Welcome to the 17th year of Liberty Grove Paper Arts.  I am Nancy Akerly,  a Door County, Wisconsin, artist passionate about everything paper: Origami, nontraditional paper folding, box making (cartonnage),bookbinding and paper marbling.  I teach classes and workshops in each of these paper arts. Please see the Calendar 2023 for a complete listing of classes.

My business is named Liberty Grove Paper Arts after the township where my grandparent’s farm is located, just north of Sister Bay, WI. That is where, in the summers after we harvested the cherry crop, I had the time to learn origami, play with ideas, write poetry and stories and dream big dreams - one of which was to spend all my time playing with paper!  Dreams do come true! 

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A BIT ABOUT ME . . .

Born on the Southside of Chicago and raised in a northern suburb,  I spent my summers on my grandparent’s farm in Sister Bay,WI, working in our family's cherry orchard. I got my first teaching job at Sister Bay School - after teaching in Europe for DoDDS for a few years I returned to Door County and achieved a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on Gifted and Talented Learners and Creativity. I taught 39 years and retired from Gibraltar Schools in 2010. I then focused my energies on the business I had begun several years before, Liberty Grove Paper Arts.