North House Folk School

This fall, Kenta Watanabe (Japan) taught sukumo indigo dyeing at North House. But in order for class to happen, someone local had to prepare the dye vats. In this blog post, Jazmin Hicks-Dahl shares the process she used to carefully prepare the living dye for class. 

Professor Paul Bierman, our Winterers' Gathering featured speaker, is teaching a half-day writing workshop November 22. Writing for the Earth is open for registration now! Click here to register.

Meet Josie Cooke! In her first blog post as a Resident Artisan, Josie writes about the Slow Fashion Movement, and her work creating locally sourced, ecologically friendly, and ethically produced textiles.

What’s in a symbol? In this blog post, Resident Artisan Gabe Strand writes about carving—and then removing—a motif from a bench he made, exploring the role of symbols in culture, craft, and life.

Meet Jake Fee, one of our new artisans in the Artisan Development Program! In his first post, Jake introduces himself in the form of a diagram, writing about his guiding lights of Craft, Play, Land, and more.