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 is also the president of the local Kaw Valley Fiber Guild and 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
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
Nick Pahls is a greenwood worker and carver based in Salina, KS. Over the last decade plus, Nick's woodworking journey has led him to sell off his electric woodworking machines to be replaced by almost exclusively hand tools. What has resulted is a love for carving greenwood, using simple tools in the Scandinavian slöjd tradition. Using a greenwood saw, axe, and various knives, Nick handcarves spoons, bowls, cups, and other functional household utensils intended for everyday use.
Alongside being an elementary teacher, he demonstrates greenwood carving through his business, NAPCraft, and aims to help others reconnect with an ability to make with their hands, while showing reverence to the local trees that sustain us.
Nicholas Pahls
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
Courtney Masterson
Cody Bonham is a wood carver, public school teacher and outdoor enthusiast. Born and raised in Lawrence, KS, art has always played an important role in his life. During the 2020 pandemic, Cody started to take up wood carving as a hobby and soon became obsessed with the artform, carving nearly every day since. He’s eager to share his passion for wood carving with the community as a way to give back and inspire others
BlockandKnife
Cody Bonham
Evan Johnson is a papermaker and printmaker working in his hometown of Lawrence. After earning a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts with a focus in printmaking and hand papermaking he interned with Green Banana Paper where he made paper from banana trees on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia. Inspiring him to start Fred Paper Co., a hand papermaking studio here in Lawrence. Evan uses his studio to preserve the craft of making beautiful art papers and stationery by using abundant waste of other businesses.
Through teaching, he has been able to engage with the community and show that hand papermaking is a repetitive, tactile process which can be therapeutic and inspirational as its own art form or as a supplement to other crafts.
fredpaper.com
