David/Lise Abazs - Finland, MN
David and Lise of Round River Farm operate an organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) fruit and vegetable farm, plus raise goats, sheep and chickens.  To supplement their farm income, they also make and sell balsam wreaths.  Located on the North Shore of Lake Superior, the rocky soil provides the Abazses with the materials to build their homestead's structures while the northern elements provide them with the solar and wind power to keep it all running.  Their goal is to balance their needs with what their land can provide, creating as many circular cycles as possible.  Visit www.round-river.com .

Howard/Joan Abrahamson - Grand Marais, MN
Joan and Howard are lifetime gardeners who have enjoyed the fruits of their labors both in northern and southern Minnesota.  For over a decade they have been intrigued with the challenge of gardening on Superior’s North Shore, creatively working to shape systems that help their plants thrive. Joan’s training in horticulture and Howard’s interest in woodworking have inspired them to build multiple greenhouses, hoop houses, raised beds and more – their homestead is at once inspiringly well organized and deliciously abundant.  Both trained as University of Minnesota Extension Service Master Gardeners.

Roger Abrahamson - Minneapolis, MN
Roger is a traditional bowl turner.  Using a spring pole lathe, hand forged tools, and freshly harvested native woods, he specializes in the creation of Norwegian Ale vessels.  His fascination for these objects has its roots in his immigrant grandmother's ale bowl, which is still in the family. Roger has demonstrated his trade at the Nordic Fest, Norsk Hostfest, the Minnesota State Fair, the Smithsonian Institute's Viking Exhibition and several other historic sites. He has been a turner for 18 years, working with a pole lathe exclusively for the past 12.

Al Anderson - Pilot, VA
Al began his rigging career snatching downed helicopters out of the jungles of Vietnam.  As a charter member of the Timber Frame Guild and over 25 years as a practicing timber framer, Al has seen his share of rigging opportunities.  Currently specializing in repair and restoration of historic heavy timber structures has added the necessity of figuring out how to get to a timber to do the repair or replacement. Jacking up a four story Grist Mill or a covered bridge can take a lot more time than the repair itself. Al is a member of the Timber Framing Guild Board of Directors and chairs the education committee.

Chel Anderson - Grand Marais, MN
Chel is a plant ecologist and botanist currently working with the County Biological Survey of the Minnesota DNR. An irrepressible outdoor enthusiast, powered by insatiable curiosity, she’s worked in northeastern Minnesota for over 30 years. During that time her work has included rare plant and plant community surveys, conservation and management planning; research, and natural history interpretation and education.

Keith Anderson - Cumberland, WI
Retired in 1996 as a professor of German at St. Olaf College, Keith is able to indulge his fascination with Norwegian wood carving.  Inspired by acanthus classes with Phil and Else Odden, and flat plane carving with Harley Refsal, he has become a regular woodcarving instructor for his local senior center and at the Northfield Arts Guild.  He does frequent commissioned pieces in acanthus and in flat plane figure carving.

Philis Anderson - Grand Marais, MN
Philis has owned and trained horses since the 1970s.  The Norwegian Fjord horse has been her horse of choice in recent years because of its intelligence and gentle nature.  Philis and her horses continue to enter pleasure driving competitions and shows.  Her horses have received high evaluations in the Norwegian system of confirmation and work discipline.

Ohito Ashoona - Toronto, ONT
Ohito is a respected carving elder from the arctic community of Cape Dorset.  2002 winner of the prestigous National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Art and Culture, Ashoona grew up in an outpost camp living the traditional Inuit lifestyle of subsisting off the land.  By his early teens, his destiny was set: he would be an artist like his father, Kaka Ashoona, and grandmother, Pitseolak Ashoona, both celebrated Inuit artists.

David Asproth - Grand Marais, MN
David ties flies commercially and has a passion for brook trout fishing.  He has tied at five national events and currently serves as a demonstration fly-tier for the Federation of Fly fishers, the Arrowhead Fly fishers and the Thunder Bay Fly fishers.  David continues to demonstrate his fly-tying and casting abilities through demonstrations at the Midwest Fly Fishing Expo, Sawbug Festival in Arkansas and the Chicago Sports Show.  He pioneered the use of the float tube in Cook County and has been instrumental in the shaping of youth educational programs with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

David Bauer - Marshall, NC
David completed an internship at North House Folk School with an emphasis on wood-fired baking and received further training at the San Francisco Baking Institute.  Formerly the bread baker for Lucia’s Bakery and Corner Table in Minneapolis, he now bakes independently in a wood-fired bakery in the Appalachian mountains with his trusty hound Rosie.

Linda Bauer - Grand Marais, MN
Linda has been knitting since she was 6 years old.  Taught by her mother, countless patterns, numerous books and knitting friends, Linda is now designing her own garments and living the dream of having her own design studio/yarn shop in Grand Marais, Minnesota.  Linda has a BFA in dance and a master's degree in art education. She finds that both influence and inform her teaching. Linda's approach is student-centered as she strives to meet students' needs, abilities and goals for the workshops she teaches.

Fern Belling - Hovland, MN
Fern graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Drawing and Painting, and continues to pursue those arts today in her native state of Minnesota.  Living deep in the woods in northern Minnesota has allowed her to develop a relationship with Lake Superior red pine needles, which she uses to intricately stitch small coiled baskets.  Fern especially enjoys incorporating trees into both her 2-D and 3-D works.

John Beltman - Nashwauk, MN
John is a master woodworker who specializes in working with traditional hand tools and utilizing traditional building techniques. His students consistently comment that this approach permeates every class he teaches. He has recently concentrated his efforts on traditional early American methods of woodworking, including spring-pole lathe turning, the construction of snowshoes and hand-crafting Windsor chairs & stools. John's training includes work with the Rockport Apprentice Shop in Maine, Strong's Canoe Yard in Vermont and the Windsor Institute in New Hampshire.

Mike Benedict - Hastings, MN
Mike’s interest in ash basketry started when he studied basket making with several community Mohawk elders in the 1980s. His focus is primarily on traditional 'utility' baskets.  In 1999 Mike attended the University of Minnesota to pursue a master’s degree in black ash ecology. His research, which  focused on identifying ideal sites for growing ash specifically for basket making, compliments his brother’s work on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in Northern New York; where reintroducing and replanting former black ash stands has become a priority.  He is currently employed as Forester for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Minneapolis.

