A traditional painting method with many variations based on the different regions in Norway is alive and well at the Crow Wing County Fair. Painting with the Sons of Norway at the Crow Wing County ...

Ask Wilma Challstrom what attracted her to rosemaling, and the answer is simple. "It's beautiful," she said. "I have my house decorated with it." The 75-year-old Proctor woman held up the jet-black ...

SURING, Wis. (WBAY) - It’s a form of decorative painting that developed in Norway around the 1700s. Rosemaling, which means rose painting, is a style of art an Oconto County woman fell in love with ...

Claryce Swensen, pictured on March 31, had to reach out to her friends and family members to gather together a collection of her rosemaled works for a show at Ecumen Lakeshore.

Beverly Gunderson dabs the oil paint on the canvas, creating intricate layers of brightly colored scroll branches and whimsical floral patterns. The painting technique is “rosemaling,” or rose ...

Karen Osen, of St. Paul, decorates plates and other art projects with traditional rosemaling.

Art extends well beyond the dozens of frames in Karen Jenson's home. Her delicate brush strokes cover bedroom doors and kitchen cabinets. Her petals and swirls trim headboards and trunks, corner ...

MARSHFIELD – Classes in the art of Norwegian Rosemaling begin on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Classes will be held at the Chestnut Avenue Center for the Arts, 208 S. Chestnut Ave., Marshfield. Instructor Carol ...

ROSEAU, Minn. — Thirty-five years ago, Jean Honl fell in love with rosemaling. She took a community education class in 1974 and has been perfecting her skills in the traditional Norwegian art form ...

<p>Alice Brosten applies paint to a large rosemaling mural Thursday afternoon at her home near Echo Lake. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 in Bigfork, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Alice ...

Darlene Schroeder and the Sunburg Heritage Arts Initiative have been at the forefront of a revitalization of traditional Scandinavian hand crafts in Sunburg. The Initiative is also helping grow the ...

Edith Kling has adopted the Norwegian heritage as her own. Her ancestors came from Germany, but she has made Norway and its customs her passion. "When my family settled here, we were the first ...