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2020 THE NEW ENGLAND CRAFT PROGRAM 2020 HIGHLIGHTS 2020 Dear Friends, Ceramics Studio Improvements Welcome to Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program! We At Snow Farm, we are committed to continued reinvestment into are proud to be the only residential, multidiscipline craft school our studios and property. This year, students and instructors will find in Massachusetts - and one of only a few in the US. We have improvements in the ceramic studio - some obvious and some under exceptional artist- instructors who teach workshops from 2- to the radar. Together, the studio will be brighter, more organized, and 5-days long in eight topic areas. Our 50-acre, farm-inspired campus more functional. Some of these improvements include: nestled in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in western MA is  Custom-built movable tables with locking caster wheels and beautiful in every season. new adjustable stools Snow Farm is for YOU, a person who  New pull-down electric for the pottery wheels and central table • Knows the creative journey is more important than the destination  Two new storage units for glaze and new shelves • Dares to challenge yourself in mind, heart, and soul  A new sink area and clay capture system • Strives to learn throughout your life • Desires to connect with others from different places and experiences  Refurbished kilns including an added computer programmer • Tries again and again, never giving up  Upgraded electricity and additional lighting in the studio • Feels alive when the creative juices begin to flow  New roof, lighting, and upgraded electricity for the outside • Realizes that making craft and art are intrinsic to your wellbeing PHOTOS BY ISABELLA DELL’OLIO kiln deck Come to Snow Farm and take a step into the peaceful landscape, The ceramic renovation was made possible by a generous grant small class size, fresh homemade meals, and a community of like-minded people. Sink your hands into wet clay or feel the from The Windgate Foundation. Special thanks to Tom O’Malley, warmth of the glass furnace on your face. Tell a story in paint, carve a magical creature from wood, and let your imagination play. Worcester Center for Crafts, and ceramic instructors Bob Green, Restorative, inspirational, rejuvenating - these are the words you will use in your Snow Farm stories. Annette Gates, Steve Theberge, and Ben Eberle for their advice, Welcome to your creative journey; we look forward to seeing you here soon! consultation, and volunteer hours to help with the upgrade. Snow Farm also thanks Sheffield Pottery for their sole sponsorship of Mary Jo Murphy Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program is a our ceramics studio. Register for your ceramic class today! Executive Director nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide [email protected] exceptional studio craft and fine art instruction for people of all ages in an inspiring residential setting. NEW NEW NEW COVER PHOTO BY SANDRA COSTELLO Horizons/Snow Farm Independent Work/Study Program High School Program Residency Week May - November Alumni Reunion September 8 - 13, 2020 | page 40 Students, artists and craftspeople (ages May 29 - 31, 2020 | page 20 Experienced artists: bring your ideas 18+): live, work, and create at Snow and materials to our studios, enjoy dorm Farm for 7 weeks during our residential All former high school students and workshop season. Take on jobs in property instructors in the high school summer housing and meals in the dining hall, and experience a week of dedicated, maintenance, the office, or the kitchen program are invited back to Snow Farm in exchange for tuition-free workshops, for an exciting and full alumni reunion independent creative work in the company of a small group of other artists. housing, and meals in the dining hall (when weekend. Take a workshop, dine on the open). By application. See snowfarm.org. patio, and connect with today’s Snow Farm.

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Workshop Overview Staying at Snow Farm turns a typical workshop into a creative retreat! ÝÝ All workshops are open to students ages 18+. Weekend workshops Between May and October, students can choose to let Snow Farm take care of the basics: a quiet comfortable room for are also open to students ages 13+. Teen students who stay overnight sleeping and hearty homemade meals. The price of housing depends on which type of room you choose and the length of the must be accompanied by an adult. Teens who do not stay in our workshop. All packages include both room and board. Day students can choose to add lunches or full meals. DOUBLE DORM housing are welcome to come on their own. ÝÝ An on-site coordinator will greet you at arrival and be available throughout the workshop. Housing & Meals ÝÝ Workshops have a maximum of 6 - 10 students, depending on studio. Double Single Single Deluxe Cottage* Full Meal Day Students ÝÝ Because of our small class size, most workshops can accommodate Plus Single Package** Lunch Only both beginning and experienced students. 2-day $100 $140 $160 $180 $220 $60 $30 ÝÝ means the workshop requires that students have some 3-day $185 $265 $305 $345 $425 $105 $45 previous experience. 4-day $270 $390 $450 $510 $630 $150 $60 * Includes meals for ÝÝ one person. During a workshop, studios are generally open around the clock for 5-day $495 $735 $855 $975 $1,215 $255 $75 student use. However, the schedule and guidelines to vary somewhat ** For second guest in the by studio. See snowfarm.org for details. 9-day $765 $1,125 $1,305 $1,485 $1,845 $405 $135 cottage or day students. ÝÝ Snow Farm is an approved Massachusetts Department of Education Professional Development Provider (PDP). All workshops are eligible.

Cost & Fees ÝÝ The workshop cost includes instruction and open studio hours. Most workshops require an additional supply fee or kit fee. Also, students usually bring some items with them. ÝÝ The supply fee is paid with registration. It covers the materials needed for the specific class. NEW

ÝÝ The kit fee is paid to the instructor during class. Kits can DORM ROOMS ROOMS WITH AIR CONDITIONING include materials and tools. DOUBLE SINGLE PLUS ÝÝ In some cases, the supply fee is based on individual Each room has two single beds and These rooms have one twin bed, a comfy student usage and is paid during class. shares a centrally located, single sex chair, a desk, AC, and the standard ÝÝ A non-refundable registration fee of $25 is charged once per bathroom with hot showers. One shared bathrooms. Limited quantity. THE COTTAGE building is co-ed with two unisex calendar year. DELUXE SINGLE Tucked into a corner of the property bathrooms, one of which is accessible. ÝÝ The Workshop Access Program (WAP) allows eligible students to These rooms are the same as the Single near the dining hall, The Cottage offers Rooms come with linens (sheets, attend workshops at a 75% discount on tuition when space is available Plus but have an adjoining bathroom a bit more privacy and air conditioning. blankets, pillows, and towels), a shelf shared with only one other room. Amenities include one bedroom with two weeks before the start of the class. Apply to the WAP between unit, a table and lamp, chair, rug, Two available. two single beds, a private bath (shower January 1 and March 31. See snowfarm.org for details. and wall pegs for hanging clothes. only), a sitting room, kitchenette, and a ÝÝ CANCELLATION POLICY: If you cancel your workshop more than 30 days Participants can request a roommate or small outdoor seating area. If two peo- we can assign one. from the start date, you will receive a refund, less a $75 cancellation fee ple stay in the Cottage, the second per- and the non-refundable $25 registration fee. No refunds will be given SINGLE son pays for workshop and meals only. less than 30 days from the start of the class for cancellations or any other These rooms are the same as a double Only one reservation for the Cottage is reason. If Snow Farm cancels a class due to low enrollment or any other room but for only one person. available each session - register early! reason, students can take a different workshop or receive a full refund. Snow Farm is not responsible for airfare or any other travel expenses; please confirm the status of your class before booking.

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DAILY SCHEDULE CLASSES BY TOPIC 2020 2-day Workshops 3-day Workshops 4-day Workshops Meals KEY ⑤ A Book of One’s Own: Coptic Stitch ⑤ Let’s Talk: Image & Text on Clay Journals for Daily Writing Kathy King______37 ②③④⑤o Length in Days 1ST DAY 1ST DAY 1ST DAY 8-8:45a Suzi Banks Baum ______36 ⑤ Painting with Fire: Native American 9:30a Arrival 9:30a Arrival 9:30a Arrival Breakfast Class Title Experience Required ⑤ The Monotypewriter: One-Off Prints Firing Techniques 10a-12p Workshop 10a-12p Workshop 10a-12p Workshop Instructor______Page # with Text Bob Green______46 12:15-1p 1:30-4:30p Workshop 1:30-4:30p Workshop 1:30-4:30p Workshop Leslie A. Grossman______36 ⑤ Clay: From the Ground Up Lunch ⑤ 4:30p-onward Open Studio 4:30p-onward Open Studio 4:30p-onward Open Studio 2D & MIXED MEDIA Learning to Draw: A Crash Course Steve Theberge ______52 7:30p Instructor Slides 7:30p Instructor Slides Stephen Hanks ______46 ⑨ 2ND DAY ② Spring ‘Snitting Reduction Cooled Hand-Built Pots ⑤ Printmaking: Focus on Expressive Melissa Weiss______31 9a-12p Workshop 2ND DAY 2ND + 3RD DAY 6:15-7p Ingrid Lavoie______10 Dinner Drawing from Nature 1:30-4p Workshop & Clean-up 9a-12p Workshop 9a-12p Workshop ② Bloom into Spring with Paper Flowers Joyce Silverstone______52 FIBER & BASKETS 1:30-4:30p Workshop 1:30-4:30p Workshop Janet Dalecki______11 ② Organic Expressions: 4:30p-onward Open Studio 4:30p-onward Open Studio ② Draw Into Painting CERAMICS Fluid Monoprint on Silk Amy Wynne______14 ② 3RD Day 4TH DAY Pottery Party: Form, Line & Color Kathy Klompas______10 ② Kari Radasch______10 9a-12p Workshop 9a-12p Workshop Altered Artist Books ② Mark Making on Textiles Zoe Sasson 1:30-4p Workshop & Clean-up 1:30-4p Workshop & Clean-up ______20 ② Hand Building: One Piece at a Time Eva Camacho-Sanchez______11 ② Dancing with Brush Marks: Chinese Anette Gates______11 ② Fanciful Floral Arrangements in Felt Calligraphy & Ink Painting ② 5-day Workshops offer a full week of instruction, lots of open studio time, and opportunities to relax and explore. Bucket List Clay for the Absolute Beginner Danielle Gori-Montanelli______14 Yeachin Tsai______21 Tiffany Hilton______14 Evening activities are available and Wednesday afternoons are open for discovering the riches of the Pioneer Valley. ② Roots, Shoots, Leaves & Flowers: ② Stitched Bindings & the Journal ② Intuitive Clay Local Plants to Dye For SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Lisa Hersey______26 Steve Theberge______20 Michelle Parrish______20 ② Altering the Surface: Collage from ② 9a-12p 9a-12p 9a-12p 9a-12p 9a-12p 9a Nerikomi: Pattern Making with Colored Clay ② Exploring Crochet Rag Rugs your Collections Thomas Hoadley______21 Cal Patch ______21 Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Departure* Lisa Grey______41 ② Vitality & Meaning: Clay Figures ② Narrative Mending 1:30-4:30p 1:30-4:30p Afternoon 1:30-4:30p 1:30-4p ② Painters Should Be Printmakers: Valerie Gilman______26 Karen Stevens______26 Workshop Workshop Free Time & Workshop Workshop Plein Air Oil Monotypes 4-6p ③ The Magnificent Cup: Make, Play & Explore ② Birch Bark Basketry Open Studio & Clean-up Carolyn Letvin______54 Check-In * 4:30p onward 4:30p onward 4:30p onward Doug Peltzman______12 Vladimir Yarish______26 Open Studio Open Studio Open Studio 5-7:30p ③ Japanese Woodblock Printing ③ Alternative Firings ② Roots, Shoots, Leaves & Flowers: 7-9p Art Reception Matt Brown______13 Orientation Bob Green______18 Local Plants to Dye For and Festive ③ Nature in the Abstract & Instructor ③ Porcelain Pitchers & Pourers Michelle Parrish______41 7:30p 9p Dinner Amanda Hawkins______19 Slides Martha Grover______22 ② Natural Color Through Layered Print Studio Tour Film Night 7:30p ③ The Golden Age of Marbling: Classic ③ Diving Deep: Clay Studio FUN-damentals Alysha Kumpferer______54 Auction Watercolor Patterns Donna McGee______28 ③ Catheads: Basics & Beyond Regina & Dan St John______22 * Residential Only ③ Thrown & Altered Porcelain Jackie Abrams______13 ③ White Line Woodcut Jennifer Allen______38 ③ Texting on Textile OPEN STUDIOS: While most studios are open around the clock, schedules and guidelines can vary by studio. Lisa Houck______28 ③ Center of the Table: Hand Built Pottery Eva Camacho-Sanchez______19 See Open Studio Policy on our website or call us for details. ③ The Painterly Landscape in Pastel Jeremy Randall______39 ③ Joomchi & Beyond Diane Sawyer______38 ③ Brighten Up: Clay & Underglaze Ji-Young Chung______22 ③ Collage Explorations Darrah Bowden______48 ③ Frame Loom Weaving Donald Clark______39 ③ Puzzle Pots: Stacking Canisters Fafnir Adamites______29 ③ Encaustic Comprehensive & Lidded Vessels ③ Shibori Rainbow: A Full Spectrum Kelly Anne McGrath______48 Maya Machin______51 of Natural Dyed Color ③ Still Life Oil Painting ④ The Hand Built Teapot Graham Keegan______38 Rami Baglio______50 Hayne Bayless______42 ③ Lines as a Design Focus in a Sewn ④ Explorative & Painterly Collage ④ Wheel Throwing with Alterations, Composition Alexandra Sheldon______42 in Porcelain Valerie Maser Flanagan______39 ⑤ Elizabeth Cohen______Explorative & Painterly Collage 44 ③ Indigo Shibori: Alexandra Sheldon______16 ⑤ Compelling Forms, Irresistible Surfaces Introduction & Explorations ⑤ Marbling: You Can Never Have Enough! Garrett Masterson______16 Carol Anne Grotrian______48 Regina & Dan St John______25 ⑤ Proportion & Touch: The Cohesive Pot ③ Denim: Stitching, Beading Applique ⑤ Encaustic Next Level: Working Large Liz Lurie______24 & Other Decorative Techniques Dietlind Vander Schaaf______33 ⑤ Colorful Dishes: Anna VA Polesny______50 ⑤ Multiblock Color Woodcut Decorative Design Inviting Use ④ No Sheets Required: Sculptural Paper Valerie Lueth______35 Liz Quackenbush______35 Fafnir Adamites______30

