Waterford Craft School

Make by hand.

Julie Goforth

Survival Camp

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Age Group: (Ages 11 – 15)

Instructor: Laura Handley

Date: August 1 – 5

Time: 8 AM – 2 PM

Tuition:  $300

Materials Fee:  $40

PRCS Activity #: 709734

Description:  Explore Waterford, a preserved 19th century village and the surrounding rural landscape, while learning essential survival skills. The topics of water & fire, food, medicine, signaling & navigation, and survival kits will be covered in depth. Campers will receive a kit that includes a fire-safe drinking cup, compass, and 3.6” fixed blade knife.

Please Note: Loudoun PRCS is processing our Summer Camp registrations. Copy the PRCS Activity # noted above, click the ‘Register’ button below to transfer to PRCS Webtrac, then paste the Activity # in their search field.

Instructor Bio:  Laura Handley is a teacher and writer, with a deep interest in learning how to survive and thrive within the natural world. She picked up survival skills through years of hiking, camping, and foraging, and honed them as a teaching assistant and co-instructor at Advanced Survival Training in Fauquier County, VA. She is a high-school math teacher and volunteers extensively in habitat restoration and wildlife monitoring. She also blogs about her foraging and wildcrafting projects on Instagram as @fairfaxforager.

Fiber Arts Craft Camp

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Instructor:  Susan Withnell

Dates: August 1 – 5

Tuition: $150

Materials Fee:  $40

Morning Session: Ages 8 – 13

Time: 9 AM – 12 PM, Daily

PRCS Activity #: 709250-01

Description:  Campers will explore the world of fiber arts, with hands-on opportunities to create a variety of projects! Each day will include time for creativity, education, fiber arts-related storytelling, and overall fun with fiber. Campers will try their hand at hand spinning wool yarn, felting, weaving, quilting, and cross-stitch. There will be an opportunity to meet some fiber-producing animals, up close and personal!

Please Note: Loudoun PRCS is processing our Summer Camp registrations. Copy the PRCS Activity # f0r the morning or afternoon session noted above, click the ‘Register’ button below to transfer to PRCS Webtrac, then paste the Activity # in their search field.

Instructor Bio:  Susan Withnell has been hand spinning and weaving for over 20 years while running her fiber arts business, Ewes-Ful Fiber Arts.  She raises high percentage Wensleydale sheep (known for their excellent spinning fleeces), alpaca, and angora rabbits on her Maryland Farm. She is a Waterford Landmark Artisan, and earned the distinction of being the 2020 Waterford Artisan of the Year for her commitment to the Waterford Fair and its educational mission. As an elementary school teacher, she started a fiber arts club for her students, and since retiring, teaches fiber arts summer camps for children and classes for adults.

Karen Wychock

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Basket-Making

Working over wooden molds, in the method of the Shakers, Karen’s baskets are traditional in shape and materials. She weaves both Shaker reproductions in ash and traditional, utilitarian baskets of reed. Native hardwoods such as ash and oak are used to make the rims and handles, and all of her baskets are lashed using ash. Each basket takes on its own character as it is woven in a quatrefoil. Twill or fancy lace patterns appeal to both eye and touch.

Karen was an art teacher for 22 years in the Neshaminy School District, Langhorne, PA, before becoming a middle school principal for 15 years in both the Neshaminy School District and the Central Bucks School District.

She is a member of the Bucks County Craftsmen’s Guild, the Bucks County Hand Weaver’s Guild and the PA Guild of Craftsmen. She sells her work at various shows and galleries throughout the northeast (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, and Ohio), and has the earned the distinction of Waterford Landmark Artisan for her commitment to the Waterford Fair and the Waterford Foundation. She is also president of the Penn-Jersey Basket Weavers Guild and teaches both children and adults.

Susan Withnell

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Hand Spinning Wool

Susan is a hand spinner and weaver, operating her fiber arts business, ‘Ewes-Ful Fiber Arts’ for over 20 years. She raises high percentage Wensleydale sheep (known for their excellent spinning fleeces) on her Maryland Farm. She uses these fibers in the hand spun and hand dyed yarns she sells at fiber art and craft shows. Susan has been a juried, demonstrating artisan at the Waterford Fair for over 10 years, earning the distinction of ‘2020 Waterford Artisan of the Year’ for her commitment to the Waterford Foundation and her excellence as a Fair demonstrating artisan.

Susan is also a retired elementary school teacher, who created and led a fiber arts club for her students. She enthusiastically continues to share her knowledge with the public, teaching hand spinning on drop spindles and spinning wheels to adults, and summer Fiber Arts Craft Camps here in Waterford for young people ages 8 – 13. She also has demonstrated hand spinning at the Great Yorkshire Agricultural Show in Harrogate, England. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from this engaging artisan!

Brett Walker Bt. W. & Co.

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Leather Making 101 & 102 and Colonial Camp

Mr. Walker is a formally trained master boot-and shoe-maker who has practiced his art for the past 19 years. Four were as an apprentice and five as a journeyman with Colonial Williamsburg.

Mr. Walker is an historian/educator and a true craftsman.  He likes to tell the early American story by exploring the everyday experiences of everyday colonists to discover how their lives were shaped. He teaches a range of 18th century skills learned from working with museums and living history programs.  The two classes he will be teaching at the 2019 Craft School will be based on specific 18th century artifacts.

Linda VanHart

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Silversmithing

Linda Van Hart was named National Art Educator of the year for excellence in the classroom, writing curriculum as the National Curriculum Chair, and arts advocacy beyond the classroom. Making Art and teaching Art is her life.

Linda is a fifth generation Carroll County Marylander who travels the world doing botanical portraits. In her fifth decade of teaching art and metalsmithing, she continues to find creative adventures in her raison d’être. She participates in a few high end juried and gallery shows every year, such as the Waterford Fair. Linda is in many private collections in the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Scotland and Russia.

Locally, Linda is represented by Off Track Art in Westminster and NOMA in Frederick, MD. She teaches metalsmithing in the Mid-Atlantic region, and is the Visual Arts Coordinator at Common Ground on The Hill.

Caroline Twigg

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Rug Hooking

Caroline first learned to hook at the local library; she was taught to pull loops but knew there was more to learn. Caroline started searching for teachers and soon was organizing classes to learn how to dye wool. Once she started hooking she never looked back. She has taught at Association of Traditional Hooking Artists Biennial, and Rug Hooking Retreats at Sauder Village.

Caroline and her husband Ron live in a hand hewed log home along with their beloved beagles Otis and Maple. Ron has lovingly converted their attic into a beautiful studio, Eagles Nest.

Tim Rose

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Hard Cider: Home Brewing Basics

Distillery Lane Ciderworks is a family-owned and run orchard located in the shadow of the Appalachian Trail in rural Maryland. They have 3500 trees with over 45 different apple varieties, producing national and international award-winning hard ciders with their fruit.