We have made wheel-thrown stoneware and sculpture since 1973: mugs, bowls and jars for everyday use, and carved and painted pieces that draw on Scandinavian folk art. Everything is thrown, glazed and fired here at our studio in western Minnesota.
Ale hens, horsehead handles, turned bowls with a surface that welcomes vines of ornament, exuberant or restrained by geometry.
The details come from Scandinavian folk art, which we have studied at the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa, and at the Rauland Academy in Telemark, Norway.
Tokheim Stoneware is in the permanent collection of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum and has traveled in several international exhibitions.
It was featured in the book Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tradition, with its exhibition at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, and was sold at the Smithsonian Institution's museum store during the Vikings exhibition.
The Rosemaled Fjord Horse Platter was chosen for Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, the American-Scandinavian Foundation's 2025–2027 traveling exhibition.
We work in restored farm outbuildings, fitted out with the Scandinavian wood carving that inspired some of our pottery designs. Wood and metal, textiles and light make a setting both simple and sophisticated for these collectible, functional pieces.
The studio and gallery are open Saturdays from 10 to 3, and by appointment: 320-769-2142. We are in rural Lac qui Parle County between Montevideo and Dawson, north of Highway 212.