Over the last ten years, the hand-crafted items produced at Sleeping Dogs Studio have been a unique alternative for one-of-a-kind art objects and paper-crafts throughout the Midwest, and more recently, on a national basis. First formed as Paper Works in 1998, the studio was renamed in honor of two lovable shelter animals who joined the home studio in 2004.

Owners Don and Carolyn Madvig pride themselves on the fact that all of their art objects are made through a painstaking process that includes looking through hundreds of pieces of paper and a variety of embellishments—fibers, rubber-stamped images, postage stamps, found objects, handmade papers, vintage photos—until finding just the right combination. Their goal is to recycle and elevate everyday objects into lovely pieces of art that are reasonably priced and available to all.