Ten students ages 9 to 16 are whittling away at Norwegian folk art traditions dating back to their Viking ancestors. They gather Wednesdays after school, wrap their thumbs in bright turquoise tape ...

Artist Jean Honl of Roseau, Minn., who was introduced to the traditional Norwegian art of rosemaling in 1974, is well-known in northwestern Minnesota for her mastery of the decorative art form ...

She and her husband, Marion Nelson, now deceased, are credited with transforming a small Norwegian folk art museum in Decorah, Iowa, into a 12-building historical heritage center — the ...

Minnesota knitter is master of Norwegian folk art Sons of Norway members were treated to a presentation on hand-crafted, traditional Norwegian textile items Thursday in the Gyda Varden Lodge in ...

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 ...

Tokheim learned about Norwegian knife-making in Norway and from the Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum & Folk Art School in Decorah, Iowa.

Iowa is home to a variety of forms of folk art, such as pottery, spinning, and sculpting. These art forms play an important role not only in equipping people with valuable skills, but also in holding ...

There were also artists on site demonstrating Rosemaling, a Norwegian folk art, and a performance by the Scandinavian Folk Dancers of Omaha. 'Does anybody care about Nebraska?': ...

“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.