6 SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   7 CLASSES BY TOPIC 2020 ③ Glassblowing: Cups & Bits ② The Chain Gang: Mixing it Up ⑤ Forged Adornment ④ Art Furniture: Metal, Fine & Functional Shuhei Fujii & Mia Sartori______48 Paulette Werger______14 Nicholas Downing______53 Matt Johnson______45 ③ A Taste of Glass: 3 Days, 3 Ways ② Make the Ring of Your Dreams ⑤ Women & Welding Sandy Dukeshire______50 Suna Bonometti______20 MOSAICS Mary Kate Cleary______17 ② Mosaic with Found Objects ⑤ Glassblowing: Bowls from Scandinavia ② Introduction to Sand Casting ⑤ Nuts & Bolts: Emily Bhargava______20 Elizabeth Potenza______25 Chris Lann______21 An Exploration of Steel Sculpture ② Mixed-Media Mosaics with Colored Grout ⑤ Murrin-heeey: Picking Up What ② Handling a Knife with Style Gene Flores______24 Josh Winer______21 You Pull Down Robert Dancik______26 ⑤ Knifemaking 101 ② Cat Burns______53 ② Basic Bling Mexican Smalti Mosaics Rick Angus & Norman Ed______32 Elizabeth Tokoly______41 Josh Winer______54 ⑤ KILN & STAINED Whimsical Welding ② Metalsmithing with Mixed Materials ③ Glass-on-Glass Mosaic Bill Rhodes______35 ② Fused Glass Collage Sam Myers______13 Robert Dancik______55 ⑤ Introduction to Welding in Bill’s Barn Janet Dalecki______10 ③ Rings on Rings ③ Eggshell as Mosaic Tessera Bill Rhodes______47 ④ Textile Vessels: Think Big by Working Small ③ Marbles Inside & Out ② Introduction to Stained Glass Mary Risley ______12 Linda Biggers______38 Lissa Hunter______31 Alex Cincotta______39 Emily Bhargava______11 ④ WOOD ③ Ready, Set, Bezel Setting! Abstract Landscapes in Mosaics ④ Contemporary Penny Rugs ③ Beginning Beads & Beyond ② Kiln-Fired Dichroic Glass Jewelry Lauren Beaudoin______18 Casey Van Loon______43 ② Wooden Spoons: Form & Function Liz Alpert Fay______42 Libby Leuchtman______49 Lynn Haust______14 ⑤ Alan Young ______10 ③ The Eloquent Nail: Micro-Mosaic Jewelry with ④ Used Clothing Wardrobe Alchemy ③ A Taste of Glass: 3 Days, 3 Ways ② Introduction to Stained Glass Jewelry Fabrication with Steel Flameworked Glass ② Rustic Furniture for the Home & Garden Crispina ffrench______44 Marta Bernbaum ______50 Sam Myers______41 Rob Jackson______23 Janice Peacock______16 Mark Nicholson______14 ④ The Ins and Outs of Random Weaving ④ Beginning Flamework: ③ Sculptural Forms in Stained Glass ③ Fabricating a Narrative: ⑤ Put the Pebble to the Metal in Mosaics ② All Bowls, All Weekend Lois Russell______44 Summertime Florals Michelle Hinebrook______19 From Lockets to Reliquaries Debora Aldo______34 Rick Angus______21 ⑤ The World of Korean Paper Holly Kenny______31 ③ Glass Fusing: Fun with Function Rob Jackson______29 ⑤ Intensive Mosaic: Classical Method, ② Wooden Spoons: From Orchard to Table Aimee Lee______16 ④ Create a Glass Cactus Garden Moe Aderman______22 ③ Rings on Rings Contemporary Expression Alan Young______54 ⑤ Tessa Hill______43 Seamless Sculptural Feltmaking ③ G2: Glass & Graphics Mary Risley ______38 Samantha Holmes______52 ④ Flameworking: Hollow Beads on ③ Carving Stories into Stone Fafnir Adamites______24 Dorie Guthrie______29 Puffy Mandrels ③ A Bead Like No Other Michael Updike______12 ⑤ Traditional Yoruba Batik, Adire & Tie-dye WELDING Mary Ila Duntemann______45 ③ Mold-Making Madness Robert Dancik______39 ③ ② Welded Sculpture: Axe & Knife Skills for Women: Gasali Adeyemo______33 Jessi Moore______39 ③ ⑤ Micro-Mosaic Jewelry with Making Connections: Metal to Anything From Conception to Completion Carving Spoons & Spatulas ⑤ Experimental Weaving Flameworked Glass ③ Fused Glass Landscapes Alan Burton Thompson______49 Charles Wiemeyer______14 Angela Robins______18 Jen Simms______34 Janice Peacock ______17 Lynn Haust______48 ③ ③ Patina: Color on Metal ② Introduction to Welding Paddle Making: Graceful Practicality ⑤ Beyond Felting: Silk & Wool & Paper ⑤ Introduction to Flamework: ③ A Taste of Glass: 3 Days, 3 Ways Lauren Beaudoin______51 Mary Kate Cleary______27 Craig Addis______22 Eva Camacho-Sanchez______46 Inspired Glass Treasures Sam Myers______50 ④ Beyond the Bezel ③ ② Welded Sculpture: From Conception to The Art of Bending Wood ⑤ Skins, Skeletons, Knots & Nets: Madeline Stewart ______24 ④ Explorations in Stained Glass Elizabeth Tokoly______30 Completion Alison Croney Moses______49 3D Textile Constructions Donna Solomon______30 ④ ⑤ Glass Beads to Fine Jewelry Colorful, Original, Strong & Light: Charles Wiemeyer______41 ③ Foundations of Woodturning: Mo Kelman______52 Liliana Glenn______34 ④ Printing on Glass Wire Armatures for Polymer Jewelry Spindles and Bowls Bonnie Bishoff______43 ② Drawings in Metal ⑤ Tell a Story with Traditional Sheila Rosa______44 Janet Collins______51 FLAMEWORKING ④ Tricia Moody-Bourbeau______55 Glass Murrine ⑤ Stained Glass with Fused Elements You Can Do It! ④ Woodworking: A Small Side Table ② Flameworking: Make It Melty Intermediate Soldering Intensive ③ Welding Sculpture with Found Objects Lucie Kovarova-Weir______37 Dan Maher______17 Ellen Kaspern______30 Richard Paz ______20 Helen Driggs______45 James Kitchen______13 ⑤ Stones of Glass & Wire Wrapping ⑤ Fire & Ice: Silver Metal Clay ⑤ Traditional Timber Framing ② Flameworking: ⑤ Rings 360º ③ Taking Shape With Copper Libby Leuchtman______46 with Fused Glass Neil Godden______37 Lindsey Molyneux______All the Gadgets for Summer Lisel Crowley______25 Timothy Lazure______16 19 ⑤ Borosilicate Sculpture: Fantasy ⑤ Turn, Burn, Carve & Color Holly Kenny______21 ⑤ Fire & Ice: Silver Metal Clay ③ Adventures in Welding Creatures in Glass ⑤ Line, Color & Shape in the Kiln Rick Angus______43 ② James Kitchen______23 Borosilicate Glass Ornaments Sarah Wicks______52 Jessi Moore______33 with Fused Glass Lisa Diagle______41 Lisel Crowley______25 ③ ⑤ Turning Wood-Carved Pottery ⑤ The Sacred Art of Painting & Metal Animal Sculpture with Found ⑤ Matt Monaco______17 ② Festive Flameworking: GLASSBLOWING Writing on Glass Fundamentals of Jewelry Making Objects & Cold Connections ⑤ Lost and Found: The Art of Assemblage Glass for the Holidays ② Introduction to Glassblowing: Sam Myers______37 Alan Burton Thompson______25 Leonard Streckfus______29 Marta Bernbaum ______54 The Bowl is the Goal ⑤ ③ Abbie Rieser ______25 ⑤ Multidimensional Panels Through Alternative Surfaces, Connections & Welded Sculpture from Found Objects William D’Errico ______26 ⑤ Knifemaking 101 ③ Tiny Planets: Explorations in Glass Lamination Personal Expressions in Jewelry James Kitchen______39 Mary Hettmansperger______Rick Angus & Norman Ed______32 Borosilicate Marbles ② Beginner Glassblowing: Sasha Zhitneva______47 33 ③ Welding: Your New Superpower! Angela McHale______12 Pumpkin Mayhem ⑤ Glass Beads to Fine Jewelry Joe Wheaton______49 ⑤ Woodturning: Bowls & Beyond Ken Lindgren______35 ③ Colorful Magic: Jesse Rasid______54 METALSMITHING & JEWELRY Liliana Glenn______34 ③ Metal Sculpture for the Home & Garden Beginning Beads for Everyone ③ Glassblowing Bootcamp ② Fusing & Weaving Fine Silver ⑤ Cloisonné Enameling & Haiku Writing James Kitchen______51 ⑤ Sculpting on the Wood Lathe Liliana Glenn______18 Jesse Rasid______23 Erika Jorjorian______10 Harlan Butt______37 ④ Welded Wall Art: Derek Weidman______46 ③ Flameworking: Intermediate Skills Lab ③ Adventures in Glassblowing ② Etching for Jewelers ⑤ First-Time Enameling Explore the Possibilities ⑤ Spirit Houses Marta Bernbaum______22 Sandy Dukeshire______29 Lauren Beaudoin______11 Ashley Gilreath______46 Bob Turan______31 Ross Smart______52

8 SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   9 APRIL 4 - 5 (Snow Date: April 25 - 26) 2-DAY APRIL 18 - 19 2-DAY 2020 April Weekends Wake up from winter with a creative weekend at Snow Farm! Catch the first bright greens on the campus and enjoy the early blooms in yellow and pink. The studios will be freshly stocked, and like the first days of school anywhere, full of promise. We do not offer housing for April weekends, but we have partnered with Northampton’s newest hotel NEW NEW Wooden Spoons: Spring ‘Snitting Organic Expressions: Mark Making on Textiles Bloom into Spring with The Ellery to offer our guests a special rate. The Ellery is newly Form & Function INGRID LAVOIE Fluid Monoprint on Silk EVA CAMACHO-SANCHEZ Paper Flowers renovated and just 15 minutes down ALAN YOUNG Learn age-old cutting and design techniques KATHY KLOMPAS In this experimental workshop, learn how JANET DALECKI Route 9 from Snow Farm. Book to create heirloom paper pieces in the form Explore exciting techniques for creating bold to create abstract art on any natural fabric, Learn basic techniques to transform 2D crepe Design spoons that explore the interplay online with discount code SNOW. between the working end of a utensil and of original artworks, cards, ornaments, gifts, pattern, color, and visual texture on fabric. including cotton, linen, denim, silk, or wool. paper into lifelike 3D flowers just in time for the hand of a user. Learn a quick and efficient and more. Begin with the classic design Multiple monoprint techniques will be covered, Experiment with nontraditional tools, such as spring. Using simple paper sculpting methods mix of hand and machine techniques and and symmetry of the German technique of with an emphasis on design and flow. Use found objects, rocks, and pine cones to make and basic construction, participants will create use a variety of interesting wood to make at Scherenschnitte, or “snitting.” Group discussion thickened dyes and various mark-making tools, unique marks on textiles using fabric paint. Learn a bouquet of colorful blooms that will rival the least four utensils. Refine a design that fits and brainstorming will encourage creativity, including gel plates and foam stamps, while how to use rusted objects to make permanent real thing but last a lot longer. Discussion will your hand perfectly! No prior woodworking and students can work from templates or create you build up rich, joyful layers. Each student marks. Create at least one sample book to be include ways to arrange paper flowers and use experience is necessary to produce beautiful, original designs. Cutting is done with X-ACTO™ will take home at least six signature silk scarves used as a future reference for mark making. them in home decor or for special occasions. functional utensils. knives and good eyesight or magnification. along with process swatches that can be WORKSHOP: $305 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $35 No green thumb needed to grow luscious WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $25 WORKSHOP: $305 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE $10 transformed into artful objects. realistic paper flowers. WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $50

NEW NEW Pottery Party: Form, Fused Glass Collage Fusing & Weaving Fine Silver Introduction to Stained Glass Etching for Jewelers Hand Building: Line & Color JANET DALECKI ERIKA JORJORIAN EMILY BHARGAVA LAUREN BEAUDOIN One Piece at a Time KARI RADASCH This fun and lively class will cover a variety Explore the ancient Roman art of chain In just a weekend, learn all the techniques to Learn a variety of methods for successfully ANNETTE GATES Make pots using rich, low-fire red clay and of fusing techniques for both beginning and weaving! Learn single-loop and double-loop create a hanging stained glass panel. Begin by etching on copper, brass, and sterling silver. Discover ease in building with in-hand forming multiple construction techniques including experienced glass artists. Begin by making an methods of weaving together fine silver links learning to cut glass, foil and solder, and create Topics include etching safely, using various techniques. Learn to work spontaneously, pinching, coiling, slabs, and some wheel assortment of components such as murrine, that are easy to fuse with an acetylene torch. hanging hardware. Then design and build your resists, transferring images, cleaning, and guided by the objects that your hands throwing. Explore color and line on the surface hand-pulled stringers, and part sheets (powder Experience the meditative quality of this own luminous piece of glass art. Instruction will incorporating your etched pieces into a design. intuitively make. Explore strategies such as with customizable terra sigillata and graphic drawings). Then cut, arrange, and fuse your repetitive weaving process. Students will leave focus on the basics, and you’ll have plenty of Students will leave with a newly etched cuff templates and press molds for the consistent elements. Kari will share accessible, low-fire pieces into a flat “collaged” panel. If you have with a beautiful new pair of earrings or chain time to embellish your work to make it reflect bracelet (if desired), etched sheet for future repetition of forms and how common tools can tips and techniques that have many uses and Bullseye scraps, bring them for use in your for a bracelet or necklace. No previous soldering your personal vision. Start a new direction in use, and the skills to properly set up and etch be used in unexpected ways. Both novice and will inspire new ideas for use beyond the class. collage, but no problem if you don’t. skills required. your creative life with stained glass! on their own. experienced ceramicists will expand their visual No firing included. All welcome! WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $85 vocabulary for making both functional pottery WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 WORKSHOP: $330 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 and sculpture. No firing included. WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $40

Rings on Rings Tiny Planets: Explorations in Catheads: Basics & Beyond Japanese Woodblock Printing INSTRUCTOR PROFILE MARY RISLEY Borosilicate Marbles JACKIE ABRAMS MATT BROWN Matt Brown Stay at Snow Farm Adorn your hands in silver rings! For beginners, ANGELA MCHALE Paint your own weaving materials using heavy This workshop offers a comprehensive Matt Brown graduated from college ring making is a great way to explore Create galaxies, underwater scenes, flowers, cotton paper and acrylic paint, then begin introduction to the wonderful range of tools, with a degree in Art and Architecture From May to October, the metalsmithing. More experienced students can weaving with a gracefully footed cathead base. and whole worlds inside a marble! Using solid techniques, and materials used in the tradition and plans to work with his hands. Soon practice and refine soldering skills and expand A basic, beautifully formed basket might be just of moku hanga. Students will engage in dorms are open! Settle into borosilicate glass and hollow tubes, learn thereafter, he was running his own their capacity for expressive design. Demos and techniques including compressions, implosions, what you want, or you can go beyond: explore multiple-block design and carving and learn building company. Those years, he says, a creative retreat where discussion will include basic metal fabrication vortexes, and silver and opal encasements. For the possibilities of twill weaves, create sculptural to print using water, brushes, and a hand-held the studios are buzzing from wire and sheet, sawing, filing, and the beginner or experienced student, embrace forms, and learn the rules that can be adapted baren. Everyone will complete a multicolor were his printmaking apprenticeship: soldering. Embellish your rings with stamping, the challenge of bringing planets to life and and broken. Experiment, explore, and have fun! print and learn tricks to adapt new skills to learning to work with wood, to line late into the night, and hammering, roller printing, finishing, and more! leave class with a collection of awesome Students can expect to complete two baskets. other art-making techniques. things up and judge by eye, to draw the only interruption is WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 marbles and a toolbox of glass skills that can be WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 WORKSHOP: $390 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE $85 up plans and implement them in 3D. used in many ways. In 1993, Matt discovered moku hanga a home cooked meal. WORKSHOP: $405 | Glass rods purchased in class printing, and his direction changed. During 5-day workshops, The materials are different but to Matt, Friday night includes an the work is still a process of visualizing something, analyzing the parts, and exhibit of student art work, putting hand to tool to make a thing. a special meal, and an Matt is one of the few people who teaches the art of Japanese woodblock auction. Housing options today. He regularly joins us at Snow include double and single Farm for the first weekend of the rooms (some now with air season. We are delighted to offer his Snow Farm inspired print as a limited conditioning), and a private edition in 2020. See snowfarm.org cottage. See page 5. for details.

