A SELECTION OF WORDPRESS WEBSITES DESIGNED BY LUNADOMO
Theater / Spectacle
Adventures in Cardboard
Sculptor, actor and teacher Julian McFaul conducts creative workshops for kids of all ages that focus on creating places for imaginative play.
Art Sled Rally
An annual winter event in Minneapolis.
Banners and Cranks
An annual festival of cantastoria performance by artists and musicians from all over the United States.
BareBones Productions
Creators of the Halloween Extravaganza and various magnificent spectacles.
Chicks on Sticks
The Twin Cities all-female stilt-walking and performance group
In the Heart of the Beast
This essential puppet theater has graced Minneapolis and the world with color and vitality for over 30 years.
Magic Smelt Puppet Troupe
Creating imaginative spectacles using puppets, masks, costumes, dance and music.
Nightpath Theatre
A theatre laboratory, Nightpath uses the classics as a map to explore the mythology of contemporary America.
Puppet Farm Arts
Teaching the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art.
Organizations
Ceres Trust
Providing grants that support: research, education, and programs in organic agriculture.
Clean Elections Minnesota
A non-partisan, non-profit organization that promotes electoral and government policies which reflect the will of the people and not the power of money.
Creative Community Builders
CCB helps communities to identify cultural and creative assets - and to leverage them for community revitalization and change.
Creative Strategic Solutions
Dublin-based Dermot Mclaughlin works with a wide range of organisations, projects and companies who are looking for help in finding effective solutions so that they are better equipped to deal with opportunities and challenges.
Family Enhancement Center
FEC's goal is to prevent child abuse and to promote healing among children who have experienced abuse.
First Presbyterian Church of Red Wing
A congregation dating to 1855 in Red Wing, Minnesota
Friends of the Finland Community
A nonprofit formed by citizens in Finland, MN to work towards making the community's vision a reality.
Grow Ahead
Grow Ahead endeavors to support small family farmers as they address the challenge of climate change in their communities.
Hindu Community Center of Minnesota
"The world is one large family"
League of Women Voters Edina
A nonpartisan political organization based in Edina, MN, encouraging the informed and active participation in government, and influencing public policy through education and advocacy, since 1954.
League of Women Voters Mpls
In the forefront of voter education and civic participation since women won the right to vote, LWV Mpls is now an organization of people dedicated to promoting civic participation at its best.
Lydia's Gathering
Lydia's Gathering's Mission is to support the training and ordination of Catholic women into the priesthood.
The Natural Farmer
Web Archive of the newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
ORCA
Organic Retail & Consumer Alliance
Powderhorn Empty Bowls
A community-building event with a mission to make art, provide sustenance and promote the common good.
Save-Bees.org
Petition site to request an immediate moratorium on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
St. Joan's International Alliance
An NGO working for Women's Equality in Church, State, and Society since 1911.
Tabor Lake Association
Providing information and education on maintaining the quality of the Tabor Lake, Wisconsin area and its wildlife.
Education
Hinduism Resource
A free teaching curriculum dedicated to educating students of all ages on the principles of Hinduism.
Organic Farming Works
Atina & Martin Diffley's consulting business, educating farmers and consumers.
Read at Home
Promoting reading for Native children, ages 2-6, with their families.
Food / Dining
Asase Yaa
Providing exquisite global foods for festivals and catered events.
City Food Studio
Shared-use commercial kitchen for Twin Cities culinary entrepreneurs to craft and sell their goods from a certified food-safe facility.
Commonplace
Remembering St. Paul's iconic mid-70s vegetarian collective restaurant.
The Curry DIva
Catering by Heather Jansz, bringing the fresh, exotic flavors of Sri Lanka to Minnesotans.
The Dubliner Pub
St. Paul's home for Irish Music & Dance since 1983.
Businesses
Cobblestone Cabins
Built in 1926, a small, family-owned and operated resort in Tofte, Minnesota, overlooking the beautiful North Shore of Lake Superior.
Esch Consulting
Improving safety and productivity through communication and awareness
Global Village
Purveyors of good vibrations from around the world. Duluth, MN
Harmony Tree Works
Michael Kosowski, your local, ISA certified arborist in Minneapolis.