Brian Bennett - Hovland, MN
Brian has been in the electrical trades field on and off for since the 1970s.  He earned his masters license in 1999 and started his company "Outback Solar Electric" in 2000, specializing in the installation of photovoltaic systems ever since.  Brian was also an elementary physical education teacher for 12 years.  He likes the idea of energy efficiency in physical activity as well as best practices of electrical energy conservation.  So what does all this have to do with X-C skiing?

Dave Benson - Duluth, MN
Dave is a writer, guide, and naturalist from Duluth, Minnesota. His writing has appeared in “Birding,” “The Loon,” “Northern Wilds,” and other publications. He has served as a naturalist at Hawk Ridge and at several state parks. His ornithological work includes conducting surveys for the Minnesota DNR, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibway, Grand Portage National Monument, and the USFWS Breeding Bird Survey.

Dedrick Benz - Winona, MN
Dedrick has birded every county in Minnesota and Grand Marais still remains perhaps his favorite spot in the state, especially since his November 1999 sighting of an Ancient Murrelet. He has conducted surveys in the bottomland forests of SE Minnesota, and led field trips in Detroit Lakes and Grand Marais.

Traudi Bestler - Minnetonka, MN
Traudi has been weaving and creating textile projects for over 30 years.  Her prime interest is in passing along the history and joy of making fiber art.  She studied weaving, spinning and dyeing at the Weaver's Guild of Minnesota,  The Weaving School and Sievers School of Fiber Arts.  She currently teaches weaving and dyeing at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts and has been a workshop presenter for the last 25 years at the MN Federation of Weavers conferences.

Jerry Bonkoski - Prior Lake, MN
Jerry’s interest in birds began when he observed a Horned Lark in his yard at Byron, Minnesota in the 1970s. Since then he has become an avid bird watcher, investing time and energy finding birds throughout Minnesota. An active member of the Bluebird Recovery Committee in southeastern Minnesota, he has built thousands and monitored hundreds of nesting boxes. Jerry is a past President of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union. Recently, he has worked with Bob Janssen on the Minnesota DNR project to develop up-to-date bird species lists for each state park. Jerry retired from a career in computers in 2002.

Dennis Bradley - Bokeelia, FL
A retired forester, Dennis has sailed his and others' boats all over-- the Great Lakes, Florida’s Gulf Coast, Mexico's Sea of Cortez, and the English Channel. He  also taught  for the U.S. Power Squadron and the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Since 1997 he has volunteered on many NH projects including  the Mackinaw 'Paul LaPlante', Grand Marais’ fishing tug 'Neegee' and several other small boats.  Coastal cruising in small boats, navigation, maritime history, and marlinspike seamanship are key interests.

Clark Bremer - Minneapolis, MN
Clark’s wife enrolled him in one of the first timber framing classes offered at North House, and he hasn’t been the same since.  Clark now owns Northern Lights Timber Framing in Minneapolis.  He is a member of the Timber Framer’s Guild of North America.  In a former life, he was a researcher at Bell Labs designing computer chips and software.  Visit www.northernlightstimberframing.com

Kathy Brihn - Sarona, WI
Kathy learned to call with Duck for the Oyster and has studied calling at the Pinewoods Camp in Massachusetts.  Since 1992, along with regular Duck dances, she has called at festivals, schools, and community education programs.  In addition to calling, Kathy sometimes lends her voice to the band's vocal numbers.  In her day life, Kathy serves as County Executive Director of the USDA Farm Service Agency in Washburn County.

Gilly the Sea Dog - Grand Marais, MN
Gilly, a native of Idaho, has been first mate onboard the schooner Hjørdis for the past seven years.  Her duties include lying around the deck and being petted by the customers.  She also helps keep the North House campus chipmunk-free.  She loves treats.

Matthew Brown - Grand Marais, MN
Active in sailing since the 1980s, Matthew has sailed a wide variety of boats, from sloops to tall ships on the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.  A U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain, he has played a major role aboard North House's schooner Hjørdis since she was acquired in September 1997.

Liz Bucheit/Kary Kilmer - Lanesboro, MN
Liz and Kary are co-owners of Crown Trout Jewelry in Lanesboro, Minnesota and have been goldsmiths for over 25 years.  They have trained in traditional jewelry and metalworking techniques both in Ireland and Norway and have been awarded grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Sons of Norway, and the SE Minnesota Arts Council.  Known for their Scandinavian inspired bridal crown and wedding jewelry, they were recently awarded first place in Lapidary Journal's Jewelry Arts Award competition.   Visit www.crowntrout.com.

Kurt Buetow - Downing, WI
Kurt's claim to fame is winning the international canvas furniture design competition in 1974 held in Tokyo with his innovative design of the now ubiquitous fabric 'hanging chair.' His design career has included exploration of different hammock styles, sail designs and alternative housing options.  Kurt enjoys seeing people take hold of their natural world.  Designing and building is his first language.

Dennis Chilcote - Minneapolis, MN
Dennis has a great appreciation for historical crafts and a long-standing fascination with the way our ancestors expressed art through craft.  In that vein, he uses baskets, brooms and traditional woodwork as both canvas and palette for his art.  You can view his work at mnartists.org/dennis_chilcote.

Carol Colburn - Cedar Falls, IA
Carol travels throughout Norway to find inspiration from the landscape, people, and from “old clothes” found in museums and private homes.  Some of her favorite historic garments were discovered in the walls of old log buildings; tucked into cracks ages ago for insulation. She speaks and writes on traditional clothing in Norway and America and reconstructs historic garments for museum exhibits. Skilled in all aspects of period garment making, she has experience working at Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theater Company, and the Minnesota Opera in the Twin Cities.  She teaches theater costume design and technology at the University of Northern Iowa.

David Cooper - Grand Marais, MN
Dave is an archaeologist with the National Park Service (NPS), working at Grand Portage National Monument. Dave's archaeological experience includes 14 years as a nautical archaeologist, studying shipwrecks of the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean. He has sailed since his teens and is currently focused on sailing, maintaining and interpreting the North House/NPS Mackinaw boat, the "Paul La Plante."

