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Period 1
9 - 10:15 am
Period 2
10:30 - 11:45 am
Period 3
1 - 2:15 pm
Period 4
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Period 5
4 - 5:30 pm
Evening Events
6:45 pm +
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Art of Flint Knapping with Guy Neal
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
Stone tools were made all around the world. Discover this ancient craft to make something useful out of stone.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Blacksmithing from Beginning to Experiences with Shel Browder & Steve Mankowski
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
Blacksmithing for all levels.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Cherokee Pottery with Lillie Vann
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Create a small turtle using Cherokee symbols and techniques.
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Period 5
Class Spans
1 Period
Dugout Canoe with Ken Koons, Shel Browder and Steve Mankowski
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Help make a dugout canoe from a spruce log
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Earth Colors with Pat Brodowski & Ken Koons
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Making pigments extracted from plants and minerals
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Foraged Colors for Dyeing and Printing with Pat Brodowski
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Plants collected from the field become dyes and printing ink on cloth.
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Period 1
Class Spans
1 Period
From Earth to Art w Drew Shuptar-Rayvis
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
The Creation of Traditional Algonkian Musical Instruments and Pottery.
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Evening Events
Class Spans
1 Period
Gallery Talks
Available:
Week 2
Available:
Week 1
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn more about the work of our many wonderful Traditions Weeks Visual Arts instructors!
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Native American Ceramics and Dreamcatchers with Jeremy Wright
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Create a dream catcher, crafting beads and a hand worked form to be decorated with incised details.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Native American Flute Making with Jeremy Wright
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
Make your own Native American woodland flute, whose haunting sound will give you hours of enjoyment.
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Period 5
Class Spans
1 Period
Plants Speak with Pat Brodowski and Barbara Steele
Available:
Week 1
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Explore art, ceremony, history, and botany using ancient traditional approaches to plants.
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Period 2
Class Spans
1 Period
Susquehanna Indigenous Communities Past, Present, and Future w Jess McPherson
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
Discover the history and crafts of Indigenous cultures of the Lower Susquehanna River Valley, and how that has translated to the present.
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Something For Everyone
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Week 1
6/23/25
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6/27/25
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Week 2
7/7/25
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7/11/25
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Week 3
7/14/25
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7/18/25
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