Linden Leadership
Partnering with businesses to establish high performance cultures, leaders, teams and individuals.
Northfield Creative Partners
Providing comprehensive communication and marketing campaigns across the full range of communication channels.
Onila Farm
An 8 acre organic Kona Coffee farm on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Southside Vintage
Stylish and affordable vintage furniture and decor, clothing and accessories, artwork, textiles and a curious array of sundries.
Welch Wallcovering
Serving Minnesota's North Shore for over 20 years.
Wild Bee Company
Pesticide free removal of honeybees and other stinging insects in the Seattle area.
HEALTH / Fitness
Core Pilates Studio
A pilates and Yoga center in St. Paul.
Faye Berton
Teaching yoga and working with The Feldenkrais Method since 1988, Faye has the highest certification from Yoga Alliance and is a FGNA certified Feldenkrais practitioner.
Gretchen Trains
Personal Training by Gretchen Harris.
Joe Welch SFQ
Certified Level 1 & 2 Spring Forest Qigong instructor in Minneapolis.
Kochikara Healing Arts
Somatic Massage, Bodywork, and Movement Therapy by Malia Burkhart.
Laurel Yoga Studio
Yoga studio located in the Merriam Park neighborhood of St. Paul. Design by Karin Preus.
Sarah Wilson Acupuncture
Acupuncture, Moxa, Acupressure, and Wellness Counseling, since 1991
Soma Ventures
Jean Fraser offers movement-based classes and programs that tame stress, dissolve anxiety, and provide empowerment, peace, and hope.
Authors / Books
Adventures of Nalah
Books for children about a rambunctious little girl, Nalah, by Anne Sawyer-Aitch.
Atina Diffley
Author, Educator, Organic Consultant
Companion to Irish Traditional Music
This book is the ultimate reference for all players, devotees and students of Irish Traditional Music.
Dorothy Sauber
Writer, artist, teacher, mother, and citizen. Sharing information and making available some of the products of her creativity.
Evelyn Conlon
Monaghan-born and Dublin-based Irish novelist and short story writer.
Joseph Helgerson
river explorer · friend to sparrows · scribbler
Nancy Bo Flood
An author and educator, Bo has lived in Malawi, Africa, Hawaii, Japan, the western Pacific, and, most recently, the Navajo Nation Reservation.
Roger Blobaum
"One of the 25 individuals who have done the most to develop organic agriculture in the US".
Twin Cities Sisters in Crime
Promoting the professional advancement of women who write mysteries.
Whinstone Publishing
Dublin based. Books on music.
Art
Andrea Deimel
Paintings and prints that are alive with color, pattern, liveliness and energy.
Anne Sawyer-Aitch
Artist, Author, Puppeteer
Bart Buch
Puppet artist, poet, and teacher.
Bee Swell!
Art by Nora Wildgen,promoting awareness of the problems our pollinators are facing today. Design by Karin Preus.
Brenna Busse
Using materials as metaphor; Brenna shares her celebration of the beauty of nature, faith in possibility and the sacred quality of daily life…
Cecilia Schiller
Innovative Sclupture, Woodcarving, and Design
Christopher Lutter
Chris is a designer, inventor, theater-maker and community educator.
does it fold?
A series of events held at The Drawing Center, NYC, featuring poetry readings, film screenings, and musical performances in dialogue with a pop-up exhibition of David Scher’s sketchbooks and musical scores.
Elizabeth Garvey
An artist who combines found objects with natural materials into mixed media assemblages that explore relationships between work, nature, and self.
Emily Richardson
Using fabric, acrylic paint, and thread as her vocabulary, Richardson creates a visual language that bridges the seams between the worlds of painting and fiber art.
Harland Snodgrass
Primarily spanning work from the 1960s and 1970s, Harland's work presented in this site is a both a reflection and a celebration of the art of its (his) era.
JAO
Action painter, performance artist Julie JAO believes: The role of the Artist is to recognize and bring forth into their work the radiance of all things. The role of Art is to communicate this radiance and illuminate truth.
