Have you ever met a traditional Norwegian basketmaker? We’ll be hosting Hege Aasdal & Samson Øvstebø from Norway at the Craft Night Potluck Instructor Meet & Greet on Thursday, September 4 at 6pm. Hege’s class on Norwegian Vedmeis is sold out, but you can still meet Hege and learn about her work and craft.

We offer these events so that the community can meet our instructors who are interesting, dedicated, and highly skilled craftspeople from all over the world.

We know that the cost of housing and travel to take a class with us is a big investment. Hotels seem to have doubled their prices and the number of AirBnB’s and VRBO’s in the area are limited. Sadly the closest city campsite doesn’t even take reservations (yet!). We’d like to make it a little easier to afford coming up here so we have compiled a local housing list. These lovely people—local friends of the school—have generously offered their simple and rustic housing at affordable rates for students registered for classes.

Hello Everyone,

We hope you are keeping warm wherever you are. We have some snow dusting the ground here and a few days of pretty chilly weather. All the better to cozy up at home and plan wonderful things for the year to come.

I just wanted to explain a few things about registration for those of you planning to come for a workshop this year.

We are excited to share the details of our 2025 weekend classes with you—basketry, wood carving, indigo dyeing, leather sewing, and woodturning…Registration opens January 1, 2025. Spaces are limited, so register early. Our one room craft school is located on the shores of Lake Superior. We hope to see you this year!

Summer days have been busy with students weaving and carving up a storm. We met wonderful people from near and far in the last few classes—Birch Bark Plaited Basketry, a Birch Bark Canister Private Class, and Knutkorg: Scandinavian Knot Basket.... Exciting events are on the horizon with special guest Willow Basketry Wizard Steen Madsen from Denmark arriving on Monday. We will have a Craft Night Potluck Reception for him on Wednesday—All Welcome. Barn the Spoon from UK arrives shortly afterwards to...

Summer is in full swing—the sweetest days in Northern Wisconsin. The garden is full and Chequamegon Bay is calling for swimming, boating, and beach days.

In June we (Jarrod & Jazmin) returned from Scandinavia all fired up about split wood basketry with some plans to add those techniques to future basketry classes. We gave a slideshow presentation about our trip at Craft Night in June...

Greetings from an almost Spring on the shores of Lake Superior, Chequamegon Bay, Northern Wisconsin. Birds are flocking to the area and peeper frogs have started serenading the evenings. We recently hosted two wonderful classes and look forward to many more this summer.

We recently spent a week in Grand Marais, MN at North House Folk School where Jarrod taught End Grain Electric Lathe Turning and Knutkorg: Scandinavian Knot Baskets as part of Wood Week 2024. We stayed at our friend, Woodspirit School instructor, Mike Loeffler’s house for the week where I took some pictures of his bird carvings…

Find out about craft events and workshops at Woodspirit School—Northern Wisconsin’s Craft School—focused on traditional craft skills and high quality craft instruction in the Chequamegon Bay Region. This season’s classes include Textile Arts, Wood Carving, Wood Turning, Basketry, Furniture Building, and Leather Work.

Winter Greetings!

It has been a good while since we last wrote about our little Northern Wisconsin Craft School. Which means we have a lot of news to catch up on including all the classes that happened after July, events, travels, and some details about our third season of classes in 2024. Here we go!