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Courses

Oooo Ahhh! The Fall 2010 Catalogue is ready! Download it here.


Click Here to view the course catalogue for Summer 2010! Registrations for summer classes are now being accepted. Many classes this spring SOLD OUT, so don’t wait to register!


Summer Course Highlights


Try Its!


Want to try your hand at a new craft?

These quick, fun classes will help whet your appetite for a new media. The tuition includes the materials fee.


The Art of Mokume Gane Patterning


Saturday and Sunday, August 7 and 8, 9 am - 4 pm

(one hour lunch break)


Instructor: Wayne Werner


Experience the beauty of working with Mokume Gane, a Japanese metalsmithing techniques that literally translated into “eye of the wood.” This process manipulates multi-layered billets of different colored metals. The billets are forged, twisted and gauged to produce amazing patterns and textures that resemble wood, smoke and sedimentary layers. Students receive a billet to create either a bracelet, brooch or earrings. Forging, soldering  and riveting techniques will be explored as well as etching and coloring. One lucky student will leave with the instructors sample.


Tuition: $200

Materials Fee: $35

Japanese Woodworking

Thursday, August 19, 6 pm — 8 pm


Instructor: Tadao Arimoto


Get a fun and creative introduction to Japanese Woodworking. Master woodworker Tadao Arimoto helps students create a Japanese Yajirobei, or finger balancer. This is a great project to kids and classrooms!

Tuition: $30

Bookbinding

Saturday, August 7, 10 am — 1 pm


Instructor: Lily Hoy


With just paper and thread, create a soft cover journal with a French lace binding. this long stitch variation offers both functional and decorative elements for a book.

Tuition: $30

Caterpillar Stitch Book


Saturday, August 14, 10 am - 4 pm (one hour lunch break)

(one hour lunch break)


Instructor: Mary Tasillo


Students expand their stitching skilld while learning several variations on the Caterpillar Stitch, which does double duty as a binding stitch and as a decorative element to book covers. Leave with a hard cover blank book as well as sewing cards and instructions for carrying out variations on this binding.


Tuition: $100

Materials Fee: $20

Click above to download a PDF of the current catalogue!

Mokume Gane bracelets by Wayne Werner.

Bookbinding by Lily Hoy

Caterpillar Stitch Book by Mary Tasillo