Kat Corrigan
Prolific Minneapolis artist painting in an expressionistic, realistic manner.
Leslie Rubman
Creating abstract assemblages built on the ruins of the recent and remote past.
Liz Welch
Fine Art Prints and Design.
Malia Burkhart
Multidisciplinary Performance Artist, Environmental Activist, Global Somatics and Herbal Medicine practitioner, Singer-Songwriter, Arts-Educator.
Mary Esch
Mary is known for her incisive drawing style, portraiture, landscape-based visual narratives, altered fairy tales, and limited edition wall-paper.
Mary Griep
Visual artist and Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College. Over a long career in painting and drawing, she has shown her work from Finland to Thailand.
Masanari Kawahara
Performer and educator who incorporates puppetry, mask, and movement into his work.
Margo McCreary
Puppeteer, performer, artist & educator.
Munir Kahar
Visionary artist and performer.
Nader Vakili
Born in the Persian Gulf port of Bushir, in the state of Persia, Iran, in 1927, he continues to carve his statues, influenced by his work as a field research scientist in the U.S., Central America and South East Asia and the powerful tradition of Persian poetry and literature he experienced in his youth.
Nick Lethert
A gallery of abstract drawings and prints.
Sandy Spieler
Celebrating the "glorious interconnection of all things, the astounding intricacies of beauty and diversity, and the eternal cycle of birth, death, and birth again."
Shari Albers
Freelance illustrator and designer.
Sheena Vallely
Armagh-born painter and printmaker based in Bristol, England.
Tadhg McSweeney
Memorial site for the masterful painter and philosopher based in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Tara Fahey
Tara's work is an amalgam of teaching, stilt performance, puppet making, and public art.
The Life of Brown Cat
A series of illustrations by Nutan (Jacques Piraprez) in ink, watercolours and gouache, the Adventures of Brown Cat.
Wendy S. McCarty
Still life, landscape, and figurative painting in oil.
William McKearn
Visionary sculptor creating extraordinary figures using wood, bondo and shellac.
Memorials
Ethan Johnson
To honor and remember our beloved friend, colleague, husband, brother, and son, Ethan Johnson.
Loren Kellen
To honor the life of Loren Kellen, who left us on October 2, 2009.
Jim Koplin
The angel of Powderhorn.
Richard Ashcraft Wilson
Celebrating the life of an artist, visionary, and magnificently beautiful soul, Rich Wilson.
Sarah Bowman
Sharing memories and photos of our beloved friend, Sarah Bowman.
Music
3 Scones
The music of flute player Tara (Bingham) Diamond of County Down and fiddler Dermy Diamond of Belfast.
Aaron Jonah Lewis
Mind-bending multi-instrumentalist.
Altan
The beloved band from Donegal.
Bellows Brothers
Harkening back to the cabrette and musette traditions of bagpipe and accordion, The Bellows Brothers' reedy, layered sound is at once nostalgic and contemporary.
Bob Walser
Traditional Music of land and sea.
The Compánach Concert
An audio-visual recital of Traditional Irish music, song and dance.
The Corn Potato String Band
The Ears and Eyes of America · dedicated to continuing the traditional fiddle and banjo music and dance of the Central Southern US.
Craobh Rua
Traditional Irish Musicians from Belfast, touring the world since 1990.
Dáithí Sproule
Exquisite guitar and singing from the bard of Derry. Design & photos by Lisa Richardson.
Dakota Dave Hull
Classic American Guitar...
Danny Diamond
Dublin based fiddle player with the Irish traditional band Mórga, the experimental acoustic trio Slow Moving Clouds. Released debut solo album Fiddle Music in July 2014.
Dave Ray
An archive of the music and opinion of Dave “Snaker” Ray, the brilliant American blues singer and guitarist from St. Paul, Minnesota, who passed away in 2002. The goal is to emulate the design and intent of Dave’s original site as much as possible.
Dean Magraw
Seen Dean? You oughta…
Dermot McLaughlin
Dermot is a renowned exponent of traditional Donegal fiddle music.