Nancy Daley - Lutsen, MN
Nancy has studied and practiced the art of papermaking by hand since the 1980s. She uses ancient non-mechanized techniques, similar to the way papermaking was first invented in China.  Her fascination with the craft inspired her to travel overseas to visit remote hill villages in northwestern China where papermaking has been practiced for centuries. The non-mechanized process gives the artist a sense of participation in the natural ongoing cycle of growth, decay and regeneration.

Tom Dengler - St.Paul, MN
Tom has been involved with tool collecting, traditional craft and living history since 1989.  His professional experience in woodworking and carpentry dates back for more than 30 years.  He has an interest in Scandinavian and European rural crafts with a special focus on green woodworking.  He works out of two small adjoining shops in his basement - one with power, one intentionally not.  Tom's biggest aspiration is to finish his kitchen so he can begin building his third workshop.

Patty Doherty - Grand Marais, MN
A life-long knitter, Patty began felting in 1988.  She demonstrated hand felting for three summers at the historic Swedish settlement at Bishop Hill, IL under a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.  A natural teacher, Patty has offered workshops for children and adults at local schools, 4-H, the Fiber Arts Guild and North House.  Patty also loves traditional folk dancing and is part of the local music group, "Over the Waterfall."

Ben Doornbos - Holland, MI
Having hiked the Appalachian Trail, rafted the Mississippi River, and interned at North House, Ben brings varied experience to his role as captain of Hjordis.  Ben is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain and a graduate of Northern Michigan University's Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management Program.

Kristi Downing - Grand Marais, MN
Kristi began potting in the 1960s, but it is only since "retiring" in 1998 that she has been able to pursue her dream in earnest.  Her studio and raku kiln are located on the Lake Superior shore just east of Grand Marais.  She currently teaches at the Grand Marais Art Colony and raku techniques at North House.  In  2002, Kristi and her raku firing were featured on two Twin Cities television stations: Channel 45, "Environmental Journal," and Channel 5, "On The Road with Jason Davis."  She is also one of 14 artists on the fall Duluth-to-Thunder Bay Crossing Borders Art/Studio tour.

Tom Draughon - Sarona, WI
Tom Draughon is the owner of and executive producer for Heartistry Music, a record label devoted to music and artists of the Lake Superior region..  A notable performer and enthusiast of acoustic music, Tom plays a wide variety of instruments, including guitar, violin, banjo, and piano.  He has performed with Tom Paxton, Randy Sabien, and Molly and the Makers and appears as a session musician on over 20 recordings as well as on his own CDs   Tom performs with his acapella vocal group Sons of the Voyageur, and his new acoustic trio, Take 3.  He also currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Music at Northland College.

Lonnie Dupre - Grand Marais, MN
During an Arctic career spanning 17 years, Lonnie Dupre has traveled over 13,500 miles throughout the high Arctic regions of northeastern Russia, Lapland, Alaska, Canada and Greenland. He has led five major Arctic expeditions and participated in six.  His expeditions have been featured in Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, Outside and National Geographic Online.  In 1991, he organized and led the Northwest Passage Expedition, making a 3,000-mile transit of the Canadian Arctic by dog sled, comparing changes in Inuit culture since Knud Rasmussen’s expedition in 1923. Recently, Lonnie worked on the One World Expedition project, a trip from the North Pole to Greenland, pulling and paddling specially modified canoes across shifting sea ice and open ocean, to raise awareness of global warming and climate change - www.oneworldexpedition.com

John Franz - Grand Marais, MN
John graduated with a B.A. in art from S.t John's University in 1957.  His career has been in teaching art in Stillwater, Minnesota at Oakland Jr. High. After retiring in 1993, he moved to Grand Marais.  He serves on the  Board for the Grand Marais Art Colony and teaches pottery for both the Grand Marais Art Colony and Cook County Community Education.

Tina Fung Holder - Washburn, WI
Since 1996 Tina Fung Holder has lived and worked in north west Wisconsin, moving from the urban city life in Chicago.  While pursuing her formal education in Chicago, she did extensive research in basketry techniques at the Field Museum.  Since moving to the Northwoods, she has explored both traditional and new applications of the available natural materials thinks that anything that grows flexible is fair game.  She enjoys developing new basket designs and teaching them in workshops.  Her basketry is sold in galleries in the region.

Bruce Futterer - Russellville, AR
Bruce has been an avid carver since 1977.  Since 2000, Bruce won numerous blue ribbons at the International Carving Competition held each year in Davenport, Iowa. In 2004, his Santa Claus carving was selected as the National Grand Prize winner in the Woodcraft/Wood Carving Illustrated contests.  In 2006, Bruce won Best of Show at the National Charicature Carvers Competition and in '05, he was awarded a Gold Medal for Scandianvian style carving from the Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum.  He was raised in Grand Marais and returns to the North Shore each summer.

Ted Gephart - Bayfield, WI
Ted lives on Wisconsin's 'north coast'  of Lake Superior, with his wife and two daughters.  He missed the boat for the first time as a young boy and has been doing it since then as a hobby.  Okay, he's also been a Charter Captain since 1985. Among the many marine classes Ted has instructed are Wisconsin boater safety and the US Coast Guard license exam review course.  He is also founder and board member of North Coast Community Sailing.

Jim Gilbert - Waconia, MN
Since 1998, Jim has been an Instructor of Environmental Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.   Previously, Jim served as a Hopkins Public School science teacher/naturalist for 30 years. He is a consulting naturalist for WCCO Radio, co-author of the Minnesota Weatherguide Calendars, author of two books on nature in Minnesota and writer of a weekly newspaper column.

John Green - Duluth, MN
John has been exploring the North Shore in all seasons since he moved to Duluth from New England in 1958.  He has mapped and researched the geology of the area for most of that time, and has led scores of field trips for both amateurs and professionals to show off its rocky wonders.  Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences for the University of Minnesota, John is also an avid birder and amateur botanist as well as a long-time supporter of the Superior Hiking Trail.

