The Emma International Collaboration grew from a series of Woodturning and Furniture Making workshops organized by Michael Hosaluk, Jamie Russell and Don Kondra through the Saskatchewan Craft Council starting in 1982.

These workshops evolved away from the standard lecture-demo format to lots of open studio time and hands on experiences allowing the participants more one on one time with the instructors and the instructors a chance to play their ideas and experiences off each other.

In 1996 Emma moved to an artists’ retreat in the Saskatchewan boreal forest with a history of fresh thought. The open studio sessions had become so successful all formal instruction was dropped in favor of the totally hands on “no format format”.

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