NEW Carving Stories into Stone The Magnificent Cup: Glass-on-Glass Mosaic Welding Sculpture with MICHAEL UPDIKE Make, Play & Explore SAM MYERS Found Objects Using recycled slate roof shingles, etch a design DOUG PELTZMAN Create a luminous 8” x 8” mosaic by designing JAMES KITCHEN of your choice: a fossil, dragonfly, or sailboat are Using various types of cups as a canvas, explore and placing vibrant colored glass tessere Join award-winning sculptor James Kitchen possibilities. Bring ideas, photos, and sketches the relationship between form and surface atop a transparent glass base. Students will to learn the basics of welding and bring your for inspiration. The design will start as a ghost decoration, discuss the meaning and intention learn how to select from patterns, pictures, artistic ideas to life in metal. Sparks will fly image, as you make a line drawing with a white behind making pots, and use play as a way to and drawings to create designs that will as metal scraps, discarded car parts, antique charcoal pencil. Then transition to a chisel and a explore new ideas. Learn about Doug’s methods shine! Movement, flow, and backgrounds kitchen utensils, bolts, and more come together small wooden mallet to achieve an outline and of carving and inlaying slip into leather-hard will be achieved through a variety of mosaic in ways you cannot imagine until you hold the add depth to the image. Explore this unique and bisque-fired clay. Learn an array of tools techniques. The final artwork will be finished piece in your hands. Start scouting flea markets process for turning discarded shingles into art. and techniques for using texture, line, and color. with grout and framed to be hung. and antique shops now, and bring a piece of WORKSHOP: $385 | SUPPLY FEE: $10 No firing included. Beginners and experienced WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE $75 metal for inspiration. makers welcome! WORKSHOP: $405 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $35

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Please Be a Craft Champion THANK YOU Donors who contribute $1000 or more in a to these Craft Champions who year receive: gave $1000 or more in 2019* Draw Into Painting Bucket List Clay for the Fanciful Floral  Advanced mailing of the annual catalog AMY WYNNE Absolute Beginner Arrangements in Felt  24-hours advanced access to registration at the Craft Champion Josh Simpson Using water-soluble drawing media, create TIFFANY HILTON DANIELLE GORI-MONTANELLI beginning of the year Individuals Ann Slocum multiple landscape studies on paper. Then, For the absolute beginner who is curious to try Join Danielle for a color-filled weekend! Anonymous Donna Socha & Peter McCarthy  bridge the gap between the drawn and the potter’s wheel! With clear demonstrations Immerse yourself in her time-tested An invitation to the Seconds Sale Preview Night Sandra Breil Michelle Spaziani painted image by adding water to your and patient individual instruction, students techniques to create beautiful felt jewelry and  Behind-the-scenes communication on what’s James Clayton & Linda Rigali Diana & Martin Spiller studies. Looser studies arise easily as value will make bowls and cups. The focus will be on bring springtime cheer to your collections. Susan Clopton & John Levine Claudia Waite & Craig Garnett shapes take over linear description. Moving happening at Snow Farm trying something new and learning to work Students will be guided to explore a wide Katherine Corigliano Becca Webb from linear to painterly can be a liberating with your hands. Students will not go home range of potential designs, from marigolds Schedule an online monthly donation of $83.34 starting in Kerry Dietz & Eva Schocken Bobbin Young & Eric Weber process when the starting point is drawing. with finished work but may fall in love with to succulents. Danielle will demonstrate January, and you will be a Craft Champion by December! Heather & Nicholas Drysdale Carole Zawatsky Color’s relationship to value, composition, and clay! This is the chance to give pottery a try in a her methods for cutting, gluing, and sewing Janet & Tom Dunlap Bronna Zlochiver spatial dynamics will be addressed. fun and supportive environment! designer felts, and will lead the class to create Gifts of all sizes are welcome. Nan Fleming **Snow Farm 2019 Instructor WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $25 one-of-a-kind brooches or neck pieces. Anne Forbes WORKSHOP: $305 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $60 Claire Fruitman & Family Craft Champion Carol Hammer Business Donors Rustic Furniture for the Myra & Thomas Holt Bullseye Glass Home & Garden Rhoda & Sherman Levine Chartpak MARK NICHOLSON Joan Lewis Salmon Studios Sheffield Pottery Using natural logs and branches, learn building Holly & Steven Martineau techniques to create rustic, beautiful, and useful Mary Jo Murphy The Ellery furniture. There is plenty of room for creativity in Lisa Oram & Steve Brown Whalen Insurance this class to design and build a rustic table, bench, Anne & Steve Ritchey chair, stool, or more. Participants can gather Jim Rosenthal** & Halina Wiczyk sticks and other natural items from around Snow Lois Russell** Farm or bring meaningful natural materials from Mary Scanlon *accurate as of 10/30/19 home to incorporate into projects. Stephanie Sersich**

WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 Kiln-Fired Dichroic Glass Jewelry The Chain Gang: Mixing it Up Z Welded Sculpture: From LYNN HAUST PAULETTE WERGER Conception to Completion Using Bullseye glass, explore the magic of From classical to funky, explore a wide range CHARLES WIEMEYER DONATE SHARE SUPPORT dichroic glass, including inclusions and etching. of unique links and chain styles. Come with Often starting with a sketch or a concept, Make a donation online: Share your experience Shop at the Snow Farm Seconds Sale Using clear and black glass as a base, design design ideas of your own, or be inspired Charles has helped numerous artists transform www.snowfarm.org with friends and invite them to join Three weekends in November and create a collection of colorful glass tiles. by Paulette’s nature-inspired work. Learn their ideas into full-scale public art projects. you in a class After firing, coldwork and shape the glass into to combine chain with pearls, beads, and Bring sketches, photographs, found objects, Be a sustaining donor by scheduling Give the gift of your time as a volunteer pendants. Be amazed at the sparkling colors of found objects. Students will make samples personal treasures, and your creative mind. a monthly contribution Share your photos on social media your work! Due to firing and annealing times, and experiment with a variety of fused, Learn the metal fabrication techniques using #snowfarmcraft Select Snow Farm: The New England Craft finished pieces will be sent after class (shipping cold-connected, and soldered link chains. MIG and arc welders, a plasma cutter, and more. Mail a check: Program when shopping at Smile.Amazon.com included in supply fee). Knowledge of jewelry soldering is required. Transform your vision into something you can Snow Farm: The New England Post a review on Google, Facebook, WORKSHOP: $330 | SUPPLY FEE: $35 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE PAID TO INSTRUCTOR, proudly display in your home or garden. Artistic Craft Program or Trip Advisor More ways to give and details at RANGE: $35 - $50 or functional pieces are possible. Attn: Holly Martineau snowfarm.org WORKSHOP: $315 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 5 Clary Road, Williamsburg, MA 01096

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NEW NEW INSTRUCTOR PROFILE The World of Korean Paper Compelling Forms, Stained Glass with Micro-Mosaic Jewelry with INSTRUCTOR PROFILE Aimee Lee AIMEE LEE Irresistible Surfaces Fused Elements Flameworked Glass Janice Peacock Handmade paper artist, author, and Explore a myriad of Korean techniques for GARRETT MASTERSON DAN MAHER JANICE PEACOCK Janice Peacock, who lives in the San Fulbright fellow Aimee Lee is the making and transforming paper known as Begin with a series of small personal sketches Make decorative fused elements to be included Start a micro mosaic by creating a collection Francisco bay area, has been making hanji. Working as a group, process raw paper leading hanji researcher in the United in clay that will build to more developed pieces in a traditionally constructed stained glass panel. of colorful glass components made through one-of-a-kind beads and jewelry mulberry bark into thin translucent sheets States. She is the American daughter or groupings. Garrett will share techniques Fused imagery can range from representational flameworking. Learn how to mount the tiny glass since 1992. She also creates large scale of paper and bark lace. Learn techniques acquired while traveling and working in studios to abstract in transparent or opalescent glasses. pieces in a bezel setting to make stunning and of Korean immigrants, and like many sand-cast glass sculptures. In her work, for transforming paper, including joomchi in Japan and Italy. As the week unfolds, discover Explore a variety of fused techniques including original jewelry. Janice will provide guidance on in the second generation, she moved (fusing and texturing), jiseung (paper cording the intrinsic beauty of clay, understand the how to “paint” with frit and stringer, transfer the unique design challenges of working on a Janice has been fascinated by masks away from her heritage before moving and twining for baskets/sculpture), thread importance of structure as it relates to the photo images onto glass, and incorporate found small scale, and students will be able to complete and their transformative nature. She toward it. Making artists books led her making, spinning, and natural dyeing and sculptural form, and develop intuition that objects. The complexity of stained glass projects several micro-mosaic pendants and pins. No has also been drawn to creating object to making paper, and when she studied finishes. Leave with paper, samples, and skills to leads to compelling forms of singular strength. can be adapted to all skill levels. experience in flameworking or mosaics necessary. that appear old, as if they have just papermaking history, she discovered the continue at home! Some work will be bisque or raku fired. WORKSHOP: $660 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 WORKSHOP: $750 | SUPPLY FEE: $25 been unearthed. Janice’s work has been gap around Korean paper. She set out to WORKSHOP: $725 | SUPPLY FEE: $110 WORKSHOP: $760 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 Glass rods purchaed in class exhibited internationally, featured fill the void. A Fulbright fellowship took in many publications, and is in the her deep into the Korean countryside permanent collections of The Corning where she met and worked with master Museum of Glass and The Museum of crafters and learned to make, fuse, Glass in Tacoma, WA. Janice is also the texture, cord weave, and dye hanji. Her author of the Glass Bead Mystery Series, award-winning book Hanji, Unfurled consisting of 4 books and a short story. came out of this journey. From the She was originally inspired to write by a traditional paper, Aimee creates books, glass studio full of colorful artists who hangings, sculptures, installations, or didn’t always get along. They reminded whatever living, breathing art that calls her of the odd, and often humorous, to her. Based in Cleveland, OH, Aimee characters in murder mystery books, travels and teaches internationally to and so they became her characters!

share a rich culture and stories that are Janice’s latest obsession is micro-

often overlooked. mosaics. Join her on this new path! Z NEW NEW NEW Explorative & Painterly Collage Rings 360º Women & Welding Turning Wood-Carved ALEXANDRA SHELDON TIMOTHY LAZURE MARY KATE CLEARY Pottery Explore color, texture, composition, light, Adorning the finger has been a tradition Women who weld are hot! Whether you are MATT MONACO movement, space, and narrative while making for ages, and rings are often loaded with comfortable with welding or want to try it for Learn to design, shape, and hollow out an collages from scratch. Materials for the collages meaning and symbolism. Explore jewelry the first time, a week in the welding barn will original semi-enclosed wooden vessel using will include your own painted and printed design, fabrication, basic stone setting, and light your creative fire. Work closely with Mary a wood lathe, and explore the finer points of papers, magazine transfers, and other original assembling techniques that are all related Kate to develop confidence and skills as you designing pieces that resemble traditional forms textural elements. Emphasis will be on making to the ring concept. Through demonstration, learn to use the oxy-acetylene torch, plasma of pottery with classic exterior detail. Learn the and learning in a joyous and supportive space. discussion, hands-on work, and individual cutter, MIG welder, stick welder, and more. use and application of the lathe and hand tools, WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 attention, students will create rings that are Make functional or decorative objects for your including the importance of sharpening, proper unpredictable, honest, visually complex, bold, home and garden. body position, and relaxation. Discover the joy in confident, simple, and beautiful. WORKSHOP: $640 | SUPPLY FEE: $100 shaping wood and creating a finished vessel of WORKSHOP: $620 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $30 your own design. WORKSHOP: $730 | SUPPLY FEE: $65

NEW NEW INSTRUCTOR PROFILE Axe & Knife Skills for Alternative Firings Texting on Textile Nature in the Abstract Angela Robins Women: Carving Spoons BOB GREEN EVA CAMACHO-SANCHEZ AMANDA HAWKINS & Spatulas Angela Robins is a woodworker and Explore a variety of alternative ceramic firing Text plays a powerful role in society and art. Explore abstraction, color, and mark through educator inspired by the curved forms ANGELA ROBINS techniques including raku, naked raku, In this experimental workshop, explore the the lens of landscape painting. Experience non- saggar, and horse hair firing. Each one of these use and application of text in your textiles. traditional drawing exercises, color studies, and found in Scandinavian and Japanese Make wood chips fly as spoons and spatulas come methods results in spontaneous and dramatic Techniques covered include stamp carving Eva’s patience a fresh approach to creating rich landscape- wooden crafts, particularly the boat to life. Students will learn how to split, rough out, and shape a freshly cut log using wedges, an axe, a effects on the work. Enjoy the beauty and and printing, stencil cutting, free-form based abstract paintings. Each day will include and the bowl. She was born in a magic of these ancient Japanese and Native painting, digital printing, stitching, and free and creativity was personal work time with ample guidance rural fishing village in northeastern drawknife and shaving horse, a carving knife, and a hook knife. Ergonomic axe-carving techniques American techniques as you glaze, burnish, and embroidering. Also learn how to make and cut and one-on-one consultation. Working in Japan and raised in both Japan and require endurance and patience, so ample fire. Students will need to bring greenware to words out of prefelts and add them to textiles. beyond magical. water-based media, develop a mini-series and the United States. After the 2011 time during the class will be spent practicing. burnish and bisqueware to glaze. Bring home new ideas, samples, and technical preparatory work, and have the opportunity to earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, Discussion will include form and function, WORKSHOP: $650 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 know-how to apply to your favorite textiles. execute two larger, more involved canvases. Angela returned to her hometown and finishing techniques, and tool sharpening. WORKSHOP: $390 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $40 WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 visited with traditional craftspeople in WORKSHOP: $385 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 the region. She has studied traditional woodworking in Japan, Norway, Sweden, and for two years as a resident in the artisan development program at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota. From axe carving to woodturning on the lathe, Angela works primarily with freshly cut wood, or green wood. She has taught skin- on-frame boatbuilding, woodturning, and woodcarving. She is making her first appearance at Snow Farm and is excited to connect with a new creative community in a new landscape. NEW Colorful Magic: Beginning Sculptural Forms in Taking Shape With Copper Ready, Set, Bezel Setting! Beads for Everyone Stained Glass LINDSEY MOLYNEUX LAUREN BEAUDOIN LILIANA GLENN MICHELLE HINEBROOK Using copper that is soft enough to be Stones are often a captivating highlight to a Bring your passion for color and sparkle to the Explore the potential of form in stained glass! manipulated by hand and can be soldered with piece of jewelry. Bezels are created to frame and flameworking studio. Discover the magic of Demonstrations, exercises, and discussions will a benzene torch, explore small-scale metal hold stones. Learn the basics of bezel setting melting and shaping glass into handmade, equip students to design thoughtful geometric sculpture using basic tools. Create shapes out cabochon stones, including bezel forming, open one-of-a-kind beads and small sculpture. shapes, choose impactful colors, construct of flat copper using a propane torch, hammers, back bezel settings, fabrication, soldering tips, Explore surface decoration such as dots, frit, armatures out of wire and metal sheet and, and anvil. Learn ways to color copper and adding embellishments such as twisted wire or raking and flowers. Discuss color and design, finally, cut and assemble glass to create 3D forms create textures. Students will build armatures balls, and finishing. Students will design and gravity and heat; all questions and concerns using copper foil and solder. By integrating a for sculpture and learn how to manipulate the create a cabochon-set ring, pendant, and/or will be addressed. Create something new in a metal frame within glass sculptures, students copper into any shape. Bring ideas to replicate, earrings in sterling silver. supportive and good-spirited environment. can create inventive works, play with scale and such as flowers or animals; abstract ideas are WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $85 WORKSHOP: $405 | SUPPLY FEE: $15 shape, and push the boundaries of stained glass. welcome, too. Glass rods purchased in class WORKSHOP: $412 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $60

