The Stephen Foster Craft Square holds workshops throughout the year. The classes vary from pottery, herbs, wood working, photography, jewelry making blacksmithing and stained glass. All workshops include park admission unless otherwise specified. Advance Registration is required unless otherwise stated. Payment is due at time of registration.
If you would like to receive an email notification whenever a new workshop is added please email Marie Brown and ask to be added to the workshop mailing list.
How to register for workshops:
By Credit Card- Call the Craft Square at 386-397-1920
Refund Policies (unless stated differently)
1. If cancellation is made prior to 48 hours of the workshop a refund will be given minus a cancellation fee ($5)
2. If a cancellation is made either within 48hrs or the participant fails to show up no refund will be given.
In this workshop you will learn wedging, centering, opening and pulling up, finishing and trimming. You will also learn how to embellish the vessel and about hand painting and/or dipping glazes.
Included in workshop:
Basic instruction, 5 pounds of clay,Firing of 4 vessels
Glaze for dipping or hand painting of vessels
There is a limit of two students per class.
Wear old clothes; bring an apron, an old towel and a small plastic bowl. Extra clay, firing and glazes will be available at a minimum cost.
Cost: $85.00
Pit Firing of Saggar Mummies
Pottery workshop
Presented by
Diane Hornby, Alyson Dal Ponte & Sheryl Huseonica
Saturday February 4, 2012
Lecture 10:00am until 2:00pm
workshop is 2:00pm until around 5:30pm
This special workshop involves learning the somewhat primitive technique of placing bisqued pieces in organic, combustible materials, wire and colorants, including iron sulfate and copper sulfate soaked hay, salt and copper carbonate salt mixture. Then the entire piece with its organic material and colorants is wrapped in a large piece of newspaper and tied with string. Once this process is complete, the mummy is ready to put into the pit. After all the mummies are placed into the barrel, the fire is lit and voila! Let the magic begin!
With registration each participant will be given a bisqued pot and then will wrap the piece as they wish after each technique is demonstrated. Guidance from the pottery demonstrators will be available throughout. Aprons and gloves will be available. Demonstration, pot selection and wrapping will begin at 2 p.m. The firing will begin around 5 p.m. and each participant should plan on staying for at least part of the firing process to complete their experience in this unique method of preparation and firing. The following morning all the pieces will be removed from the ashes, cleaned, waxed and will be ready for pick up.
There will be several special guest lectures beginning at 10am. These lectures will be free and open to the public regardless of whether they are participants in the workshop. One of our special guest lecturers will be Susan Hunter of C and R Ceramics. Susan will share her expertise as a ceramic specialist at 1 p.m. Saturday February 4, before the class begins. For more information about Susan and her offerings, please see her website candrceramics.com. Darrell Adams is tentatively on schedule to discuss his high-fire techniques using salt and other glaze preparations in a large wood-fire kiln. His works and information may be viewed at DarrellAdamsPottery.com.
Participants are limited to 20 adults (at least 18 years of age). Pre-registration is required but if there are extra pots, walk-ins will be welcome. The class and lectures will be held in front of the pottery cabin in the Craft Square.
The price of the workshop is $20 per piece with a limit of 1 piec per student.
BASIC HAND BUILDING POTTERY WORKSHOP
Presented by Diane Hornby
February 9th and continue 16th and 23rd
&
March 15th and continue March 22nd and 29th.
11am to 12:30pm
In this workshop you will learn wedging, how to hand build a pinch pot, an assembled box, a critter and an object of your choice. You will also learn how to hand paint and embellish your vessel. Included with the workshop are basic instructions in each technique, 4 pounds of clay, firing of 4 vessels and glazes for dipping or hand painting for all 4 vessels. Extra clay, firing and glazes available for minimal cost; the class will be held in Craft Square at the pottery cabin. This class is limited to 4 students.
The cost is $85.00.
Digital Photography Level One
Will be repeated on
Feb 20th, March 19th and April 16th.
10 am until 12:30pm
This workshop teaches participants how to plan good photography, create photographic composition and the shooting effects of both color and black and white. Students will learn when to use fill flash, depth of field, linear perspective and also the effect on a two dimensional photograph. Instruction includes macro photography for close ups plus exposure priorities and settings. A hands on out door photography session is also planned. Students will need to bring their own camera; either film or digital is acceptable.
Don Williams will be teaching
Three new series of Digital Photography workshops.
Digital Photography Level 2
Will be repeated on
Feb. 20th, March 19th and April 16th
2 - 4:30 pm
Level 2 extends the basic skills learned in level 1. You will learn how to work with ISO settings, studio set up and lighting, lens differences and the eleven guidelines for awesome photography. A hands on outdoor session is also planned. Students need to bring their own camera
Photoshop Class Level One
Will be repeated on
Feb 20th, March 19th and April 16th
6:30pm - 8:30 pm.
Photoshop Level one will take your photography to the next level with hands on experience in creating amazing photographs with PhotoShop software. You will learn to enhance your photographs using lighting and color adjustment. Experience how to use clone and eraser tools, work with layers and add text. A laptop computer with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements is recommended but not required.
Photoshop Class Level 2
Feb 21st, March 20th and April 17th
6:30pm - 8:30pm.
This is great follow up after Photoshop level 1. You extend your skills and learn the use of Photoshop tools, work with hue and saturation, continue into advanced layers, filters and other artistic features. Students need a laptop with Photoshop software.
All classes are $30.00
with a limit of 10 students per class. Price includes park admission. Classes will be held in the Jeanie room.
High Dynamic Range Photography workshops
Don Williams is teaching 3 separate classes
February 21st, March 20th, April 17th, 2012
1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
HDR photography is a unique image processing that attempts to make images appear more realistic than normal photography images. Non-HDR cameras take images at a single exposure level. This results in the loss of detail within the light or dark areas of the image, depending on whether the camera was set on a low or high exposure setting. HDR photography compensates for this loss of detail by taking multiple images at various exposure levels. It then intelligently merges them together so that the resulting image is clear in both dark and light areas. The image that is created is a detailed realistic photo.
Equipment needed for the class: Digital SLR camera, tripod, laptop computer
Comfortable shoes for walking around the park and along the river
Things provided at the class: Instruction on how to make different image exposures with your camera. Instruction on how to obtain correct aperture settings and FREE HDR processing software and instructions on how to use it.
