Earthskills Rendezvous

This is only a partial list of instructors. The actual roll of teachers is much more extensive. Most of the folks on this page are regulars at Earthskills, but the list varies from event to event.

Robin Blankenship - Founder of EarthKnack, School of stone age living skills.

Walker Calhoun - Respected Cherokee elder who has played an important role in maintaining and passing on traditions to the next generation.

Richard Cleveland is the founder and director of Earth School. He is a former Head Instructor at Tom Browns' world famous Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey. Richard has also trained and studied extensively with Charles Worsham, a gifted Tracker and teacher of life. Other teachers he has studied with include, nationally renowned Cherokee herbalist David Winston, flintknapping experts Dr. Errett Callahan and Jack Cresson, as well as bowmakers Jim Hamm and Scott Silsby. Richard has taught programs throughout the United States and has also led programs in Australia. He is an avid outdoorsman, fishing guide, writer and self-trained Naturalist. Richard has taught nature awareness and native skills to thousands of people of all ages.

Russell Cutts - Proprietor of Wyldecraft and instructor of friction fire.

Doug Elliott - Naturalist, Herbalist, Storyteller.

Emma Garrett - Maker of rivercane baskets, the oldest basketry tradition among the Cherokee.

Jeff Gottlieb - Jeff has been an interpretive naturalist since 1980, and has specialized in primitive skills since 1987. He has taught people of all ages, and will share Nature and Primitive Skills with anybody who will hold still! He has written an instructors' manual, entitled Teaching Primitive Skills to Children and recently completed a book on building wigwams and longhouses, which is now available. He has built more than 30 primitive houses for nature centers, schools and museums. Jeff has been teaching at Earthskills Rendezvous since 1996.

Scott Jones - A teacher of applied primitive skills.

Mac Maness - The founder of Skills Alive, an organization of Primitive Living Skills instructors.

Michael Stuckey - Crafter of primitive Southeastern tradition pottery.

Steve Watts - Director of the Aboriginal Studies Program at Schiele Museum.

Buck Windsor - Providing educational programs in Primitive Technologies and Ancient Lifeskills.