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Wood Turning: Bowls & Beyond 2S22

Age Group: 
Teens, Adults

Ever wanted to create your own, custom wood vessels?  In this 2-day workshop, you'll use the lathe to make wooden bowls, platters, artistic sculptures and more.

Start with pieces of tree limbs and trunks, make them round, and take off from there. Beginners will learn basic lathe techniques. Experienced students will advance to the next level at their own pace.

Wood will be provided in class; advanced turners may bring their own. No physical strength or previous woodworking experience required. 

Masks are required indoors.  Vaccinations required for all eligible students.

 

I appreciated that this class was for all levels and was accessible to me as someone who was entirely new to the wood shop. The instructor was excellent--a nice balance of empowering us to do what we wanted and learn from doing while also giving very clear instruction and helping when necessary. I absolutely loved working with the lathe and working with wood as a medium. And I feel great about the bowls I made, mistakes and all! I also loved that the class ended right as the concert series was starting so I got to enjoy the amazing music afterwards both those weeks!

 

Ken Lindgren

Ken Lundgren

Ken Lindgren makes functional and abstract objects from trees that have fallen due to death, disease, storm or construction. A member of the American Association of Woodturners, he has taught wood turning at Fuller Craft Museum, the New England Woodturning Symposium and elsewhere. He sells his turned bowls and other works of wood art throughout New England. He has won sculpture awards at North River Arts Society Festival of the Arts and Bridgton Maine’s Art in the Park. His professional career was as a chemical engineer.

“My pieces are all handcrafted to show the beauty that results when people and nature are in harmony. Teaching is a way for me to ‘pay it backwards,’ to do for students what my teachers did for me when I was a student.”

Specialty: 
Wood Turning
Materials to bring to class:

Materials provided by instructor, $35 payable in class.