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Instructors
Alex Blust
Grand Marais, MN USA
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Alex is happiest when she’s learning new skills, creating functional objects, and exploring outside. She’s honored to be part of a lineage of relatives and ancestors that work with their hands, craft and tinker. Keeping with tradition, Alex started crafting as a child and continues to dedicate herself to refining her craftsmanship.
Alex works as North House’s Classroom Manager. Before finding her way to the North Shore, Alex worked as a white water raft guide, ranch hand, massage therapist, organic farmworker and carpenter. In her free time you'll find her wandering in the woods, singing, reading books and making things.