Workshops

Upcoming Classes

-2025-

Kuksa Carving at The Milan Village Arts School, MN - January 31-February 2

Kuksa Carving at North House Folk School for the great Wood Week! March 15-17

Hewn Bowl Carving at The Milan Village Arts School, MN - April 4-6

-2024-

Shrink Pots at Marine Mills Folk School January 27-28

Kuksa Carving at The Milan Village Arts School, Milan Minnesota February 2-4

Chip Carving and Decorative Work at Marine Mills Folk School February 24-25

Kuksa Carving at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota March 16-18 Sold Out

Hewn Bowl Carving at The Milan Village Arts School, Milan Minnesota April 5-7

Kuksa Carving at Marine Mills Folk School April 20-21

Kuksa Carving at The Vesterheim Norwegian Folk Art Museum, Decorah Iowa April 26-28

Milan Village Arts School, Milan Minnesota June 1-3

The 18th Spoon Gathering - Teaching, Live Demonstration and Story Telling June 4-6

Kuksa Carving and Live Demonstrations at the Wooden Boat Show - North House Folk School June 17-19 (Class) Demos 21-22

Carve a Kuksa at Marine Millks Folk School - Minnesota

Have No Fear - The Axe is Here! Learn to carve, chop, split, and take care of your axe at Marine Millks Folk School - August 17th

Carve a Heart! - Wooden heart carving at Marine Mills Folk School - September 7th

Marine Mills Folk School - Fall Festival - I’ll be there demonstrating and it’s a chance to buy my carvings in person. September 21st

Beginner’s Spoon Carving - Marine Mills Folk School September 28-29

Advanced Kuksa Carving at The Vesterheim Norwegian Folk Art Museum, Decorah Iowa - October 11-13

Kuksa Carving at Marine Mills Folk School, October 19-20

Kuksa Carving Class at a very special and new place for me — The Finnish American Folk School in Michigan!! - October 26-28th

Special Holiday Carving Class (to be announced) Marine Mills Folk School - November 23rd

Special Holiday Carving Class (to be announced) Marine Mills Folk School - December 7th

-2023-

Spoon Carving at Milan Village Arts School, Milan Minnesota June 1-3 Sold Out

The 17th Spoon Gathering - Teaching, Live Demonstration and Story Telling June 4-6

Kuksa Carving August 5-6 at Marine Mills Folk School in Marine on St. Croix! Minnesota Sold Out

Kuksa Carving September 23-24 at Marine Mills Folk School in Marine on St. Croix! Minnesota Sold Out

Shrink Pots, Wooden Canisters, and other small boxes! October 21-22 at Marine Mills Folk School in Marine on St. Croix! Minnesota Sold Out

Spoon Carving with Fred Livesay and Kjetil Groven at KJ’s forge October 27-29 in The Black Hills - Sturgis, South Dakota Sold Out

Kitchen Sloyd! Carving Utensil Lab - November 4-5 at Marine Mills Folk School in Marine on St. Croix! Minnesota Sold Out

Kuksa Carving Workshop - December 9-10 at Marine Mills Folk School

More upcoming classes are in the works! Shrink pots, spoons, tool sharpening and more!

-2020-

Vesterheim

Kuksa Carving September 15-17 at The Vesterheim in Decorah Iowa

North House Folk School

Wood Week and Kuksa Carving 7-9 - SOLD OUT

Milan Spoon Gathering 2020 - Kuksa Carving June 2-4 Two Spots Left! Book Here

Vesterheim Norwegian Folk Art Museum

Beginner Kuksa Carving March 12-14 - Book Here

Advanced Kuksa Carving March 16-18 - Book Here This is going to be a great class. If you’ve taken my normal kuksa course, this is the one for you. We’ll be stepping up our game with design theory, advanced tool technique, thinking outside the box and changing the way we think about the fundamentals we’ve learned in other courses.

Advanced Spoon Carving with Fred Livesay March 26-29 - Book Here

This is going to be a great class! I’m co-teaching with one of the world’s best spoon carvers. We’ll be utilizing the old folk craft museum archives to inspire what we carve as a class.

The Great Spoon Hoolie - Scotland

May 24-26th I’ll be at the festival demonstrating my craft as well as teaching various mini courses. There will be some exciting prefest courses too. I’ll be bringing Nic Westermann and Hewn and Hone with me! We’ll be spending two days teaching you to create a minimum of two new, scary sharp carving knives from raw materials. Forged and ground the Hewn and Hone way. Don’t miss this one!

Tickets here

The Vesterheim - Iowa

April 9-11 Kuksa Carving, and a special Course I’ll be teaching with Fred Livesay!

Kuksa Carving Tickets Here

Only two or three spots left!

Wales

A course at Nic Westermann’s forge is in the works. I’ll be teaching a kuksa carving course, as well as a separate forging course.

