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The Collage Study Group is a group for collage artists to meet to share ideas, concepts and executions. It meets on the second Monday of each month from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Meetings may have topics or be work time, and formats may vary from month to month. This is a time to work together, share ideas, do demos and presentations, and when requested, constructive critiquing.
*Activities that require BARN Print Studio resources, training and/or additional materials are approved by the Print Lead/Steering Committee and posted separately. They are often space limited and all participants are required to sign up for them through the BARN website calendar.
Fees :
BARN Members - Free (Please register)
Non-Members - $24 for July through December 2019 meetings and must register.
Drop in visitors are welcome for any of the individual sessions and can attend meetings for a fee of $20 per meeting/sessions, payable with cash or check at the time of the meeting.
Skill Level: Universal -- All skill levels welcome
Ages: Ages 14+ Welcome. Bring a lunch if you like. There is a kitchen in which you can refrigerate and reheat food.
Please contact Meg Hartwell with any questions: megpat@centurylink.net
BARN members and members of the community are welcome to join a new informal singing group designed to build community and bring joy to all who participate or listen! No previous experience or audition is required. Music selections vary across many styles, including rounds and simple part-songs. We're looking forward to filling the BARN halls with music on an ongoing basis!
This event is free. No need to register, just drop on in. We will meet in the BARN's Great Room on the upper level. Meeting dates are the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Upcoming dates: July 9 July 23 August 13 August 27 Contact: Program Manager Jess Henderson JessH@bainbridgebarn.org 206-842-4475 x221
Word Sprint is a weekly time to write in the company of others. We write for twenty-five minutes, take a break, repeat. We'll turn dedicated, focused time into two of the most productive hours of our week!
There will be no sharing or critique, only fast-paced, supportive productivity in the company of other writers. It will be fun, exciting, and might be the thing to help you finish (or start...) your manuscript.
No need to register. Please contact Genevieve with questions.
Please note there will be no meeting on Thursday, July 4th.
Organizer: Genevieve Douglass Persen is a composer and writer.
This is a Member benefit with a fob that has been activated to access the studio.
No need to register just drop on by.
Prose Writers Group meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.
Interested in joining with this group?
Contact: John Porter porterjm17@gmail.com
Children's Writers Group meets the 2nd Tuesday, of every month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Contact: Bridgett Wonder bridgett_wonder@hotmail.com
Prerequisite: Introduction to the Milling Machine class or equivalent
This is a foundation class designed to provide what you need to know to safely operate BARN’s CNC Mill, and is the requisite for ongoing CNC classes. We’ll cover CNC basics beginning with the details of the machine understand motion on the X, Y, & Z axes that define the work envelope, how to hold material, various cutting tools, and the Standardized Tool Library and height offsets. We’ll also touch on different ways to generate g-code (the language that instructs the CNC machine what to do and where to do it), including the Centroid Interactive Conversation mode. Finally, we’ll create some simple g-code, cut some air and if there’s enough time, cut some material.
Details:
Prerequisites: Introduction to the Milling Machine class or equivalent
A materials fee of $10 is included in the price of the class.
Instructor bio:David Hays retired from his IT services company of 25+ years. As a young man, he worked as a machinist while gaining his engineering degrees, and went on in his later years to create his own hobby machine shop that included a DIY CNC mill.
Contact: Peter Moseley metal.lead@bainbridgebarn.org
Comics are a great tool for self care because in a short amount of time with just a pen and something to write on, you can tell a big story, reframe a moment, or just make something goofy that lightens your mood. In this workshop we’ll get confident making simple comics, and learn how our comic making practice can support our self care and wellbeing. We’ll play drawing games, learn how to express emotion with simple lines, tell the stories we want to tell, and play some more drawing games.
Students will need:
Age Level: Youth Class, Ages 13-18.
Vida Rose is a multidisciplinary artist and comics maker from Seattle. Her comics have appeared in Washington State Book award nominated "Ghosts of Seattle's Past" and Bunny Lee's Lotus anthology. Her self published comic "A Perfect Cope-ol" has received critical praise.
