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2011 Fairie Chautauqua Presenters

Please see the schedule for presentation times.


ARI BERK is an award-winning writer and professor of folklore and mythology at Central Michigan University. He is the author of numerous books for children and adults including The Runes of Elfland (illustrated by Brian Froud) and most recently, The Secret History of Giants and The Secret History of Mermaids.




KAREN BOGER is a longtime member of the Spoutwood Family, and for many years has run the Treasure Hunt for children. She is also a longtime fitness and yoga instructor, bellydancer, and coordinates a "heartlight aerobics" after-school program.

HAYLEY JANE is a performance artist and costumer based out of Detroit, but she is also America's only faerie make-up artist! She has a wildy popular YouTube channel with fantasy make-up tutorials. Fascinated by color and myth from a very young age, she is happy to help her fellow fae add extra pizazz to their costumes!

GARY LIPPINCOTT has been commissioned to produce art for children’s picture books, labels for imported beers and ales, Tarot decks, calendars, and even bronze sculptures. His artwork has received numerous awards at science fiction- fantasy conventions, been nominated for a Hugo and a World Fantasy Award, and has received three Chesley Awards. He has been an artist guest at FaerieCon twice and been a Guest of Honor at several conventions across the country. His artwork is being bought by collectors worldwide.


SHANE ODOM is an artist working in the Mythic Traditions and creates fantasy leather masks with his wife Leah. He has the honor to be the Abbot of the Beneficent Order of the Greenman (B.O.G) and has been lost in the forest and searching for the face of leaves all his life.

SYLVAN REDBIRD is an artist/mystic with a passion for sacred drama and altar building. An experienced workshop leader, Sylvan encourages co-creative and experiential ritual. Workshop: From the green places the Shining Ones call to us, seeking to restore the connections our ancestors shared with the Spirits of the Land, the Fey, and other Beings. This participatory and informative session about working with Faerie Allies will also include an ecstatic trance journey led by Sylvan.

CHARLES VESS is an award-winning artist, writer and sculptor, and is perhaps best known for his illustrations in Stardust and Blueberry Girl. He will be debuting his new book, Instructions (written by Neil Gaiman) at the Festival.



BETSY WILLIAMS has been growing, selling, decorating and teaching about living with herbs and flowers since 1972. She is an entertaining lecturer, weaving stories and legends throughout informative talks, and has written a booklet about flower fairies and the garden.

STEPHEN D. WINICK is a folklorist, writer, teacher, and singer, and works as the editor for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He is an expert on folk music and folksong, with hundreds of published articles to his credit, in both academic journals and music magazines. He sings with Jennifer Cutting's OCEAN orchestra and with the Ship's Company Chanteymen, and has appeared at the Maryland Faerie Festival, FaerieCon, and RenCon, in addition to Spoutwood. This year he is the Master of Ceremonies for Spoutwood Farm's May Day Faerie Festival.


ROB AND LUCY WOOD felt compelled in the early 1980s to move to the country and grow plants and reconnect with nature more directly. Since the beginning in 1983, Spoutwood Farm has been about "growing plants and people." First, with herbs and flowers. Now, with a thriving Community Supportive Agriculture (CSA) project. In 1991 Rob and Lucy started the "May Day Fairie Festival," which has grown into the largest in the country The purpose of the festival is to celebrate Nature and the Land in high spring, especially its creative and imaginative aspects, reviving an essential ancient human practice. The Festival is a community-based volunteer organization, requiring literally hundreds of volunteers to organize and run it. Four years ago (2004), the Farm added a "Mother Earth Harvest Fair".