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Craft In The Spotlight
"The Home"
February 1 - March 16,
2008
Celebrating the elemental beauty
of traditional craft
Hope you didn't
miss it!
Our thanks
to the many partners, friends, artisans and volunteers who
made
Craft In The Spotlight 2008
a time of inspiration,
learning and
beauty.
Stay tuned for
details & dates for North House's next
Craft In The
Spotlight event.
Diligent and full of
hope, do find your toil modest.
The sun rises in a friendly way, shining on hard work.
Real progress, added peace, more joy in life,
and your own comfortable home, waiting round the corner.
- Carl Larsson, in Ett Home
Each year, Craft In The Spotlight illuminates and
explores a unique
dimension of traditional craft. The 2008 Craft In the
Spotlight
theme is "The Home."
The Home
is a
six week exhibition of craft
inspired by the traditions and lifestyles of 'the home' across
northern cultures.
The exhibit is complemented by six weeks of
inspiring hands-on coursework.
In 2008,
the exhibit of handcrafted traditional crafts will be
integrated with a Photo Exhibition of Home and Shelter
related North House course projects.
North House Folk School
invites past students and instructors to submit their images
for this six-week exhibition.
Click here to
download Photo Exhibit information.
"The Home" Exhibit
February 1 - March 16
Thursdays through Sundays 1pm-4pm.
- at the
Johnson Heritage Post in Grand Marais
Other times by appointment.
Call 218-388-0575 or 218-387-2314
Featured Public Presentations
** Opening Reception **
Friday, Feb 1 at 5pm
at Johnson Heritage Post
** Swedish Traditions of Furniture Craft **
with Fred Livesay, historian & museum studies professional
Saturday, Feb 2 at Noon
at Johnson Heritage Post
** Bringing The Outside In **
with Phillip Odden, master Nordic carver
Saturday, March 15 at 7pm
at Johnson Heritage Post
Event
Coursework
Opening Weekend
*
Making A Broom Corn Broom (Feb 2-3)
*
All Hung Up - The Fabric Chair (Feb 2-3)
*
Bread Baskets of Birch Bark (Feb 1-3)
*
Awl in One: Swedish Folk Kitchenware (Feb 2-4)
*
Scandinavian Flat-Plane Figure Carving (Feb 1-3)
February - March
*
Log Building: An Introduction (Feb
7-11)
*
Handcrafting Doors (Feb 9-10)
*
Bury Yourself In Your Own Work: Building Your
Own Casket (Feb 15-17)
*
Sweet Grass Basketry (Feb 16-18)
*
Viking Dragon Relief
Carving (Feb 22-24)
*
For The Woodshop: Timbered Sawhorse Trestle (Feb 22-24)
*
Nomadic Pursuits: Building the Micro Yurt
(Feb 27-March 2)
*
Black Ash Basketry: Iroquois Baskets (March 7-9)
Closing Weekend
*
Nordic Drinking Vessels in Wood (March
14-16)
*
Birch
Bark Tutorial (March 15-16)
*
18th Century Furniture: Swedish Lyre-Style Trestle Table
(March 12-16)
A Look Back
2007 Craft
In The Spotlight
"Of Swamp & Bog"
(click
image to enlarge)
Nothing
exists for itself alone, but only
in relation to other forms of life.
- charles darwin
2006 Craft In The
Spotlight
"Celebrating
Birch"
Click Here to See On-Line Gallery of
the 2006 Celebrating Birch Exhibit
Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree!
Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree!
I a light canoe will build me
That shall float upon the river.
- from "The Song of
Hiawatha,"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The birch tree is a symbol of the northern
forest in North America as well as around the global northern
forest. The tree played a critical role in the culture of
Native northern peoples. In Minnesota, the birch tree served
the Ojibwe people from birth to death. The Ojibwe and other
northern peoples found a use for every part of the
tree—leaves, branches, roots, wood, bark, and sap."
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