Artisan Gallery

Amy Akers Passolt
Handetched Wood Ornaments, Earrings, Barrettes

Bent Willow Furniture
Signs, Mangers, Pine Cone Baskets, Frames, Tables
Don Erven puts the strength and flexibility of Minnesota willow to great use in his furniture and gifts. Known for their durability and quality, Don adds his signature forked willow to his chairs and loveseats.

These furniture pieces are appropriate for indoor or outdoor use.

The Bent Willow workshop is located in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Carole Meidinger, Cedar Ridge Design
Knit Headbands & Christmas Stockings
Educated at the University of Minnesota in mathematics and psychology, Carole Meidinger is a self taught designer and knitter. She has been creating custom Christmas stockings for people all over the world since the early 1980's. Her love of color and texture combined with a desire to offer useful and beautiful headwear led her into making wool headbands with unusual design elements and interesting yarn combinations. She resides in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with her husband and two cats, but takes special delight in spending time with her three grandchildren.

David Hansen
Minnesota Nature Photographs

Joanna Schuna
Whimsical Santas, Ornaments

Joel Mensch
Lake Superior Mirrors, Frames, Jewelry Boxes

Laura Merkle
Jewelry

LillyJoe
Birch Note Cards, Package Tags
A fourth-generation member of a forest products family, Katie Rajala Thomey puts slices of birch veneer to work as distinctive note cards and package tags. LillyJoe is based in Deer River and St. Anthony Park, Minnesota.

Most writing utensils work well on LillyJoe cards.

Meristems
Woven Birch Bark & Bead Ornaments
Meristems' Origami style ornaments are made from split outer bark of paper birch trees scheduled for harvesting in Northern Minnesota. Wood and glass beads add color and texture. No glue is used. Ornaments are strung with artificial sinew.

Paul Moeller Pottery
Vessels, Vases

Rhinestone Farms
Wild Rice
Gary and Kay Leonhart grow, harvest and locally process their wild rice in Waskish, Minnesota.

Rhinestone Farm gift boxes are handmade of cedar harvested on this second-generation farm.

Ryan Topel
Peppermills, Votives

Scott Carvings
Handcarved Wood Figures & Ornaments

Sherri Lynn's
Minnesota Grown Soups, Breadmixes, Dips & Candles

Squeedunk
Wine Bottle Holders, Corks
Every hand-made Squeedunk product is unique and inspired by the grand canoes of the fur trade era. Grant Goltz and his colleagues use birch bark and split-spruce lacing as well as northern Minnesota saplings to create their Voyageur^TM collection of rustic furniture and gifts.

The Squeedunk workshop is located in Hackensack, Minnesota.

Stan Lemberg
Tines & Birchbark Boxes

Sue Vogen
Birchbark Frames, Mirrors

Timbersweet^TM
Maple Syrup, Wild Rice, Jam, Pancake Mix Gift Baskets
Timbersweet is the product of a century-old sugaring operation in the Sugar Hills area south of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Pure, particularly delicious Timbersweet is light- to medium-amber syrup that has drawn fans from around the world.

Amy and Ralph Fideldy team up for the holidays with other local food producers to create their famous north woods gift boxes.

Tracy Frizzell
Nature & Landscape Paintings

Twigs & More
Forest Crayons & Pencils

Wilderness Minnesota
Birch Twig Wreaths & Hanging Scones
One of the jewels of the northern Minnesota forest is our White Birch. Ron and Lois Hanson (Bigfork, Minn.) bring the soft and rich beauty of the birch into their birch-twig wreaths and sconces.

These birch pieces are appropriate for use indoors or outdoors and can be decorated or left natural.

Wille Lumber & Timber
Oriole & Cardinal Birdfeeders
Don Wille brings his love of the woods and forest life to his timbers, mantels, "convertible" picnic tables, and-now-his birdhouses.

Don is the go-to guy in the north woods for local specialty timber and lumber.

He is from Puposky, Minn.