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…

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…

For more than 20 years, Linda has been a book designer for numerous publishers and authors. She has also hand bound her own sketchbooks, calendars, and photo albums using everything from expensive decorative papers, her own printed and designed papers, repurposed papers, miscellaneous fabrics, or whatever is lying around the house. Many of her handmade…

Through drawing, painting, and printmaking, Lindsey Reyes explores the magic inherent in our world, how people interpret this magic through our stories and art, and the creation of art as a human act. Lindsey graduated with a BFA in Integrated Studio Arts at Iowa State University and has taught students through ArtistYear, an AmeriCorps program.

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…

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…

Liz Schreiber is a 15 year veteran of the State Fair and has won multiple ribbons over the years. When not winning ribbons, she has worked as an illustrator for multiple publications using crop art as her medium including VitaMN, The Growler, and Edible Twin Cities.  Liz has taught workshops on Crop Art at the…

Lizabeth Towers is an experienced knitting teacher who has earned the two teaching certificates available from the Craft Yarn Council of America. A friend to every knitter, she enjoys making tough techniques accessible to average knitters, teaching rank beginners the joy of knitting, and best of all, learning from her students. She is found on ravelry.com as…

Lizzie Christian is a self-taught printmaker based in Minneapolis. She runs a one-woman art business under the name Rare Press, and focuses on blockprints, painting, and textiles. She loves sharing the joy of blockprinting with others through local workshops as well as through her Patreon community. Plants, portraits, and patterns are themes that weave through…

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.

Mary Anne Kinane has been and still is an artist and art teacher (50 yrs).She has been showing her work regionally, nationally, internationally, won awards, and doesworkshops in many places in Minnesota. She is a graduate of Moorhead State University, and hastwo masters from St Mary’s University: BS, M Ed, M AA

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…

Michelle Greenhouse leads textile workshops throughout the Twin Cities, including at Textile Center. She studied at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science and graduated with a master’s degree in weaving, then worked in the corporate design industry for 20 years at Calvin Klein, Jack Lenor Larsen, and Target. Michelle also has a master’s degree in…

Molly Sanford advocates for reuse and repair by spreading hands-on skills like sewing, welding, woodworking, and general troubleshooting. Molly believes that extending the lifespan of our belongings can be a joyful way to combat consumerism and climate change. She has taught a variety of hands-on classes at Fireweed Community Workshop (formerly Women’s Woodshop), Leonardo’s Basement, and the University…