Dave Grosshuesch - Duluth, MN
Dave started his career in birds working on a number of avian research projects (including hawks, owls, and passerines) in California, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and British Columbia, CA.  He coordinated the Passerine Banding Operation at the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory from 1996 -  2007 and the Western Great Lakes Region Owl Monitoring Survey from 2005 - 2007.  He currently works as a Biological Technician for the U.S. Forest Service on the Superior National Forest.  Despite his interest in all nesting birds of the boreal forest, he remains focused in the nesting ecology of Northern Hawk Owls.

Mark Hansen - Grand Marais, MN
Mark has a particular interest in work boats of the North, and has studied boat building in Greenland and in Norway.  He has built birch bark canoes, Greenland kayaks, Umiaks, Norse prams, and a variety of traditional wooden sail and row boats of the north. His other interests include winter camping with a traditional outfit, wooden skis and birch toboggans. Actively involved in the founding of North House, Mark has been teaching since 1995 and operates Hansen Boat Works.

Shirley Hansen - Minneapolis, MN
Shirley has been instructing at North House since its beginning in 1997.  A retired teacher who has spent a significant amount of time in Scandinavia learning knitting techniques, she relishes sharing her interest in traditional fiber arts.  Knitting and embroidery, sweaters and vests, hats and mittens - Shirley has a knack for bringing projects alive.  Her instructing experience also includes cooking, knitting and many other courses in the Twin Cities.

Dave Hanson - Duluth, MN
Metalworking has been a part of Dave's entire life.  His family owned one of the largest machine shops in Iowa.  Known to have one of the largest private blacksmith shops in the five-state area, Dave spends countless hours around the Midwest demonstrating his work and skills to the public at rendezvous' and special events.  Dave founded the Lake Superior Metal Smith club.  Other past times include training and caring for his horses, woodcarving and pottery.

Kate Hartman - Madison, WI
Kate first learned to knit while in high school.  Since then, she has explored a variety of knitting traditions, including both the English/American and Continental knitting techniques, lace knitting, Aran and the multi-colored Fair Isle and Scandinavian techniques.  Kate enjoys making sweaters, socks, mittens and other garments in a variety of styles and materials, using many of her own wheel-spun yarns.  She likes teaching and believes that enjoyment and enthusiasm are necessary as adults learn a new craft.  Kate currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin and has the good fortune of being married to a knitter/spinner.

Tom Healy - Whitefish, MT
Tom is a professional timber framer, a member of the Timber Frame Guild of North America, and a biology graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In addition to teaching, Tom served as co-director for North House 1997-2000 and as a member of the North House Board. With his wife Meagen, they raise Wirehaired Pointing Griffons and operate a Nordic Ski Lodge in Whitefish Montana. www.stillwatermtnlodge.com

Peter Henrikson - Grand Marais, MN
Peter settled in Grand Marais after a transient career of log building, basket making, timber bridge building and teaching timber skills on public lands.  He is now a professional timber framer and designer and has been teaching timber framing at North House since 1998. Peter has taught black ash basketry and paddle making courses, but now focuses on timber framing and spending time with his family (he's a man who's rich in daughters).

Mike Hero - Grand Marais, MN
Mike Hero caught his first trout on a fly streams of the North Shore more than 40 years ago.  He has avidly tied flies and fly fished the lakes and streams of the area ever since.  Mike also has extensive experience fishing the Driftless Area of Southeastern Minnesota and Southwest Wisconsin, as well as many of the famous trout streams of the eastern and western US.  He was a long time member of the St. Paul Fly Tiers Club and is a life member of Trout Unlimited.

John Hockema - Rochester, MN
John started birding in 1984 working with his mentor, Dr. Risser, whom he was introduced to by his grandmother.  Since then, he has traveled across the state of Minnesota chasing birds. On June 11, 2004, John became the third earliest ever to record 300 species of birds in one year in Minnesota, finding his 300th, a Least Bittern, near Marshall, MN. He has been doing big years in Minnesota since 1998, but vows to give them up to avoid bankruptcy. Sharing his enthusiasm for birding takes many forms including serving as a guide/instructor for spring and fall bird festivals at North House.

Ivy Hocking - Grand Marais, MN
Dog mushing has a long history in Cook County, with kennels now operating for over 30 years.  Since the early 1990s, Ivy has had the privilege of working with several of these kennels; assisting in dog care, training, handling, equipment and trail maintenance, trail guiding and as a race helper.  In addition, Ivy has extensive experience teaching others about the excitement of dog sledding through presentations at schools, resorts and in the greater community.

Stephan Hoglund - Grand Marais, MN
Stephan is a jewelry designer who has lived and worked in Grand Marais since the 1980s.  His work has been featured in galleries and design publications throughout the country.  His inspiring gallery and jewelry business is located on the harbor in downtown Grand Marais.  In 1999, he received both a McKnight and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship. His works are featured in detail on his web site: stephanhoglund.com.

Allen Holzhueter - Madison, WI
Allen has been knitting since the 1980s with an interest in multicolor knitting techniques. He has focused on the knitting traditions of Northern Europe and the British Isles and has taught traditional Scandinavian, Fair Isle and Latvian projects using the multicolor technique.  He has expanded on his fiber interests to include spinning his own knitting yarns on one of his several spinning wheels. Allen lives in Madison  where he divides his time among knitting and spinning projects - and spoiling the family Greyhounds.

Amy James - Grand Marais, MN
Amy taught herself to bake using a free Fleischmann Yeast booklet back in 1972.  She has been a teacher almost as long, in settings from traditional school classrooms to wilderness, with students from preschoolers through seniors, and covering topics from life science to sea kayaking.  Combining her passions for teaching and baking, with a little science and history thrown in for good measure, Amy is leading bread baking courses for new to intermediate bakers.

Peter James - Grand Marais, MN
Peter has been drinking beer for 30 years, and began to discover how to make beer he really enjoys drinking about 10 years ago.  Since then, he has brewed well over 100 batches of beer in over 20 different styles and has progressed from pre-packaged kits to all-grain brewing. Peter and his wife Amy currently own, operate, and occasionally drink beer at the Wedgewood Motel, east of Grand Marais.

Bob Janssen - Chanhassen, MN
Bob first journeyed to the North Shore and Grand Marais when the main highway was still gravel.  Since then, Bob has continued to travel the entire state in pursuit of his passion - birds.  Past president of the Minnesota Ornithologists Union (MOU), he served as editor of the MOU journal "The Loon" for 38 years and has received multiple awards for his birding efforts.  Actively involved in numerous bird surveys around the state, including all of Minnesota's 71 state parks, Bob has published three books on Minnesota birds.

