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!

We’ve had refreshing swims in Lake Superior, delicious local white fish for Fish Fry Fridays in Washburn, and noodled about on the bay in our sailboat—all the signs that summer here is in full swing. We are excited to show our guests from Japan all the goodness that is Chequamegon Bay.

We recently hosted three great classes: Willow Basketry with Scogin Zimmerman-Mayo, Spoon Carving Intensive with Jarrod Dahl, and Danish Cord Stool with…

We are in our second year of running the school and have now hosted six classes this season: Spoon Carving Masterclass with Barn the Spoon and Jarrod Dahl, Backstrap Weaving with Louise Young, Danish Cord Stool with Dawson Moore, Bird Carving with Mike Loeffler, Shibori and Indigo with Jazmin Hicks-Dahl, and Spoon Carving with Jarrod Dahl. Next up is Willow Basketry with Scogin Zimmerman-Mayo.

We met some lovely people from all over…

Students and friends of Woodspirit School—we send you warm New Year’s greetings!

We started this project a year ago, remember? Our first year was very busy and very exciting as we transformed a garage into a classroom, grass into garden beds, and hosted 32 workshops, community events, online interviews and demonstrations. The highlights were…

Learn something new at Woodspirit School of Traditional Craft this coming year. Take a class, meet friends at a community event, and visit Lake Superior. We’d love to see you here—

Winter nights are perfect for meeting up with friends and watching movies. That’s what we’ll be doing at Craft Film Nights!

Hang out with other craft nerds and watch films about traditional craft and traditional people. Doors open at 6:30pm for social time before the screening, BYO beverage and we’ll provide the popcorn. Please let us know you are coming by sending us an email!

FLAX DAY, CRAFT NIGHT & CALENDAR UPDATES We still have 9 more classes running until the end of the year—some with openings including classes in the Seattle Area, plus we have been adding classes on the calendar for 2023 that are worth browsing, so have a look…

We have some exciting news to share. As part of Barn’s visit from the UK to the US this coming Spring, 2023 he’ll be teaching a workshop at Woodspirit School in Ashland, WI. Actually we’ll be teaching it together.

We’re calling it a Spoon Carving Masterclass and the class will happen March 31-April 2, 2023.