JARROD DAHL

Jarrod is a full-time craftsperson, teacher, and writer who has worked with wood professionally since 1996. He runs both Woodspirit School of Traditional Craft & Woodspirit Handcraft with his wife Jazmin, where Jarrod teaches courses and designs, makes, and sells woodenware respectively. He specializes in turning cups, handled mugs, bowls, plates, and lidded boxes, using a foot-powered pole lathe, a Japanese-style electric lathe, and a Western electric lathe. He carves a wide variety of cooking and eating utensils with axe and knife. Research at archives and museums informs his designs. Jarrod is also a tool maker and hand forges knives and other carving and woodworking tools.

He teaches handcraft at institutions nationally and internationally including Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, North House Folk School, Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Greenwood Guild London, Plymouth CRAFT, and Gifu Forest Academy, Japan. He participates in international exchange by teaching and studying abroad, as well as training craftspeople in his own shop.

Jarrod has extensive knowledge of harvesting and processing natural materials and the making and use of hand tools. He has a deep philosophical, historical and pragmatic approach to making, teaching, and advocating for handcraft.

Jarrod writes a blog, and has written for Popular Woodworking and Mortise & Tenon Magazines. He made two DVDs, The Art of Spoon Carving and One Tree about green woodworking recorded in Japan. He also has a forthcoming book with Lost Art Press on Spring Pole Lathe Turning. He lives in Northern Wisconsin.

Find him at www.woodspirithandcraft.com www.woodspiritschool.com

instagram: @jarrod__dahl @woodspirithandcraft @woodspiritschool

YouTube: Jarrod Dahl

Jarrod’s CV

Jazmin hicks-Dahl

Jazmin helps run Woodspirit Handcraft with her husband Jarrod, scheduling and assisting workshops, managing shipping and sales, finishing woodenware, and producing small batch textiles for the home. Her focus is on indigo dyeing, and hand weaving ikat on a floor loom. She is learning to process homegrown flax, handspin cotton, and weave on a backstrap loom. Antique everyday folk textiles are a limitless source of inspiration for her. She learned katazome paste resist and sukumo ferment vat indigo dyeing from Takayuki Ishii @awonoyoh in Fujino, Japan and attended an immersive course from Arimatsu shibori master Hiroshi Murase. Jazmin studies urushi lacquer application with Madoka Kutsuwa in Japan.

Before moving to Wisconsin, Jazmin was a teacher in her native SF Bay Area. She taught children and adults eurythmy, middle school woodworking and art, led a performing group, and participated in school governance and administration. She worked as a graphic designer and in marketing. Jazmin began woodworking in high school and continued in the Environmental Design program at Otis College of Art and Design. She earned a BA from New College of California, and has diplomas in both Waldorf Education and Eurythmy Pedagogy and Performance.

Jazmin appreciates natural materials, beauty, and authenticity. Her blog is called Blue Notes.

www.woodspirithandcraft.com www.woodspiritschool.com

instagram: @loveblueindigo @woodspirithandcraft @woodspiritschool

CURRENT ASSISTANT

Leo Shore attended Summer Spoon Club and the Pole Lathe: Build, Forge, Turn class with Jarrod in Ashland, WI in 2021. He is inspired by the waste-not ingenuity of vernacular technology and exploring the ways that tools, techniques and materials affect our psyche. He came to the Chequamegon Bay to study at Northland College from the Milwaukee area and stayed for the wilderness and power of Lake Superior. He aims to better understand the craft of green woodworking and sustainable forestry and integrate these into a method of ecological design and aesthetic. He enjoys sailing his 12' wooden dinghy Merganser. He began assisting in 2023. Leo is also a 2023 Wisconsin Folk Arts Apprentice supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

PAST APPRENTICES/ASSISTANTS/STUDENTS

Joey Traynor met us at the From One Tree class at North House Folk School in 2018. He assisted us with production until 2020. His passions for nature, tree care, bushcraft and camping led him to green woodworking. He has been hooked ever since. Joey is an arborist and craftsman in the Detroit, MI area. Check out Joey’s instagram here: @greatlakeswoodcraft

Kei Watanabe, Japanese furniture maker of 501furniture and woodworking instructor at Gifu Forest Academy, spent time with us in the Fall of 2019.

Jonah Lindsley studied with Jarrod for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship program supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, Autumn 2018-2019.

Masataka Iwahashi is a woodworker from Japan who came to study with us in July 2018. His work can be seen here.

Tom Bartlett came from Madison, WI to be an apprentice from November 2017-February 2018: www.sylvaspoon.com

Jeff Kuchak studied with Jarrod in July 2017 as a recipient of a Folk Arts Grant from Pennsylvania. @stormspoons