Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts
Connecting Community with Art
Sculptural forms. Students will be able to focus on traditional and nontraditional methods and techniques of joinery and design. We will practice how ancient forging craft of blacksmithing can make a contemporary modern piece of art.
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.
Kicking off Blacksmith Week 2025 this class will teach the basics of Blacksmithing with a Level I (part 1) class with Mark Aspery.
Kicking off Blacksmith Week 2025 this Level I (part 2) class will create a gorgeous Gate Latch with renowned blacksmith Mark Aspery.
Please join us in beautiful Government Camp, Oregon for CCAC Blacksmith Week 2025!
Sculptural forms that can be adapted to functional works. Students will be able to focus on traditional and nontraditional methods and techniques of joinery and design. We will practice how ancient forging craft of blacksmithing can make a contemporary modern piece of functional art.
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.
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.
Scholarships are available to those who identify as black or brown. Please submit a statement of interest to shorteelan@gmail.com by 2/24/25. Join Oregon textiles artist, Elan Hagens, with selected natural fibers and the arts cabins’ outdoor setting as inspiration to sculpt a colorful wool foraging basket. Using wet fibers as paint, you will learn wool […]
