Spring 2024 Classes
Classes take place at the Big Red Shed
11735 W. Pine St.
*unless otherwise indicated
Instructor: Jamie Danielson
Cost: $65
Material Fee: $10
April 28 | 2pm -6pm
May 19 | 2pm-5pm
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Use your imagination to create a pinch pot mug with a handle and add any 3-dimensional features you wish (flowers, plants, animals, insects, hearts, letters, numbers, geometric shapes, etc.). Stoneware clay and glazes will be used, allowing your completed work of art to be oven, microwave, and dishwasher safe.
This is a two class series, allowing your creation to dry and get fired in the kiln between the class sessions, and returning a third time to pick up your completed project after the final glaze firing. Ages 8 and up (children 8-12 require parent/guardian assistance)
Instructor: Matt Honsinger
Cost: $50
Material Fee: $10-$30
May 4 | 12pm -4pm
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The old adage that a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife is true, as long as you know how to properly use it.
In this class, you will learn to sharpen your own kitchen knives, using easily obtainable, affordable materials. We will also have a former professional chef to teach basic techniques to safely use your newly sharpened knife.
Instructor: Nick Belfry
Cost: $45
May 11 | 9am -12pm
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In this course, you will learn some basic blacksmithing skills and create a beautiful set of tools to impress your friends and family with at your next barbeque!
Learn how to cut, bend, twist, and taper steel to complete your one-of-a-kind project.
Instructor: Amy Stephensen
Cost: $30
Materials Fee: $5
May 18 | 1pm -4pm
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Connect more deeply with the living world through nature journaling. Using watercolors and drawing tools, students will practice observing details of the plants and flowers they encounter in their surroundings and document them.
This introductory class will receive instruction in different approaches to drawing, color mixing, glazing, and building up values and textures in order to create a beautifully-illustrated journal page.
Materials will be available. However, feel free to bring your own supplies (e.g. pencil, pens, watercolors, paintbrushes, sketchbook).
Instructor: Meryl Kastin
Cost: $45
May 19 | 1pm -4pm
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Monthly Herb Walks with Meryl Kastin, Clinical and Field Herbalist for over 40 years.
I will help participants learn to positively ID plants as well as when and how best to gather them and how to use them for food and/or medicine.We will also discuss how to identify some of the most poisonous plants in North America. I encourage folks to come to all of the herb walks to see the various plant stages of the same plants as well as the progression through the seasons of the herbs to use.
Students are encouraged to bring plant loupes or magnifiers of some sort to look at plants closely. I also will have several we can pass around.