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2022 Class Schedule
Below you will find the planned classes for this year’s event! As you will see on the schedule, primary classes occur in morning & afternoon sessions.
Classes will be posted on a sign-up board each evening after dinner. There you can find details on the class and sign up. If you sign up for a class, please participate or mark your name off of the list as soon as possible! Some classes have limited space and if you sign up but don’t show up someone else may lose the opportunity.
Some classes take the full period while others may be shorter, allowing you time to “drop in”. Some classes may take a full day or multiple days. Check with instructors if you have questions.
Please note the suggested ages and materials listed under each class. Some classes have materials fees – please have cash for those.
Additional bonus classes and activities may be offered that are not listed below. This is the beauty of an earthskills gathering with many lifetimes of knowledge on hand! It’s also an opportunity for budding instructors to practice sharing their skills. There may also be additional classes added for children and youth that may not be finalized until the event starts.
Our instructors come from across the country and bring a lifetime of experience in the subjects that they teach. We are proud to bring them to Piedmont Earthskills to share their expertise. Please show them the love and respect they deserve.
Thursday Morning
Rivercane Flute making with Hawk Hurst
Participants will create a traditional, Southeastern Native American-style flute, using Carolina harvested river cane grass. End blown pentatonic scale.
Age: Ages 12 and up (or with parent, if younger). 12 total students
Materials Fee: $15 due at time of class
What to bring: All materials are provided
Intro to Blacksmithing with Bob Orcutt
Forging techniques and forging hooks
Age:12 and up 2 students
Materials fee: $2 for steel and coal
What to bring: NA
Hand Drill Friction Fire with Tom “Fireman” Stutz
With determined focus of your mind and body attempt to coax an ember from two pieces of wood. Connect with our ancient ancestors through the practice of fire by hand drill. Bring a sharp knife and a tenacious spirit!
Age: Adult class. 10 students.
Materials Fee: None
What to bring: Sharp knife.
Spoon Carving with Barron Brown
From beginner to advanced – don’t eat your soup with a fork!
Age: 11 and older or with adult
Fee: none
What to bring: A knife if you have one.
Wisteria Freeform basket with Nancy Basket
Learn how to use ‘invasives’ to create unique vessels or sculptures. Hear Cherokee stories. Bring your cultural questions.
Age:Appropriate for age 7 with adult and up 20 students
Materials fee: $5
What to bring: Clippers
Gnocchi and Ricotta with Joan Candolino
Take milk and make ricotta from milk.
Take flour and ricotta and/or potato (or sweet potato) to make Italian dumplings called gnocchi that you eat like pasta.
Cook and eat for lunch.
Age: 15 and up
Materials fee: Donation optional
What to bring: clean hands, bowl, fork
Tarps bedrolls and burden straps with Camper Bob
Traditional old school minimalist wilderness shelter and bedroll with tump/burden strap transport. Learn to make a proper bedroll and tarp shelter and transport them with a tump/burden strap. Both old school canvas/wool/leather and sisal rope as well as new fangled nylon/plastics/synthetics examples will be presented along with basic gear, cooking and hygiene practices. Hands on participation and basic theory discussion for simple, efficient wilderness living and travel.
Age:10&up/15 students
Materials fee: None
What to bring: a warm body and an enquiring mind
Making Native survival food: Pemmican (with an emphasis on other food preservation techniques to put food by in an ever changing world) With Momma Wendy
Food and the ability to preserve it is what has enabled humans to travel through regions bringing their supplies with them. To stop and stay in one location despite the current weather. Or to sustain themselves in times when things aren’t going so well.. And as we continue to talk about disruptions in the world today, these techniques may be the thing that keeps your family thriving instead of just surviving. Putting by your own foods, is really the only way to make sure you have the best quality food that is not factory farmed and without compassion and awareness to its impact to the planet.
Pemmican is in simple terms – if jerky and granola bars came together and decided to have a union. All the bests of the worlds, the nutritional value creating more of a whole meal, high in the proteins, fats and natural sugars your body needs to keep on moving. Historically was one of the traditional foods of the native peoples here in the Americas. Then the recipe was used and spread throughout the world as a storage safe survival food.
