2012 Classes
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Jewelry 101: Accessories in Polymer Clay (JWL081812)
Teri Walters
August 18
Sat-Sun, 12-4pm
Jax Member $81 / General Public $100/ Deposit $20
How fun would it be to accessorize your wardrobe with unique jewelry created in the styles and colors you choose! Be ready to roll out with the pasta machine, extrude, twist, paint, powder, foil, texture and even put inclusions in your clay. Don’t know what an inclusion is? Come find out. Students will learn how to design and create their own jewelry using simple or sophisticated techniques taught by master polymer clay instructor, Teri Walters. They will pick the colors, the size, the style, the everything! Students are also encouraged to bring some of their favorite articles of clothing or fabrics in order to coordinate beautifully.
Students will leave not only with the knowledge to make great accessories in the comfort of their own home, they will also bring home their first custom made beads, earrings, pendants, hair accessories, bracelets, pins or even buttons. Great for gifts, too!
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Minimum enrollment: 3, Maximum enrollment: 8
Advanced Beginner ● Materials Fee: $3-$15 ● Minimum Age: Responsible Young Adult
Students under the age of 18 MUST have a waiver signed by a parent or legal guardian before class commences.
Teri Walters was introduced to polymer clay in 1999 and quickly became a “polyholic”. Since then, her artwork has taken her to many different places. She has been featured on local television, has won 1st and 3rd places in Polymer Cafe magazine for her work in millefiori canning and mixed media work, featured in newspapers, participated in various exhibits, has her creations in retail stores, and can be found at local craft shows selling and teaching in her booth. Teri has a great desire to teach and thoroughly enjoys passing on her knowledge and experiences in polymer clay to all those desiring to learn. In April, 2009 Teri started the New River Valley Polymer Clay Guild, which today is an active, growing community-oriented group that is promoting the enjoyment of polymer clay as recreation, hobby, or art medium.
Collaborative Syllabic Writing (BIZ081112)
Mara Robbins
August 11-12
Sat-Sun, 1-4pm
Jax Member $62/ General Public $76
Deposit $10
Materials Fee: $5
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 12
Minimum Age: 18
In this weekend course we will examine how writing functions in relationship with other writing, utilizing various syllabic arrangements that will give us a framework to build our work around. We will play with haiku and tankas (a slightly longer form of syllabic writing, often written in dialogue), work with ways in which words nurture other words and find sustenance within structure, and contemplate the difference in content and context while we collaborate. Bring your favorite pen, an open mind and willingness to experiment.
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Mara Eve Robbins is an award winning writer who specializes in poetry but appreciates and creates all forms of literary expression. A graduate in creative writing from Hollins University, she has been active in the literary arts in Floyd County since she was a teenager and facilitates writer’s groups and spoken word events. Mara believes that we all have a voice that can be translated onto the page, and advocates joy in writing for all ages—it is never too early or too late. She is committed to furthering appreciation of both the written and the spoken word within her immediate and greater community, and firmly believes that knowing and telling your story makes a profound difference in your life and the lives of those you share it with.
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17th Century Axe Head (BLK081312)
August 13-17
Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $405/ General Public $500
Deposit $125
Materials Fee: $50
Minimum Enrollment, 4: Maximum Enrollment, 12
Intermediate to Advanced
Minimum Age: 18
Get in touch with your inner Viking! In this week-long course with master blacksmith Thomas Latane, students will forge either a battle axe or hewing hatchet with a tapered rectangular eye socket. This shapely early form is made up of three to five pieces rather than the two used to produce an axe with a simple wrapped eye. Working in pairs, parts will be forged to shape, forge welded together and further forged to refine. A high carbon steel bit will be welded between layers of low carbon steel, shaped, pickled in vinegar, filed and decorated before hardening and tempering. Students wishing to create a hewing hatchet may have time to create a second axe, leaving the blade thicker and less broad and welding the high carbon steel to one side rather than in the center of the edge. The low carbon body of the axe will remain soft enough so it can be decorated cold with punches as time allows to give it the look of the original models.
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Students must have some blacksmithing experience—though forge welding experience is not necessary it will be helpful. Students are encouraged to bring their own, familiar, tools from the materials list, though the center has student grade tools available.
Thomas Latane has been interested in historic ironwork since setting up a forge in a Baltimore backyard in the early 1970s. He and his wife, Catherine, have had a shop in Pepin, WI since 1983. Over the years Tom has demonstrated with the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths at a number of ABANA conferences. Last year he studied forging edged tools with Håvard Bergland in Norway for two weeks. The 17th century axe is modeled after examples seen at the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer, Norway and an axe Håvard Bergland forged as a copy of one that has been passed down in his family. For some time every farm was required to keep such an axe in case the farmer were called upon by the king to defend the country.
http://www.spaco.org/latane/TCLatane.htm
Introduction to Traditional Tinsmithing (SCU081312)
August 13
Monday, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $81/ General Public $100
Deposit $25
Materials Fee: $15
Minimum Enrollment, 4: Maximum Enrollment, 4
This class will introduce the beginning student to simple hand tools used in an early tin shop. Students will be shown how to copy a pattern, cut, form, assemble and solder, and will complete several small projects to take home. Projects for beginners include cookie cutters, ornaments, candlesticks and wall sconces.
If you have samples of early tinware to share with the class as examples of early tin techniques, please bring it with you.
Introduction to Traditional Tinsmithing (SCU081412)
August 14
Tuesday, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $81/ General Public $100
Deposit $25
Materials Fee: $15
Minimum Enrollment, 4: Maximum Enrollment, 4
This class will introduce the beginning student to simple hand tools used in an early tin shop. Students will be shown how to copy a pattern, cut, form, assemble and solder, and will complete several small projects to take home. Projects for beginners include cookie cutters, ornaments, candlesticks and wall sconces.
If you have samples of early tinware to share with the class as examples of early tin techniques, please bring it with you.
Intermediate Traditional Tinsmithing (SCU081512)
August 15-17
Weds-Fri, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $243/ General Public $300
Deposit $75
Materials Fee: $30+
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 4
In this 3-day intensive tin-smithing course, students will learn to make complex projects such as canisters, cups or candle sconces using traditional tin-smithing techniques. Traditional construction includes forms such as wired edges, folded joints and soldered seams.
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Baskets: Ribs, Antlers and Color (FIB081712)
Pattie Bagley
August 17-19
Fri-Sun, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $243/ General Public $300
Deposit $75
Material Fee: $95
Minimum Enrollment, 4: Maximum Enrollment, 10
Minimum Age: 18
Explore the art of basket weaving with a variety of colors, textures and using a deer antler handle. Students will learn the basics and more of Rib Construction as they weave an 8” x 12” x 5” deep Oval Potato Basket. Using a pre-drilled, #1 grade, naturally shed mule deer antler, students will work on a buttocks style antler basket. Students will learn filling-in and shaping techniques, and observe and discuss a demonstration of antler drilling techniques and antler basket forms, designs and construction. Any student who does not complete their project in class will leave with plenty of material and all the knowledge they need to complete it on their own.
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Pattie Bagley started basket weaving in 1993 and began teaching her friends soon after. When she opened Aunt Pattie's Basketry Shop in 1999, she began teaching on a weekly basis. She quickly realized that teaching had become as much of a passion for her as making baskets. She closed the store in 2002, still maintaining Aunt Pattie's in her home studio. She has been teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School since 2003. Pattie is a charter member of the Georgia Basketry Association and was its president from 2008-2009. In 2010, Pattie became the Resident Artist for Basketry, Brooms and Chair Seats for the John C. Campbell Folk School.
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