Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts
Connecting Community with Art
Forge your own knife with simple tools with Joe Vachon, the Season 6, Episode 27, Forged in Fire Champion, in this 1 day, hands on course.
Sign up through Eventbrite Anji Grainger will teach you to use nature to create beautiful imprints on paper & other surfaces. A gel plate is a great way to make natural eco-prints & in this 2-day course, you learn ways to layer & build our natural prints. A strong emphasis in composition & design is […]
Saturday, May 25th & Sunday, May 26th, 2024 Hand-forging Coin Silver for Cascadian Design Earrings with Silversmiths Jack & Janette Burton Join us for an eight-hour demonstration and hands-on, two-day class. Divided into two, four-hour parts, we will teach the history and basic techniques of creating Cascadia Style personal adornment. Students will cold-forge antique U.S. […]
In this 1 day, hands on course. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.
In this class we will be exploring the rudimentary hammer techniques used, step by step, to forge a knife blade to shape from scrap steels with very little use of a grinder. This class is centered around the clever techniques of ancient smiths melded with the minimal help of modern tools. Research the "Neo-Tribal Bladesmithing" movement and "Tai Goo" for more info on this philosophy and methodology.
In this 1 day, hands on course. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.
You will learn how to make the punches and chisels needed to sculp a dragon’s head on the end of a bar of steel; learn how to pre-form the head by hammer and anvil, chisel out the beard, ears, mouth and teeth; punch the eyes and nostrils; and form additional details that will bring it -and new possibilities in your work- to life.
Kick off Blacksmith Week with a 2 day class with Bend artist Joe Elliot. Classes will be from 9-2 Wednesday August 14th and Thursday August 15th Class fee: $350 or bundle with Blacksmith Week registration fee for $400 Mokume class Day 1: make a billet using copper and brass Day 2: cut the billet to […]
Please join us in beautiful Government Camp, Oregon for CCAC Blacksmith Week 2024!
No experience is needed for this glass frit painting class. This class will use glass powders and larger pieces of glass called frit to create two pictures. No glass cutting is involved.
Students will learn different techniques to create a design with glass powders and frit. We will learn about transparent and opalescent glass and the reactions between colors. We will also talk about the color wheel, light directionality, and how to operate a kiln.
You will leave the class with two 5"x7" finished and ready-to-frame pictures. You will leave with knowledge of how to use powders and frits in a fused glass piece, how to use a kiln, and the firing schedule.