In this class we will be making our own Pemmican! Discussing the variety of possible ingredients, ratio balances to the recipe, and get to learn more about the history of this traditional food. As well we will discuss some other techniques to preserve other foods at home.
Materials fees covers the silly current costs of meat and other ingredients at the grocery stores at the moment…. 15.00
Materials Fee: $15
Age: 10 and up. Limit 12 students
That’s not going to cut it: a sharpening tutorial with Gray Taylor
Bring sharp or dull tools to learn the basics of tool sharpening.
Age: All ages 10 students
Materials fee: Donations accepted
What to bring: Sharp or dull tool, water.
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Portable shaving horse with Dean Smith
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age 14 & up. Class size 6 students
Materials Fee: $75.00 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools saws drills hammers screwdrivers Etc if you have them.
Thursday Afternoon
Wisteria Freeform basket with Nancy Basket
Learn how to use ‘invasives’ to create unique vessels or sculptures. Hear Cherokee stories. Bring your cultural questions.
Age:Appropriate for age 7 with adult and up 20 students
Materials fee: $5
What to bring: Clippers
Shamanic drum journeying \ Native drum dream meditation with Michael Drey
The rhythmic tempo of the medicine drum facilitates and entrance into deep relaxation and transition through to a lucid dream type awareness.
With the active participation of thoughts imagination intuition and spirit one is open to receive the inner knowledge from within for information, guidance, lessons leading you towards your highest potential nature. In this theta state of rest, animal and Spirit guides often present themselves as counselors and gift bringers. Also and often, repressed soul parts are retrieved and integrated.
Age: All
Materials fee: None
What to bring: None
Nature Sketching and Observation Skills with Momo Julia Moore
Do you have a love for drawing and nature, going on plant walks and foraging? Come learn how to observe and draw plants and nature you encounter while out and about!
We will be going on a short plant walk to draw some plants after you learn some field sketching techniques. You will be guided through various ways of incorporating plant information into your journal and methods of creating basic art materials from the natural world around you. Some drawing basics will be covered and if drawing scares you! Field sketchbook skills such as flower pressing, observation techniques, note taking tips and more will be covered. Some basic art materials from nature will also be provided for experimentation such as: beet ink, charcoal ink and paint sticks.
*This class is for all levels , there is something for everyone to learn!
Age: All
Materials fee: None
What to bring: Sketchbook, paper and drawing materials
Flintknapping and Stone Tools with Hey You James Clinkscales
Beginning flintknapping or advanced stone tools using available materials including stone, bone, antler and wooden billets. We will discuss methods of reduction process like percussion and pressure flaking.
Age:12 years and up
Materials fee: $5.00 Suggested
What to bring: Safety glasses and gloves will be provided
Zen and the Art of Woodsplitting
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, Chop wood carry water.
We’ll focus on the physics and metaphysics of splitting, as well as the qualities of different wood types, heating value, cooking and other tips and tricks. Limit 12 people, age 13 and above. Wear closed toe shoes and be ready to get physical.
Cordage College with Jeff Gottlieb
Everything you ever wanted to know about making thread, string and rope from natural fibers. Procure fibers from plant sources, clean and prepare them, and make beautiful, strong useful cord by hand and with simple tools and machines. Check out the cordage museum, which I now call the “fibrary!
Age: age 12, limit 18
Materials fee: Book by instructor is available for $10 if desired
What to bring: sharp knife or scissors
Intro to Blacksmithing with Bob Orcutt
Forging techniques and forging hooks
Age:12 and up 2 students
Materials fee: $2 for Steel and Coal
What to bring: NA
Food Preservation 101 With Momma Wendy
In this class we will go through a variety of food preservation techniques and the tools you need to do each. This will be an introductory class to get you familiar with the tools you do or do not need, since each process can be many classes long about all the different recipes and methods.
Some of the techniques we will discuss and cover: solar and machine dehydration, smoke house (or box), water bath canning, pressure canning, lacto-fermenting, meads, vinegars, tinctures, brining or pickling. Whew. And there are still more!
The purpose of this class is to give ideas of when each techniques are best used and for what foods, and dispell some of the fears and pressures surrounding learning how to do these things.