Kent Jones - Grand Marais, MN
Kent has a passionate and professional interest in the ecology and history of northern Minnesota. He loves to explore the often-overlooked areas. Before moving to the North Shore, he worked for 20 years as an Interpretive Naturalist near the Twin Cities. This led him to research and experiment with elements of sustainable living. He now lives in his self-built timber frame, cordwood masonry, solar-powered home in the woods near Grand Marais.

Michael Jones - Mason, WI
Michael, a professional blacksmith, began smithing in 1994.  He spent three years as an apprentice and in 1997 opened his own shop in Mason, Wisconsin, on the Bayfield Peninsula. He has studied with numerous blacksmiths throughout the country in addition to learning European techniques. He specializes in traditional forging. Michael started teaching at North House in 1998 and is devoted to the philosophy of "See one, Do one, Teach one."

Karen Kaufman - Sarona, WI
Karen teaches and calls traditional American folk and international dances, specializing in helping novice dancers of all ages enjoy themselves on the dance floor.  Karen has studied calling at the Augusta Heritage Arts Center in West Virginia as well as at dances from Seattle to Baltimore.  She is co-founder of Joining the Circle Dance Weekend at Hunt Hill.  Her dance background includes classical, modern, jazz and international folk dancing as well as clogging and square dancing.

Julie Kean - Hovland, MN
Julie has been making baskets and ornaments since 1981.  She utilizes materials gathered from the woods around her home in Hovland.  Her favorite materials are birch bark and red-osier dogwood.  In 2001, her artistic talents were featured on the program "Venture North" on public television.  At times, Julie integrates other natural materials into her work, including pinecones, driftwood and spruce roots.

Layne Kennedy - Minneapolis, MN
Layne Kennedy is a nationally recognized magazine photographer. His assignments take him all around the globe for publications like Smithsonian, National Geographic, Traveler, Islands, Backpacker, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic Adventure, to name a few. Layne is the founder and director of the Superior/Gunflint Photography Workshop conducting wilderness adventure photography trips. Visit his website at: www.laynekennedy.com

Don Kevilus - St. Francis, MN
Don is the proprietor and owner of the renown Four Dog Stove Company.  He has been designing and building wood stoves for the past 21 years and known as the leading innovator in traditional trail stove design and construction.  All of his items are hand crafted in his small Minnesota-based workshop with his wife, Roxanne.  Don’s passion for creating a tested and true design is evident in his stories of hunters, trappers, outfitters and guides that have helped shape his work.

Art Kidd - Grand Marais, MN
From Huron to Michigan to Superior, the Great Lakes are no stranger to Art as he has been sailing their waters since 1987.  Art's keen sense of sailing is paralleled by his passion for building small wooden watercraft.   Art has been building prams at North House during the winter season since retiring from teaching mathematics in 1998.

Judith Nelson Kjenstad - Minneapolis, MN
Judy is a Gold Medalist rosemaler who has enjoyed working on large scale designs such as the Epcot Center Norway Pavilion in Orlando, Florida, and the Black Forest Inn in Minneapolis.  She has taught Norwegian and Swedish painting at numerous locations throughout the Midwest including the Norwegian American Museum and exhibited her work in the Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tradition exhibit.  Judy also loves to play the Swedish Key Fiddle or Nyckelharpa (ready to dance?)

Josef Knox - Grand Marais, MN
Joseph has been working with wood professionally his whole life.  After working as a luthier building harpsichords, Baroque instruments and guitars, Joseph pursued a life-long dream that was closer to his family upbringing, German toymaking.  Joseph and his wife, Barb own and operate a ‘Laden,’ or small home business, known as Whittle Works.  Josef's work has been featured on local Minnesota programs such as "On The Road" with Jason Davis as well as nationally on Arts and Entertainment Channel.  Visit www.whittleworks.biz for more info.

Phyllis Knutson - Amery, WI
Phyllis have been weaving with rattan reed and teaching basketry since the early 1990s.  In 1999, she was introduced to birch bark and found a new excitement working with this beautiful, leather like bark.  She has been privileged to teach at the annual Heikinpaiva Mid-Winter Festival at Hancock, Michigan, John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC, basket weaving guilds and community ed classes.  In addition to teaching, she sells her baskets at art shows and galleries in her area.

Karen Kobey - Shoreview, MN
Karen has been a naturalist for over 25 years on the Mississippi River just north of the Twin Cities.  She is a happy generalist, but her special interests include mussels, small non-game fish, river rocks and aquatic insects.  Karen's favorite shoes are her hip waders and she loves discovering the mysteries of nature off the beaten path.  When visiting the North Shore, she stays in her geodesic dome located on the shores of Lake Superior.

Ken Koscik - Monona, WI
Canoes and canoeing are Ken’s passion.  If he’s not building canoes for the local Kiwanis club he’s paddling them in the Quetico.  Ken first learned to build canoes in 1968 and has added over 45 new projects to his list since then.  A former student at the Wooden Boat School in Brooklyn, Maine, Ken keeps refining the cedar strip construction technique.  The chevron has become his trademark.

Elise Kyllo - Minneapolis, MN
Elise is a gardener and visual artist.  She finds balance in the urban chaos by engaging the seasons.  In the summer, she is usually outdoors in somebody’s garden - in the cold months, she is making art.  The simplicity and endless possibilities of working with wool intrigues her, especially creating felted creatures inspired by her experiences as a painter and printmaker.  “I can’t think of a more meditative, pure and organic medium than working with wool and water and reusing old socks.”

Bill Lane - Tofte, MN
Owls have guided Bill's springtime activities for the last two decades, earning him the nickname 'Owlman.' Bill's routine is simple: Since 1986, he's been systematically driving the back roads of the Superior National Forest stopping every half mile to tally a myriad of nocturnal owl songs and owl calls.  By surveying the same routes and using the same listening stations year after year, Bill's research has helped provide a long-term snapshot of northern Minnesota’s owl populations and in turn, has influenced management directions of the U.S. Forest Service, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and other conservation units.  Learn more about Bill's efforts at http://www.mindspring.com/~owlman/.

