Art exhibition by Mari Rantanen and Kirsten Reynolds is an investigation of geometric abstraction through a performative lens. Rantanen has been commissioned to design large-scale architectural public art works including the Niittykumpu Subway Station in Espoo, Finland and the Citybanan Odenplan Metro Station in Stockholm Sweden.
40th festival celebrating Nordic heritage, with food, vendors, activities and a bonfire afterwards.
Get fancy by building new braid patterns for the traditional Sami coiled wire and reindeer leather bracelet. Fee.
Find treasures at the Tori/Open Market.
Classic cars, tori, food, music, baked goods, crafts and more!
Food, fun and games for the whole family.
Finnish Log Sauna Construction Master builders Timo Alakesti (pictured at left) and Marko Kemppainen will work in tandem with Calumet industrial arts teachers Robert Bohlsen and Corey Soumis, teaching how to build a dovetailed-corner log sauna using hand-hewn logs. For $500 per person, participants will have hands-on instruction for five hours per day (8 to […]
Swedish Finn foresters discuss immigrant logging in the Northwest at the Members & Friends Dinner.
Annual event celebrating Finnish-American and Finnish history, culture and traditions features presentations, discussions, concerts, tori marketplace and more. This year it takes place in the Detroit area, with most programming and Tori at the Sheraton Detroit Novi hotel, and including some activities at the Finnish Center in Farmington Hills and Finn Camp at Loon Lake.
Fog, landscapes, lace, shoes, and flowers are recurring motifs in Finnish artist Tuula Lehtinen´s art, exploring themes of femininity, sensuality, indulgence, nature, and power. Using subject matter long banned from contemporary art as too frivolous and decorative, Lehtinen’s art challenges the separation between the intellectual realm of art and culture and the domain of daily […]