Bring your questions and ideas. There will be some tasting from my own families preserves!
Suggested class donation (10.00) covers the time and materials it took to make my own families preserves to share with you. Please bring a cup and spoon for tasting!
Get what you need, give what you can…
Age: 10 and up. 15 total
Materials Fee: 10 suggested donation
What to bring: Cup and spoon
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Portable shaving horse with Dean Smith (Cont.)
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age: 14 and up; 6 students
Materials fee: $75 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools drills saws screwdrivers hammers Etc
Wild Awareness with Snowbear Taylor
Sharpen all your senses, stimulate your natural curiosity, fully engage self education towards daily new knowledge of the natural world.
Age: all ages, 12 students
Materials Fee: no
Radical Neutrality: Nature Immersion with Sangoma
These adventures, explorations between Nature, Culture and Spirit, beckons us into the deepest place of our Relationships to the Natural World. The inner sanctuary of neutrality in Nature is Healing us to temper the radical within…and without. As the Earth rebirths, the resolution of Duality comes closer to test the metal of our Truth and everyday choices. Our Tools for this Sacred Navigation are found in the ancient indigenous teachings around medicine, wheels, shields, prayer arrows, talking sticks. The intangible tools that activate the Sacred on the regular have been referred to as the WHOLE armour of God-Source. We are not defined by how we die, rather how we choose to live!
Friday Morning
Early Morning: Birds before breakfast!
The Dawn Chorus: Who is that singing? We’ll take a short walk to listen and appreciate the world coming alive at Dawn. This is part meditation and part identification of who is singing. Bring binoculars if you have them.
No Age limit, no fee.
Bamboo Flute Making with Hawk Hurst
Participants will create either traditional Native American or Asian-style flutes, using Carolina harvested bamboo. End blown, Pentatonic or Diatonic scales.
Age: Ages 14 and up (or with parent, if younger) 10 total students
Materials fee: $15 due at time of class
What to bring: materials provided
Gassifier Stove with Joan Candolino
Understand the basics of gassifier stoves. Using drill, can opener, and snips, make a small version out of quart paint can and progresso soup and other tin cans, suitable for backpack camping. Or try one using can openers and punches. class may run into the afternoon
Age: adults, 6
Materials Fee: $10
What to bring: Leather gloves. Cordless drill and bits, can openers, church key, punch if you have them.
Riveting Hand Forged Knives with Gray Taylor
This class is will explore the riveting world of knife handling, each participant will receive a hand forged 5160 tool steel carving knife and make multiple copper rivets to attach our wooden scales to blade. Every one will leave the class with a finished carving knife that fits perfectly to your hand.
Age: adults, 8 students
Materials Fee: $80
What to bring: Willingness to learn, water, cash
Spoon Carving with Barron Brown
From beginner to advanced – don’t eat your soup with a fork!
Age: 11 and older or with adult
Fee: none
What to bring: A knife if you have one.
Tarps, Bedrolls, and Burden Straps with Camper Bob
Traditional old school minimalist wilderness shelter and bedroll with tump/burden strap transport. Learn to make a proper bedroll and tarp shelter and transport them with a tump/burden strap. Both old school canvas/wool/leather and sisal rope as well as new fangled nylon/plastics/synthetics examples will be presented along with basic gear, cooking and hygiene practices. Hands on participation and basic theory discussion for simple, efficient wilderness living and travel.
Age: 10 and up; 15 students
Materials fee: none
What to Bring: a warm body and an enquiring mind
Kudzu Freeform hats/visors/caps with Nancy Basket
Split kudzu vines and fashion a head piece of your choice. Hear Cherokee stories, bring your cultural questions. Am and Pm
Age: 12 and up; 20 students
Materials fee: $5
What to bring: clippers
Shamanic drum journeying \ Native drum dream meditation with Michael Drey
The rhythmic tempo of the medicine drum facilitates and entrance into deep relaxation and transition through to a lucid dream type awareness.
With the active participation of thoughts imagination intuition and spirit one is open to receive the inner knowledge from within for information, guidance, lessons leading you towards your highest potential nature. In this theta state of rest, animal and Spirit guides often present themselves as counselors and gift bringers. Also and often, repressed soul parts are retrieved and integrated.