MAY 29 - 30 NEW NEW NEW Get into the studios with a 2-day Mixed-Media Mosaics Dancing with Brush Marks: Exploring Crochet workshop taught by high school with Colored Grout Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Rag Rugs JOSH WINER YEACHIN TSAI CAL PATCH program alumni. Explore the creative freedom and possibilities This delightful weekend of Sumi ink and With the most basic of crochet skills, make of combining ceramic tile, vitreous glass, brush will introduce students to traditional your own fabric rugs out of any textile you like! broken china, glass beads, stained glass, and Chinese calligraphy and ink painting. Learn Learn how to wield a jumbo hook, prepare and MAY 30 mirror to create your own original mosaic. On the principles and practices of these ancient join your strips, and make differently shaped Make the Ring of Roots, Shoots, Leaves day one, transfer your design, build your mosaic disciplines and explore how the practice can rugs. Explore colorwork patterns in addition Your Dreams & Flowers: Local It’s a party! Join us for a relaxed by cutting tile, then cement tiles down with bring us vividly into the energy of the present to stripes and solids. Once mastered, these acrylic cement. On day two, mix and apply a moment. Following demonstrations and step- techniques can also be used to make baskets or SUNA BONOMETTI Plants to Dye For BBQ dinner, music, making art range of vibrantly colored grout to finish your by-step instruction, students will develop their vessels. Comfort with chain and single crochet Snow Farm, 2003-06 MICHELLE PARRISH artwork. Students will bring a 14” x 14” colored hand and eye by practicing calligraphy and stitches required (online resources available). Snow Farm, 2008-18 Horizons, 1986 together, and of course, a bonfire. mosaic design to class. painting flowers, still life, and landscape. WORKSHOP: $305 | Students bring supplies WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 MAY 31 Stay in the dorms overnight and All Bowls, All Weekend RICK ANGUS enjoy pancake breakfast. In this fast-paced class, students will focus on the cross-grain technique of woodturning to make bowls from local hardwoods. Learn to use a bowl gouge for shaping, a scraper for refining Connect with us now! the surface, and simple oil coatings to create Flameworking: Altered Artist Books a lustrous finish. Bring your bowl design ideas Make It Melty ZOE SASSON and make them happen during this class. No RICHARD PAZ Snow Farm, 2005 • All former high school students, experience necessary—give woodturning a try Snow Farm, 2012 and you will be delighted with the results. staff, and instructors are invited. WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 NEW NEW • Join the alumni Facebook group. Flameworking: All the Gadgets Introduction to Nerikomi: Pattern Making • Send us your current contact info. for Summer Sand Casting with Colored Clay HOLLY KENNY CHRIS LANN THOMAS HOADLEY Learn the fundamentals of glass beadmaking With its low equipment costs, sand casting Nerikomi, sometimes also called neriage, is the • Gather up your old Snow Friends with a torch and soft glass. Then, use your offers budding jewelers an accessible traditional Japanese process of working with and make a plan to attend. beads to make fun summer gifts for dads or alternative to lost-wax casting. The process layers of colored clay. Learn how to prepare grads, or to enhance the next BBQ. Choose takes only minutes from start to finish, which multi-colored porcelain with oxides, and Mosaic with Intuitive Clay from a bottle opener, spoon, coffee scoop, easily allows for making many copies of an how to create form and embed pattern with pen, or letter opener. Topics will include safety, original model. Students will identify a suitable nerikomi. From a palette of patterned loaves, Found Objects STEVE THEBERGE tools and equipment, properties of glass, object to replicate, prepare a two-part sand form vessels using thin slices of clay. Explore the EMILY BHARGAVA Horizons, 1995-97 FIND ALL THE DETAILS manipulation of glass with heat and gravity, mold, melt and pour sterling silver, and finish organic union of pattern and structure unique Horizons, 1994 Snow Farm, 2013-15 and finishing beads. No experience is necessary, their casting to wear home. to nerikomi. No firing included. Snow Farm, 2003, 2004 and all materials are included. WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $70 WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 snowfarm.org WORKSHOP: $315 | Glass rods purchased in class

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NEW Z NEW The Golden Age of Marbling: Glass Fusing: Porcelain Pitchers & Pourers Adventures in Welding The Eloquent Nail: Jewelry INSTRUCTOR PROFILE Classic Watercolor Patterns Fun with Function MARTHA GROVER JAMES KITCHEN Fabrication with Steel Rob Jackson REGINA & DAN ST JOHN MOE ADERMAN Discover the idiosyncrasies of working with Enter the world of charismatic sculptor James ROB JACKSON Rob Jackson is an acclaimed jeweler, Recreate authentic marbling patterns of the Explore the creative potential and technical porcelain on and off the wheel, learning Martha’s Kitchen! Learn the basics of welding and then Using antique nails and found steel fragments, one of ten featured in the Penland Book special throwing and altering techniques. Exploit bring your ideas to life in metal. With both 1800s using historic techniques. Make your own process of fusing and kiln-forming glass. Develop explore the process of jewelry fabrication with of Jewelry. He’s had a long career in the sensuous nature of porcelain and investigate indoor and outdoor workspaces, the welding paints from pigments, self-made binders, and a glass cutting skills, learn firing schedules, and steel and iron and the design challenges of teaching at the University of Georgia practice finishing techniques with grinders and the idea of pouring by making pitchers, ewers, barn is a hot spot at Snow Farm. Use found items using rustic materials in a precious-jewelry beeswax glazing paste that allows your marbled in Athens, GA, including as a faculty wet sanders. Learn the “cut and shift” technique teapots, gravy boats, and more. Crack repair such as bicycle parts, old tools, metal scrap, format. Starting with the basic ring format, papers to be burnished to a beautiful, durable member at the study abroad program sheen. Learn to manage paint additives to create using Spectrum® OpalArt™ glass to create a and mending techniques will be addressed. utensils, and more to create wall hangings, develop strategies for soldering steel with silver in Cortana, Italy. Rob is currently and intermingle beautiful Shell, Stormont, platter or bowl. Experiment with tack fusing and, Participants will go home with greenware. Some table sculptures, or garden statues. Students and gold solders. Learn how to use small-scale Glouster, Italian Vein, and Tiger Eye patterns. as time allows, turn experiments into jewelry. clay experience required. are encouraged to bring unusual or found metal blacksmithing, forming, and tube-set faceted a Professor Emeritus and lives in Marvel as 19th-century techniques meet 20th- Perfect as an introduction or a refresher course. WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 objects to supplement the scrap pile. stones to enhance the work. Amherst, MA. Rob’s work investigates century materials for endless possibilities! WORKSHOP: $420 | SUPPLY FEE TO INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP: $405 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 the use of found steel fragments in RANGE: $45 - $110 Optional extra fee for gold solder in class WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 jewelry. Often he combines vintage iron nails forged with precious metals and gemstones. Most recently, Rob Paddle Making: NEW transformed a single shot muzzleloader Graceful Practicality pistol into an implement for making a CRAIG ADDIS single shot of expresso. The piece is part Create a beautiful, strong, lightweight, of a traveling exhibit called IMAGINE single-bladed canoe paddle or a Greenland- Peace Now which is a response to gun style double-bladed paddle specifically violence. Rob’s work has been exhibited tailored to your use. During the process, learn extensively in juried exhibitions and woodworking skills with both power and featured in many publications. hand tools. Explore how to add visual interest to the paddle with woods that have contrast and figure. Previous woodworking experience is helpful but not required. An amazing

opportunity for woodworkers at all levels!

WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $90 Joomchi & Beyond Flameworking: Glassblowing Bootcamp Z JIYOUNG CHUNG Intermediate Skills Lab Z JESSE RASID Register Now Explore the Korean tradition of papermaking. MARTA BERNBAUM Gain mastery of the many techniques that By layering and agitating Korean mulberry Intermediate students will have an opportunity make a glassblower move smoothly and papers and water, students will create strong, to venture into new techniques or refine trouble efficiently through the shop and produce high textural, painterly papers that can be used in spots. Send your questions to Marta in advance quality results. Jesse will break down the basic ONLINE with a credit card at a variety of applications. Joomchi can be used of the class and/or ask for what you want on processes into mini-lessons and guide students www.snowfarm.org. for sculptures, painting, surface design, collage, the fly. Marta is versatile in borosilicate and through drills and repetition to build fluency and drawing, or to create functional objects soft glass, in sculpture, design, and decoration. and muscle memory. On the third day, students such as baskets or lamps. Students will also This is a chance to work hard and play in a will apply their newly honed skills to their own learn about the history, practice, and role of comfortable, supportive setting while getting artistic designs to see improvements. Twenty- joomchi in Korean society. five hours of previous instruction required. BY PHONE with a credit card by calling: to know other experienced flameworkers (or (413) 268-3101 (Mon - Fri, 9a - 5p EST) WORKSHOP: $415 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 just bring your friends!). WORKSHOP: $435 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $405 | Glass rods purchased in class

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INSTRUCTOR PROFILE Nuts & Bolts: An Seamless Sculptural Glassblowing: Bowls Fire & Ice: Silver Metal Clay Marbling: You Can Never Z Gene Flores Exploration of Steel Sculpture Feltmaking Z from Scandinavia with Fused Glass Have Enough! The metal sculptures of Gene Montez GENE FLORES FAFNIR ADAMITES ELIZABETH POTENZA LISEL CROWLEY REGINA & DAN ST JOHN Flores can be seen all over the world. Gene will open up the world of steel sculpture Take your feltmaking to the next level! Learn Learn traditional Scandinavian-style blowing Explore the delightful and varied ways that fused In this step-by-step acrylic paper marbling Gene grew up in San Bernardino, CA, throughout the week while students learn seamless wet felting techniques to produce techniques that are based on economy of form, glass can be combined with fine silver metal workshop, work on full-size professional just twenty minutes over the moun- all the basic cutting and welding techniques pockets, protrusions, and compartments in movement, and heat. Through an in-depth clay. Learn the basics of creating fused glass marbling tanks, learn to use precision marbling and work on individual projects. He will share sculptural forms. Explore hand shaping and exploration of the blown bowl, examine how cabochons, which can be made to mimic opal, tains to the edge of the Mojave Desert, tools, and experiment with a wide range of images of notable works, take the class on a resist methods to create 3D elements for to manipulate glass using heat, gravity, and drusy, fire agate, and other beautiful stones. a powerful landscape that recurs often traditional and contemporary patterns and field trip to purchase supplies and to visit a functional pieces or artistic works. This class centrifugal force (along with newspaper). Build Explore the various techniques for cutting and techniques. Create some simple projects in his work. In college, he became large fabricator, and invite the class to lunch requires hand strength, repetitive physical muscle memory and train the eye through setting the cabs in traditional bezels and other beautified by your papers and depart with a interested in the Japanese influence on and a tour at his personal studio. Enjoy an movement, and basic felting experience. Come repetition, and come to understand the value of innovative designs, taking into account clay leather, edge-marbled journal and many papers architectural design, and was drawn immersion into all sides of the technical and delight in new possibilities under Fafnir’s these forces and how glass responds to them. shrinkage and how it impacts the glass. in a spectacular array of patterns and colors. to work in steel because the cutting artistic aspects of welded metal. creative guidance. WORKSHOP: $675 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 WORKSHOP: $660 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE:$275 WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 of steel with fire evoked the stroke of WORKSHOP: $630 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 Bring own color bars Includes glass, silver metal a sumi-e brush, and enabled ease of clay & gemstones movement between 2D and 3D visuals. Gene’s work includes many public art pieces such as a Memorial for 9/11 in Rockville, MD for the eleven citizens Montgomery County lost; a kinetic sculpture, Bells, for the City of Lodz, Poland; and El Paso de los Suenos, a Snow farm is a gateway in the Silicon Valley that pays tribute to dreamers, from the earli- relaxed, friendly est Spanish ranchers to modern day electronic innovators. Gene has lived in community of artists. western Massachusetts since 1987 and his week at Snow Farm includes a visit to his personal studio. NEW

Proportion & Touch: Introduction to Flamework: Fundamentals of Jewelry Making Lost and Found: The Art The Cohesive Pot Z Inspired Glass Treasures ALAN BURTON THOMPSON of Assemblage LIZ LURIE MADELINE STEWART If you’ve ever wondered how a beautiful ring or ABBIE RIESER Lids, spouts, handles, and feet all work together, Let inspiration flow with the molten glass as necklace was made, this class is for you! Learn Arrange, edit, connect, and fasten in this giving pots personality as well as making them you explore and experiment with the magic the basics of soldering copper, brass, and silver exciting assemblage workshop. Bring your complete as functional serving pieces. Improve of flameworking. Work in borosilicate or soft and also how to cut, shape, texture, and finish own stash of curious and interesting objects in throwing technique, and develop confidence glass and learn to make marbles, pendants, your own jewelry creations. Gain understanding wood, metal, organic matter, or other material. in form as you build with functional touch in beads, sculpture, and more. Bring your ideas, of what makes well-constructed and lasting Learn about safety, use of tools, and various mind. Simple and elegant surface treatments pictures, and an open mind. Go home with pieces. Build skills in all the necessary processes fastening techniques. Discuss process and the will be demonstrated. Students will bring handmade glass treasures that will delight that will open a world of possibilities, including work of other assemblage artists to help guide home bisque-fired stoneware and leather-hard and amaze. All levels. any Snow Farm jewelry making classes with your own composition while creating unique, pieces. Throwing basics required. WORKSHOP: $640 | Glass rods purchased in class “experience required.” found-object works of art. WORKSHOP: $650 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 WORKSHOP: $620 | SUPPLY FEE: $35 WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $35

