Instructors
Christen (they/them) is a fiber artist creating practical pieces from the earth for over 25 years. Their art includes found and natural elements, nature, and sustainable methods. They work predominantly with wools and fibers made in Minnesota’s fibershed, including wolf; as part of the wolf pack, they’ve had the privilege of working with fiber shed…
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Christine Shoemaker is a certified ANFT Forest Therapy guide from the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT). She has been a resident of Oakdale for 5 years and grew up in the surrounding area. Christine is the founder of Sky Meets Water Forest Therapy LLC.
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Cindy Ruprecht I am a farmer, homemaker, artist, and teacher living near Hudson, Wisconsin. Demonstrating and teaching traditional crafts, from weaving to gardening, is my attempt at sharing a part of nearly 20 years of more “primitive” living and farming experience. Candles were a vital part of the life and are my favorite lighting, making…
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Connie has been making pottery in her Marine on St. Croix studio since 1973. Her pottery is currently white stoneware using wheel throwing as well as slab techniques. These days she frequently features her son Mike’s pottery as well as her own during her annual pottery sale.
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I am a Craft Yarn Council Certified Instructor with five years experience teaching crochet classes, both in person and online through Skillshare. I began designing my own patterns in 2010 and my first magazine published pattern appeared in Interweave Crochet Accessories 2012. Since then I have continued to self-publish several free and paid patterns online…
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“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…
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High school librarian by day, crafter for life. Dawn Zillich, aka The Stitching Coach, is an award winning embroider, quilter and knitter. She advises a high school sewing club as well as volunteers with Days for Girls and her church prayer shawl ministry. She is a BurdaStyle Certified Teacher and member of the American Quilters…
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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…
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Elena Bantle has never met a craft that she didn’t like! She lives on about 5 acres on the edge of Duluth, with her wife, her 18 year old Alaskan husky, snuggly cat, chickens and goats. Her crafts vary widely, but share a common wonder for the natural world and its abundance. She is a…
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Emily Anderson leads workshops that help students create fresher and more intuitive paintings. A life-long artist, Emily recently picked up the paints again and has begun the joyful journey of creating playful and layered landscapes. Students will come away from the class feeling excited to know that often, the paintings that took the shortest amount…
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