Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts
Connecting Community with Art
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. […]
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 […]
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.
This class will cover tools and techniques used to forge/sculpt 2 and 3 dimensional animal head finials, ideal for terminating a wide variety of products.
