About
Take a break from holiday hubbub and spend some time carving! This informal event is designed so you can bring guests and family along and spend a pleasurable afternoon exploring this craft and making something together.
Master Carver Jeff Iller will have ideas and materials for simple projects that even beginners can make. He'll guide you in how to carve safely and efficiently. Or you can bring a carving that you are working on and want help with.
Iller will be in the shop four afternoons this week, Wednesday through Saturday. Each day is listed separately on the BARN calendar so you can sign up for one or more sessions, as you wish.
Details:
- Open to ages 8 and older, although those 12 and under must have an adult with them. No prior experience is needed. (An adult merely accompanying a child, but not carving, should register only the child.)
- BARN has carving tools to share, but bring your own if you have them.
- In addition to the registration fee, a $10 materials fee will be collected when you register. This covers wood and shop supplies. Members: $18+10=$28. For Non-Members: $23+10=$33.
Instructor: As a third-generation woodworker, Jeff Iller learned about woodworking tools and knives early on. By high school, he was winning ribbons with his wood carvings at his hometown fair. Around 1996 Jeff found room for a shop and he has carved ever since. He’ll carve most anything, but he especially enjoys carving multiple parts inside a single piece of wood and making physically detailed and accurate carvings of women's faces. Carving on the entry sign to the BARN Woodworking Studio shows the quality of his work.
Iller says he was taught early on that he could make anything from wood. He is still trying to prove that statement wrong.
