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 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

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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