Take your woodturning skills to the next level in this intermediate-level workshop. Participants will expand their repertoire by learning pull and shear cuts while focusing on projects such as bowls, Christmas ornaments, and small vases. The class will also explore surface enhancements to add depth and character to turned pieces. Additional projects and diagnostic turning may include making a mallet or a tool handle.
This workshop is designed for students with prior turning experience who are ready to refine their technique and broaden their creative possibilities.

This hands-on workshop introduces students to the process of creating a turned bowl with a fitted lid and decorative finial. The class begins with an overview of the studio, tools, and safe lathe practices, then moves into preparing and mounting wood and understanding grain direction. Throughout the workshop, emphasis is placed on good technique, thoughtful design, and achieving clean, well-proportioned forms.

Students will work through shaping, sanding, and finishing each element of the piece while building confidence and refining their skills. The class concludes with finishing options such as coloring or surface treatments, followed by a group discussion of the completed work and the ideas behind each piece.

This workshop is suitable for both beginners or those who have some experience woodturning, but are looking to deepen their knowledge and learn new techniques.

Various approaches to painting the abstract will be covered throughout these 6 online
sessions, designed to inspire exploration beyond the representational environment. Beginning
with a series of mark-making exercises using graphite and charcoal, the artists will further
explore line, form, and pattern to create spatial relationships within a compositional structure.
Color theory, design, visual and physical reaction, process, and individual taste, will additional
be covered in order to establish a ‘personal’ voice within the language of abstraction.
Approaching abstraction from a ‘pure’ internal vantage point, as well as using a variety of
reference that exists around us, will be explored as a way to develop into the abstract territory.
These methods of approach and reasoning will guide the artists into designing their own process
of working abstractly. Various tools and mediums will also be introduced to help push variety
and expansion toward artists intention of the final painting. While all mediums are welcome, oil
and acrylic will be used during the lecture and demos.
Whether you want to paint purely abstract or not, the foundation and structure to solid
painting is based on simple elements and principles of abstraction. This class will end with
discussion on critiquing your own work, as well as finish and presentation. Each sessions will
have a lecture, various demos, and individual critiques that will be submitted before each online
class. All sessions will be recorded so they can be watch at a future date if needed.