An enthusiastic advocate for the handmade slow-living movement with 25 years of experience in arts and crafts in Manitoba, Maureen Winnicki Lyons divides her time between WOOL MOUNTAIN Studios at ARTlington Studios in Winnipeg and MWLminiMakers, sharing her passion for arts and crafts.

Leading her own quiet revolution against the whirlwind age in which we live, Maureen offers through MWLminiMakers dozens of skill-based workshops primarily in textile arts as well as mixed media. Looking to host a class? Ask for their 24-page course catalogue. WOOL MOUNTAIN has got you covered for classes in everything from natural dyeing to weaving, felt-making, rug-hooking, punch-needle and rug tufting always first using locally-sourced materials first.

The fibre arts are a slow-paced handskill-based art form requiring patience and a long view making it an excellent manner in which to really explore the ideology that we as people must stop and consider the way in which we live to make ourselves, our homes, and our world more sustainable beginning with embracing local assets and opportunities.

Maureen graduated from Red River College with a Creative Communications Degree in 1993. She worked as a Communications Specialist and Public Relations Officer and has a background in photo- and print-journalism.

Born in Manitoba, MWL was raised free-range on farmland in Beausejour. She now lives in Winnipeg with her partner and four children.

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Website: woolmountain.ca

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Instagram: @maureenwinickilyons