Instructor: Alexandra Forbes

Come carve and shape a kitchen-ready cooking spoon or spatula out of cherry, curly maple, and other New England hardwoods. You'll shape, carve, and finish pre-cut wood pieces, while learning about a number of different carving tools, including antique spokeshaves, rasps, bent knives and gouges. Finally, sandpaper and oil will help polish and bring your piece to a fine polish. This class take place in-person at AVA. A $20 materials fee will be applied at check-out.

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Alexandra Forbes has explored wood and woodcraft since she was a teen in California and in the Alaska wilderness, carving bowls and small expressive pieces. In her twenties she began teaching woodcraft in northern Vermont to adults and children in a rural public elementary school. Later she designed and built several saunas and a sailing dory and started sculpting furniture pieces including driftwood lamps, mirrors and chairs. Recently she has brought her spoon and ladle carving workshop out into the community in a small gypsy style studio wagon she built. Alex has taught workshops in the Alaskan wilderness, Green Tara gallery in Northern Vermont, the Shelburne Craft School, the Craft Center Snow Farm and in her home studio in Plainfield, Vermont. Click here to see Alexandra in action.