Artisans of Michigan

Little Bay Boards, a custom stand up paddleboard shop in Petoskey, is known for their beautiful, locally-grown wooden boards. Jason Thelen, the company’s…

The famous pottery, Pewabic, has been doing much the same thing it has done since the very early part of the 20th century, and using some of the same…

April Wagner is a glass blower. She has a line of art under her name, but she also makes beautiful and useful things under the Epiphany Glass name. I…

Clockwright's Rick Hale is making clocks unlike any you’ve seen before. It’s a piece of sculpture in motion made of Michigan hardwoods.RH: “With these…

The first thing you hear is the sound of the blacksmith pumping the bellows to make the fire in the forge hotter.We’re at the Delano Homestead at the…

Megan Williams is a member of a vibrant community of people in Grand Rapids making all kinds of things. Williams works in textiles. “Textiles to me is…

In a nondescript building in Marshall, Derek Smith is reaming a hole to fit a tuning key into head of a mandolin. That sound is a squeaky and a little…

Tom Fuleky is showing me some of his work. He’s a stonemason and he’s been at it for nearly 50 years.“And it took me 30 to really figure it out. And I…

It's early in the morning in the shop of Johnson’s Sporting Goods in Adrian. Steven Durren is using a rasp to form a rifle stock. He makes custom…

Sometimes your plans get disrupted. Sometimes you take a leap of faith.That’s the story of David Sutherland.He started as a musician.“Years after I had…