NEW NEW NEW Birch Bark Basketry Narrative Mending Introduction to Welding VLADIMIR YARISH KAREN STEVENS MARY KATE CLEARY Working with hand-harvested birch bark, Become a fearless mender! Learn several stitch In a fast-paced and exciting weekend, explore learn traditional double-woven, straight, and techniques that not only structurally repair a the basics of welding and create metal plaited basketry construction. Vladimir will woven garment but make the repair into an sculpture using both both found objects and lecture on root harvesting and traditional expressive feature of the fabric. Explore ways to cut steel. Learn to work safely with an oxy- weaving methods and guide students as they add pattern or figurative elements to mended acetylene torch, plasma cutter, MIG welder, create two or three pieces from both traditional work. Experience slow stitching as a meditative stick welder, and more. Never used a power tool and contemporary designs with a variety of form of self care. Learn to see holes not just as before? Now is the time! Discussion will include rims, lids, and embellishments. Handmade problems to be fixed, but as opportunities to design, fabrication, and creative problem specialized tools will be brought for all to share. highlight and tell a personal story. solving. The Snow Farm welding barn will Materials fee based on projects completed. WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $20 become your new favorite place! WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE TO INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP: $315 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 RANGE, $150-$210 FOR TEENS JULY 5 - AUG 1, 2020 Vitality & Meaning: Clay Figures 2 & 4-WEEK SESSIONS ART VALERIE GILMAN Scholarships Available CLASS Discover new realms of expression using the human figure in clay. Val will guide the class to ALL DAY a deeper understanding of the human figure Glassblowing using basic anatomy, live models, and creative exploration. Play with gesture and intentional Painting & Drawing distortion to discover narrative dimension. Metalsmithing & Jewelry Whether you are experienced with clay or not, Metal Sculpture & Fabrication you will be inspired by learning new ways to see and build. No firing included. Flameworking WORKSHOP: $355 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 Ceramics NEW NEW NEW Introduction to Handling a Knife Stitched Bindings & Glassblowing: The Bowl with Style the Journal is the Goal ROBERT DANCIK LISA HERSEY WILLIAM D’ERRICO Choose a knife blade−chef’s, paring, or hunting− If you can thread a needle, you can sew a Learn the fundamentals of glassblowing with a and create a customized handle using Faux BoneTM, book! Learn a variety of non-adhesive stitched I came for a focus on gathering glass, blowing even-walled an innovative material that is easy to form, nearly binding techniques for creating sturdy, bubbles, and mastering centrifugal force with unbreakable, and completely non-toxic. Faux sewn sketchbooks and journals. Master the TM solo creative retreat, the eventual goal of designing, setting up, and Bone can mimic the look and feel of bone, ivory, basics and then advance to explore a variety WILLIAMSBURG, MA AGES 14-18 forming basic bowls of all shapes and styles. Fruit ceramic, wood, or antler, and it can be decorated of decorative and more complex bindings. and it was perfect. bowls, cereal bowls, pet-food bowls, and free- using inlay, metal applique, dyeing, painting, Each student will come away with several form bowl shapes are all possible. Repetition, carving, or scrimshaw. The tools are easy to use new handmade blank journals and the skills, Thank You Scholarship Sponsors practice, and teamwork will bring creativity and and the techniques have many applications. techniques, and tools to continue at home. fun to the challenge of bowl making! WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 WORKSHOP: $305 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE:$40 Blade fee to instructor $18 -$42 WORKSHOP: $345 | SUPPLY FEE: $45

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JUNE 26 - 30 3-DAY 2020 Art Retreat for Educators

When the last bell rings, head to Snow Farm for art camp! Educators have the hardest (and most important) job, so after months of tending to the creative growth of others, turn the tables and tend to yourself. Choose one workshop and sink into the process of learning. Let us take care of all the planning and meals! Set an intention for your summer and make it creative. NEW Snow Farm is an approved Massachusetts Department of Education White Line Woodcut Frame Loom Weaving Adventures in Glassblowing G2: Glass & Graphics Professional Development Provider. LISA HOUCK FAFNIR ADAMITES SANDY DUKESHIRE DORIE GUTHRIE White line woodcut is a technique developed in Learn to use simple frame looms that are Discover the excitement of glassblowing! Come for a taste of the varied ways to fabricate Provincetown in the 1920s. Inspired by European portable and easy to use in various settings. Regardless of what material you work in most graphics onto flat glass and 3D forms, with modernism and American crafts techniques, Create unique art weavings using a variety often, trying something new will bring fresh an emphasis on sandblasting and enamel Blanche Lazzell and others developed a simple of materials including yarn, fabric, and ideas to your work. Enjoy the freedom of painting. Experiment with decals, photo resist, Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday process that combines printmaking and paper. Explore design techniques for image learning for the sake of learning! Explore all reverse painting, underpainting, and layering 8a 8a 8a 8a watercolor painting. Students start by carving making as well as methods of “free-form” the basics of glassblowing and create simple imagery. Learn how to cut and grind sheet glass, Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast linear drawings into a woodblock and then learn or improvisational weaving. Learn the blown vessels, paperweights, and solid sculpted write kiln schedules, and execute multiple to print multiple colors from the block. With a fundamentals of tapestry weaving and consider flowers. Teamwork, proper tool usage, and fusing styles. Explore making plates, coasters, 9a - 12p 9a - 12p 9a - 12p 9a 2 - 6p few simple tools, this process is easy to continue the history of weaving around the world and in studio etiquette will be stressed in a fun and trivets, jewelry, hanging vases, and more! Workshop Workshop Workshop Departure Arrival & beyond the class. contemporary society. supportive environment. WORKSHOP: $540 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 Check-in 12:15p 12:15p 12:15p WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $25 WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 WORKSHOP: $555 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 3 - 5p Lunch Lunch Lunch Hands-on mini- 2 - 5p 2 - 5p 2 - 4:30p workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop/ 5:15p 5p - onward 5p - onward Cleanup Opening Open Studio Open Studio 5 - 6p Schedule highlights: Reception 6:15p 6:15p Closing 6:15p Dinner Dinner Reception • Arrival on Friday afternoon, Dinner 7:30 - 9p 7:30p 6:15p evening, or Saturday morning to 7 - 9p Guest Artist Studio Tour Dinner accommodate varying last days Orientation Presentation 9p of school. and Instructor Campfire Slides • Three days of instruction with open studios in the evening. *Friday arrival is optional. If you are out of school and ready to dive in, please join us for this fun • Special programming to include afternoon. If you need more time at home/school, please arrive by Saturday, 9a. artist talks, mini-workshops, and NEW NEW opportunities to connect with Diving Deep: Clay Studio Fabricating a Narrative: Metal Animal Sculpture other educators. FUN-damentals From Lockets to Reliquaries with Cold Connections • Request for Proposals is open for DONNA MCGEE ROB JACKSON LEONARD STRECKFUS presentations. Get a discounted Learn healthy studio practices both inside Bring together image fragments, forms, and Get on your Rosie the Riveter vibe! Explore workshop if your proposal is accepted. and out. Starting with the pottery wheel and found objects into a piece of jewelry that found objects to find suggestive shapes See snowfarm.org for details. slab roller, explore the essential tools of the expresses a visual or symbolic narrative. Start that can be woven together into picture-like Deadline March 1, 2020. clay studio. Emphasis will be on discovery by learning to use the jeweler’s torch and silver sculptures. Learn the cold joinery techniques with a variety of FUN low-fire projects. Play is soldering to make a simple ring. Then explore that Leonard developed - and which make his Housing for this 4-night program the primary goal, while learning the tricks of design layout and metalsmithing techniques processes low tech and portable. Explore color, the trade. Firing and material safety will be such as piercing, rivets, roller printing, and texture, and surface treatments that bring a  Double: $325 covered, as well as equipment uses and tips. more. Using inspiration from historical and painterly perspective to metal work. Create  Single: $485 Students will bring home finished glazed contemporary examples, design and fabricate a animal sculptures that are realistic with a dash  Single Plus $565 ware. Open to all levels. meaningful locket or pendant of whimsy!  Deluxe Single: $645 WORKSHOP: $535 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $65  Cottage: $805

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AUGUST 6 - 9 4-DAY 2020 NEW Z NEW NEW Explorations in Beyond the Bezel Textile Vessels: Think Big 9-DAY WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR PROFILE AUGUST 6-15 Summertime Stained Glass ELIZABETH TOKOLY by Working Small Melissa Weiss DONNA SOLOMON Stones are a great way to add color and LISSA HUNTER Melissa Weiss is the author of dimension to jewelry. Explore a variety of Reduction Cooled Learn the basics of creating a stained glass Learning “small” is a great way to gain skills and Handbuilt: A Potter’s Guide, Snow Farm is like a blend settings, including the X setting for a ring or panel through step-by-step instruction spur ideas. Using the simple textile techniques Hand-Built Pots published in 2018. She is a full-time earrings, easy basket for straight and fancy of art school and summer in cutting and grinding glass, copper foil of weaving, coiling, twining, looping, and MELISSA WEISS studio potter in Asheville, NC who application, soldering, and finishing. Beginners pendants, V-shaped for a pendant or rings, and knotting, and a limited array of materials, Bring your hands to this special teaches extensively. Melissa says camp. In addition will build skills on simple, elegant patterns, the tube setting for stacked rings. Each setting students will experiment with small textile extended-length workshop and enjoy and intermediate students can develop their will be made into a finished piece of your own vessels that can grow into larger structures and that memories of summers spent in to workshops with all the best of a Snow Farm experience: own designs or bring more complex patterns to design. Build your skills and jewelry collection other creations. Along the way, instruction will Queens, NY with her mother’s Sicilan time to learn, explore, and connect while extraordinary instructors work from. Students can develop a larger piece at the same time! consider form, color, texture, scale, and other family who all lived in one house are being inspired and supported by your or create several smaller panels. WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 design elements. Some textile skills helpful but what inspire her to make beautiful, and hours of open studio surroundings. Learn new approaches not necessary. useful objects for everyday life. “Dishes WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 to traditional methods of coils and slab time, at Snow Farm you WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $12 building, plus discover the little known to celebrate family and tradition,” she enter an idyllic space charm of kurinuki - carving form from says. All Melissa’s pots are made from solid clay. Surface treatment will be clay she digs from land in Arkansas and leave behind the rustic yet refined, using wax resist and Ozarks. Minimally processed, the iron responsibilities of daily oxide washes in combination with bold rich stoneware is fired to cone 10 in glaze decoration. Stoneware pieces will a gas reduction kiln and reduction life. There is time to relax be high-fired and reduction-cooled for cooled using wood as fuel. truly unique, stunning surfaces, and and meet new people, one-of-a-kind pots. notice the fireflies at dusk, WORKSHOP: $1,410 | SUPPLY FEE: $100 and see the stars come out at night. There are meals on the patio with

fresh summer corn and NEW watermelon. Join us for a Woodworking: A Small No Sheets Required: Beginning Flamework: Welded Wall Art: Explore Side Table Sculptural Paper Summertime Florals the Possibilities 3, 4, or 5-day summer stay ELLEN KASPERN FAFNIR ADAMITES HOLLY KENNY BOB TURAN at Snow Farm and you Working on a simple but elegant side table Explore the sculptural possibilities of paper You don’t need a green thumb to have a Build confidence and hand-eye coordination is the perfect project for using a number of pulp. Learn to build an armature from wire, beautiful garden! Beginner and intermediate as you learn to cut and weld steel. Learn basic will experience a vacation woodworking skills. In the base, learn (or reed, string, or mesh to support paper pulp students will use heat, gravity, and molten safety and the hands-on operation of oxy- retreat like no other. practice) mortise and tenon construction, lap such as abaca and cotton. A number of glass to grow daisies, poppies, sunflowers, acetylene, arc, and MIG welders, as well as joints, and dyeing wood. For the top, learn how casting methods will be introduced, including and roses. Techniques will include sunken and plasma cutting equipment. Come with your to glue up and match two boards and cut a dipping and casting. Emphasis will be on raised petals, using complex twisted stringer ideas and steel found objects (or take some circle using the bandsaw and router. Lastly, the experimentation as students explore the and cane, layering, silver and copper foil, frit from our stockpile) and turn them into creative top will be chamfered to give the table a lighter sculptural impact of repetition, texture, and and more! Students will leave with new skills, decor for your home or garden. Bring new life to look and feel. You will be delighted by this piece surface design. All levels welcome. inspiration, and a summer bouquet! old stuff. All levels welcome. of new handmade furniture for your home! WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 WORKSHOP: $525 | Glass rods & silver wire purchased in class WORKSHOP: $525 | SUPPLY FEE: $85 WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $55

Knifemaking 101 Encaustic Next Level: Traditional Yoruba Batik, INSTRUCTOR PROFILE RICK ANGUS & NORMAN ED Working Large Adire & Tie-dye Gasali Adeyemo PHOTOS BY ISABELLA DELL’OLIO Two studios and three materials. Rick and DIETLIND VANDER SCHAAF GASALI ADEYEMO Gasali Adeyemo was born in in the Norman will guide students through a creative Deepen your encaustic practice by building Explore traditional Nigerian dyeing and small rural village of Ofatedo, located and technical process with excellent results. skills, expanding visual vocabulary, and printing techniques while learning about the in Osun State, Nigeria. He describes Start by making a letter opener with a steel navigating the technical and compositional arts and culture of the Yoruba people from a his family as “rich in spirit and culture, blade and wood handle. Then, bring your ideas challenges of larger work. Following a quick master craftsman. Students will learn about but poor in capital.” Gasali sponsored Find Your Tribe for a knife shape and cut it from a sheet of steel; review of the basics, move at your own pace the unique symbolism and imagery in Nigerian shape, harden, and temper its cutting edge; and to push and hone skills. Explore how to textiles and experiment with intricate hand his own education through high Snow Farm is a great place mount it into a figured wood handle pinned manipulate encaustic to create texture and drawn patterns and deep indigo colors. Using school, earning money by working for multi-generational I love the sense with brass rivets. Polish the knife to a high shine develop translucency and depth between wax, yucca paste resist, and fiber dyes, students on village farms, and at times, by and sharpen to a surgical cutting edge. Make a layers. Creative exercises, including free writing will dye and print shirts, fabric, and scarves. sketching portraits at social gatherings leather sheath to hold your knife snugly. families and solo travelers, of community, and verbal prompts, will further your work. WORKSHOP: 615 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 for a donation. After completing high for couples or a crew of WORKSHOP: 630 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $185 school, Gasali turned his attention to openness, and art. In 1990, he discovered the Nike friends. Connect with people Center for Art and Culture in Osogbo, common sharing. Nigeria, where he mastered the arts who all have one thing of batik painting on fabric and rice in common: a passion for paper, indigo dyeing, quilt making, embroidery, and applique. In 1995, he learning and creating. was one of six Nigerian artists included in an exhibit in Germany. Soon after, he began receiving commissions and invitations to travel abroad. Today, Gasali lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and travels the country teaching the traditional art of indigo dyeing.

NEW Line, Color & Shape in the Kiln Alternative Surfaces, Register Now JESSI MOORE Connections & Personal Explore color and line as a starting point for Expressions in Jewelry sculptural or functional work in fused glass! MARY HETTMANSPERGER Find your voice with creative exercises, and Learn diverse approaches to jewelry construction achieve your vision with in-depth technical ONLINE with a credit card at including cold connections and weaving. Explore instruction. Learn glass cutting, layout, layering, surface design with torch-fired enamels, patinas, www.snowfarm.org. and firings; make playful lines in the vitrigraph embossing, and colored pencils for adding kiln; and experiment with powder manipulation textural details and color. Use copper sheet, wire, for expressive coloring. Take away new ideas, and embellishments as well as small, personal finished projects, and the ability to write kiln objects to explore endless options for assembling, BY PHONE with a credit card by calling: schedules and work independently. connecting, and bringing your ideas to life! (413) 268-3101 (Mon - Fri, 9a - 5p EST) WORKSHOP: $660 | SUPPLY FEE: $115 WORKSHOP: $620 | SUPPLY FEE TO INSTRUCTOR RANGE: $35 - $85

32 SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   33 AUGUST 16 - 22 5-DAY 2020 Wednesday Afternoons During 5-day classes, there is no instruction on Wednesday afternoon, so many students hunker down in their studios. Others use the time to explore the Pioneer Valley with its museums, shopping, and places to hike and swim.