Marlo Larson - Grand Marais, MN
Trained at Pipestone Meat Cutting School, Marlo has been practicing his trade as a butcher for over 30 years in both large and small stores in Minn.  He is the head meat cutter for local grocer, Johnson's Foods, in Grand Marais, Minn. Where he has been working for nearly 20 years.  His experience largely stems from fresh sausauge, designing recipes and utilizing wild game.

Thomas Latané - Pepin, WI
Tom has been devoted to traditional hand technology for working iron and wood since he made a sash saw to cut boards from a cedar log that a high school shop teacher would not let him run through the band saw in 1972.  His work involved more Early American designs when he was living in Maryland, and since moving to Pepin, Wisconsin, in 1983, Tom has discovered the freedom and whimsy expressed in Scandinavian metalwork. Tom’s skills as a blacksmith have led to multiple invitations to demonstrate at ABANA’s national conferences,

Fred Livesay - St Paul, MN
Fred discovered his woodworking skills at age 10.  He later trained as a wheelwright and carriage-builder for seven summers and then went on to study Scandinavian folk art, decorative arts, art history and museum studies.  Fred currently makes his living as a carpenter but hopes to make teaching and craftwork his full time job.  Fred has taught at North House since its beginning, demonstrates crafts all over the five state area and has also instructed at Goods from the Woods, the American Swedish Institute, and Woodcraft.

Derek Lucchese - South Gillies, ONT
Derek is an understudy and long-time friend of the famed bread oven builder Alan Scott.  In fact, Derek’s first run-in with Alan happened during one of the first bread oven building workshops that North House ever hosted.  Since then, Derek has gone on to build a wood-fired bakery of his own on a homestead just outside Thunder Bay, Canada.  Derek runs a portable wood-fired pizza business and builds brick ovens in addition to baking weekly for the Thunder Bay Country Market.

David MacLean - Grand Marais, MN
David and his wife Bonnie moved from Ohio to Grand Marais in 1998.  For 30 years before that he taught biology as a professor at Youngstown State University.  Since receiving his Ph.D. in entomology from Purdue University, David has pursued his interest in butterflies, moths and other insects. Even though he is now retired, he is actively involved in formal entomological surveys on the North Shore. No doubt, his role as drummer for the North Shore Swing Band reflects the creative drive that moves him forward.

Misha Martin - Truth or Consequences, NM
Misha started her baking life back in 4-H club, trying to win prizes at the county fair.  After a stint at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, she started Misha Martin’s Sweet Life Bakery. She thinks desserts should be beautiful, satisfying and worth saving for the end of a meal. Relying heavily on the recipes from her mom and grandmothers, she believes a good cake never goes out of style.

Eric Mase - Ely, MN
In 1996, Eric moved to Ely (the canoe capital of the world) to build bark canoes.  Since then Eric has built over 60 bark canoes of both the full sized and scale model.  For the past 5 years Eric has renewed his first love, the drum. Eric’s focus on the cedar hand drum has been influenced by the same traditional tools and building methods that stem from handcrafted bark canoes.  Eric’s canoes and drums are displayed in numerous regional galleries including the Brandenburg Gallery, the Minnesota Historical Center, Corps of Engineers Museum and Sivertson Gallery.

Charlie Mayo - St Croix Falls, WI
Since the 1970s, Charlie has had a consuming interest in birch bark.  He has traveled to Scandinavia many times to study with the masters while pursuing this interest.  He has demonstrated at Rice Lake Audubon, Swedish Institute, Luther College, Hostfest and the Minnesota State Fair.  Charlie is a founding board member of North House Folk School.

Mike McCall - Elmore, MN
Mike was born sometime in the last century in a humble log cabin that he built with his own hands.  When asked about his early life, Michael tends to mumble and change the subject.  If he isn't out collecting fungus or flint, he may be seen wandering the beach at Grand Marais where he believes he lost his Congressional Medal of Honor.  Mike's favorite color is blue.

Kevin McMullin - Sarona, WI
Kevin has been playing for old time dances since he began learning the fiddle with the Chicago Barn Dance Company in 1978.  Kevin is a selected artist on several artist's rosters and is a popular solo artist throughout the upper Midwest. He has performed on stage with artists such as Peter Ostroushko and Randy Sabien, with whom he released a recording  He learned his American fiddle lore from some of this country's finest old time fiddlers: Chirps Smith and Mark Gunther prominent among them.

Kurt Mead - Finland, MN
Author of the NOBA Award-winning field guide, "Dragonflies of the Northwoods," Kurt is a passionate dragonfly enthusiast who has given dragonfly presentations and workshops across Minnesota and recently founded the Minnesota Odonata Survey Project.  He has biology and art degrees from UM-Duluth and was drawn further north by love and to work as a naturalist at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.  He is now a stay-at-home dad, author, homesteader, part-time naturalist and has hopes of never working a full-time job again

Mark Morgan - Strum, WI
Mark has been working with renewable energy and sustainable building design and materials for 12 years. He is a builder/philosopher who enjoys presenting hands-on experiences and reshaping the way individuals think about construction and energy.  He has worked in a variety of roles with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association since 1990.  He owns and operates a renewable construction firm, Bear Paw Construction.

Grigg Mullen - Rockbridge Baths, VA
Grigg began his rigging career at age 14 with the Pioneering merit badge in Boy Scouts.  He has since progressed to teaching civil engineering at Virginia Military Institute, helping with numerous oddball rigging projects (ballistas, trebuchets, obelisks), and teaching rigging across the country.  Grigg currently serves on the Timber Framing Guild Board of Directors.

Cindy Muus - Grand Marais, MN
Cindy is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and has taught family and consumer sciences at Cook County High School in Grand Marais since 1976.  She has been an instructor with  North House since 1999 and calls this region home.  Her first sewing "student" was a friend when she was in 7th grade.  She enjoys sewing because it is not only a creative outlet but it also gives one the ability to customize style, fabric, fit and design features to suit individual tastes and needs.

