This workshop includes detailed hands-on demonstrations of wood shaping, powercarving, woodburning and coloring techniques enabling students to transform wood into sculpture and create gorgeous textured and relief-carved surfaces. Bandsaws, angle grinders and sanders will be used for roughing out shapes, then micromotor powercarvers will be employed for shape refinement and embellishment. Students will create a finished sculpture carved in the round, and samplers of textured, relief-carved, colored designs worthy of framing. Students are welcome to bring woodturned objects to embellish. Open to all levels.

COURSE FEE: $675

Kristin LeVier works as a studio artist in Moscow, Idaho. She is a former molecular biologist-turned-studio artist who creates innovative contemporary sculpture. LeVier has received awards and fellowships from the Society for Contemporary Craft, the Clark Hulings Fund, the American Association of Woodturners, NICHE, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely and featured in books and magazines such as American Craft and American Woodturner.
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