Episode 15: Per Lysne

In this episode of 200 Norwegians, we explore how one man’s brushstrokes brought a fading folk art back to life, and build a Rosemaling enterprise in the Midwest during the depression

With insights from Patti Goke, a Vesterheim Gold Medalist, and Håkon Lysne, president of the Lærdal Historical Society, we trace the journey of the Father of American Rosemaling—from the fjords of Norway to the heart of the Midwest.

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