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Metal Clay Pendants and Earrings

Create pendants, earrings, and wearable sculptures from copper and silver metal clay, practicing and perfecting a variety of rolling, texture, applique, and carving techniques. Kiln fire each piece, then finish and polish your beautiful fine metal creations.

Re-Enameled Camping Ware

In this 4-hour class, students will use enamels in liquid form to make what is a normally drab utilitarian object into a work of art. Students have the option of working on a plate or a mug. The enamels can be sprayed, painted, dipped, dripped, spattered or stenciled and then fired.

Woodturning I

Use a lathe to turn a rough piece of wood into a beautifully shaped spindle-turned mallet and face-plate mounted bowl. You will learn the basics of the turning process and cover tool usage, sharpening, wood selection, preparation, and finishing.

Adult Art Bike

Build an art bike or customize your existing bike with cool art bike elements! This 30 hour class allows you to get a taste of bike customization and modification without diving into the full art bike/bike frame construction process. A great class for both teens and adults.

Mordant and Indigo Dyeing

Cover the fundamentals of natural fibers, mordanting (fabric pre-treatment), and immersion dye baths with red madder root and yellow weld. Create patterns on cloth with shibori techniques and bundle dyeing with whole plants, including dyeing with natural indigo and creating patterns using clay paste resist.

Fire Hula Hoop I

Build coordination and confidence as you construct your own practice PVC hula hoop and learn basic tricks with and without fire. You will learn beginner on-body and off-body moves, including turns, figure 8‚ tosses, isolations, fountains, and waist, hand, knee, and neck hooping. On the final night, you will work with an open flame!

Decorative Glass Pumpkins

Try your hand at glass blowing while creating your own decorative glass pumpkins. Learn to safely gather glass from the furnace, apply colors, and shape and sculpt molten glass. These glass art pieces make great gifts all year round! Be prepared to work in the heat!

NEW! Wheel Throwing II

In this course, you will continue to refine your throwing techniques and be challenged to throw larger more complex forms, including vases and plates. Students will continue to explore surface decoration, glazing, and how to combine hand building and wheel throwing.

PREREQUISITE: Wheel Throwing I

Boxes, Lockets, and Hinges

Students learn to create multiple hollow forms for use in jewelry, boxes, and lockets. Working in copper, brass, nickel, and silver, students incorporate movement into their pieces through hinges and learn to use handmade plastic dies with the hydraulic press.

PREREQUISITE: Jewelry & Metals II

Youth Adventures in Sandcasting (Ages 12-18)

In this introduction to foundry processes, turn your ideas into cast-metal sculptures! You will create both open-faced and closed sand molds, then learn to pour molten aluminum with the help of your classmates. Once cooled, apply coloring and finishing techniques, then leave with a unique, finished sculpture you cast yourself!

Spoon Carving By Hand

Topics covered include different types of wood, grain direction, carving, shaping, and food safe finishes. Through short demonstrations and lectures, we will use a combination of power and hand tools, exploring the material for its functionality as a creative medium.

Metal Furniture Fabrication

Going beyond basic MIG welding, this course focuses on designing and fabricating functional and aesthetically interesting benches, coffee tables, flower stands, cabinets, wheeled furniture, shelves, coat racks, and just about any other piece of furniture you might like to fabricate.

PREREQUISITE: MIG Welding I