"In her illustrations and comics, Vida harvests not just nostalgia and wide-eyed curiosity, but also the raw and often hilarious vantage point from which children first experience the world. In so doing, she captures the stark honesty of earliest impressions, both the source of pure joy and our most deeply-rooted hurts."- Jaimee Garbacik, editor/curator of Ghosts of Seattle Past and author of Gender & Sexuality For Beginners
So you want to make something to put around your neck. What will it look like? Long? Short? In between? Will it be a pendant? Or have elements all around the neck? What sort of clasp will it have? In this class we will answer these and more questions about making necklaces.
Through demonstrations and individualized instruction, students will designs several types of necklaces. There will be some assignments but students will have time to explore their own creativity. Students will finish several pieces of jewelry and/or make samples as metal sketches.
Your favorite tools (studio tools will be available for use) Current projects you are working on, unfinished projects that you want to incorporate into a new design, previous projects you made to take apart and create anew.
Your favorite tools (studio tools will be available for use)
Current projects you are working on, unfinished projects that you want to incorporate into a new design, previous projects you made to take apart and create anew.
Instructor: Micki Lippe, currently living in Seattle, received a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1965. For the past 40 years her jewelry has been exhibited throughout the United States. Micki's work was a part of the 2010 Tacoma Art Museum Biennial and the 2017 metals exhibition at Bellevue Arts Museum. Her jewelry has been shown in many books - including Adorn and the 500 Earrings book. In 2010 she was awarded the Alumni of Distinction from Washington University, her alma mater. In 2015 Micki was the recipient of the Seattle Metals Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Micki has taught jewelry classes in Seattle and other cities for many years.
She served as founder and president of the Seattle Metals Guild, on the board of Pratt Fine Arts Center and as president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. With the Guild she currently runs The Women's Shelter Jewelry Program and is chair of the Symposium Committee.
Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org
Golden and crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside: perfectly fried chicken is an art. In this hands-on class Chef Drew Flanders will show you how to master it, using a simple cast-iron skillet. You’ll break down a whole bird, and learn the secrets of how to marinate, season and fry it. You’ll also make authentic sides such as Summer Succotash and biscuits made from scratch. At the end of the day we’ll all sit down to enjoy a delicious meal and give thanks to the rich traditions of southern home cooking.
Instructor bio: Chef Drew Flanders grew up with two Southern grandmothers and in 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina blew through, moved to New Orleans, his “spiritual hometown.” He cooked at various restaurants in America’s greatest food city, and he loves any culinary opportunity to go back to his Southern roots. He is an instructor at the Seattle Culinary Academy and was Program Manager at FareStart in Seattle.
In this Sheet Metal Orientation and Tool Safety class, you will learn the proper use of the studio's tools and equipment; most importantly the brake and jump shear. You will try your hand with the studio's equipment, all of which is hand operated. Interested students are advised to attend before you sign up for classes or come to an Assisted Studio.
Participants must wear natural fiber clothing, long pants, closed toe shoes (natural fiber or leather), no stretch fabrics, and long hair tied back.
Teacher/Monitor: Linda Sohlberg Linda is a registered architect. She is also active in the woodworking studio at BARN.
Additional Contact -- Studio Lead: Chris Stanley
No registration needed. Free for members. Open to non-members. For non-members, there is a $20 drop-in fee payable to the studio monitor by cash or check made out to BARN.
All are welcome to drop by during this Open studio if you would like to observe.
Contact: ETA.LEAD@BainbridgeBARN.org
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This Combination Class for MIG or TIG Welding #3 and #4 is designed to efficiently let students complete either MIG or TIG #3 (Fabrication) OR #4 (Project/Practice) in the sequence leading to the use of the welding studio. Students should have completed Introduction to Welding #1 and #2 or MIG or TIG.
