Liz Bonny is a weaver, dyer, and spinner located in Lawrence, KS. She owns and runs Harvestry by Hand, a fiber business aiming to connect and educate people interested in fiber. She loves to experiment with and teach process, using a mix of local and thrifted materials and supplies.
Liz hosts a weekly Fiber Meet Up, is a part of her local fiber guild, the Kaw Valley Fiber Guild, and is involved in establishing a local affiliate of Fibershed, the Kaw Point Fibershed.
www.harvestrybyhand.com
Liz Bonny
Karl Ramberg
Karl Ramberg has worked in stone both as a stone carver and a stone mason. He has been a carver twice on renovations of the state capital. He and his sister Laura recently carved replicas of the grotesques on the Dyche Museum on the KU campus. He has taught at stone carving workshops for many years. His teacher was Eldon Tefft.
Sarah is the owner and operator of Wild Alive, est. 2015, a Lawrence based fermentation company working with area farmers to preserve the seasons and utilize the immunities in the local soil. Her mission is to share her love of the deeply ancient and cultural practice of fermentation and bring a new level of nutrition, passion and magic into people’s lives. Her teachers/mentors are Sandor Katz and Kirsten Shockey. Sarah also serves as the chair of the Lawrence Farmers’ Market board.
www.wildaliveferments.com
Sarah Salzman
Tim O’Brien
Tim has worked with wood for over 30 years, after falling in love with timber frame construction because of the potential for using local materials and hand tools. He also is well-versed in letterpress, building with cob, wood carving, gardening and animal husbandry.
Kim lives and teaches natural dye workshops in the Lawrence, KS community. After using kitchen scraps and foraged walnuts to dye bits of cloth in 2018, learning about dyes and fiber became a passion. Kim’s practice includes tending a native plant and dye garden, mindful foraging, and using natural dyes to relate to season, place, and systems. Kim believes the natural dye process can transform relationships to the plants and textiles of everyday life if made approachable/accessible. She is also growing flax and building knowledge about bast fiber processing in the hopes that local cloth will be part of our future.
Kim Comstock
Emily Hartford is an embroiderer, visible mender, fiber artist, and vintage & thrifted textile upcycler from Lawrence, KS. She is passionate about keeping textiles and clothing (even scraps!) out of the trash cycle and deeply believes in creativity as a way of life. Emily owns EmJoy Embroidery, which is expanding this year into teaching the skills she has honed as an artist. She has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, and is excited to build community with all of you!
emjoyembroidery.com
Emily Hartford
Courtney Masterson is the Executive Director and Ecologist of Native Lands Restoration Collaborative, based out of Lawrence, Kansas. Their work focuses on restoring publicly accessible native landscapes through community partnerships and education. Courtney believes an intimate connection to our native ecosystems will empower land stewards (that’s you!) to preserve and restore landscapes that protect water, soil, communities and cultures.
NativeLandsKS.org