Age: All
Materials fee: None
What to bring: None
Knife and tool sharpening with Jeff Gottlieb
How to check for sharpness, correct a poorly ground blade and sharpen properly till you have a beautifully sharp, useful tool! Learn about sharpening stones and materials, hones, steels and strops. Go home with a handmade sharpening board
Age: 12, limit 12
Materials fee: $5
What to bring: edge tools to evaluate/sharpen
Shaving Horse with Dean Smith
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age: 14 and up; 6 students
Materials fee: $75 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools drills saws screwdrivers hammers Etc
Fruit Vinegars and Fire Cider: healthy probiotics and how to make your own with Momma Wendy
Fruit Vinegars and Fire Cider: healthy probiotics and how to make your own
We will talk about gut bioms and how they are often not given the respect they deserve in keeping the rest of our bodies healthy. Stories of cultural uses and production of vinegars the world. Together we are going to start our own apple cider vinegar mother to take home! And then diving in to what is fire cider and how to make it and make our own to take home as well. Two yummys to share with others!
Wendy has been making her own vinegars, meads, kombuchas, krauts and other naturally fermented foods for well over a decade now. Only recently has she begun learning to use packaged yeasts.. Ask about the exploding volcano mead. Sigh.
Vinegars and Fire ciders are a great way we can produce a good immune boosting medicine at home with ingredients we can grow.
“Make your food your medicine, and your medicine your food”, Hippocrates
Cost of class includes ingredients, containers, resources, time obtaining materials.
$15.00
Put a sheath on it: Leather sheath making with rivets with Gray Taylor
We will be constructing a sheath with bark tanned deer leather/rawhide using cap rivets to keep any tool that is sharp, safe and sound. Bring said tool that needs to be sheathed and water or snacks etc.
Age: 16 and older; 8 students
Materials fee: $40-60
What to bring: A sharp tool, water, cash
Neck Knives with Bob Orcutt
Forge a small Neck Knife from high carbon steel. 2 morning class!
Age: 16 and up; 2 students
Material fee: $5
What to bring: Material for handle (bone, wood or antler)
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Production Level Heat Treating Bamboo for Building
All day demo, drop in anytime and help complete a bamboo shelter pole set for the Ancestor Fire – for Piedmont Earthskills.
Age: 12 and up; no limit
Materials fee: none
What to bring:
Friday Afternoon
Stone Tools with James Clinkscales
Advanced stone tools using available materials including stone, bone, antler and wooden billets. We will discuss methods of reduction process like percussion and pressure flaking.
Age: 12
Material fee: $5
What to bring: Safety glasses and gloves will be provided
Create Your Own Natural Pigments with Julia Moore
Ever wonder how natural pigments were created? In the past, painting pigments were smelly (crushed snails), toxic/deadly (arsenic and lead) and difficult to create. In this class you will learn about the various ways paints have been historically used and how to create some of your own!
You will be creating your own simple drawing pigments from various plant based materials including turmeric, berries, activated charcoal, cacao powder, coffee and tea. I will also be providing more complex pigments and paper for you to experiment with.
Age: All
Material fee: $5
What to bring: A sketchbook or paper to draw in
Bamboo Fire Saw with Tom “Fireman” Stutz
Learn the history of the bamboo fire saw. Build a bamboo fire saw kit to take with you. Learn proper form and attempt to make fire with your kit. Bring a sharp knife.
Age: adults; 8 students
Materials fee: none
What to bring: sharp knife
Kudzu Freeform hats/visors/caps with Nancy Basket (cont.)
Split kudzu vines and fashion a head piece of your choice. Hear Cherokee stories, bring your cultural questions. Am and Pm
Age: 12 and up; 20 students
Materials fee: $5
What to bring: clippers
Shaving Horse with Dean Smith (cont.)
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age: 14 and up; 6 students
Materials fee: $75 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools drills saws screwdrivers hammers Etc
Gourd Craft with Jeff Gottlieb
Make a useful and beautiful container, eating or drinking vessel, toy or musical instrument from a gourd.
