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This class has been canceled. Please see our calendar for other wood carving classes.

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 shallow relief carvings — simple projects that even beginners can make. He'll guide you in how to carve safely and efficiently.

Iller will be in the shop three afternoons — Friday, Saturday and Monday, Dec. 27, 28 and 30. 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 12 and older. No prior experience is needed.
  
• BARN has carving tools to share, but bring your own if you have them.
• Wear close-toed shoes.
  

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.