Instructors
“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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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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Eric teaches our broom-making classes. From Eric: “After forty years in the commercial construction industry, retirement has given me the opportunity to embrace craft. I discovered I have a passion for broom tying and basket weaving. Crafting brings me so much joy, it’s my happy place!”
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Erik teaches our popular beginning spoon-carving class. Along with his wife, Michele, he has been creating handmade items since 2013 using traditional Scandinavian carving techniques. Starting with locally sourced wood and using only hand tools, they have chopped and carved spoons, bowls, butter spreaders, wall hooks and anything else needed for the home and kitchen.…
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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…
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“I have been making artisan cheese for 21 years. My wife and I live in Charlotte, Michigan. I have taught in Michigan, North Carolina, Alabama, Iowa, and Minnesota. I have had training from Glengarry Cheese Company in Canada, and have been guided by Ricki Carol of New England Cheese Making Company for the last fifteen…
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Gigi Nauer is a life-long Minnesotan. She was raised in a family of musicians and has spent a lifetime playing, singing, and teaching. When she was six, Gigi found a ukulele and a picture book of chords. That was all she needed to figure out her first chord, and she was hooked. Decades later, she…
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Originally from North Dakota, Greg worked as a prison therapist while pursuing art, carving and sculpture using a variety of different materials including ice (first place co-winner in the 1998 Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture-Amateur Contest!), silver, antler, wood, leather and scrimshaw. Now a full-time artist, Greg makes sculptures by inviting nature to steel.
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