WHERE IS YOUR WHIMSEY?? Thank you BROCK AND KAREN BLOSSER, the longest contributing artists of the Sioux Narrows Arts Festival. For over 40 years Sioux Narrows has known these happy, cute and whimsical faces carved from fallen trees as Whimseys, art that is said to bring good luck to your home. But do you know the story of how Brock and Karen learned how to carve "Wurtzel Koerpfer" (rootheads) or "Berggeister" (mountain spirits) that have been carved for hundreds of years in Tyrol, a mountain province situated in the Swiss-Austrian-Italian Alps? Well, in 1972 Brock and Karen headed on an adventure to watch the Olympics in Germany, with plans to travel and work afterwards. In Vienna, they met a wood carver named Sepp Hornachger. Sepp carved for a living and invited them to stay and learn how to carve with him. So, from Sept. '72 to April '73, Brock and Karen studied with Sepp in Vienna. They returned to the United States, and later moved to Canada where they began selling their Whimseys at local festivals. |
Sioux Narrows Arts Festival 30 Years Ago
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Sioux Narrows Satellite News 1967
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