Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts

Saturday September 19th – 10am-4pm
Cost: $135.00
Minimum Students: 2 – Maximum 4

By taking this class, you will be introduced to basic torch safety, the most productive areas of the flame, how to work with mandrels while creating custom rods. You will be pulling stringers and mixing colors. Twisties are a fun feature to add to your arsenal of creating fusing elements. There will always be time for questions and answers.

Students will be taking home torched elements that they can further add to their fused pieces or incorporate into a roll-up. All these elements will be made from 90COE and compatible glass. Bring safety glasses. Materials to be provided.

Instructor: Carlyne Lynch – Bio: I combine glass powder, frit, enamel and lamp worked elements to create layered pieces. I still do some bead work but lately I have been making torch elements to embed in glass.

Saturday September 12th 10am-4pm.
Cost $150.00
Maximum Number Of Students 6

Powder Carving is a technique that creates a pottery like texture/design by layering different colored and dampened powder frit onto an opal base. Designs are created with everyday tools and a final batik looking piece is created. Multiple layers of powder and frit will be used

Crackle is a technique that is often used to create a piece of glass that can be cut up and incorporated as elements in other pieces or used by itself. Many variations of crackle can be created in this project using reactive colors or pieces of silver or copper foil. All tools and materials are supplied.

This class includes two separate techniques that allow the artist to embellish another piece of glass or simply create a stunning piece of their own on the first firing. These techniques can be backed onto another piece of glass or further slumped into usable vessels.

There will be breaks and an hour lunch time to further visit with the instructor and other artists. This will be an excellent class to put more techniques into your arsenal. Masks are required and social distancing will be in place.

Instructor: Shirley Bishop –

Shirley is a native Oregonian who resides in Washougal, WA, who since very young has always been fond of anything glass. In high school she took her first stained glass class as an elective not realizing she’d fallen in love. After many years of her tools in storage and watching her friends explore their creativity, in 2013 she took her first FUSED GLASS class and fell back in love with the art. She got her first kiln that Christmas. She now has a teaching studio and workshop in Washougal, WA on 20 acres with 4 goats and creates beautiful pieces of art glass to use both as decoration and for practical purposes.

She is a member of the Pacific NW Glass Guild, Washougal Arts & Culture Alliance and a member of Washougal Studio Artists. She recently won 2nd place in the Cascadia Center for Arts & Crafts Isolation Art 2020 contest.

Saturday September 26th

Morning Class 9am-12pm
Afternoon Class 1pm-4pm
Cost per class: $125.00
Maximum Number of Students 3

Silver clay allows “ordinary artists to become metal smiths,” according to the manufacturer. There will be an initial talk and teaching demonstrations. I limit the groups to three at a time because the clay hardens fairly fast, meaning my overseeing your pieces in smaller groups prevents errors. The groupings will depend on the complexity of your piece and who is ready with ideas first. It doesn’t take more than half an hour to complete a piece. We will use cooking oil spray on my hands and the mats to keep it from sticking and prevent waste. You don’t want to lose any of the clay! Let me know if you are allergic to canola oil.

The pieces made will need to be put into the kiln for a couple of hours and then polished. They will be polished in a rock polisher with stainless steel shot and can be ready by the next day. There will be breaks and the flexibility to make as many pieces as you wish, depending on the amount of clay you purchase. Finished pieces will be mailed to you.

All necessary tools and stamp patterns are supplied. If you have a favorite tool bring it as long as it isn’t aluminum. There will be refreshments provided. Masks are required and social distancing will be in place.

Kathy McCullough is a retired airline pilot who lives in eastern Oregon on a wheat ranch with her husband, Kevin. She loves art of any kind, and began kiln work in high school with copper enamel jewelry.

Saturday August 15 or Saturday August 22 , 2020 10am-4pm

Class Maximum: 6 Min: 4, one hour lunch at noon.

A collaboration with Cascadia Center for Arts and Crafts & Nichol’s Art Glass.

Tile Instructor:  Charlene Fort            Roll-up:  Andy Nichols and Charlene Fort

Cost:  $250  note: this is the cost of the class to produce  the tile for the roll-up.   Cost of roll-up is paid to Nichol’s Art Glass at the reduced class price of $125. For a total of $375 for your 1st completed vessel.