This 3 hour class allows each student to design and work on a project of their choosing under the guidance of a professional welder. Your project should be the culmination of what you have learned in prior classes. Details:
Bio:Erin Munter was raised locally on the Island. In her 20's she moved to Oakland California and attended the welding program at Laney College for 4 years. During this time she interned and volunteered at a metal arts school called The Crucible. She returned to Bainbridge Island and began doing furniture bases and other fabrication for Coyote Woodshop. Eventually she moved on to work at an Island fabricating shop as well as teach at another Kitsap area school aimed towards children's welding education. She still currently does fabrication all over Kitsap. Her passion is everything welded including large and small indoor and outdoor household amenities. She also takes part in the local art community with sculptures in local shows past and future.
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If only one student has registered 72 hours before the class, the class may be cancelled.
Learn basic safety principles of key woodworking power tools with the goal of being checked out to use them during the BARN Woodshop's 30 hours a week of Open Studio time. This is a hands-on course and students will be given a piece of wood to cut and shape according to specific measurements. (This is a companion to the Woodshop Tool Safety Checkout 2 class. The Woodshop Tool Safety 2 class may be taken before or after taking this Woodshop Tool Safety 1 class. Please see the calendar for more details.)
To use the shop, you will also need to attend our free one-hour Orientation to the Woodshop class.
Woodshop Tool Safety 1 will qualify you to use the following tools during Open Studio time and in classes that require certification in these tools:
Spend a day with Polly Adams Sutton learning techniques for creating a sculptural basket using artistic bead wire and her hand-gathered, meticulously prepared NW natural materials. Using inner cedar bark for the framework, or spokes, this sculptural basket employs basic twining with wire, to undulate, decorate, and shape this Western red cedar basket. The rim-finish is an easy lashed border of yellow cedar outer bark. Students will all create one beautiful artistic basket in this one day workshop. Materials Fee: $80 for basketry materials used to make your basket is included in the price of class.
Instructor Bio: Polly Adams Sutton is a Seattle artist. Her educational background was art with an emphasis on painting and printmaking. Once settled in the Pacific Northwest she was introduced to basketry through the Seattle Weaver’s Guild. It has been her practicing art ever since. She harvests cedar bark each spring in logging areas throughout Washington. Her sculptural work is primarily twined, although she experiments with wire as a woven element in her asymmetrical shapes. Her work is exhibited in galleries nationwide, and she has been recipient of many awards in juried exhibits, and was awarded an artist project grant in 2012 through the City of Seattle, to experiment with invasive vines in her work. She also received an Artist Trusts GAP Grant which she used in conjunction with a Seattle Weavers Guild Grant for investigating the basketry of Sardinia. Her piece is also on the cover of the book “500 Baskets”. Website: pollyadamssutton.com
Contact Polly at padamssutton@icloud.com
Come bring your work and join others of like mind while we make books, do letterpress and use the equipment. This is an independent work time, and limited supplies are available at cost.
Please register so we know how many will be coming. This is free for Members.
Guest price is $20.
This class will teach you use a milling machine to perform an operation called pocket machining. The pocket is a rectangular feature that has length width and depth. The skills you will gain are layout, edge finding, setup, milling, use of the digital readout and some shop math.
This class is most suitable for those that have had at least one other hands on class.
There will be a $5 material fee included in the price of class.
Teacher Bio: Jerry Erickson is an engineer, machinist and Inventor . He has been very active in the BARN Metals Fabrication shop and has taught a number of our classes. He works with a number of companies to help them develop new mechanisms and products and improve their existing ones.
Contact: Jerry Erickson, Jericksonhome@msn.com
Sign up to use the BARN Fiber Arts Studio Sailrite Industrial Machine. BARN members who are certified to use the Sailrite Industrial Sewing Machine can sign up for those open studio times when a Sailrite safety monitor is hosting the open studio.
PLEASE NOTE: Only some of the BARN Fiber Arts open studio times have the safety monitors trained to supervise any use of the Sailrite Industrial Sewing Machine.
Skill Level: BARN Member who has taken the Sailrite Industrial Machine Certification class and been certified to use the machine.
