Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts

Hand-forging Coin Silver for Cascadian Design Earrings with Silversmiths Jack & Janette Burton
2024-05-25 10:00 - 2024-05-26 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Trillium Studio “lower cabin”, 30800 Rd 530, Government Camp, OR, 97028, United States
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. silver coins without the use of power tools on a simple tabletop workspace.
Day One:
10 am to 2 pm with a 20-minute snack & chat break. Introduction to the history, tools, and technique with hands-on coin forging, annealing, design, and layout.
Day Two:
10 am to 2 pm with a 20-minute snack & chat break. Jack & Janette will guide and assist each student with design-execution, metal forming, plenishing, chasing, filing, toning, and finishing. Student will take home a pair of earrings from disks they have forged from silver dimes and fashion their own ear wires from sterling silver. Student experience level: Beginning-Intermediate Minimum number of students: 4 – 8 max Cost $275 includes – Your own handmade pair of Cascadia Design earrings and a student practice and polishing kit to continue your jewelry adventures at home! For more images of the work these talented artists create, go to their Instagram.

Monotype Nature Printing with a Gelli Plate 2-day Class with Anji Grainger
2023-08-17 09:30 - 15:30 | 90200 US 26, Government Camp, OR 97028, 90200 US 26, Government Camp, OR, 97028, United States
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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 included. Leaves, bark, flowers, grasses & feathers as well as bubble wrap, string & anything that leaves a pattern, all work well with this process.
Classes will be from 9:30 am to 3 pm Thursday and Friday. We will be looking at using nature to create beautiful imprints on paper and other surfaces. Included will be lots of tips and tricks to use when creating at home. We will have a lunch break each day.
The class is held at the Cascadia Center for Arts & Crafts which has an altitude of 3,914′, so be sure to bring a water bottle and a sweater!
Nature Printing Supply List
Items you need to bring:
One gel plate Any size will work but I recommend no smaller than 6” x 6”
• One piece of plexiglass slightly larger than the size of your plate
• Acrylic paint in tubes: various colors (you will need one tube of white and one tube of black)
• Brayer
• Palette knife
• Roll of paper towels
• A round watercolor brush – medium in size and a liner brush
• A few watercolor paints to add depth at the end.
• A water container
• Micron pens – white and black (optional)
• Fresh plant materials that you gather each morning from your garden or on a walk. This can be done each day before class. Note, wilted plants can be difficult to work with so fresh is better. Plants that work well:
• Grasses
• Leaves with lots of veins
• Flowers with flat or small centers
• Anything with lots of visual texture
• Other natural options:
• Flat stones
• Moss
• Feathers
• Two water containers
• Assorted papers and surfaces.
Paper Suggestions:
• Hot-press Watercolor paper
• Drawing paper
• Any smooth printing papers
Additional items you may want to bring:
•Tissue paper. Any kind you might have lying around the house. We will use this for patterning as well as lifting.
•Deli paper, if you have it. I will have a small amount that I will bring, but I was thinking that some of you may like to make collage papers and deli paper works great.
•Plain copy paper – the kind you have in your printer.
If you have craft stamps and stencils at home, bring those. We can build layers with stamps. Anything else lying around that you think might make a pattern. Perhaps, think outside the box.
