Blue Whale Arts, LLC
Epping, New Hampshire
Epping, New Hampshire
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| Class Schedule |
| Drop In Day Date: May 17, 2008 Saturday Time: 9:00 am to 1:00pm Location: Epping, NH Bring a project you are working on or start a new one. Not sure what to do with a project you started? Get some advice/suggestions from other gourd artist. Just want to come and work on a gourd that is fine to. The studio will be open to pick up supplies or gourds no appointment needed. Come on over. Please e-mail that you are planing to come over and if you plan to just stop by or stay from 9:00 to 1:00 so that I may ensure I have enough tables and chairs set up. Please Put Drop In Day in Subject Line. Leah@bluewhalearts.com Cost: 0.00 |
| Using InLace Resins Instructor: Betsey Sloan Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Class Size: Limited to 12 Description: InLace is a resin product used by woodcrafters and gourd artists to inlay a design. Students will start by learning how to grind/polish a pre-hardened sample of InLace on a gourd circle. Then they will woodburn a simple design onto the gourd provided, learn how to carve out an area or two to accept the resin, then mix their own InLace to fill their design. The final painting/finishing of the gourd will be done later at home as it takes 24 hours for InLace to harden. The materials provided include a thick-shelled gourd, the pattern/directions, a take-home kit for finishing InLace including sanding drums and felt wheels with mandrels; sponge sandpaper, one ounce sizes of buffing and polishing compounds, and a few other items. If students have a woodburner and carver (i.e. Dremel, Optima, etc.) please bring them. Bring carving bits if the have them (ball bits especially.) The instructor has a few tools and bits for loan. Fee: $40 including all materials as noted above. |
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| Come Join Betsey Sloan Guest Instructor BETSEY SLOAN for Two Classes in JUNE Betsey Sloan is an experienced New England gourd artist presently living in South Carolina. She has taught for 12 years throughout the New England area including Fletcher Farm Art/Craft School in VT, the Brookfield Craft Center in CT; private studios and craft centers as well as nine years at the Florida Gourd Show, five at the Cherokee Gathering and two at the JCCampbell Folk School. Betsey is primarily self-taught and finds teaching a very rewarding experience. Her method of teaching includes the "why" of a technique as well as the "how." She is currently working part-time with Turtle Feathers Art Supply Company in North Carolina, traveling with them to various gourd shows. She has also taught InLace or Power Carving in Arizona and New Mexico and has upcoming engagements in Missouri and Pennsylvania. Her gourd vessels have won various awards at gourd shows and she had a Vinegar Grained Gourd traveling throughout South Carolina for a year as part of the Palmetto Pride Exhibit. In her former "life" Betsey was the public relations director for Elliot Health Care System until her retirement in 1993. |
| Gourd Drum Instructor: Betsey Sloan Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 2:00 to 5:30 p.m Class Size: Limited to 12 Class Description: In this class, students will learn one of the traditional ways to lash a goat skin to the opening of a prepared gourd using sinew and beads. Students will cut open an approximate 10 to 12" diameter gourd provided by the instructor, and then clean the interior. They will then color their gourd with Tria inks, measure and drill, lash beads to the gourd and then stretch and lash on the wet goat skin. Materials for an optional drum stick will be available. Bring some type of rotary tool (i.e. Dremel, etc.) Fee: $30 including all materials as noted above. |
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