Age: 12, limit 12
Material fee: $5-15 depending on size and type of gourd
What to bring: sharp knife, fine toothed saw, pencil
Soapstone animal effigy pendant /necklace with Camper Bob
Learn to shape small black steatite stone pieces into wearable art with improvised stone and metal tools. Hands on participation and discussion of tool use as well as abstract theory of figurative representation for visual communication
Age: 13 and up; 8 students
Material fee: $10
What to bring: a warm body and an inquiring mind
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Production Level Heat Treating Bamboo for Building (cont.)
All day demo, drop in anytime and help complete a bamboo shelter pole set for the Ancestor Fire – for Piedmont Earthskills.
Age: 12 and up; no limit
Materials fee: none
What to bring:
Cycles, Season and Lunations with Sangoma
This exploration examines how we travel the Ceremonial wheel of the year. Walking in balance through our current Earth and climate changes Requires us to deepen our relationship to the Forces of Nature, the 7 directions and Lunar cycles. How well do we trust our inner Gps, like walking in the woods at night without a Light? The innertracking of our Divine Blueprint from birth is our Guide.
Saturday Morning
Rivercane and Bamboo Flute Making with Hawk Hurst
Participants will create either traditional Native American or Asian-style flutes, using Carolina harvested bamboo. End blown and side blown varities. Pentatonic or Diatonic scales.
Ages 12 and up (or with parent, if younger) 10 total students
Materials Fee: $15
What to bring: All materials provided
Tarps bedrolls and burden straps with Camper Bob
Traditional old school minimalist wilderness shelter and bedroll with tump/burden strap transport. Learn to make a proper bedroll and tarp shelter and transport them with a tump/burden strap. Both old school canvas/wool/leather and sisal rope as well as new fangled nylon/plastics/synthetics examples will be presented along with basic gear, cooking and hygiene practices. Hands on participation and basic theory discussion for simple, efficient wilderness living and travel.
Age:10&up/15 students
Materials fee: None
What to bring: a warm body and an enquiring mind
Kudzu and other fast growing vines Rib baskets with Nancy Basket
Using what grows around you, form two rings, weave triangles holding them together, put in ribs and weave with split kudzu. Hear Cherokee stories, bring cultural questions. All day class!
Age: Adults 10 +
Materials Fee: $5
What to bring: Materials are provided
Fire by Friction with Tom “Fireman” Stutz
With determined focus of your mind and body attempt to coax an ember from two pieces of wood. Connect with our ancient ancestors through the practice of fire by hand drill. Bring a sharp knife and a tenacious spirit!
Age: Adult class. 10 students.
Materials Fee: None
What to bring: Sharp knife.
Portable shaving horse with Dean Smith
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age 14 & up. Class size 6 students
Materials Fee: $75.00 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools saws drills hammers screwdrivers Etc if you have them.
Leather Medicine Pouch Sewing: basic leather sewing class with Momma Wendy
In this class we will discuss how the skill of sewing is what enabled humans to cover their bodies, move out of the caves, become nomadic people and eventually populate the world. This is one of the most important skills on the list with fire and shelter making.
We will work with up-cycled leather and discuss the horrors of the current fast fashion industry and what it is doing to our environment; learn some basic leather stitches; and create your own medicine neck pouch to put your special little talismans in.
Materials fee covers, leather fabric, needles, thread, and my smile. 15.00
Limit 10 participants to ensure everyone gets individual attention to learn this important skill.
This is a basic sewing class, so do not hesitate to attend if you have never held a needle before!
Age 10 and up. Limit ten students
Materials Fee: 15
What to bring: A smile
Neck Knives Continued with Bob Orcutt
Continued from Friday AM – Class Forge a small Neck Knife from high carbon steel.
Age: 16 and up; 2 students
Material fee: $5
What to bring: Material for handle (bone, wood or antler)
Beginning Finger Weaving with Joan Candolino
Using yarn and weaving with the fingers, make hat band or strap. Basic technique used by north and south eastern Native Americans to make belts and straps.
Age: Adult, 6 students
Materials fee: $5 if using hemp or waxed cotton, none if using yarn
What to bring: Fingers!
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
The Way of the Peace Warrior in Social Activism
Learning to embody the core values and codes of conduct of our 1st nations warrior traditions to further social change in these times of of conflict.