Diane Jarvi
Poet & singer. Intimate interpretations of tangos, waltzes, gypsy music, ballads, jazz standards and cabaret songs from around the world.
Estaire Godinez
Smoldering vocalist, ace percussionist, artist, writer, actor, international sensation.
Fintan Vallely
Musician, writer, lecturer and researcher on Traditional Irish Music, from County Armagh, Ireland.
Frank Noise & The Logs of Wood
The improvisational music family from Minneapolis Minnesota has been making music without benefit of charts or sheet music since 1969.
Helen Diamond
Brilliant singer and fiddle player from Dublin, singing unaccompanied English language songs in a traditional style.
James Schattauer
A soulful and versatile performer for adults as well as children (Mister Jim).
John Devine
Saxophonist/composer John Devine has delighted audiences for over 30 years.
Jon Pemberton
Trumpeter, pianist, teacher and composer, Jon is one of the most versatile musicians in Minneapolis.
Lily Vakili
Enthralling singer songwriter based in Montclair, New Jersey
Martin McHugh
St. Paul's iconic musical statesman, from Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
mick laBriola
Dedicated to cultural music encompassing dance, theater, ensembles, workshops and residencies.
Mississippi
Peruvian guitarist Andrés Prado joins forces with four Minnesota jazz masters: Peter Schimke, piano; Jeff Bailey, bass; Kevin Washington, drums; Pete Whitman, saxophones.
Music of the Periodic Table
Musician and educator Mark John explores the vibrational qualities of the physical world, highlighting the unique light and tone of the elements.
NorthSide
Founded in 1996 by Rob Simonds, NorthSide is a label imprint to bring Nordic roots music to North American audiences.
Olov Johannson
Many regard Olov Johannson as Sweden's greatest craftsman on the nyckelharpa. With his brilliant solo playing and as a member of the group Vasen, he has been largely responsible for the explosion of nyckelharpa playing that has been witnessed recently in Sweden.
Paddy O'Brien
Accordion master from County Offaly, Ireland who has collected more than 3,000 compositions, including many rare and unusual tunes.
Peter Schimke
The brilliant pianist and composer from Minneapolis.
The Piano Lab in Seward
Private piano lessons for children and adults, Young Voices class for 3-5 year olds, and Musical Mindfulness, a therapeutic practice.
Roochie Toochie and the Ragtime Shepherd Kings
Performing the weirdest songs from the early days of tin pan alley on the format on which they were first recorded: wax cylinder
Scott Mateo Davies
Flamenco guitar, tango y mas
Sean Egan
A composer and multi-instrumentalist, working in a variety of genres.
Sky Doll
An electronic music project influenced by House, Soul, Funk, R&B and New Wave.
Slow Moving Clouds
Dublin-based band who draw inspiration from Irish and Nordic music traditions. Design by Aki.
Steve Tibbetts
Guitarist Tibbetts has recorded 12 albums on ECM, including Natural Causes, Selwa, and Chö.
Tom Klein
Uilleann piper based in the richly-diverse Irish traditional music community of St. Paul.
Väsen
Based in Uppland, Sweden, “ the band's anciently original compositions can be immensely brooding, stately, fitfully spry or dramatically expansive.” -Washington Post
Youenn Bothorel
Dublin-based maker of violins, violas and cellos
Photo, Film, Video
Bill Nelson
Directory of Photographer and Videopgrapher
Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Story
A film by John Whitehead that captures how three musicians from the hip-hop generation embraced a 19th-century genre and took it to new heights, winning a Grammy in 2010.
Fretless Films
John Whitehead, an independent filmmaker whose work ranges from social issue documentaries to humor.
Gimme Shelter Films
Raising awareness and providing useful content to organizations who are working to eradicate youth homelessness and honor the aspirations of young people growing up without stable housing or support.
The Last Word
An independent film directed by visionary cinematographer Tim McCusker. (not wordpress)
Nutan
Born in Belgium, Nutan has made the West of Ireland his home, and Irish topography, people and music his life's work since the late 1960's. (zenfolio site)
Personal
Claire and Maria
Parents hoping to adopt.