Friday Nights NEW NEW Students celebrate each Colorful Dishes: Multiblock Color Woodcut INSTRUCTOR PROFILE other in an exhibit of the Decorative Design Inviting Use VALERIE LUETH Valerie Leuth week's best work. Wine, LIZ QUACKENBUSH Learn Valerie’s unique approach to woodcut Valerie Lueth operates the internation- Make dishes that suit your personal aesthetic, printmaking. She will offer insight into ally recognized artist press Tugboat drawing and carving techniques, transferring, appetizers, a festive lifestyle, AND culinary tastes. Consider Printshop in Pittsburgh, PA. The press “thoughtful pottery” along with your own registering and printing multiblock color, tool dinner, and an auction maintenance, and more. Students will work produces exclusive limited-edition table space and ideal tableware. Create bisque prints made traditionally, start-to- molds that encourage working in multiples and to complete and edition a multiblock color finish by hand with exacting care, and to benefit Snow Farm explore decoration techniques including wax woodcut print during the workshop. Expand scholarships end the relief on raw porcelain, carving, inlay, sgraffito, your application of traditional woodcut craft using top shelf papers & inks. Valerie underglaze applications, and more. If time while experiencing Valerie’s intricate and earned a BFA in printmaking from week with flair. allows, pieces will be bisque fired. spirited methods of block printing! the University of South Dakoka in WORKSHOP: $760 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $725 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 2004, and has steadily produced her own handcrafted woodblock prints at Tugboat since co-founding the press in 2006. She was “raised rural” on the South Dakota prairie and was self-mo- tivated to draw, build, tinker, and grow from a young age. Valeries says her “love of art, craftsmanship, print history and technique, photography, writing, design, nature, bootstrapping, and sharing with others” is what has propelled her path in the arts. Her work is widely published.

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Experimental Weaving Glass Beads to Fine Jewelry Put the Pebble to the Metal Woodturning: Whimsical Welding JEN SIMMS LILIANA GLENN in Mosaics Z Bowls & Beyond BILL RHODES Start by building your own simple frame loom. Glass beads tell a story of color, light, and DEBORA ALDO KEN LINDGREN Bring your imagination and sense of humor, Unlike a traditional weaving class, this will feel beauty. Make them yourself in a torch flame Working with traditional and contemporary Learn to use the lathe to turn pieces of tree and join Bill to learn the basics of welding more like painting, drawing, or collage within with a glass rod in hand. Embellish each bead techniques, create a wall hanging mosaic out of limbs and trunks into wooden bowls, platters, and metal sculpture. Using found objects, cut the structure of the loom. Focus on intuitive with dots, stripes, bubbles, flowers, and much pebbles, stone, shell, metal cast-offs, and dalle artistic sculptures, and more. Each day, try steel, and basic welding tools, create whimsical processes, material as metaphor, the poetics of more. Next, with handfuls of fresh beads, move de verre (French for slab glass). Techniques a new way to decorate your turned pieces: artwork from metal that will surprise and design, and weaving as meditation. Collect and to the metals studio and explore the design and and demos include material combinations, coloring, carving, texturing, and/or burning. delight both the maker and viewer. Learn bring materials from home: yarn, fabric scraps, fabrication of unique wearable art. You will not composition and design, cutting methods Beginners will learn basic lathe safety, technical welding and artistic design; you will paper, or found objects—almost anything goes! believe what your mind and hands will create for the dalle, and setting materials directly in operation, and turning techniques. Experienced not believe the quality and quantity of what WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $20 with metal and your own glass beads! thinset. Historic and contemporary examples students will enhance their skill level. No you can achieve in this week. WORKSHOP: $640 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 will be discussed. Great for artists with some physical strength or previous woodworking WORKSHOP: $640 | SUPPLY FEE: $110 Glass rods purchased in class mosaic experience. experience is required! WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 WORKSHOP: $620 | SUPPLY FEE: $80

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The Monotypewriter: Let’s Talk: Image & Text on Clay Tell a Story with The Sacred Art of Painting & One-Off Prints with Text KATHY KING Traditional Glass Murrine Z Writing on Glass LESLIE A. GROSSMAN Using humor as a tool, and other non- LUCIE KOVAROVA-WEIR SAM MYERS Create one-of-a-kind prints with words, traditional ideas about function and In this technique-oriented class, intermediate Learn the medieval art of mixing and applying symbols, letters, scribbles, cryptographs, storytelling, create a personal vocabulary of flameworkers will explore the processes of kiln-fired, lead-free glass paint to a stained Writing, Craft & Creative Connections and everything textual. Techniques include image and text on wheel thrown and hand built making murrine glass cane featuring letters, glass panel. Design a 12” x 12” panel; cut and fit additive and subtractive drawing with ink on ceramic forms. Incorporate layers of narrative glass pieces; practice drawing and writing on The last week of summer is devoted to a group of workshops words, and simple images. Learn to construct the plexi, brayer play, stencils, ghost prints, stamps, using carving techniques such as sgraffito, in cane in hot glass, pull a bar, chip the slices, and glass, and then apply your painted words and connected by a theme. This year, we look to the pen and paintbrush and more. Explore the art of mark making combination with resist printing, Photo-EZ silk- apply the murrine. At the end of class, use your imagery to your projects. Learn to kiln fire the and explore the intersection of writing and art. The collaborative with layers, textures, and color on multiplate screening, and decals. Glaze techniques that own handmade murrine to create an expressive painted pieces, and then assemble your panel enhance surfaces will be demonstrated. impulse is always strong and the energy high during the theme week; monotypes. For the printmaker, painter, writer, story bead. Detail-oriented design will be for a beautiful finished product. and anyone interested in experimental and WORKSHOP: $650 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 analyzed, executed, and applied in hot glass. WORKSHOP: $660 | SUPPLY FEE: $90 inspiration abounds! Writers, visual artists, makers of craft, and uninhibited printmaking! WORKSHOP: $682 | Glass rods purchased in class anyone who is curious, join us to discover how storytelling, words, WORKSHOP: $665 | SUPPLY FEE: $125 imagery, and form speak to you. In addition to workshops, the week will be peppered with special opportunities and artist talks. Friday night dinner under the stars has become a well-loved tradition catered by a guest chef. Don’t miss this end-of-summer week at Snow Farm!

NEW NEW NEW A Book of One’s Own: Cloisonné Enameling & Traditional Timber Coptic Stitch Journals for Haiku Writing Framing: A Contemplative Space Daily Writing HARLAN BUTT NEIL GODDEN SUZI BANKS BAUM Writing haiku poems can be fun and easy; it Learn the time-honored craft of timber framing Participants will paint paste papers and build can also be surprisingly relaxing and startlingly while constructing a contemplative space for art two Coptic stitch journals. The pages will fill profound. In this innovative class, combine and writing. Lay out joinery using the square- with a daily practice based on writing or visual haiku−written in class using prompts and rule method, then cut and raise a small timber prompts that is integral to deepening intuition exercises−with cloisonné enameling, a process of frame building using hand tools. Care and for any artist. Dwelling at the crossroads of the drawing with wire and filling in the spaces with sharpening of chisels and hand planes will be book and literary arts, these sumptuous journals glass. Focusing on small objects, everyone will discussed. From design to assembly, students become nests for expressive and responsive learn how to use Harlan’s special jig for forming will be outdoors and construct a timber-framed resilience. For creative souls and big thinkers who repetitive shapes in cloisonné. structure hands-on and go home with knowledge want to gather impressions and experiment. WORKSHOP: $730 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 and resources to replicate on their own. WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 WORKSHOP: $700 | Students bring tools

36 PHOTOS BY ISABELLA DELL’OLIO SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   37 AUGUST 29 - 31 3-DAY SEPTEMBER 5 - 7 3-DAY 2020 Weekends Squeeze out every last bit of summer with these two weekend workshops.

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Thrown & Altered Shibori Rainbow: A Full Collage Explorations Center of the Table: Hand Lines as a Design Focus in Z Porcelain Z Spectrum of Natural Dyed Color DONALD CLARK Built Pottery a Sewn Composition JENNIFER ALLEN GRAHAM KEEGAN Explore collage possibilities with an emphasis JEREMY RANDALL VALERIE MASER FLANAGAN Using play and experimentation, discover Shibori has become strongly associated with on design concepts. Students will create a series Learn to make and use flat pattern templates Explore the importance of line as a visual element creative ways to approach the form and surface indigo dyeing; however, this traditional pattern- of collages using papers, pressed leaves and that will add a new set of tools to your slab in artistic compositions. Learn the basics of of porcelain utilitarian pottery. Slice, dice, making method can be used with every natural flowers, postage stamps, paint color chips (the building bag of tricks. Explore the forms that improvisational piecing by freely cutting lines bend, fold, stamp, and decorate your way dye color. In this workshop, explore itajime, a bigger the better), and more. Bring materials enliven a well set table including vases, serving and curves to create several small compositions in towards a new vocabulary of useful forms. pattern-making style that relies on folds and that have personal or cultural significance or plates, trays, candelabras, and containers. black and white. Through these studies, explore Demonstrations will include throwing, darting, binding. Various natural dyes will be layered on top that can be used to tell a story. Reference to Discussion of form, color, food, and drink how various angles and curves can change and template making. Discussions will center of each other to create a beautiful array of pattern collage artists will be ongoing, and historical will expand the definition of function; new the expression and mood of a composition. around ergonomics, 3D sketching as a method and color. Learn how to prepare fabric, extract dyes pieces will be offered as inspiration for projects. visual vocabulary and techniques will be a Then, using the ideas generated, create a larger of design, and creative problem solving. from plants, create patterns, and finish fabric. WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 springboard for multiple new explorations. composition in color. Basic sewing skills required. WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $25 WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 Students to bring their own machines. Can bring or buy fabric in class WORKSHOP: $390 | Students bring supplies

A Bead Like No Other NEW ROBERT DANCIK Learn to make one-of-a-kind hollow form beads that are extremely durable, easy to make, and utterly unique. Using materials as common as plexiglass and as unexpected as bicycle reflectors, learn how to form beads of varying sizes and shapes. Then incorporate other materials such as metal, polymer clay, or epoxy resin; add surface finishing and textures; and create “windows” to reveal interior details. WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 NEW NEW

Eggshell as Mosaic Tessera The Painterly Landscape Rings on Rings Marbles Inside & Out Mold-Making Madness Welded Sculpture from LINDA BIGGERS in Pastel Z MARY RISLEY ALEX CINCOTTA JESSI MOORE Found Objects Eggshell is a versatile mosaic tesserae, both as DIANE SAWYER Adorn your hands in silver rings! Ring For both the beginner and experienced Learn all about small, open-faced plaster JAMES KITCHEN a primary element and within a mixed media Explore the landscape with the versatile making is a great way to begin a journey in flameworker, explore the depth and beauty of molds designed for casting glass. Explore Explore both the technical and artistic sides of piece. Learn the techniques to prepare, break, medium of pastel. Working both inside and metalsmithing. This 3-day workshop is geared borosilicate marbles. Learn to form a sphere different ways to create patterns in clay and welding. Learn to use a MIG welder, arc welder, cut, and shape eggshells while creating your outside, experiment with mark making and towards beginners but will be a great refresher from both tubing and rod, and then discover other materials and how to change these oxy-acetylene torch, plasma cutter, and more. own small mosaic. Designs will be provided learn the secrets to creating richly layered for those with past experience. We will cover many ways to fill your marbles with sparkle, low-relief “positives” into solid glass. Learn Scour antique shops, your basement, or the that incorporate key skills: breaking fill pieces, color and powerful compositions. Quick plein the basics of metal fabrication, sawing, filing, including implosions, dichroic glass, and the techniques for filling the molds, including scrap pile at Snow Farm to find interesting metal cutting shapes, and layering, amongst others; air studies and color notes will inform larger and soldering. Experiment over the weekend use of opals as a centerpiece. Add even more selective color application and upcycling of objects, and then turn them into handmade however, students may use their own designs if works developed in the studio. Demos each with stamping, hammering, roller printing, dimension to your marbles by decorating the flat glass scrap. Leave with technical skills, art. Let James inspire you to see wacky and they prefer. Explore color value and andamento day and individual attention at the easel will finishing, and more! outside with dots and raking techniques. You small projects, and the ability to write kiln wonderful possibilities in everyday castoffs. Get to help create an exciting visual piece. clarify process and techniques. Some drawing WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 won’t want to lose your marbles after this class! schedules and work independently. ready for a fast-paced, fun weekend WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $20 experience required. WORKSHOP: $405 | Glass rods purchased in class WORKSHOP: $420 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: 405 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 Bring pastels

38 SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   SNOWFARM.ORG | (413) 268-3101 | [email protected] |   39 SEPTEMBER 8 - 12 SEPTEMBER 19 - 20 2-DAY 2020 NEW Independent Residency Week Bring your ideas and project materials to our studios, enjoy dorm housing and meals in the dining hall, and experience a week of dedicated, independent creative work in the company of other artists.

NOTE: No instruction is available during this week. Studio monitors will assure the safe and proper use of equipment, but they are not instructors, and they will be working on personal projects. In kiln/stained glass and ceramics, studio monitors will schedule firings. In flamework, they will manage annealing schedules.

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Altering the Surface: Collage Roots, Shoots, Leaves & Borosilicate Glass from your Collections Flowers: Local Plants to Dye For Ornaments Z STUDIOS APPLY LISA GREY MICHELLE PARRISH LISA DIAGLE Each resident artist will receive a spacious personal workspace in a shared Submit a project plan and non- Collage assorted papers and/or textiles from Create immersion dye baths using fresh, frozen, For experienced flameworkers who want to studio, and access to shared tools and equipment. Most studios will be refundable $25 application fee your stash. Demos will include printing, cutting, and dried plant material from plants that explore using borosilicate glass, learn Lisa’s available for unrestricted 24- hour access; for safety reasons, some studios will through snowfarm.org. The tearing, distressing, and layering various grow in New England. Students will mordant signature technique for combining leftover materials. Guided exercises will inspire creativity and dye skeins of protein and cellulose yarns, pieces of glass with fresh rods to create sparkling require working in pairs after 9pm. priority deadline is March 1, as you experiment, work through ideas, and learning to create a beautiful and color-fast solid glass ornaments. Explore designs as varied 2020. If space remains after generate plans for further exploration. Complete range of colors, including shades of yellow and as real snowflakes and build your hand-eye March 1, other applications will small finished pieces or make a series of samples gold, brick red, terra cotta, dark coral, blue, and coordination in sculptural forms. Make holiday be considered. When accepted, for future work. Students will be provided with 5” green. Participants will also receive information accents for your home, gifts, or jewelry. Monday Tuesday Wed-Sat Sunday participants will receive directions x 7” flat cards and envelopes for making mail art about growing and harvesting dye plants. WORKSHOP: $315 | Glass rods purchased in class suitable for framing WORKSHOP: $305 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $35 4 - 9p 8m 8a 8a about how to register and pay. WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 Early arrival Breakfast for Breakfast Breakfast available, Early Arrivals 12:15p 9am no meal 8:45 - 10a Lunch Dorm check-out Check-in 6:15p 11a PRICE 10a Dinner Studio Check-out The price depends on the choice Studio Orientation of studio and housing. To get 12:15p the most out of the residency Lunch experience, all participants are 6:15 p expected to stay on campus. Dinner

