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Expand your carving skills as you carve one or more plaques — perfect for a wall decoration, a sign by the front door, or a gift.

You can choose your design — perhaps a bird or a scene from nature? — or adapt one of the designs that the instructor will provide.

This class is open to both beginning carvers and those who already have some carving experience. Students can be as young as 8, although those 12 and under must have an adult with them.

BARN will supply some carving tools to share, but students are also encouraged to bring their own.

Basswood carving blanks are $2 each, which you can buy at the class from the instructor.

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 prefers to innovate with the working tools to carve multiple parts inside one piece of wood and to make physically detailed and accurate carvings of women's faces.

He was taught early on that he could make anything from wood and he is still trying to prove that statement wrong.