The couple spent considerable time in Norway, where Nelson developed her love of Norwegian culture. By the mid-1960s, they were hired to catalog the collection of art, pottery, furniture and other ...

The Scandinavian Folk Festival, in its 22st year, will pay special tribute to the artists and artisans of Scandinavian origin ...

"(They) first became active among Nordic-American churches in the 1880s, and, rather than creating folk art, they tended to copy well-known European paintings." ...

DECORAH, Iowa (WLAX/WEUX) – Each year, Vesterheim Folk Art School offers a wide variety of classes and programs for all ages, both in person and online, including forging, Norwegian language ...

Norwegian knifemaking classes at Milan Village Arts School, taught by Jon Roisen, ... the National Norwegian-American Museum & Folk Art School in Decorah, Iowa.

SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

“Jeg elsker musikken din,” I tell Norwegian folk singer Juni Habel near the start of our virtual meeting, she in her country house an hour outside Oslo, and me in my country house outside New ...

India Mahdavi has put her characteristic maximalist spin on PoMo, a contemporary art museum in Trondheim, Norway, with a salmon-pink gift shop and a mandarin-hued staircase.

There were also artists on site demonstrating Rosemaling, a Norwegian folk art, and a performance by the Scandinavian Folk Dancers of Omaha. People are also reading ...