Studios  2D/Mixed Media: $250  Ceramics: $300 + firings  Fiber/Textiles: $250 Introduction to Stained Glass Basic Bling Welded Sculpture: From  Flameworking: $320 SAM MYERS ELIZABETH TOKOLY Conception to Completion  Metalsmithing: $300 Learn the basic process of stained glass Develop a foundation of skills and techniques CHARLES WIEMEYER  Stained/Kiln Glass: $320 + firings with copper foil technique to create a 8” x 8” for making jewelry and metalsmithing, Often starting with a sketch or a concept,  Woodworking: $320 stained glass artwork. Through step-by-step including piercing and sawing, soldering, Charles has helped numerous artists transform  Welding: $320 instruction, learn about patterns and design, surface embellishment with hammers, chasing, their ideas into full-scale public art projects. safety and proper tool use, cutting glass, and forging, making findings, and finishing. Bring sketches, photographs, found objects, using copper foil and soldering. Choose from Explore design ideas and how to execute them personal treasures, and your creative mind. Housing and Meals patterns provided to create a beautiful piece in pendants, earrings, rings, and bracelets. In Learn the metal fabrication techniques using  Double: $325 in class, and depart with the skills to continue just two days, you will go home with a small MIG and arc welders, a plasma cutter, and more.  Single: $485 working at home. collection of new bling! Transform your vision into something you can  Single Plus $565 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $70 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 proudly display in your home or garden. Artistic  Deluxe Single: $645 or functional pieces are possible.  Cottage: $805 WORKSHOP: $315 | SUPPLY FEE: $55

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SEPTEMBER 24 - 27 4-DAY 2020 The Hand Built Teapot Z Explorative & Painterly Collage Contemporary Penny Rugs Turn, Burn, Carve & Color Abstract Landscapes in Mosaics INSTRUCTOR PROFILE HAYNE BAYLESS ALEXANDRA SHELDON LIZ ALPERT FAY RICK ANGUS CASEY VAN LOON CASEY VAN LOON Leave behind the tempest and concentrate Explore color, texture, composition, light, Explore the endless possibilities of playing Using oak as a substrate and employing Taking inspiration from a favorite landscape, Casey Van Loon is a member of the on the teapot, the showstopper of a potter’s movement, space, and narrative while making with color and design while creating a traditional woodturning techniques, make create an abstract mosaic that expresses faculty at The Chicago Mosaic School, the repertoire. The hand built teapot lets us play with collages from scratch. Materials for the collages one-of-a-kind penny rug. The technique bowls, boxes, bud vases, and more. Exploit the essence of place. Using various textures, first and most predominant school of its various elements: handle, spout, body, and lid. will include your own painted and printed involves cutting simple shapes from felted the soft summer wood in the growth ring rhythms, colors, and light, work in the direct Combine slabs with extrusions and investigate papers, magazine transfers, and other original wool and sewing them by hand to a dark and gently burn with a torch to enhance the method to set materials such as natural kind outside of Europe. As a mosaic and decoration techniques including stencils, textural elements. Emphasis will be on making background with a decorative blanket stitch. grain pattern. After scuffing off the char, find stone, smalti, and lustre glass into thinset glass artist, her work ranges from large stretched slabs, colored slip inlay, and latex and learning in a joyous and supportive space. Other stitches will be demonstrated, as will smooth-to-the-hand ridges that are enhanced mortar. Composition, andamento, and cutting windows and wall hangings to intricate resist. For hand buiders and throwers wishing to WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 the addition of beads, buttons, sequins, and by color. Experiment with color by using paints tesserae with hammer and hardie will be mosaic jewelry. Casey studied dance at expand their horizons beyond the wheel. other embellishments. to create a metallic surface or allow the grain covered. Practice on a smaller study before the University of Iowa and Columbia WORKSHOP: $515 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 WORKSHOP: $505 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $50 to show. Patina wax in a variety of colors allows creating an 8” x 10” mosaic. College which she credits as inspiration another layer of color to emerge. WORKSHOP: $600 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 for the willful, playful movement that WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 she brings to the rigid natural materials of slate, rock, and glass. Before ultimately turning to mosaics, Casey honed her technical skills and appreciation for glass for 25 years as professional stained glass artist and restorer with the renowned Snow Farm Gift Certificates Botti Studio of Architectural Arts in Chicago. In creating mosaics, Casey is ++++ drawn to the discovery of stories in the process. She enjoys being open to the ways that tesserae interact with each other, revealing secrets. She enjoys the improvisational nature of mosaics and the unplanned spontaneous pieces that develop from scraps on the work ++++ bench. Casey is a passionate teacher and Colorful, Original, Strong Create a Glass Cactus Garden welcomes students of all levels. & Light: Wire Armatures TESSA HILL for Polymer Jewelry Using borosilicate rods and tubes, explore BONNIE BISHOFF sculptural techniques and grow a cactus Take the colorful medium of polymer clay garden! Through demonstration, detailed to new structural heights. Explore making visual aids, and one-on-one instruction, ++++ wire armatures to create strong and flexible students will learn how to safely use an oxy- structures for bracelets, pins, and pendants. propane torch, how to heat and manipulate Learn techniques for forming and hardening molten glass, and how to use shape and color wire, veneering wire with polymer clay, and to create life-like plant forms. Cactus sculptures Creativity always fits! creating sculptural forms. Making original can be made into jewelry, table-top displays, or Purchase online or by phone. closures and pin backs will also be discussed. terrarium accents. All levels welcome! ++++ WORKSHOP: $510 | SUPPLY FEE: $90 WORKSHOP: $525 | Glass rods purchased in class

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INSTRUCTOR PROFILE The Ins and Outs of Used Clothing Wardrobe Alchemy Flameworking: Hollow LOIS RUSSELL Random Weaving CRISPINA FFRENCH Beads on Puffy Mandrels Z Register Now Lois Russell has traveled throughout LOIS RUSSELL Turn a collection of beloved but no longer MARY ILA DUNTEMANN North America studying with Random weave is a technique that can go wearable clothing into new wardrobe items Hollow beads are the secret to statement that express your creativity with affordability, traditional and contemporary basket natural with wisteria, bark, and dried iris leaves, jewelry that makes a big impact while still comfort, fit, and flattery. Bring 6-12 pieces makers. Her journey began in 1988 or urban with wire and found objects. Working being light and easy to wear. Learn all the tips big or small, this versatile weave can be open to repurpose or swap, as well as favorite and tricks for using a puffy mandrel to make ONLINE with a credit card at when her mother, a professional or tight. Learn the basics by creating a piece of garments to use for a pattern (these will not hollow beads of many sizes and shapes. Explore www.snowfarm.org. weaver, took a basket making class about 6” diameter, then broaden your horizons be harmed). Tips and tricks for cutting and surface decoration, including dots and stringer and directed Lois to give it a try! She to explore the wide range of materials and sewing, design consultations, and feedback work, creating and applying glass shards, silver says that she has always been drawn to many ways you can use random weave to define will help steer you toward new wardrobe fuming, and applying silver leaf. Experienced vessels and their inside/outside nature; spaces and shapes with your own designs. staples or statement pieces! flameworkers will really expand in this class! BY PHONE with a credit card by calling: she sees hands as the first vessels, WORKSHOP: $505 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $50 WORKSHOP: $505 | SUPPLY FEE: $20 WORKSHOP: $640 | Glass rods purchased in class (413) 268-3101 (Mon - Fri, 9a - 5p EST) and intertwined fingers as the first baskets. At one time, she made baskets intended to hold apples, crayons, or laundry, but today her work is primarily sculptural. One motif in Lois’ work is the patchwork quilt, another is horizons. At heart, she is a vagabond, restless for moving and exploration, but also appreciative of the comfort of home. In baskets, Lois is able to play with color, shape, and form; like the patches that make up a quilt or a basket, they come together as unified whole. Lois does not teach frequently, and we are honored to host her at Snow Farm.

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Wheel Throwing with Printing on Glass Art Furniture: Metal, You Can Do It! Intermediate Z Alterations in Porcelain Z SHEILA ROSA Fine & Functional Soldering Intensive ELIZABETH COHEN Learn how to make stencils and screens to print MATT JOHNSON HELEN DRIGGS Working with porcelain, learn traditional wheel images on kiln-formed glass. Demonstrations Explore the overlap of art and function as each Build your confidence with the torch as you methods, plus tricks and tips for successful and discussion will include how to use imagery student conceives, designs, and fabricates a piece focus on and master the four fundamental throwing. Techniques include quick centering, or ideas to tell a story; easy ways to create and of functional art furniture, lighting, or other soldering joins: butt joins, T-joins, point-of- direct touch, and alteration of forms out of manipulate images; layering of glass for effect; fixture. Combine steel with other materials such contact joins and sweat-soldered. Practice with round. Class emphasizes experimentation, and printing with powdered glass and enamels. as wood, plastic, glass, or stone. Learn metal challenging soldering exercises using base taking risks, and the pursuit of individual Begin with practice on test pieces, create your fabrication through arc welding, blacksmithing, metals,and then you’ll be able to use these style. Instructor demos will be followed by own screens, and develop a personalized torch cutting and forging, grinding and techniques for making chain links; soldering personalized instruction for each student. Some finished project. polishing, and final finishing. Leave the course tubing, posts and granules; and so much more. experience preferred. Some, but not all, work WORKSHOP: $582 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 with a completed piece that is both functional Basic metalsmithing experience is required. may be bisque fired. and aligned with your aesthetic priority. WORKSHOP: $510 | NSTRUCTOR KIT FEE $40 WORKSHOP: $515 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $525 | SUPPLY FEE: $100

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NEW NEW SALE Sculpting on the Wood Lathe Learning to Draw: Painting with Fire: Native Multidimensional Panels OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR! DEREK WEIDMAN A Crash Course American Firing Techniques Through Glass Lamination Rethink the scope and limitless shaping STEPHEN HANKS BOB GREEN SASHA ZHITNEVA possibilities of a wood lathe, one of the most Improve your powers of observation while Experience two exciting ceramic firing Begin by learning about the creative NOV 13, 14, 15 | 20, 21, 22 | 27, 28, 29 powerful yet misunderstood carving machines. learning the patience to draw what you see. techniques−raku and saggar firing. Raku is applications of glass lamination. Then create Practice shapes and textures unique to a lathe Experiment with different drawing media; learn a fast process from 16th-century Japan that sample tiles and painted and fused elements and explore forms only the lathe can make in seven 2D techniques that create the illusion of produces a rainbow of colors and effects. for use in larger projects. Using these elements, NEW ARTWORK EACH WEEKEND the larger context of sculpture. Become a truly 3D objects (i.e., linear perspective); use blind- Burnishing and saggar firing produces build layered collages with a four-part glass 200+ Make your own glass ornament new woodturner as you focus on creativity in contour drawing from a live model to develop beautiful pinks, oranges, and earth tones−a lamination compound that cures clear and equal measure to innovative techniques! your skill in rendering organic objects; and apply technique closely associated with Native allows for unique visual effects. Demos and the ARTISTS 10 AM - 4 PM EVERY DAY WORKSHOP: $680 | SUPPLY FEE: $60 the principles of composition to help you finish American and Greek pottery. Thrown or hand exchange of ideas will expand your repertoire your drawings. With both practice and instruction, built work created at the beginning of class will of glass-working methods, technical solutions, Lunch and hot drinks available in our cafe` develop two of your drawings into finished pieces. be fired in both of these magical methods and design possibilities. WORKSHOP: $660 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 WORKSHOP: $650 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 WORKSHOP: $660 | SUPPLY FEE: $80

NEW Beyond Felting: Silk & First-Time Enameling Stones of Glass & Wire Wrapping Introduction to Welding Wool & Paper ASHLEY GILREATH LIBBY LEUCHTMAN in Bill’s Barn EVA CAMACHO-SANCHEZ Welcome to enameling, the process of fusing Combine glass, fire, and wire to make beautiful, BILL RHODES Felting merino wool onto mulberry paper glass to metal! Discover how enameling covers a unique jewelry. Learn to make glass beads that Spend a week in Bill’s Barn with Bill himself! (and vice versa) creates a textured and unique metal surface in sparkling, vibrant color without mimic stones such as agates and carnelians. Learn the basics of welding and see sparks fly surface that can be applied to garments, the labor of setting stones, the mess of spraying Explore using shards, frit, and silver glass to while making wacky and wonderful sculptures accessories, or other felted work. Mulberry paints, or the chemicals used for patinas. Learn create realistic stone surfaces; then learn to for your home and garden. Old bike parts, paper provides tactile qualities while adding basic sifting and firing techniques, liquid wire wrap the glass pieces and finish your kitchen utensils, nuts and bolts−find them in structure to the felt. Students will learn how enameling, working with watercolor enamels, pieces with handmade wire chain. Your the Snow Farm scrap pile or bring your own Stay the weekend! Discount accommodations available at The Ellery to incorporate silk or any other sheer fabric sgraffito, graphite overlay, and simple foil completed jewelry will make great gifts−for treasures. Bill will guide students in the artistic onto these materials and how to felt them all applications. Open to all skill levels. yourself or loved ones. process of using scrap metal in design, and together. Go home with several 12” x 12” pieces WORKSHOP: $720 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 WORKSHOP: $735 | SUPPLY FEE: $10 the results will be stunning and surprising! No or one large piece. This class has been subsidized by the Glass rods purchased in class experience is necessary. WORKSHOP: $615 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $45 Lenore Kosofsky Endowment Fund. WORKSHOP: $640 | SUPPLY FEE: $110 Second Sale Sponsor

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Encaustic Comprehensive Glassblowing: Indigo Shibori: Introduction Making Connections: The Art of INSTRUCTOR PROFILE Z KELLY ANNE MCGRATH Cups & Bits Z & Explorations Metal to Anything Bending Wood ALISON CRONEY Gain a solid foundation in techniques and best SHUHEI FUJII & MIA SARTORI CAROL ANNE GROTRIAN ALAN BURTON THOMPSON ALISON CRONEY MOSES practices for using encaustic paint. Begin with Take your glass work to the next level with Experience the perfect and ancient partnership Make pendants, pins, and rings−or little stuff Learn techniques to create airy bent forms MOSES setup, tools, health, and safety, and progress to bits! Start off with a focus on making cups, of Japanese shibori and indigo dyeing. An to carry around in your pockets. Learn basic without cutting a curve out of a big block of Alison Croney Moses is an woodworker, gain skills in brushwork, fusing, and layering. refining and perfecting the process. Then add ancestor to tie-dye, shibori techniques are jewelry making including connecting metal to wood. Focusing mostly on bent lamination, the art administrator, educator, mother, Examine specific characteristics that make wax some character and extra flair to the cups by endlessly variable, and the basics are easy. Learn metal and metal to a variety of materials, such class will consist of demonstrations, a slide show and wife. She has a BFA in Furniture a unique painting medium, including opacity, introducing bits, those extra globs of hot glass to care for a synthetic indigo vat and create basic as plastics, paper, wood, found objects, and of techniques, experimentation, and building. Design from the Rhode Island School temperature, adhesion, and texture. Then, break that can become handles, wraps, or other shibori patterns suitable for sampler quilts and more. Learn silver soldering or improve your Come willing to push the limits of wooden fibers, of Design and an MA in Sustainable loose to experiment with encaustic’s exceptional decorative elements. Bit work is an excellent other projects. All levels welcome. Experienced skills. Successful riveting, tabs, nuts and bolts, and you will leave with inspiration, skills, small Business and Communities from adaptability to mixed-media work, including way to improve hand skills and learn to better dyers can request techniques. and even chemical bonding (yes, glue!) will be wooden sculptures, and a start for bringing collage, printmaking, and image transfer. utilize heat. Perfect for any advanced beginner. covered in detail. All levels welcome. bending into your woodwork. Comfort in a Goddard College. Currently, she is the WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 School & Community Partnership WORKSHOP: $400 | SUPPLY FEE: $120 WORKSHOP: $435 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $35 woodworking studio required. Program Director at the Eliot School of WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $100 Fine & Applied Arts in Boston, where she runs visual arts and woodworking Fused Glass Landscapes programs in schools, with teens, LYNN HAUST and with art educators. Alison says Explore how easy it is to create a beautiful glass the objects she creates walk the line landscape. Learn how to design a piece, cut between function and sculpture. Using glass, create depth, fire in the kiln, and finish techniques such as coopering and with coldwork. Use a full range of Bullseye glass bending, she highlights forms found (COE 90) in sheet, frit, and powder to bring in nature while creating objects that your ideas to life. Bring photos and drawings encourage interaction. to inspire your expressive interpretation of a beloved landscape. Take home a treasured new piece of handmade art! WORKSHOP: $420 | SUPPLY FEE: $70 NEW Brighten Up: Clay & Underglaze Welding: Your New Beginning Beads & Beyond DARRAH BOWDEN Superpower! LIBBY LEUCHTMAN Bring color and pattern to the table as you JOE WHEATON Enter the world of glass beadmaking and learn a vast array of underglaze techniques. Learn the fundamentals of MIG welding, never look back! Explore the history of the Lynn has so much From monoprinting and stamping to stencils, including various ways of cutting, shaping, oldest glass art form, learn to safely use an wax resist, and freehand carving, no surface and joining steel rods and sheets into shapes oxy-propane torch, and start melting colorful experience with glass will be left undecorated! Add color to forms of every description. Create representative or rods of glass. Lessons will include making in specific and controlled ways and learn how abstract artworks, or utilitarian objects for the various shapes and decorating the beads with and many creative ideas to transform a simple palette into something home and garden−the sky’s the limit when you dots, flowers, stripes, frit, and more. Enjoy the sophisticated. Take home beautifully surfaced master the power of the weld! Come with ideas meditative and fun experience of making glass to help beginners make greenware and limitless ideas. or an open mind and find a creative superpower beads that you will wear with pride. WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $70 you never knew you had! WORKSHOP: $445 | Glass rods purchased in class beautiful pieces. WORKSHOP: $405 | SUPPLY FEE: $75