Gary Nelson - Duluth, MN
Gary has worked in woodworking and construction since the early '70s when he got his start in a furniture shop as a teenager. A licensed contractor, he has worked on a wide variety of projects and building types and has often worked with owners/builders. He thoroughly enjoys teaching and sharing his experience. He strives to ensure that at the very least his students come away from his classes with confidence and all their fingers.

Phillip Odden/Else Bigton - Barronett, WI
Phillip and Else are professional woodcarvers and furniture makers in the Norwegian tradition. They have taught carving classes for over 20 years specializing in the classic ornamental styles of Baroque (acanthus), Rococo and Romanesque dragon style. Else is also an accomplished weaver and cabinet maker.  Phillip enjoys picture carving, free form ale bowls and kubbestols.  The couple was commissioned to work on the  Stave Church which stands in the Norwegian Pavilion at Epcot in Florida and the Gol Stave Church replica which stands in Minot, North Dakota.  Visit www.norskwoodworks.com to learn more.

Cathryn Peters - Angora, MN
Cathryn is a wicker furniture restoration expert/chair seatweaver/deer antler basketmaker/teacher/writer/pattern author who now hails from Angora, Minnesota. She delights in sharing her 26 years of accumulated knowledge and resources to those who desire to perpetuate the nearly lost art of wicker restoration, chair seat weaving, and basketry. Her works have appeared on public television, and in books, periodicals, national galleries, workshops, folk schools and conventions. Visit her resource and information website at www.WickerWoman.com

Craig/Dianne Peterson - Grand Marais, MN
Craig and Dianne recently relocated to Grand Marais, Minn. from Waseca, Minn., where they taught sausage making at Farmamerica - the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center.  In the past ten years, they have been teaching classes on making Swedish Potato Sausage at North House, as featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Craig has helped local grocer, Johnson's Foods, expand their market with a new sausage affectionately known as 'North House Wild,' using venison, cranberries and wild rice.

Bruce Qualey - Sarona, WI
Bruce studied string bass with the assistant principal bass player in the Minnesota Orchestra and went on to spend five summers at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan.  A native of Rochester, Minnesota, Bruce has played in civic orchestras in Elkhart, Indiana and St. Paul, Minnesota, and performed for 19 seasons with the Rochester (MN) Symphony Orchestra.  For three years, he was a member of "The Prophets", a folk group, and he spent 14 years as the bass player for “The Bluegrass Tradition.”

Harley Refsal - Decorah, IA
Harley specializes in Scandinavian-style flat plane figure carving, a minimalist style that leaves the tool marks exposed.  He has won numerous carving awards and has taught carving classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Scandinavia.  In 1996, he was decorated by the government and King of Norway for his contributions to Norwegian folk art studies.  He is the author of "Art and Technique of Scandinavian-Style Woodcarving."  In addition to his carving and teaching, Harley is a professor of Norwegian language and Scandinavian folk art at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.

Arna Rennan - Duluth, MN
Arna is one of the foremost experts in traditional Norwegian folk music in the Midwest. She builds upon what she has learned from her immigrant parents and her 15 years of living in Norway.  She spent a year studying at the College of Telemark Folk Music Institute in Rauland with a focus on "kveding" vocal folk music. Arna performs extensively at regional ethnic festivals and has two CDs.  Her first solo called "Nordic Shores" and most recently with her ensemble called "Nordic Angst."  Arna also plays the langeleik (Norwegian dulcimer) and accordion.

Karen Rognsvoog - Minnetonka, MN
Karen has been dyeing yarns for knitting and weaving projects since the mid 70s and has taught natural plant dyeing classes in schools and community centers since then.  Her other talents include watercolor, Japanese ink painting, the piano and is an amateur cellist.  Always on the look-out for new and interesting dyestuffs.  Don’t follow her on the road to closely  She notes, "I brake for roadside weeds."

Ann Russ - Tofte, MN
Ann has been resident of Cook County since the 1980’s.  She has led numerous naturalist activities in all seasons and considers annual bird migrations one of life's joys. Her passion for birding and learning outdoors spills over into her fifth grade classroom; where she introduces the next generation to the joys of birding. She is the recipient of the 2007 Innovative Economic Educator Award for her lesson using Flute's Journey: the Life of a Wood Thrush.

Mike Schelmeske - Grand Marais, MN
Mike's interest in Native American and  Scandinavian traditions has kept him constantly pursuing  boreal forest crafts and materials for project ideas.  He particularily finds utility craft intriguing and the thought of putting his crafts to work on an everyday level keeps him searching for the next project.  Whether its carving toys for his daughter, Aurora, or shaping canoe paddles from a crooked knife he fashioned from an old file, Mike's ingenuity and approach to craft is refreshing.

Mary Schliep - Grand Marais, MN
Mary started rosemaling in 1989 and has been busily painting ever since.  Mary specializes in the Valdres and Telemark styles (each defined by the geographic region where they found their beginning in Scandinavia). Since the school's foundation, Mary has been a consistent teacher at North House.   She demonstrates annually at Hostfest in Minot, ND.

Larry Schmitt - Madison, WI
As a child, Larry learned many textile techniques from his parents including nålbinding. Since the early 1980’s, he has been teaching and researching nålbinding and has written a number of instructional manuals. These workbooks are some of the only resources on nålbinding in English. Larry has taught and exhibited nålbinding throughout the country and even has had students come from Norway and Germany, but he considers North House home base, and his classes at North House reflect his continuing interest in traditional textile crafts.

Randy Schnobrich - Grand Marais, MN
Randy moved to the North Shore from Wisconsin in 1994 with plans to raise a family and create a new lifestyle.  After buying some land "back in the woods a bit," he and his wife built a woodshop and log home, a perfect spot to raise three kids and live a little closer to the earth.  With more than 20 years of woodworking under his belt, Randy has built everything from cabins to dogsleds, commissioned furniture to custom doors.  Nearly all of his interests lie in the outdoors. He says it’s hard to remember life before Cook County.

