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**Class canceled due to low enrollment. Registrant has been notified. 11/7/21 SK

Learn to carve faces -- a woodcarving art that includes working out proportions and learning techniques that will bring your characters to life.

Whether you are whittling a face on a small stick of wood or working on an intricate carving, all faces need details such as noses, eyes and lips, and subtle differences in how you carve these makes all the difference between faces that are happy, grumpy, sad or ecstatic.

This class is open to both beginning carvers and those who already have some carving experience, but beginners may not achieve the same level of detail in their carvings as more experienced students do.

Details:

• Ages 12 and older are welcome. No prior experience is required.

• Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.

• BARN will supply carving tools to share, but students are also encouraged to bring their own.
  

• You will build your carving skills much faster if you practice between sessions. If you want to work on your carvings during Open Studio times between classes, you must first take our free, one-hour Orientation to the Woodshop class. See the Woodworking calendar for dates. Use of the shop during these times is only for people 14+ years old. Open Studio is always free for members. Non-members can also use the shop without an additional charge for the duration of this class.
• BARN is practicing safety measures for the health and well-being of all participants, in accordance with state and CDC guidelines. BARN safety policies are here.
  
• Wear closed-toe shoes.

Instructor: Jeff Iller, who carved the face of Roger Lauen, a BARN founder, that is on the sign over the entrace of the Woodworking Studio.

As a third-generation woodworker, Iller learned about woodworking tools and knives early on. By high school, he was winning ribbons with his wood carvings at his hometown fair. Around 1996 Jeff found room for a shop and he has carved ever since. He’ll carve most anything, but prefers to innovate with the working tools to carve multiple parts inside one piece of wood and to make physically detailed and accurate carvings of women's faces.

Iller says he was taught early on that he could make anything from wood. He is still trying to prove that statement wrong.