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August 2012

Weave an Alpaca Shawl on a Triangle Loom

08/12/2012 (All day) - 08/14/2012 (All day)

Learn to create your own alpaca shawl on a handcrafted Triangle Loom during a 3 day seminar that includes instruction on designing your project, calculating yarn yardage needed, and the creation of your own shawl made from alpaca yarn. We meet Friday 6-9pm and Saturday and Sunday 9am-5pm. Cost: $150 plus materials ($35-70 depending on yarns chosen).

Practical Business Tips For Artisans

08/14/2012 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Social Media, Marketing, and Pricing Your Work. This event is free of charge.

2012 Juried Exhibition

07/06/2012 - 10:00am - 08/31/2012 - 5:00pm

This is the third year in a row The Jacksonville Center for the Arts will host a Juried Exhibition. We are committed to hosting one Juried Exhibition a year, offering substantial cash prizes and professional pubic recognition for artists. This year's juror will be Lexington, North Carolina artist, Jim Moon. More information of Jim Moon can be found at jimmoon.net This event is free of charge.

Introductory Traditional Tinsmithing with Kitty Latane

08/13/2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

In this one-day workshop you'll learn traditional techniques for cutting, shaping and soldering tin plate. Design, form and solder your own one-of-a-kind tin cookie cutter and/or other simple tin project, including flour scoops, tree ornaments and candle sconces. Fee: Jax Member $81, General Public $100.

17th Century Axe Head with Thomas Latane

08/13/2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Get in touch with your inner Viking! In this week-long course with master blacksmith Thomas Latan, students will forge either a battle axe or hewing hatchet with a tapered rectangular eye socket. Fee: Jax Member $405, General Public $500.

Next-steps in Traditional Tinsmithing with Kitty Latane

08/15/2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

In this 3-day intensive tin-smithing course, students will learn to make complex projects such as canisters, cups or candle sconces using traditional tin-smithing techniques. Traditional construction includes forms such as wired edges, folded joints and soldered seams. Fee: Jax Member $243, General Public $300.

Beekeeping: Honey Harvest, Mite Treatments, and Winter Preparation with Gunther Hauk

08/18/2012 - 9:00am - 4:00pm

For advancing beekeepers, this workshop covers honey harvest, mite treatment and winter preparation as well as a review of colony development over the summer months. Emphasis will be given to individual questions or problems encountered since spring. We will look ahead into the winter and early spring months and will include beneficial plantings for fall and following spring. The practical part of the workshop will be at the sanctuary. Fee: Jax Member $65, General Public $65.

Jewelry: Primitive & Modern with Carly Burke & James Quinn

08/09/2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Hammer your way to beautiful unique copper, brass and bronze jewelry. Students in this class will work in the center's blacksmithing forge with plate and wire metals to make unique bracelets, earrings, rings and/or pendants. Students will have the opportunity to learn a variety of skills using hammers as well as saws, shears, chisels, and the anvil to cut, forge, texture, shape and bend the metals; annealing the metals with a torch or forge to soften it between hammering sessions. Fee: Jax Member $81, General Public $100.

Mud Cloth Dyeing with Kathleen Hill

05/19/2012 - 10:00am - 05/19/2021 - 5:00pm

Use different colors of mud to produce traditional, graphic, Mali designs on cloth using theboolanfini; method. Finished pieces can be used in clothing, pillows or totebags. Fee: $75 Tuition.

Practical Business Tips For Artisans

08/20/2012 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Social Media, Marketing, and Pricing Your Work. This event is free of charge.

Conversations

08/16/2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

An informal artisan gathering to network and learn. This event is free of charge.

One-on-One VHCC-SBDC Business Counseling

08/01/2012 - 10:00am - 1:00pm

The counseling is designed to help business owners and potential business owners cultivate necessary skills. This event is free of charge.

Practical Business Tips For Artisans

08/21/2012 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Social Media, Marketing, and Pricing Your Work. This event is free of charge.