Age: adult, no limit
Materials fee: none
What to bring:
Saturday Afternoon
Twined Bags with Joan Candolino
Using cotton or jute with yarn, learn the twining (twin weavers) technique to make small bags.
Ages 10 and older, 12 students
Materials fee: $5 if use waxed cotton, none if using yarn
What to bring: None
Kudzu and other fast growing vines Rib baskets with Nancy Basket
Continued from morning: Using what grows around you, form two rings, weave triangles holding them together, put in ribs and weave with split kudzu. Hear Cherokee stories, bring cultural questions. All day class!
Age: Adults 10 +
Materials Fee: $5
What to bring: Materials are provided
How to make a living doing primitive skills: a discussion forum with Jeff Gottlieb
Come and share your experiences, questions and techniques for any aspect of integrating these skills with supporting yourself financially
Age: Teens and adults
Materials fee: None
What to bring: Notebook and pen
Soapstone animal effigy pendants with Camper Bob
Learn to shape small black steatite stone pieces into wearable art with improvised stone and metal tools. Hands on participation and discussion of tool use as well as abstract theory of figurative representation for visual communication
Age: 13 and up; 8 students
Material fee: $10
What to bring: a warm body and an inquiring mind
Didgeridoo making and playing with Fuz Sanderson
Fuz Sanderson will teach you how to make and decorate your own bamboo didgeridoo. We’ll touch on the rich cultural history of Australian original peoples, ecology/uses of bamboo and how to use the tools to make your instrument. The class will finish with playing techniques and circular breathing. Each student goes home with their own didgeridoo. Approximate time 3 hours.
Limit 14 people age 13 and above.
All materials provided
Nature Sketching and Observation Skills with Momo Julia Moore
Do you have a love for drawing and nature, going on plant walks and foraging? Come learn how to observe and draw plants and nature you encounter while out and about!
We will be going on a short plant walk to draw some plants after you learn some field sketching techniques. You will be guided through various ways of incorporating plant information into your journal and methods of creating basic art materials from the natural world around you. Some drawing basics will be covered and if drawing scares you! Field sketchbook skills such as flower pressing, observation techniques, note taking tips and more will be covered. Some basic art materials from nature will also be provided for experimentation such as: beet ink, charcoal ink and paint sticks.
*This class is for all levels , there is something for everyone to learn!
Age: All
Materials fee: None
What to bring: Sketchbook, paper and drawing materials
Portable shaving horse with Dean Smith (Cont.)
Make your own portable shaving horse. This is an all day, one day class.
Age 14 & up. Class size 6 students
Materials Fee: $75.00 for lumber and hardware
What to bring: Any woodworking tools saws drills hammers screwdrivers Etc if you have them.
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith- prepare to fire!
Working the clay is as Earthy as it gets! Turnstone will show you how to transform raw clay into a variety of bowls, pots and vessels. After drying, we will fire the projects in a primitive open fire kiln.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Bamboo Craft with Snowbear Taylor
Your choice of a number of projects – rhythm instruments, kitchen utensils, travel cups, water bottles, mess kits….
Age: 12 and up; 10 students
Materials fee: $3 per section of bamboo
What to bring: pocket knife (4” blade)
Sunday Morning
Pine Pitch Glue Sticks with James Clinkscales
How to hold the world together using natural pitch from pines – rendered to be useful!
Age 10 and up, 12 students, no fee.
Finish Carving projects with Barron Brown
Primitive Pottery with Turnstone Keith- After the fire!
Time to check out how the firing went, examine the results.
Age: All
Materials fee: none
What to bring: Hands and happiness.
Wild Awareness with Snowbear Taylor
Sharpen all your senses, stimulate your natural curiosity, fully engage self education towards daily new knowledge of the natural world.
Age: all ages, 12 students
Materials Fee: no
That’s not going to cut it: a sharpening tutorial with Gray Taylor
Bring sharp or dull tools to learn the basics of tool sharpening.
Age: All ages 10 students
Materials fee: Donations accepted
What to bring: Sharp or dull tool, water.
Finish Projects – multiple instructors
Most instructors will be on hand to assist you with finishing projects you started at the gathering.