Blacksmith Demo & Workshop
with Douglas Garey,
Penny Redmon Visiting Lecturer
Demo, Lecture, & Workshop: February 18
2 Sessions | 9AM-12PM & 1PM-4PM | Demonstration Ongoing
204 S Austin St Rockport, TX
$50 Supply Fee | Members Only
Workshop Description
Join Douglas Garey in learning the basics of blacksmanship. Douglas will demonstrate and lecture about his blacksmith techniques. Participants will then make a number of small articles. The participants will get a taste for hammering on the hot iron and learn to make some simple tools.
Requirements:
Students must be a member in order to attend the lecture and participate in the workshop.
All supplies included.
About the Instructor
Douglas Garey, Blacksmith, is an artist who combines his keen observation of shape and form with his love and respect for nature. His degree is in entomology, but his training in blacksmithing from Frank Turley in Santa Fe in 1982 set him on his present path of architectural, functional and artistic ironwork. He resides in Ingram , Tx.
About the Penny Redmon Visiting Lecture Series
Established by Mary Evelyn Atkinson in 2016 The Penny Redmon Visiting lecturer Fund promotes artistic excellence in adult learners. Visiting lecturers put forth a lecture and then a lesson plan featuring innovative art techniques, methodologies and use of atypical materials to create art. Since 2016 the Fund has brought a total of 11 artists from different parts of the United States to teach non-traditional, new artistic techniques. Workshops and lectures are offered free to members of the Rockport center for the Arts. Through The Penny Redmon Fund, Rockport Center for the Arts maintains Rockport’s long-standing tradition of artist mentoring and the promotion of excellence. Atkinson was Rockport Art Festival Master Artist in 1998.