio arts. She blends her passions for nature and the unusual into her work and believes creativity can be part of daily life.  Her classes offer hands-on experiences that can easily be replicated at home. www.craftyhag.com

“My family grew up loving the outdoors, and we always took an interest in what it was we were seeing out there,” says Setterholm on his start in geology. He worked for the Minnesota Geological Survey for 40 years before retiring. “Geology is everywhere,” he says. “It’s the study of the earth, and we all…

I took early retirement from 9-5 jobs to pursue my creative interests: pottery, photography and more recently, botanical printing and natural dyes. My art studio is a converted ice fishing house on wheels I moved into my backyard in Minneapolis, to be close to my garden plants for natural dyes and botanical printing. Along with…

Emma Crutcher has always been fascinated by trash and is thrilled to make it her life’s work! Emma is a maker based in South Minneapolis working with waste plastic to create functional and beautiful items. She is the founder of Cool Trash, started in 2022 as an official label for her creative exploits. Cool Trash…

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.

Etoile Jensen has been creating items with wool for the past 10 years. She makes wreaths, trivets, bowls, flowers, pinecone arrangements, and pin cushions, all using either hand-dyed or repurposed wool. Drawing inspiration from nature, her work often reflects themes of flora and fauna through color, texture, and form. Etoile repurposes discarded clothing and hand-dyed…

Eva Adderley is a Minneapolis-based artist, writer, and teacher whose work brings stories to life through puppets, lanterns, and interactive installations. Their creations have appeared in the Barebones Halloween Extravaganza, Art Shanty Projects, Open Eye Theatre, and other community festivals around the Midwest. With over a decade of experience teaching art and writing, Eva has…

Fred Livesay is a crafts instructor and restoration carpenter residing in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a founding instructor of North House Folk School.  He teaches various crafts at folk schools, art centers, museums, and gatherings in the five-state area, and is a frequent guest instructor at Spoonfest, Edale, England. Primarily a woodworker, he is…

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.…

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…

Hannah Frick is a Minneapolis-based artist who loves working with reused and repurposed materials. Through her art practice, CATS ARE READY, she creates custom collaged pet portraits and leads workshops where others can explore the joy of collage-making. Each of her pieces is composed of vibrant colors, shapes, lines, and patterns cut and torn from…

Heather Mashuga recognized her passion for plants and herbalism in her first herbalism class, proceeding to earn her master’s degree in Holistic Health Studies, with a concentration in herbalism, from St. Catherine’s University.  She practices traditional Western herbalism and has been a practitioner and teacher for 4 years.  Heather incorporates knowledge and traditions of herbal…