This class is structured to give you time to build at least one tile but numerous students have completed 2 or more tiles within this class time.   However, the cost of each additional tile is $100. Plus the fee to Andy Nichols for completing the piece at $125.  So each additional tile will be a total cost of $225. PLEASE only register for one spot in the class for one person (student), not the number of tiles you wish to create

Join us at the Raven Glass Studio for a fun day of creating glass tiles using cut glass of multi-colours, frits, and embellishments.  Each 8X10” tile will be fused at Raven studio and brought to Nichol’s Art Glass in The Dalles.  You will then set up a time and date to see your tiles made into your special vessel.

Information presented in the class includes best practices for setting up your glass for roll ups, detailed information given during class before designing your tiles, choices for vessel shapes, etc.     We will be using Bullseye Glass, COE 90 glass.

All tools provided.  All classes require you bring a face mask to wear at all times while in the studio buildings!  We practice social distancing and “work stations” will be set up to allow for separation.

Sign up soon.  Our introductory class filled quickly and a waiting list was started

The Date For This Class Has Been Updated

Saturday October 3, 2020 – 10am – 4pm $175.00 Max 6 Students.

Learn some blacksmithing fundamentals from Joe Vachon, the Season 6, Episode 27, Forged In Fire Champion, in this 1 day, hands on coarse. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.  Students will start out practicing the basics with the forging of a few decorative hooks for the first half of the class.  After lunch, folks are welcome to create something of their choosing with their new found skill-set, such as (but not limited to) a fire poker, meat turner, bottle opener, letter opener, necklace pendent, or an experimental piece. One hour lunch break.

Note about what to wear – Wear cotton pants and shirt (synthetics are flammable!).  Make sure your pants fit over the tops of your boots so nothing hot can fall in.  Safety glasses and ear plugs are available, or bring your own.  Bringing your own leather gloves can be a good idea.  Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated. 

These classes will be rescheduled for next Summer.

All Sessions are Mon – Fri –  8:00am – 5:00pm 

Session 1: July 20-24
Session 2: July 27-31
Session 3: August 3-7

We will use traditional hand tools to fit logs together using a variety of notch styles. Among them will be Round, Saddle, and Dovetail walls, Chinked and Scribe-fit. We will construct several assemblies including picnic tables, a sauna or tiny house, and several forms of floor and roof systems. Students can expect to learn the unique construction principles associated with joining natural, round, irregular, tapered cylinders together. The anatomy and inherent characteristics of trees, along with good design principles that provide a durable structure will be reviewed.
Tools will be provided. Personal tools are encouraged.

Instructor: David Rogers

In 1972, David started his relationship with the Forest in Northern California, setting chokers for the logging industry.
In 1983, he attended the B. Allan Mackie School of Log Building and Environmental center and soon thereafter, began working for Log home building companies.
In the early 1990s, a US Forest Service Team hired him as an instructor to teach traditional log building methods for the purpose of repairing and restoring 1930’s WPA and CCC era log structures. It was during this period that ‘Historic Preservation’ became a topic of interest and fascination.
Since then, David has contracted with Federal, State, County, and City Parks in an effort to preserve the old log structures. Many private clients have utilized his services to repair and rehabilitate their properties.
Teaching the ‘old ways’ to the interested next generation is the purpose of this workshop.
He is currently a member of the International Log Builders Association
The week-long workshops will be consecutive which will allow an individual to attend as many workshops as desired. Each will advance the previous studies, and enable the student to proceed at one’s own pace.
Building with logs is an individual sport and not a competition.

Due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, this class will be rescheduled.

Level 2 Class

Dates: August 8,9 & 10, 2020

Times: 9am – 5pm with lunch break (instructor may change work hours during class)

 Class description: This 3 day tool making workshop will expand your skill sets and tool collection. Expect hands-on learning as you forge and use a variety of hand tools under the expert direction of Mark Aspery. From drifts to chisels, you’ll make the fundamental tooling that every blacksmith needs.

 Cost – $475.00

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