Milan Spoon Gathering 2019 Minnesota

This year is going to be a big one! I’ll be teaching kuksa carving, as well as a long demonstration and dialogue while I carve a cup.

We’re also bringing my good friend Adam Hawker over from the UK for some courses and demonstration. Fred Livesay, Del Stubbs, and the usual gang will be there as well.

First week of June 6, 7 8th

Register here

North House Folk School

March 9-11 This class was the first to sell out from their entire catalogue. It’s a really popular class. If you’re from the midwest area, missed the boat would love to carve kuksas with me, please contact me through my site. I have a couple other places in the area where I can setup another kuksa course. This would be in the Twin Cities area. I take ten students max, so if we can fill up a course, I’ll make it happen!

New Zealand

Three Special Carving Courses at Rekindle. Head to their site for more information.

West Coast USA

I am in the works for setting up courses on the west coast in California. More information will be posted here as soon as I hammer out all of the details.

Sweden

There are talks of traveling and teaching in Sweden in 2019-2020. Right now it’s in the planning stages. If you’re interested in taking a course, please message me with your information and I’ll put you on the list!

The Vesterheim - Iowa - February 26-28  There are seats left! & 

March 2-4 (SOLD OUT)
 

I'll be teaching at an amazing Vesterheim museum in Decorah, Iowa with a doubled up class focused on kuksa carving. It's going to be an exciting time as this school is the hub of Scandinavian crafts and features some of the best instructors in the world. I'll be there the same week teaching along side Jögge Sundqvist. Not to be missed!

Sign up here.

Milan Spoon Gathering, Minnesota

Come join me and many other amazing crafters at the world’s first spoon carving festival. I’ll be teaching and demonstrating first week of June.

-2018-

Spoon Jam - Pembula Australia

Kuksa Carving Course November 1st and 2nd SOLD OUT!

There will be small workshops throughout the festival like -Mini Kuksas, Decorative Chip Carving, Tool Sharpening and Maintenance with Hewn and Hone

Necessary Traditions Festival - Christchurch New Zealand

I’m hosting and a special international guest teaching two three day workshops which are no sold out! Kuksa Carving, and Spoon Carving.

I’ll also be on the National Radio which you can listen to here. and giving a special talk to over 250 people for a Pecha Kucha here

North House Folk School - March 10-12 (Sold Out)

I'll be teaching a three day kuksa carving course at Noho during Wood Week which is a fantastic event focused solely on wood culture. Some of my favorite instructors and colleagues will be there as well. It's not to be missed!

SOLD OUT! But there is a waiting list
Sign up here!

Spoonfest! Edale, UK

Come join us crazy spooners in the Peak District. I’ll be teaching various courses, and also demonstrating my unique process of how I carve my kuksas. Hope to see you there!

Milan Spoon Gathering - June 6-8

I will be teaching and demonstrating at the world's first spoon gathering in Milan, Minnesota. After the course there will be a three day full on spoon carving festival you won't want to miss!

You can sign up for a 2.5 day prefest kuksa carving course - Sold out.

North House Folk School - June 24-26

On the shores of the mighty Lake Superior, I'll be teaching a three day kuksa carving course at the prestigious North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota. You can book a spot Sold Out

American Swedish Institute - "Spoons and Other Kitchenalia" June 13-15

During this three day class, students will dive into the art of green woodcarving and learn the secrets behind carving and designing functional woodenware to use around the home and kitchen. From spoons, spatulas, and spreaders, you will go home with new utensils for the kitchen and dinner table.

You can sign up for this 3 day carving workshop

- 2016 -

Oct 7th - 9th

Waterford Fair, Virginia - Live Kuksa Carving, Spoon Carving, with the AXE

— SOLD OUT

Spoonfest! Edale, UK - August

Come join us crazy spooners in the Peak District. I’ll be teaching various courses, and also demonstrating my unique process of how I carve my kuksas. Hope to see you there!

June

Spoon Gathering, Milan, Minnesota - Kuksa Carving, Axe Carving Courses

— SOLD OUT

Feb 28th - Mar 2nd

Wood Week, North House Folk School, Grand Marais MN - Kuksa Carving. There will be an optional extra day.

— SOLD OUT

New Workshop Dates

I'm always running new classes and workshops so don't forget to check back here for new dates being added.

Or sign up to hear first of new dates -

Axe Carving

All of my carving methods rely upon the utilization of the carving axe.
My workshops will be focused on getting you comfortable with three main carving tools. Axe, knife, and hook tool. With those simple traditional tools, you will be able to create beautiful carvings such as Kuksas, Spoons, and Bowls. Learning my process will also teach you do ditch the sandpaper powertools which limit creativity and hand technique.

Kuksa Carving

Kuksas - Guksi - Kasa - Wooden Cup

This workshop is a bit more advanced. Carving these cups uses the techniques and process we do carving spoons, but some bowl carving technique as well.

We'll be using axes, large bent gouges, adzes, saws, hook tools, and sloyd knife to complete.