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Peters Valley School of Craft

Carving & Shaping Natural Bowls and Cutting Boards

May 6 - May 7, 2023

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Carving & Shaping Natural Bowls and Cutting Boards

$440.00

Details Fee Breakdown:
Tuition: $375
Material Fee: $65

In this class, we will form a bowl out of organic branches or a segment of a tree limb. Our bowls’ design will stem from the natural shape of the limb and could include pieces of bark and other integral elements that denote their natural origin; our excavation will be informed by the contour and parameters of the original tree segment. The bowls could have a flat underside or be carried up by subtle legs that you will carve or form on a lathe. Another project we will offer is to craft a cutting board from live edge slabs of wood. Here you will learn how to surface the boards and then add a handle that could be formed using a band saw or a lathe.

Workshops run from 9:00am to 5:00pm each day
Lunch is included for all participants

Level: Beginner and Beyond
Workshop Levels

Definitions of Skill Levels for Workshops

  • Beginner and Beyond: Introductory level course that presents basic knowledge of tools, materials and techniques and is geared towards first timers or those who want to improve and expand their technique. It takes time to build skills.
  • Advanced Beginner and Beyond: Instruction that assumes some familiarity with tools, materials and equipment. Includes reviews and builds on basic skill sets, allows for those with more experience to work at their own pace. Further development of fundamentals, participants have had at least one class or equivalent with professional instruction.
  • Intermediate: Course content that assumes a working knowledge of basic studio tools, materials and equipment necessary to accomplish the projects and techniques to be explored. Participants feel comfortable in the studio setting.
  • Intermediate to Advanced: Course content that requires a proficient working knowledge of studio tools, materials and equipment necessary to accomplish the projects and techniques to be explored in class.
  • Advanced: Assumes proficiency and advanced working knowledge of materials and studio tools and equipment so that the focus is on artistic narrative and/or technical development.
Type:
Ages: Adult

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Yoav Liberman

Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture artist, writer, and educator. His pieces have been featured in many curated exhibitions and woodworking books, most recently in Modern Judaica: Today’s Makers, Today’s Sacred Objects by Schiffer Publishing. He’s a regular contributor to Fine Woodworking and Popular Woodworking Magazines and a past contributor to American Woodworker and Woodwork Magazines. Yoav has a degree in architecture and later held two competitive residency programs at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts and the Windgate Foundation Fellowship at Purchase College, New York. Yoav teaches woodworking and design at the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan and frequently guest teaches in craft schools across the country. He lives in Upper Saddle River, NJ. Yoav is the author of Working Reclaimed Wood: A Guide for Woodworkers, Makers & Designers, published by Popular Woodworking Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.

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