Try out wet felting while making a unique and meaningful felted scarf!

Students will learn the art of nuno felting, where wool is combined with fabric to create a strong, beautiful, and lightweight scarf. This accessible technique is a great way to learn about wet felting in just a few hours.

Suitable for ages 18+ or ages 14–17 registered alongside an adult. $75 ($65 ASI member) + $25 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Get started on a hand-embroidered linen sampler!

Students will practice a variety of free-hand embroidery stitches, with particular emphasis on exploring combinations of different stitches to delightful effects. Students will leave with a 12” x 16” sampler in process, which can be finished as a table runner, pillow, or bag front.

Suitable for all experience levels ages 16+. $115 ($100 ASI member) + $20 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Try embroidering with linen! This class offers an overview of basic free-hand embroidery stitches as students decorate a small floral motif on linen.

Students will head home with a small sampler ready to display and inspiration to continue stitching at home.

Particularly geared towards novice stitchers, ages 16+. $70 ($60 ASI member) + $10 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Join potter Kim of Imokim Pottery to decorate a ceramic dish with a carved and painted design while enjoying a beverage from FIKA Café.

Students will decorate pre-formed dishes, perfect for snacks or trinkets. After class, the pieces will be glazed with a top clear coat and fired before returning to ASI for pick up a few weeks later.

Suitable for ages 21+. $75 ($65 ASI member) + $30 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Starting with Slöjd is a monthly program for early elementary children. Participants explore new tools, materials, and skills that prepare them for a lifelong love of handcraft.

These drop-off programs are suitable for students in grades K–2. $20 ($15 ASI member)

Instructor Anna Ruhland will teach students how to collect nature objects, such as grass and leaves, and use them in printing. Print nature objects onto a canvas bag to create a useful and unique project!

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Try out Scandinavian-style woodcarving in this hands on workshop.

Students will work with fresh “green” wood, a carving knife, and other hand tools to make some simple kitchen tools. This is a terrific introduction to carving for anyone hoping to carve with spoons, bowls, or other green wood projects.

Note that carving requires good hand strength and f lexibility. Suitable for ages 16+, or ages 14-15 with a registered adult. $115 ($100 ASI member) + $30 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Try out the art of woodcut printmaking in this oneday class!

Students will choose an image or sketch before class, then learn how to prepare a wood block, carve their image, and print multiple copies of a 4×6-inch single-color design.

This workshop is suitable for beginning printmakers ages 18+, or ages 16-17 alongside a registered adult. $115 ($100 ASI member) + $50 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Taking inspiration from Nordic herbal traditions, spend an afternoon exploring generational wisdom and knowledge of summer herbs and wild foods.

Students will make several herbal preparations while grounding their learning in modern understandings of herbal medicine and the Norse mythology and oral traditions of Sunna, the Norse Sun goddess and healer.

Suitable for ages 14+. $75 ($65 ASI members) + $30 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Try out nålbinding, a global textile tradition that has been especially well preserved in Scandinavia.

In this intro class, students will make their own nålbinding needle (the only tool necessary in this highly portable craft), explore about the history of nålbinding, and learn some basic stitches to start a bracelet or armband. You’ll leave with everything you need to continue this craft at home.

Suitable for ages 11+. $70 ($60 ASI member) + $10 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Learn to carve Minnesota’s state bird, the loon!

This class invites youth and their important adult for a relaxing afternoon of carving outside in ASI’s fenced-in lawn.

Suitable for ages 8+, alongside an adult. $110 adult/youth pair ($100 ASI member adult/ youth pair) + $20 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Light up your summer evenings with a custommade luminary.

Students will decorate a prepared ceramic luminaries with carved designs in this workshop, then pick a color to complement their design. The luminaries will be fired and returned to ASI for pickup after class.

This class also includes a complimentary beverage from FIKA Café. Suitable for ages 21+. $75 ($65 ASI member) + $25 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Transparency weaving is found in Scandinavian countries featuring a light and airy textile with a simple pattern.

They were traditionally used as room dividers, privacy screens for windows or doors, woven to hang in places where light passes to create a decorative lighting effect.

Our workshop begins with a painted linen warp to which a set of pattern threads and a linen binder will be woven. The result is a contemporary transparency suitable for the modern home or office.

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In this workshop, learn how to make a striking rug based in Scandinavian design principles.

Krokbragd is a traditional Norwegian rug weaving technique historically used for horse blankets, rugs, blankets and wall hangings. The name means “crooked path,” referring to the woven lines the technique produces.

Our class sample will showcase the many colorful variations possible with this method.

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Mississippi-based artist Coulter Fussell artist residency from September 7–11, 2026.

During her residency, Fussell will engage with students through lectures, critiques, and hands-on workshops that foreground material experimentation and the conceptual possibilities of textile-based practices.

The residency will include a public exhibition of Fussell’s work (August 15^th – September 11^th) , offering audiences an opportunity to experience her immersive quilt-based installations firsthand.

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This learning event is led by Chestina Dominguez, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakama Nation and descendant of the Warm Springs tribe. Chestina uses contemporary materials to create baskets using the ancient techniques of her ancestors.

Sally bags, known as wapaas and aqw’alkt respectively among the Wasco and Wishxam peoples, are woven with a unique full-turn twining method.

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