Mary Jo Murphy Executive Director Miriam Cody Communications Specialist Pam Haskins Administrative Coordinator Erica Jorjorian Studio Assistant NEW NEW Still Life Oil Painting Foundations of Woodturning: Patina: Color on Metal Micah Litant Property & Studio Assistant Manager RAMI BAGLIO Spindles and Bowls LAUREN BEAUDOIN Michael Martindell NEW Focus on painting still life alla prima with oil JANET COLLINS Explore the science of patina, a thin layer of Facility Manager Glass Sampler: paints. Learn to see and understand the fall of Learn the two basics: spindle and bowl turning. color coating on metal that occurs through light on form through an investigation of color, Instruction will include material choice and exposure to chemicals and/or the atmosphere. Holly Martineau 3 Days, 3 Ways value, and intensity. Designed for all levels of preparation, tool use and sharpening, design/ Explore new and traditional patination Development Manager experience, the instruction supports those who form, and finishing techniques. Learn to make techniques, including immersion, buried, Lisa Oram are brand new to painting while challenging bowls, plates, platters, tool handles, spoons, fumed, pastes, and paints as applied to copper Director of Marketing Glass is endlessly fascinating, Flameworking more advanced artists. This is an excellent class and copper alloyed metals. Surface preparation, or honey dippers. Students will go home with Dani Thompson and anyone who sees a glass MARTA BERNBAUM for those interested in painting from life. new skills and confidence while having fun and tools, recipes, sealants, and safety procedures Program Manager artist at work thinks: I want to In flameworking, learn to safely use a WORKSHOP: $390 | SUPPLY FEE: $65 creating beautiful handmade objects. will be discussed. Go home with a library of try that! This is your chance! oxy/propane torch and see melting glass WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $30 samples and resources. Ebony Timothy Explore the glass arts with one up close and personal. Make a colorful WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $100 Housekeeper day in the flamework studio, one swirly marble, beads with dots or stripes, day blowing glass, and one day and then you’re off exploring color and exploring fused glass. design in glass. You will be delighted WORKSHOP: $ 420 | SUPPLY FEE: $ 75 with your creations. The Snow Farm Board of Glassblowing Kiln Glass Directors volunteer their time SANDY DUKESHIRE SAM MYERS and energy to support the In glassblowing, start with a solid In the kiln studio, learn a variety of operations of Snow Farm, a sculpted paperweight or flower to get imagery and patterning techniques nonprofit organization. the feel for manipulating hot glass on to make a fused glass tile of your own a blowpipe. Then learn to gather and design. Discuss the firing process and Donald Clark blow glass and make a handmade cup. put your tile in the kiln to fuse. Your Glassblowing is a team sport so prepared finished tile can be used as a coaster, Janet Dunlap, President to make friends and work together. trivet, or decorative addition anywhere Nan Fleming in your home. STUDENT WORK Claire Fruitman, Clerk NEW Denim: Stitching, Beading Puzzle Pots: Stacking Canisters Metal Sculpture for the Deirdre Hiam Applique & Other & Lidded Vessels Home & Garden Joan L. Lewis, Treasurer Decorative Techniques MAYA MACHIN JAMES KITCHEN Medora Rogers ANNA VA POLESNY Explore the process−and challenges−of making Sparks will fly in the welding barn as metal Jim Rosenthal, Vice President Bring personal style to your wardrobe! Transform pots with multiple pieces. Start with a review scraps, discarded car or bike parts, old kitchen standard-issue denim into expressive garments of centering clay and raising walls, then move utensils, bolts, screws, and more come together Margaret Somer using techniques of stitchery, beading, on to working with calipers and other tools in in imaginative and unexpected ways. James Michelle Spaziani the making of multiple pots. The pots are then will guide students in choosing the objects applique, studding, and other decorative forms. Claudia Waite Denim is especially adaptable to decorative stacked together making a cohesive form that that speak to them and then in seeing those transformation but other fabric and garments are comes apart and can be put together again like objects in new ways. Go home with art for your Barbara “Bobbin” Young welcome. Bring bits and bobs from your personal a puzzle. Basic wheel experience will be helpful, home or garden, new or improved skills, and an collection of found objects−your creativity but is not necessary. No firing is included. experience you won’t forget. combined with new skills will do the rest. WORKSHOP: $395 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 WORKSHOP: $405 | SUPPLY FEE: $95 WORKSHOP: $390 | INSTRUCTOR KIT FEE: $10

How much in advance should I register for a workshop? We encourage early registration. Our classes are small and they do fill up. If a class is full, put your name on the waiting list! A class could be cancelled if not enough people sign up - another reason to register early.

How big are your classes?

We keep our workshops small so that students of varying skill levels can

be accommodated in a single class. With a maximum of 6 - 10 students per Z class, all students get individual attention. Intensive Mosaic: Classical Printmaking: Focus on Clay: From the Ground Up Forged Adornment Method, Contemporary Expressive Drawing from Nature STEVE THEBERGE NICHOLAS DOWNING How old do you have to be to take a workshop Expression JOYCE SILVERSTONE Make pots that come alive with clarity Learn time-honored techniques that reduce SAMANTHA HOLMES Revel in the pleasure of subtle, immediate mark and purpose while developing an intuitive metalsmithing to its most elemental. Start by at Snow Farm? Learn the theory and practice of Italy’s master making as you explore a variety of printmaking connection to clay. Using time honored casting your own ingots from silver, copper, or All Snow Farm workshops are open to students ages 18+. Weekend mosaicists while creating a unique contemporary techniques. Through transfer drawing, techniques with an open and generous brass grain or scrap, then use a hammer and workshops are also open to students ages 13+. During the month of approach, explore forms from simple cups to anvil to shape them into a myriad of shapes for mosaic of your own design. Experiment with subtractive monotype, and drypoint etching, July, Snow Farm Summer is a program for high school students ages 14 - 18. various glass and stone materials, develop your create a series of expressive prints that convey complex teapots and jars. Skills covered include bracelets, pendants, rings, and more. Use basic tile-cutting skills using a traditional hammer the feeling of being in nature. Knowing how to throwing off the hump, coiling and throwing, tools to forge, file, and polish your pieces into and hardie, and explore the classical rules of “draw” is not necessary; just bring a willingness and innovative decoration with slips. Bring 5-10 unique and beautiful jewelry. All levels welcome! What time do workshops start and end? bisqued pieces ready to fire in the gas kiln. Basic tile orientation, flow, and spacing. Work in the to experience the feeling of a line. Prints can WORKSHOP: $620 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 Workshops that are 2, 3, or 4 days long start at 10:00 am on the first day and stand alone or serve as seeds of inspiration for wheel throwing skills suggested. Ravenna method (double-reverse method), which 9:00 am on the subsequent days. Class ends at 4:30 on most days followed allows changes to the mosaic as it develops. your next project. WORKSHOP: $650 | SUPPLY FEE: $50 by open studio time. On the last day, class ends at 4:00 with no open studio. WORKSHOP: $725 | SUPPLY FEE: $100 WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 Workshops that are 5 days or longer have a different rhythm. See page 6 for a full schedule of all workshops.

What are the accommodations like at Snow Farm? Housing at Snow Farm is simple, clean, and comfortable. We have four dorms with double and single rooms and one cottage. Some of our rooms have air conditioning and some have more privacy. See page 5 for full descriptions.

What happens after I register? You will receive a receipt and some basic information after you register. We will send a reminder email and provide links to additional workshop information about 3 weeks prior to the start of class. Please add registrar@

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Spirit Houses Skins, Skeletons, Knots & Nets: Borosilicate Sculpture: Murrin-heeey: Picking Up Z you receive this correspondence from us. You can also find registered ROSS SMART 3D Textile Constructions Fantasy Creatures in Glass What You Pull Down student information at snowfarm.org. Working in miniature, make houses or MO KELMAN SARAH WICKS CAT BURNS structures out of old found wood and metal Learn methods for building skeletal structures Explore how to bend, shape, and form Start by pulling simple cane and murrini, and What is your cancellation policy? that shows its years of wear and weather. Be with rigid and semi-rigid materials such as reed, borosilicate glass rods and bubbles into various then bundle them repeatedly into complex inspired by the material to create miniature rattan, bamboo, wood, wire, and found materials. shapes using heat, gravity, and tools. Start with murrini patterns. Explore pattern making If you cancel your workshop more than 30 days from the start date, you will dwellings with character and personality. Raid Techniques will include lashing, formal and simple figures and build to complex creatures within the murrini as well as in the textile-like receive a refund, less a $75 cancellation fee and the non- refundable $25 your stash of treasures and bring any small chaotic plaiting, and tube connecting. Build skins inspired by mythology, science fiction, and mosaics, which will be rolled onto bubbles. registration fee. No refunds will be given less than 30 days from the start of object or item that could be incorporated−an onto these structures using gut, netting, knotting, folklore. Unicorns, aliens, monsters, and Investigate all the ways to use murrini in the class for any reason. If Snow Farm cancels a class due to low enrollment, old key, an unusual button, a locket, wooden elastic fabrics, wax, and stiffeners. Exploration humanoids are a few ideas; bring images and finished products, including collars, plunger- students can take a different workshop or receive a full refund. If your travel spools, decorative metal−to make it unique. is encouraged! Exercises, brainstorming, and drawings for inspiration. For anyone interested style pick-ups, and slumping in a kiln. Bring plans include airfare or other non-refundable expenses, please check with WORKSHOP: $620 | SUPPLY FEE: $40 problem-solving will lead to a focused personal in sculpture, glass, or trying something new. new color and pattern to your work. For project. All levels welcome. WORKSHOP: $640 | Glass rods purchased in class experienced glassblowers. us about the status your workshop before you finalize your arrangments. WORKSHOP: $615 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $675

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Printmakers: Plein Air Oil Layered Print Mixed Materials JOSH WINER Z Mexican smalti, with its wide range of vibrant, Monotypes ALYSHA KUMPFERER ROBERT DANCIK subtle, and shimmering colors, is a delight CAROLYN LETVIN Learn how to create a diverse range of colors Add unique, handmade, and natural-looking to work with. Begin with an original design Using oil paints and simple tools, expand your on textiles using a limited palette of natural elements to your jewelry designs without transferred onto panel. Follow a step-by-step painting repertoire to include unique prints dyes. Explorations will focus on the interactions harming a living thing or having to forage in the construction process, and complete your work created without a press. Begin indoors to between natural dyes and modifiers on textiles woods! Faux Bone™ is a unique material that is with hand-mixed colored cement. Discussion discover the fluidity and vibrancy of painting and on building layered color through screen easy to use and infinitely versatile. It can mimic of andamento and opus styles will inform with oils on a plexi plate. Once comfortable, head printing and direct application techniques. wood, bone, ceramics, ivory, and more, and tile shape, placement, and the flow of lines. outside to work en plein air. Critique and printing The class will cover the inherent strengths can be cut, carved, sawn, and sanded for many Mosaics will be 6” x 6” or 8” x 8” and will not be tips will be provided as you transform your and weaknesses of working with natural effects. Bracelets, rings, pendants, artists books, grouted. Bring two design drawings to class. paintings into beautiful prints on paper. Some dye materials as well as best practices for and texture plates are just some of the projects WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $75 plein air oil painting experience is helpful. permanently affixing color to cloth. you can make in class. WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $15 Bring own oils WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $80 WORKSHOP: $310 | SUPPLY FEE: $40

Wooden Spoons: Festive Flameworking: Beginner Glassblowing: Drawings in Metal From Orchard to Table Glass for the Holidays Pumpkin Mayhem TRICIA MOODY-BOURBEAU ALAN YOUNG MARTA BERNBAUM JESSE RASID Create a sketch, and let your artistic eye go Learn to make spoons and stirrers using a fast Using soft glass techniques, learn to make glass Welcome the change of seasons with a harvest beyond the pencil. Let metal become the and efficient mix of hand and machine carving. components that can be assembled into festive of glass pumpkins. Start with the fundamentals drawing utensil and let your drawings grow in Work with apple, cherry, and pear woods to decorations. Sculpt small objects that are of glassblowing: gathering, marvering, tool scale, shape, or dimension. Learn to use all the explore their differences in behavior, grain, and meaningful to your personal celebrations. Class usage, and temperature control. Then learn basic welding tools, including the MIG welder, figure. Experience Alan’s guidance in how to will cover safe working habits and foundational how to apply color and texture to the glass to arc welder, oxy-acetylene torch, plasma cutter, “read” the wood and in healthy ergonomics for skills of flameworking. Instruction in basic make vibrant colored pumpkins with realistic and more. Explore expressive metal drawings carving. With 40+ years of spoon making, Alan wireworking skills will also be included. Start curly stems, curvy gourds, and autumnal that are sensual, abstract, related to nature, or will share stories and wood lore. No experience your handmade holiday season at Snow Farm! paperweights. Go from a novice to a pumpkin- whatever you wish. If you can draw it, you can is necessary, and students can expect to leave WORKSHOP: $315 | Glass rods purchased in class making machine in just two days! draw it in metal. the weekend with four completed utensils. WORKSHOP: $345 | SUPPLY FEE: $45 WORKSHOP: $315 | SUPPLY FEE: $55 WORKSHOP: $305 | SUPPLY FEE: $25

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