Artist Bio
Hello...
I'm Dave Stencel, I was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1960 and I lived there for 30 years.
Our Log Cabin
In 1980, my wife Kim and I started building a log cabin in the woods of Western Wisconsin with the dream of someday moving there to stay. In 1991, the move was completed and the creative process and business of BridgeCreek began.
The early years involved working with fur, rawhide, leather, wood, feathers, and antlers. We found Primitive Cultures fascinating because of their ability to survive, so we learned by re-creating the tools, weapons, and clothes of centuries ago.
Plains Indian Culture
The Plains Indian Culture became our primary interest evolving into a Tipi demonstration program for Elementary Schools around the Midwest. Hundreds of Schools, and tens of thousands of both kids and teachers learned the ways of old, including shelter and food gathering. After 8 years of doing that, we turned our interests to something different. We observed Antler Carving while out in Montana, and decided to create Eagles out of Horns, thus the name "eaglehorns". Now, Antler work is all we do, having carved some 900 Eagle heads in 2006.