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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This extreme example of the Norwegian art form of rosemaling is enshrined in a tiny Minnesota town This Scandinavian-inspired home in quaint Milan is covered in a renowned rosemaling painter's life's ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — If you have never heard of kolrosing or krokbragd before, you are not alone. Inside the Crow Wing County Fair Fine Arts building, artists demonstrated several little-known crafts and shared ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, Joanne MacVey of Blue Grass, Iowa, took a class in rosemaling, the decorative Norwegian painting technique. As it turned out, that class changed her life. Through the years she ...