Art & Activity Camp
- Instructor: Various Instructors
- When: Wednesday-Friday, Dec 28-30, 2011 9:00am-3:00pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: For grades K—12
By popular demand, the CCLC is offering camps for kids during school holidays & vacations! Camps will include a variety of art activities, including
~ Ceramic Sculpture & Wheel-Thrown Pottery
~ Fiber Arts: Weaving, Basket Making, Needlepoint, Knitting
~ Paper Arts: Cutting, Origami, Bookbinding, Sculpture, Paper Making & Collage
~ Puppets with PlasterKraft & Fabric
~ Fimo ® Polymer Clay
~ Glycerin Soap Making
~ Drawing & Painting & Printmaking
~ Note Cards
~ Friendship Bracelets
~ Homemade Donuts, Smoothies, and more
~ Outdoor Activities (weather-permitting)
~ Hula Hoop Making
~ Storytelling
Also outdoor activities, weather-permitting, to get a little exercise & fresh air!
Students must bring lunch, snacks & beverages, also wear appropriate outdoor shoes & clothes.
- Cost: $25 - 155 (Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.)
- Materials: $15 per student.
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- Make Your Own Snowshoes
- Instructor: Ray Rietze
- When: 3-day workshop: Friday, Jan. 13, 6:00-8:00pm, also
Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 14 &15, 8:00 am-4:00 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: Custom-make your own traditional wooden snowshoes with accomplished artisan Ray Reitze of Canaan, Maine. There will be an introduction and overview discussion on Friday evening, 6-8pm, and two full days of lacing, weaving and tying to create your own personal snowshoes. Visit Ray's website: oldturtle.org
- Cost: $25 - 155 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: $150
- Please include a note indicating your HEIGHT & WEIGHT in the "comments" field of the shopping cart. Thanks!
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- Women & Art in Plains Indian Society
- Instructor: Lew Richards
- When: Six Saturdays 9:00-11:00 am, beginning Jan 21, 2012
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: This seminar course will examine women's roles in traditional Plains Indian societies, focusing particularly on their roles as artists and craftswomen. We will use articles from scholarly journals, ethnographies, and primary documents to learn the functions of women's art relative to social and religious symbolism, commerce, trade, and individual self-expression.
- Cost: $10 - $110 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: None
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- Learning to Knit
- Instructors: Beth Roy & Linda Courtney
- When: Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 10 am to 2 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: For the absolute beginner. Students will learn how to cast on and off, as well as basic stitches and shaping. By the end of the class, students will be able to knit their very own dishcloth. Please bring your lunch, if desired!
- Cost: $5 - $40 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: $10
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- Learn How to Knit Mittens
- Instructors: Beth Roy & Linda Courtney
- When: Two Saturdays, Jan. 14 & Jan. 21, 2012 - 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: For anyone who knows the basics of knitting. (There is a Learning to Knit class on Jan. 7th!) Students will learn to knit in the round on double pointed needles, how to rib, and how to make a thumb gusset while making child-sized mittens in two classes . . . . with some homework in between!
- Cost: $10 - $70 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: Bring #4 double pointed needles, or we will have some available for purchase. We will supply yarn and pattern.
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- Sock Knitting
- Instructors: Beth Roy & Linda Courtney
- When: Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: Can you knit? Can you purl? (There is a Learn to Knit class on Jan. 7th!) Students will learn all the techniques needed to make their own warm socks by making a very small sample sock in class. We will supply the yarn.
- Cost: $5 - $40 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: Please bring #6 double-pointed needles, or we will have some available for purchase. We will supply the yarn.
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- Fancy Stitches
- Instructors: Beth Roy & Linda Courtney
- When: Saturday, Feb 4, 2012, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: For the advanced beginner knitter. Ready to add your own twist to your knitting? We will guide you through several (as many as time allows) of our favorite fancy stitches that you can use to add color or textural interest to your next knitted creation!
- Cost: $5 - $40 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: Please bring three contrasting colors from your own yarn stash and straight needles of any size.
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- Punch Needle Rug Hooking
- Instructor: Beth Roy & Linda Courtney
- When: Saturday, Feb 11, 2012, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Registration Deadline: One week prior to start date.
- Description: Students will learn to prepare their backing, draw a pattern, hook and bind off. All materials will be supplied.
- Cost: $5 - $40 Course fees are based on a sliding scale, click here for more info.
- Materials: $15
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- Knitting Circle: an ongoing gathering for fiber artists of all sorts
- Facilitator: Beth Roy
- When: Wednesdays 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
- Cost: No charge, donations are always welcome
- Registration: No registration necessary, come as often as you like.
- Description: Join with other fiber enthusiasts once a week to knit, crochet, spin, hook, embroider, or work on any other portable fiber project. We offer assistance, instruction, inspiration, conversation and community. Beginners are welcome. Don't know how to knit? We'll get you started. Bring a project and a lunch. Questions? Call CCLC @ 733-2233 or Beth @ 454-2194.
Down East Fiber Enthusiasts are also invited to join an email listserve, organized by knitting enthusiast Barbara Baig. This is a local listserve and is intended for fiber enthusiasts to get to know each other, network, send out information of mutual interest, share ideas, problems, solutions, questions, enthusiasms, places to shop, and so on. To subscribe to the list, please send an email to Barbara at
downeastfiberfabric-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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