Ages: Ages 18+
Safety Monitor: Sybil Carrere
This make-up class date is for only students who attended the original class that began on July 17
Instructor:
Diane Crago received her degree in Fine Art from University of Washington. She has taught art for 45 years, most recently painting classes for employees at Microsoft on the Redmond campus, and for the Experimental College at U.W. She has shown her work internationally, and loves teaching small groups while retaining the private class experience. She specializes in teaching the techniques shown on her website www.dianecrago.com.
In this open studio one or more experienced machinists will be on hand to assist you with your project. The prerequisite for attending this Open Studio is Machine Shop Orientation and preferably at least one lathe and milling class.
Some experience with machine tools desired. Bring your own metal or plastic and hardware for your project. Bring safety glasses and hearing protection may be needed. We have ear plugs available.
Blacksmithing is heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer, anvil and chisel. Heating generally takes place in a forge fueled by propane, natural gas, coal, charcoal, or oil.
This Basic Blacksmithing Class is a 2-session class of three hours each. These two three hour hands-on class allow you to learn basic techniques such as drawing, bending, and twisting and then advance to splitting, scrolling, and punching. You will be able to design, complete and take home simple projects such as bracelets, triangles, hooks, spoons, tools and more. The class will include an introduction to heat treating if appropriate for the projects undertaken. Location: This is an off-site class. Alchemy Industrial Arts 9392 Wardwell Ave NEBainbridge Island, WA
Session 1:
Session 2:
Class Goals:
Jeremy Loerch is a successful small business owner of Monkey Wrench Fabrication studio, focused on original pieces made from all types of metal. Expertise includes teaching and curriculum development for youth, as well as adult programming. Contact: jeremy_loerch@hotmail.com or (206) 992-8509
Further Contact:
Henry Sharpe, BARN Welding Studio Lead, henrysharpe@gmail.com or (206) 708-0561
Get checked out on the Woodworking Studio’s major power tools not covered in the Tools 1 safety class. This Tools 2 safety class may be taken without first having taken the Tools 1 safety class. Provided you have also attended our free Orientation to the Woodshop class, completing Woodshop Tool Safety 2 will qualify you to use the following tools during Open Studio time or in classes that have this as a prerequisite:
Instructor: Mike Morgan
Letterpress Monitored Open Studio is for participants who want to practice what they learned in Letterpress introductory classes. Participants will work toward satisfying the qualifications needed for fob access to the studio to use the letterpress equipment and resources during Open Studios. A monitor will be present to assist you.
Please bring the Letterpress Instructional Packet you received as a handout from one of the introductory classes listed in the prerequisites below to guide your work.
If you have any questions, please contact Peggy Graving (peg10173@gmail.com).
Safety Monitor: Carol Latham
This class is designed to take pressure off students and parents surrounding what can—but needn’t—be an overly stressful process. We will discuss how to “triage” various essay prompts, how to make keeping track of deadlines and requirements as painless as possible, how to select a topic (i.e., a favorite story to tell about yourself), and how to begin structuring that story into a narrative that shows authentic self-awareness—and one that moves, interests, and perhaps even amuses you and your readers (college admissions officials) in the process. As in a typical writing workshop, we will begin to try those stories out on each other and offer constructive input as requested.
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Kirsten Foster has worked with high school students as a language and writing tutor and college essay advisor for over 15 years. She is the owner and founder of The Old Boar Study Commons, a tutoring and study hall in downtown Winslow on Bainbridge Island. A former attorney, she practiced general litigation and intellectual property law at Perkins Coie, LLP in Seattle. She studied Comparative Literature and European History at UC San Diego (with exchange terms at NYU in Paris, Dartmouth and UC Berkeley), where she tutored in the writing program and was nominated for a Mellon Fellowship by the Dean of American Literature. She later accepted a fellowship to study English in the Ph.D. program at Tulane University in New Orleans before eventually earning her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. There she served on the Legal Research and Writing Board and as an Editor on the American Journal of Criminal Law.
Jewelry Studio Skills Assessment
This class is designed for participants who want to have access to open studio times and already have previous experience making jewelry. Participants will need to demonstrate basic tool use and studio safety. For BARN Guests and Members, successful completion of the short class will be allowed access to the Jewelry Studio for working on projects of your choosing during monitored Open Studio hours only. This class does not apply to personal use of the kiln or casting equipment. Please note that the general open studios times are free to Members. For guests/non-members there will be a $20 drop-in fee (please bring cash or check made out to BARN) to use Open Studio. To view the Open Studio times click here.
