About us

 

Emerson Andrishok is an award winning sculptor and woodworker. He received a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1986 and has been honing his woodworking skills for the past 19 years. Emerson has won awards for his furniture and the work he has done restoring historic houses in Iowa City, Iowa. He has always loved boats and after his first kayak trip he was hooked. Using his years of experience as a master carpenter and artist he made the first kayak for his wife, Penny. Emerson and Penny live on a 40 acre farm in the Midwest with three Golden Retrievers: Cleo, Ruby and Chipper and they paddle the lakes and rivers of Minnesota,Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.

 

Cleo, Ruby and Chipper

 

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