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Schedule for Spring/Summer 2008

The classes are divided into Weeklong (Sun-Fri) and Weekend classes (Fri-Sun) to accommodate your schedule. Click on any class for a description and intructor biography.


   Weeklong and Weekend Classes

April 27 - May 2

Basket Making: “Treeleather Bark Baskets”
Quilting: “Creating Quilts without Patterns”
Beginning Spinning: “Hand Spinning-The Basics and Beyond”
Gardening: “Gardening From the Ground Up”


July 25-27   (weekend)

Mosaics: “Art for the Home and Garden”
Intermediate-Advanced Knitting: “The All-Knit-No-Purl, Laced Edge, ½ and ½ Shawl”
Broom Making: “Whisk Away the Weekend”
Painting
Painting: “Oriental Theories in Art”
Blacksmithing


July 27 - Aug 1

Pottery: “Creating Your Own Relics: Hand Building Skills”
Native Flutes
Music: “Beginning/Intermediate Guitar and Mandolin”
Painting: “Natural Oriental Theories in Today’s Art”
Sewing: “The Sewing Depot: Basic Sewing Steps for the DYI Beginner”

August 1 - 3   (weekend)

Storytelling
Flat-pick Guitar: “ Develop Your Flat-pick Lead Guitar”
Hammered Dulcimer: “Hands-On”
Quilting
Painting
Blacksmithing

August 3 - 8

Copper Jewelry Making
Soap/Candle Making: “Creating Herbal Cold-Process Soaps and Natural Candles”
Drawing: “General Principles Enhanced”
Sewing: “The Sewing Depot: Basic Sewing Steps for the DYI Beginner”
Mixed Media

Aug 17 - 22

Spinning: “The Fun of Spinning Yarn”
Hammered Dulcimer: “Hammer Hands: Dulcimer Tunes and Tricks”
Painting: “Natural Oriental Theories in Today’s Art”
Sewing: “The Sewing Depot: Basic Sewing Steps for the DYI Beginner”

Aug 22 - 24   (weekend)

Knitting (Lace): “Skinny Yarn/Luscious Laces”
Spinning: “So You Want to Spin a Bunny”
Nature Writing: “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral”
Mountain Dulcimer
Soap/Candle Making: “Creating Herbal Cold-Process Soaps & Hand Dipped Candles”
Pottery/Watercolor

Aug 24 - 29

Mosaics: “Telling a Story with Stones, Twigs, Tiles and Much More”
Quilting: “Quilting 101”
Drawing: “Drawing from the Left and Right Side of the Brain”
Bark Basket Making: “Treeleather Bark Baskets”


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