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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.

Something For Everyone

Schedule a week or two, or three! Or, just sprinkle some classes in between other commitments.

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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