Courses

Unleash your inner artist with forestART. A premiere experience featuring instruction from world renowned local and international artists held each year in the stunning Boreal Forest at Ness Creek. Choose your own journey by selecting a course, accommodation and meal plan.

Intro to Blacksmithing

This course will provide a sound understanding of basic blacksmith skills and tools. Participants will be guided through a series of hands-on lessons that culminate in knowledge of how to move and form hot steel with hammer and anvil. All work produced is yours to take home.

Mixed Media

This is an all levels mixed media workshop focussing on fearless creative exploration and resolution strategies. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, this workshop will help you gain confidence in the creative process. Discover the playful child, the rebellious teenager, and the ‘mature’ adult phases of creative expression and learn to harness these as your bring your work towards completion.

Artistic Woodturning

The 2023 woodturning workshop may include both Novice and Intermediate level turners. We have designed the course to allow skill building for all participants. We will review tool sharpening, tool
presentation to the wood, options for mounting wood in the lathe and have designed projects for all skill levels. Projects will be designed to be both fun and challenging for all skill levels.

Impress Yourself - Using Clay Slabs / Stamps

Immerse yourself in the boreal forest by collecting various nature bits to impress into slabs of clay, create your own clay stamps as well as experiment with surface decoration using pre-made stamps of all kinds. We will also construct simple slab pots using premade templates.
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