Cecil and Emory Coons (Burns) are father and son arrowhead chippers of obsidian they collect from the hills around their home. They use and teach traditional techniques for chipping a variety of arrowhead styles. The family home, totally obscured behind piles of gathered obsidian to be sold outright to collectors or to be used in reproduction arrowheads and spears, shows the Coons’ unbridled passion for the pursuit. Cecil refers to his son as “probably the finest spear-point maker in the world.”

Celeste Whitewolf (Tigard) is a fiber artist and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla. She credits her Karuk grandmother for her talent for basket weaving. Using natural materials that she collects, Whitewolf makes baskets for traditional uses, like picking huckleberries, as well as for handbags.

Chan-Phirath Farley (Beaverton) is a Khmer dancer and traditional wedding planner. A cofounder of the Cambodian Dance Troupe of Oregon, she instructs young dancers in folk and classical Khmer dance. Farley also organizes elaborate Cambodian wedding ceremonies.

Cheryl Hobbs (Irrigon) has been a quilter since at least 1990. She made all of her own clothes while growing up and then progressed to quilting.

The Chiloquilters (Chiloquin), a women’s quilting group, meets weekly to quilt and sew together. Members work on joint projects and help each other with individual pieces. All contribute to an annual quilt show at the Chiloquin Community Center where they showcase their newest quilts.

Cindy Kopcinski and Janis Smith (Mitchell) are mother and daughter rock hound and mining partners at Lucky Strike, where they mine "thunder eggs" -- geological curiosities collected from the site for centuries. Both women cut, polish, and create original art from thunder eggs which, like geodes, look non-descript on the exterior but reveal complex, crystal- line interiors when sliced open.

Clair Kehrberg (John Day) is a master leatherworker, gear maker, and saddle maker. She grew up in eastern Oregon’s ranch country and continues to ranch with her husband in John Day. Kehrberg is well-known for her intricate leather work and brings her skills to chinks and chaps as well as to elegantly hand-tooled leather briefcases, handbags, earrings, and more.

Colleen Blackwood (Pendleton) is known in Pendleton for all things quilt—her extraordinary machine quilting, teaching quilting classes, and finishing quilts. She cofounded Crazy Horse Quilters, which organizes the annual Pendleton Convention Center Quilt Show each May.

Correy McAtee (Prineville) is a certified and professional sheep shearer who raises heritage Romeldales, other breeds of sheep, and lamb for wool, dairy, breeding stock for her business, Custom Colored Critters. McAtee is a 3rd generation farmer who grew up in Oakridge, Oregon on a cattle, timber, and sheep farm. Having gotten into raising sheep early, she honed her shearing skills in Virginia while managing a large commercial sheep flock on a large cattle and sheep farm. After returning to Oregon, she sheared small flocks around Oregon for some 13 years before finally attending the WSU Moses Lake Shearing School. Since then, continuing to shear, adding alpacas, llamas, and goats to the repertoire as well as a brief foray with a sheep dairy along with gaining mentors and providing mentorship has kept skills and knowledge to the forefront while honoring the heritage of sheep ranching and shearing.

Dagoberto Morales Duran (Medford) is a traditional P'urhépecha tule and wheat straw weaver and dry-stone wall builder from San Jeronimo Purenchecuaro, in central Michoacán, Mexico. He is descended from four generations of craftsmen and learned tule and straw weaving at age five. He also learned from his father to build dry stone walls.

Dale Greenley (Myrtle Creek) is a fly tyer and angler who grew up doing both on the North Umpqua River near Roseburg. He's worked as a fishing guide on the Umpqua, but his real passion is tying flies, which he did that commercially for many years for Orvis.

Ranchers Dan and Robin Fulwyler (Ontario) are passionate practitioners of western ranch and rodeo traditions. They compete as a duo in team roping and cowboy shooting events. The couple’s two daughters are also involved in rodeo and ranch activities.

Dan Cannon (Mitchell) is a community poet and gifted storyteller with a wide-ranging repertoire of local histories and anecdotes of everyday life. Some stories were passed down to him, and some are newly told, but all are embellished with his farcical style. He can be found relating stories at many town occasions, or at his Cannon Tire Center, which serves as a cultural hub for his small community.

Dan Fowler (Hines) is a traditional rawhide braider and buckaroo. Dan has worked on ranches since high school, where he began working with rawhide. Today, buckaroos throughout eastern Oregon use Fowler’s reins, romals (whip), and bosals (noseband).

Daniela Mahoney (Portland) is a traditional Czech and Slovakian egg decorator and a Master Artist who participated in the Oregon Folklife Network’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program in 2012. Czech and Slovak egg decorating is associated with celebrations of Spring and new life. Mahoney, who learned from her grandmother, teaches Czech and Slovakian egg decorating to school aged kids all over the country.

Dave and Mary Ann Dozer (Sisters) serve the thriving community of fly fishers visiting or living in the area. Dave grew up with the sport and now builds traditional bamboo fly rods with the same tools and materials used 100 years ago. Mary Ann works as a casting instructor and fishing guide and helps organize meet-ups and skill-shares, especially for women fishers.

Dave Clowes (Bonanza) is a western saddle maker and the owner of Dave's Saddle and Tack in Bonanza. After learning to repair saddles, Clowes easily made the step to crafting his own, which he now sells alongside other western items in his shop.

Dave Gagnon (Baker City) is a highly detailed master mason, who has worked for nearly four decades in the age old craft of building or restoring structures of stone and brick. Ojibwa/Chippewa on his father’s side, Gagnon is one of 50 family members involved in the trade.

David Leung (Eugene), is a master of Kung Fu and Tai Chi. Leung was schooled in the martial arts as a child in Hong Kong and came to Eugene in 1968 as a 19-year-old student. Known most often in the community as Master David, Leung has been a teacher of martial arts and psychology in Eugene for 40 years.

Dean Adams (Burns) is a Native American (Burns Paiute; Jemez Pueblo) silversmith and basket maker. Adams learned to polish stones and make ring shanks from his father. Along with silver work, Adams is known for his juniper bark “knee” baskets, traditionally used for storage.