Class and Demo Schedule

2012:

April 21 & 22: Lexington/Rockbridge Studio Tour. A great opportunity to snoop about my shop, as well as the studios of 10 other local artists. http://www.lexingtonrockbridgestudiotour.com

April 27 & 28: Smelting demo at the California Blacksmith's Association Spring Conference, Petaluma CA.
http://calsmith.org/

June 15-19: 5-day smelting class at Peter's Valley Craft Center. If you're truly serious about learning to smelt iron, this is the time and place to do it. We'll cover everything; charcoal-making, ore gathering and preparation, furnace construction, smelting, and forging. Each team will do two smelts, and split the resulting iron to take home. This class is hard work and big fun!
http://www.petersvalley.org/

July 18-21: Smelting and bloom forging demos at the Artist-Blacksmiths Association of North America in Rapid City, South Dakota. This one's a team effort with my pals Steve Mankowski and Shel Browder of Colonial Williamsburg.
http://www.abana.org/

October 20: Smelting demo at Rockbridge Farm Day. This'll be the first public smelt I've done for the local community.
http://www.rockbridgefallfarmday.com/

2013:

June 28- July 1, 2013: Caniron IX, the biennial gathering of Canadian Blacksmiths, at the Forges du Saint-Maurice National Historic Site of Canada.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/qc/saintmaurice/index.aspx