Areas generally covered for the skills class:
Questions? Contact jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org
Are you seeking a new pathway into a rewarding career that does not require an academic degree? One that allows you to work with your hands and takes advantage of your creativity? There is a growing need for craftspeople and artists in the workforce. And young adults and people in transition need alternatives to a 4-year degree. Beginning in the fall of 2019, BARN will meet both of those needs by offering Certificate Programs in Woodworking or Jewelry-Making.
Certificate students will learn through classes, guided and independent studio time, and participation in community service projects. Students will progress through three quarters, gradually moving into more advanced application of needed skills and building a portfolio of work.
To read more about our general certificate program click here.
Interested? Drop on in and join us for one of three information sessions scheduled for: August 31 (1:00 PM to 2:00 PM) and September 12 (7:00 PM to 8:00 PM). Or contact BARN’s Certificate Program Coordinator Nanz Aalund by calling 206-842-4475, ext. 223, or by email (certifications@banbridgebarn.org) Career advisement and tuition assistance are available.
In this 2 session class, you will learn to use Fusion 360 to build a simple three dimensional model of your fidget spinner. Then we will learn how to use fusion 360 to output G code to run cutting paths on the CNC milling machine. Lastly we will cut out the body of your fidget spinner in plastic and insert three bearings into the spinner. Additional bearings can be purchased. Every student will take home a spinner that they have designed and built. Details:
*This class has a prerequisite. Please see below.
In this two session class, you will learn the basics of G-code programming used throughout industry for controlling machine tools, routers, plasma cutters, 3D printers etc. Chris writes G code to machine metal forming dies for his jewelry projects. The focus in this class will be on the coding necessary to control the BARN CNC milling machine. Chris has an interesting approach to coding Mill work using spreadsheets. By the end of this class you will have written code and cut out a simple project.
* Prerequisite: Introduction to the Milling Machine class or equivalent. There is an added $10 materials fee for stock and O'hds that is included in the registration fee.
Instructor: Chris Stanley
Chris is a master model maker, inventer, and fourth generation artist. He has taught a variety of classes in the industrial design department at the Art Institute of Seattle.
cstanley3@mac.com
This class is open to all levels.
There will be a $10 materials fee included in your registration fee. Remember to wear close-toed shoes & long pants in the Glass Studio at all times! This is a strictly enforced safety policy. Thank you.
Instructor: Gregg Mesmer has been cutting glass professionally for decades. He and his wife, Diane Bonciolini, moved to Bainbridge Island in 1977 and started the iconic Mesolini Glass Studio. The techniques they have used over the years are varied and diverse. Gregg's expertise is in techniques involved in fabrication, not only glass cutting, but also leading, soldering and glazing of stained glass windows. Over the years, he has taught for Northwest Art Glass, the Bainbridge park district and Olympic College.
Come join us in the BARN Fiber Arts Studio and Churchmouse for a sponsored charity knitting circle. Just bring your knitting needles. Everyone welcome!
Free to Members and Non-Members. Registration is not required. Held every month on the first Wednesday of the month from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.
We will be making soldered bezels and settings round or oval cabochon stones. The settings we will make will be simple and my end up as a pendant or ring. Students will be learning how to wrap a bezel, solder it to a base, file, (maybe) saw or use other hand tools, use a flex shaft, set a basic cabochon cut stone, sand, and have and introduction to polishing.
If you have and want to use your own, stones or detail wires (bead wire, gallery wire or twist wire)
Instructor: Jody Lyle is a goldsmith with over 25 years of experience designing and making jewelry. She has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas where she studied with world-renowned enamel artist Harlan Butt. She has continued here education over the years with apprenticeships, trade school training, and skill building classes. She believes in learning by doing, and continues to home her skills, practicing and acquiring new techniques from other jewelers and is continually expanding the definition of her jewelry.
