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philosopher. “Life is not about buying and consuming. Life is about learning and growing. The whole emphasis at Oldway is to have people walking out understanding more than when they came in, knowing how things are made.”
After three years, the Oldway Village has four full-time residents: Eric, his wife Davette, who is an artist at the loom when she’s not busy tending to the couple’s children, four-year-old Nikke and three-yearold Jenny, porcelain sculptor Maggie Rogers whose studio is a fantasy world of fairies, dwarfs, gnomes, and dragons, and glass engraver Phil Ensminger.
Mr. Kvarnes isn’t discouraged by the empty spaces in his industrial park for arts. He sees them filling, slowly but surely, as more artisans and artists learn of Oldway Village.
It’s hard to say which is more responsible for keeping the crowds at crafts shows massed around his booth: the molten glass that is spun and shaped at the end of his pipe into a delicate vase of crystalline beauty or the line of patter that would be the envy of any late-night talk show.
And just as he combines showmanship with craftmanship, so Mr. Kvarnes mixes hard-nosed practicality with enchanting whimsey, not just in his Oldway Craft Village, but in his whole approach to life. “God keeps dropping things in my path. That’s why I know I’m sup
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