Beginning Old-Time fiddle with Nick McMillian

07/10/2012 - 5:30pm - 08/07/2012 - 6:45pm

Learn basics of tuning, holding a fiddle, using the bow, and playing a tune by ear. Tab can be provided if needed. Make sure your fiddle is ready to play. Bring a recording device.

Tuition: $62.50

Level: Beginner

Age: Teen - Adult

Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle with Nick McMillian

07/10/2012 - 7:00pm - 08/08/2012 - 8:15pm

Learn to play by ear, with an emphasis on bowing techniques and tunes in standard and cross-tunings. Nick learned from his grandfather, legendary Surry County fiddler Dix Freeman and plays with Backstep, his family band. No tab-bring a recording device.

Tuition: $62.50

Level: Intermediate

Age: Teen - Adult

Create Your Own Pottery Mug with Ann Childress

07/17/2012 - 5:30pm - 08/07/2012 - 7:30pm

Make that 'perfect mug' - one that feels so good inyour hand and looks great too! Emphasis will be on throwing and trimming cylinders and attaching comfortable and attractive handles.

Tuition: $100.00

Supply Fee: $1 per lb of clay used

Level: Beginner

Age: Teen - Adult

Handbuilt Pottery with Brittany Luksic

07/12/2012 - 5:30pm - 08/02/2012 - 7:30pm

Learn to mae, glaze, and fire hand-built pottery pieces including whistles, boxes, and vases. Use pinch slab and coil methods to create uniquehand-built pieces through this fun introductory course.

TuitionL $100.00

Supply Fee: $1 per lb of clay used

Level: Beginner

Age: Teen - Adult

Beginning Pottery with Britanny Luksic

07/14/2012 - 10:00am - 08/04/2012 - 12:00pm

As an introduction to wheel-throwing, learn how to center and move clay to create the basic cylinder. Make bowls, mugs, and pithers, as well as glaze and fire final products.

Tuition: $100.00

Supply Fee: $1 per lb of clay used

Level: Beginner

Age: Teen - Adult

Menagerie

08/20/2012 - 10:00am - 10/11/2012 - 4:30pm

The Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley will again host Menagerie for the artist of the New River Valley (Pulaski, Montgomery, Giles, Floyd and Wythe Counties; Cities of Radford, Salem, Roanoke and Galax), or who have previously exhibited work at the Fine Arts Center within the past two years.

August Music, Mead & Cider

08/11/2012 - 11:00am - 5:00pm

Experience two originals—enjoy local music and taste award winning cider and mead just 2 miles apart near the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwest Virginia. At Foggy Ridge Cider, sip cider overlooking heirloom apple orchards. Enjoy mead on the Blacksnake Meadery’s ‘Sippin Porch. All this plus creative tunes from talented musicians.

The Mountain Road Wine Experience -Art Down the Parkway

08/18/2012 - 11:00am - 08/19/2012 - 5:00pm

Visit Foggy Ridge Cider plus five wineries and Blacksnake Meadery in a self-guided tour near the Blue Ridge Parkway. Seven unique locations representing the area’s distinct artisan beverage makers feature fine wine, mead or cider, plus the best artisan craftsman in this rich artistic corner of Virginia. $25 in advance (by August 8) or $35 at the door covers beverage pairings at all seven locations, plus curated exhibits of local pottery, handmade paper, furniture and jewelry.

Patriotic Project

08/27/2012 - 2:00am - 7:00am

The Coeburn Kiwanis Club will sponsor, as a part of the Guest River Rally, a free patriotic workshop to make a high quality, retractable wooden pen to be sent to our troops overseas. This is part of a nationwide program and there is no charge. Experienced woodturners, from the local woodcarvers group, will be on hand to coach your work on a number of wood lathes.

Learn a new skill on a wood lathe along with your neighbors and send a valuable hand mad egift to an American soldier as he or she guards our freedom in another land.