Meet the Artist

My name is John Michael Olesen.  I am White Pine Studio.  (Technically I’m 50% of White Pine Studio, Inc. and my wife Kathy is the other 50%).  In the spring of  2002, Kathy and I moved from Minneapolis/St Paul to our current location. Over the summer of 2002, Chad Balster (a glass artist) and I built the studio out of an old hay shed on the farm.   We fired up September 2002 and have been here ever since.