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Note: This course is open to students who have previously completed the Introduction to Blacksmithing class. Using traditional hand hammered blacksmithing techniques over a coal burning forge, students will forge a basic set of tools for the forge. Initial projects include a fire rake, slot punch, hammer eye drive, and blacksmith’s cross peen hammer. Additional…
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Watercolor is a level one observational painting class. In Watercolor, students will learn color theory and application techniques and will receive weekly assignments geared towards advancing their observational skills and technical application. Students will receive compositional and conceptual liberties toward the end of the term with their final assignment as a learning evaluation.
Watercolor II is a level-two independent painting class. Students will be responsible for creating their own series of work, which the instructor will guide and evaluate. In Watercolor, students will be responsible for creating two paintings per month, with each painting relating to the next to complete a series with a strong narrative and showing…
Bring home a new plant from the master gardeners who keep our gardens so beautiful at Callanwolde.
Functional, Decorative, and Sculptural Ceramics Functional, Decorative, and Sculptural Ceramics featuring Julia Burns, Chad Dittmer, Peter Hamilton, Abbey Hull, Kate Pak, Doug Tobin and Ginger Vento, Ceramics Program Director John Roberts and Callanwolde instructors. Artist Spotlight: Kellsey Hook Resident Assistant Please note: This This exhibition and pottery sale is free to attend. RSVP is…
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
This course offers introductory instruction to the forging, forming, cutting, and joining skills of blacksmithing. Students will learn basic blacksmith safety, how to start and manage a solid fuel forge, the heat treatment of tool steel, and how to forge weld. Projects range from hooks, stylized leaves, a two-tined fork, cold cut chisel, tong jaws,…
Eco Poetry Workshop is a creative and generative class for anyone interested in writing poetry that listens closely to the living world around us. We’ll explore how poems can reflect our deep connections to land, climate, animals, language, and place. Forrest Gander reminds us that ecopoetry asks “how we are involved in—and a part of—all…