Molly Sharp - Flat Rock, NC
Molly first studied her craft in England over 30 years ago.  After living in England for ten years, she moved back to the U.S. in 1981 and perfected her skills through various workshops with some of this country’s finest jewelers.  She has been a full-time professional jeweler since 1995.  Molly is the mother of two grown children and resides in Western North Carolina with her husband, potter David Voorhees.  They own and operate Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock, NC.  Molly also has work in numerous galleries throughout the U.S. and is a member of the prestigious Southern Highland Craft Guild in Asheville, NC.  Visit www.handinhandgallery.com

Joel Sheagren - Minneapolis, MN
Joel has been taking photographs for over 30 years.  In his Minneapolis studio, he primarily shoots photographs of people and the out-of-doors for advertisements.  He also has a stock photography business (reselling of images on file) with emphasis on landscape images.  See his photos at: www.ejoel.com.

Erik Simula - Hovland, MN
Erik is a master birch bark canoe builder and national park ranger at Grand Portage National Monument.  Inspired by Finnish, Sasmi and Anishinabe art and culture, Erik skis or hikes to his cedar sauna-home in the woods.  Hunting, trapping, fishing, harvesting wild rice, netting fish and hajling ice and firewood by dogteam contribute to Erik's subsistence lifestyle.  A former outdoor skills instructor for Voyageur Outward Bound and Vermillion College in Ely, Minnesota, his many skills include being a log smith, dogsled builder, snowshoe-maker, and wilderness guide.

Gigi Stafne - Long Lake-New Auburn, WI
Gigi is an enthusiastic leader within the natural & botanical medicine fields as the director of The Center For Healing Arts Herb & Eco School for 14 years & coordinator of a 40-acre Botanical Sanctuary in northern Wisconsin which is part of “United Plant Savers” & “Partners in Education” networks in the US & Canada.      She teaches & writes in realms of natural medicine, ecology, sustainability & environmental health.  Gigi now operates "Adventure Botanica" and MI ZI ZAK  KAYAKS which offers cross cultural/ ethnobotany trips regionally and internationally in places such as Mexico and Cuba, often in her kayak!  She invites you to join her session with an open mind and heart.

Larry Stelter - Sarona, WI
Larry picked up the mandolin and started playing old time fiddle tunes in 1979, and has been playing with local bands and at festivals ever since.  An experienced sound technician, he has done recording and sound work for radio stations, festivals, contests, schools, churches, local cable companies and arts councils through out Northwestern Wisconsin and Minnesota.  Larry has been lending his talent to Duck for the Oyster as a mandolin player since the band started in 1988.

Dan Strootman - Sunburg, MN
Dan has paddled canoes all his life and participated in the first canoe building course ever offered at North House.  His talent as a canoe builder and restoration specialist has quickly grown -an inspiring example of what happens to you when your hobby becomes a way of life.  Dan (a.k.a. the tree man) and his wife Ann run Dann Craft, a traditional craft focused business.  In fall, all boat building temporarily ceases as the call of the outdoors requires his undivided attention.

Jon Strom - Cook, MN
Look for the woodchips flying and you're sure to find Jon.  Jon is a sculptor, woodworker, and log builder with a strong interest in Swedish spoon and bowl carving techniques as well as the history of log building.  He has demonstrated at Grand Portage National Monument, Old Fort William, White Oak Society, and has taught at various workshops including "Goods from the Woods" in Grand Rapids.  He has also designed his own personal bowl-carving bench which may be adapted by students for their own workshops.

Del Stubbs - Leonard, MN
Del started his life as a craftsman in the early 1970s in an apprenticeship with a skillful old wood turner in Oregon.  These skills happily consumed his next 18 years and eventually had him teaching in many countries.  In the early 1990's, Del spent two years doing traditional log building in Wisconsin, and spent a life-changing winter in northern Sweden training with spoon carver Ville Sundqvist. This led to his current occupation, Scandinavian knife making. Del encountered fan birds in Sweden and Russia in the early '90s - it took a number of years to teach himself and refine this wonderful craft.  Visit www.pinewoodforge.com

Paula Sundet - Grand Marais, MN
Paula has been gathering grasses and brush to make traditional crafts for the past 20 years.  A resident of Northern Minnesota, Paula has a deep appreciation for the Northwoods and its resources and likes to convey that appreciation through her basket weaving and twig furniture. Paula recently completed her MA in anthropology which focused on Native American cedar as well as bulrush basket and mat weaving.  She shows and sells her work at the Johnson Heritage Post and area art stores.

Pat Thomas - Duluth, MN
Pat is a  wildlife garden educator, writer and photographer whose yard is certified with the National Wildlife Federation and the University of Kansas Monarch Waystation Program. She and her husband, John, share their yard with many creatures including butterflies. Pat served as a Master Gardener for over 10 years and founded the first chapter of the North American Butterfly Association in Minnesota.  She believes a garden comes to life with butterflies!

Gene Tokheim - Dawson, MN
Gene has been teaching since the 1980s in the United States and Norway.  His work has been exhibited in shows at the University of Minnesota, the Folk Art Museum in New York City and the Hedmark Museum in Hammer, Norway.  He has won the Gold Medal in knife making in the national competition at the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, IA.  Gene graduated with an arts degree from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Nick Vavrichek - Grand Marais, MN
Nick grew up on a southern Minnesota farm.  He fell in love with Lake Superior and the north woods the first time he visited the area.  After many visits and paddling experiences he moved to Grand Marais and bought land with NHFS instructor Kent Jones.  They lived in a yurt for three years and built a timberframe cordwood masonry home together.  Nick is active in a community drumming group, kayaking, canoeing, community radio and the Good Harbor Hill Players.  He dreams of bigger better gardens and far-flung travels.

Jon Vezner - Nashville, TN
Jon is a Grammy award-winning songwriter with songs recorded by John Mellencamp, Nancy Griffith, Faith Hill, Kathy Mattea and others.  His passion for the North was shaped when he and his family often travelled to the North Shore.  In 2002, Jon envisioned and initiated North House annual Unplugged events. Each year he brings prominent singer/songwriters to campus to support North House's educational vision.  Learn more at www.jonvezner.com

David Voorhees - Flat Rock, NC
David began clay working in the 1970's while studying painting.  With both parents being professional painters he found his own medium while still carrying on the family tradition.  David has produced utilitarian stoneware and porcelain through the years and only recently has delved into more primitive techniques after making a trip to Africa.  One visit to Grand Marais convinced him to return soon.  He and his wife, jeweler Molly Sharp own Hand in Hand Gallery.  See www.handinhandgallery.com  to view examples of his work.