2 Day Mokume class with Joe Elliot August 14th and 15th
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 […]
Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts
Connecting Community with Art
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 […]
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.
Class will cover techniques and tools used to create 2 dimensional full body animals finials, grate for use on wall mount projects and grills.
Create your own decorative glass garden stake in this hands-on introductory glass workshop. Perfect for beginners, this class teaches fundamental glass cutting techniques and tool usage, enabling you to bring your garden art vision to life.
Class will cover the design and making of several types and styles on blacksmithing tongs.
This is a 2 day class held at Summit Blacksmthing Studio, Mt Hood Oregon.
6 hr. Saturday (start time 9 am) and 4 hr. Sunday - 10 hr. total
PLEASE NOTE** The date for this class has passed, but if you are interested in taking a future class, please let us know at info@cascadiaart.org so we can schedule […]
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.
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The main project will be a coat hanger. Sounds simple, but it does capture many of the basic skills of blacksmithing. Material management, drawing out, isolating material, making an aesthetic curl, punching a hole, symmetry, etc.