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BARN Summer Youth Classes

Registration is now open for classes in August! Weaving, Coding, Stained Glass, Woodworking, and more. Find out more here.

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A Summer of Creativity
Summer Youth Classes
Electronic & Technical Arts Classes
Fiber Arts Classes
Kitchen Arts Classes
Media Arts Classes
Metal Fabrication
Woodworking Classes
Writers' Classes
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A summer of creativity at BARN

BARN is getting ready to safely re-open our facility in early July. Until then, studios are offering online classes and open studio sessions that you can participate in from home. And BARN's popular Summer Youth classes are now open for registration.

BARN staff and volunteers have developed comprehensive COVID-19 safety protocols that will guide everything we do when we re-open. Our top priority will be to create a safe environment. There will be a hand-washing station at the entrance, as well as masks for those who need them. Social distance will be maintained at all times, and each studio has a customized plan for doing so. If you have any questions about BARN's safety protocols, please contact Facilities Manager Darryn Achall.

Read on to find out what you can make at BARN or at home in the months to come. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Summer Youth Classes

Summer Youth: Make It Out of Wood
4 sessions, Monday through Thursday, August 3 through August 6, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Learn to use woodworking tools safely, efficiently and with precision while you build one or more projects of your own design. Possibilities range from cell phone amplifiers and garden totes to desk or shoe organizers and jewelry holders. Or you might want to make a toy that you can give to a child. If you don't have an idea for a project you want to build, don't worry: We'll provide examples to get your creative juices going.

This class will focus on hand tools, which take more craftsmanship to master than power tools. You will learn how to "read" a board to choose the best places to cut specific parts, how to use measuring and marking tools, how to choose and use the appropriate saw to cut out parts, how to smooth the parts with hand planes, how to assemble pieces, and more. 

Learn more and register here.

More Summer Youth Classes: All Youth Classes

Electronic and Technical Arts (ETA)

VCarve Pro for CNC Routing (Online)
3 sessions, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday June 16,18 and 20, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

**This class will be conducted online with Zoom.**

Learn the basic features of VCarve Pro, a popular program used to make signs, engravings, intricate inlays and imported 3D shapes and models on computer-controlled routers. VCarve Pro is easier to learn than Fusion 360, the other 3D design program taught at BARN, and can be used for projects on both the large CNC router in the Woodworking Studio and the small CNC router in the ETA Lab.

This class focuses on how to use the program to design a project. You will learn how to create a CNC job, design vectors using basic shapes and basic text, edit and transform vectors, import 3D clipart and models, create tool definitions, create and manage toolpaths, and save g-code for machining on a CNC router. You will not run the router, but this class does qualify you to take a later class where you will design a project in VCarve Pro and then cut it on one of the routers.This first class will also qualify you for future studio-specific classes using CNC routers.

Learn more and register here.

More ETA Classes: All ETA Classes

Fiber Arts

Summer Youth: Learning to Weave - Make a Wall Hanging
4 sessions, Monday through Thursday, August 10-13, 9:00 AM to Noon

Want to learn to weave? This class is for you. Using a loom that fits in your lap, you will practice basic weaving techniques while making a small wall hanging. Over four mornings, you will learn how to “warp” a loom, create patterns using at least two colors of “weft” yarn and learn how to finish your weaving. You will also have the option of taking your loom home each day. As time allows, you may be able to finish a second weaving project.

Find out more and register here.

More Fiber Arts Classes: All Fiber Arts Classes

Kitchen Arts

Smart Cooking to Boost Your Immune System: Foods for a Healthy Heart (Online)
Sunday, June 7, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

**This class will be conducted online with Zoom.**

Research shows a plant-based diet doesn’t just prevent heart disease; it can also help manage and sometimes even reverse it. Because heart disease a chronic conditions that can make make people more susceptible to viruses, there may be no better time to consider switching to a diet that minimizes your risk.
Learn more and register here.

This class is part of a series of classes in which instructors Nancy Travis and health coach Cindy Thompson will explain the science behind low-fat, plant-based diets.

More Kitchen Art Classes: All Kitchen Classes and Orientations 

Media Arts & BCB

Making Effective Slide Deck Presentations (Online)
5 sessions, Monday, Thursday and Saturday June 8-18, time varies

**This workshop will be conducted online with Zoom.**

Whether you’re an educator, sales person, board member, artist, photographer or advocate, making presentations with slide deck software (Keynote, PowerPoint or Google Slides) has become part of your everyday toolkit. While this class will use Apple’s Keynote (ships standard and free on every Mac/iPad) as the demonstration vehicle, the concepts can be easily incorporated into Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Unfortunately, most presentations lack the impact to make sales, effectively communicate knowledge or change opinions. This workshop will give you the tools that take your presentations to the next level. Through a combination of examples, easy to learn techniques, specific software related tips, your slide decks and the associate narrative will be transformed from amateurish to professional, effective presentations.

Learn more and register here.

All Media Arts Classes and Orientations

Metal Fabrication

Summer Youth: Metal Fabrication Sampler (Ages 12-18)
4 sessions, Monday through Thursday, August 10-13, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

This class is an opportunity for you to learn how to work with metal in a variety of ways!  Over the course of four afternoons you will be introduced to the tools in our sheet metal and metal machining shops and create some cool metal items to take home.

Half of the class time will be spent learning how to make shapes on the metal lathe and refining your skills to make a functional brass spinning top. The other half will be spent learning and practicing how to use sheet metal tools such as the jump shear, roller, and spot welder so you can complete a cool artistic sculpture. 

Summer is a great time to gain new skills you can't learn in school.  We hope you can join us!

Learn more and register here.

More Metal Fabrication Classes:

All Metal Fabrication Classes and Orientations

Woodworking

Summer Youth: Make an Electric Guitar (Ages 14-18)
6 sessions, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday, August 10-20

Build a classic Fender-style electric guitar in this six-session class held partly in BARN's Woodworkiing Studio and partly in the Electronic & Technical Arts Studio.

You will learn how traditional luthiers make their design choices and discuss tone wood and pickup choices. Then you will learn  how modern electric guitars are made using computer-aided design and manufacturing tools. The instructors will demonstrate modern guitar design and manufacturing techniques, using CAD software and BARN's CNC router.

Learn more and register here.

Woodworking Safety videos: You'll find an informative series of videos on the safe use of BARN's woodworking tools here.

See all Woodworking classes here.

Writers

Nature as Tool, Antidote and Inspiration in Writing (Online)
Tuesday, June 30, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

**This workshop will be conducted online with Zoom.**

Learn and practice Earthy ways for engaging your writing process and feeding the content of your written work. Come to understand how the natural world and ecology can be used as tools, antidotes (especially for writer’s block), and inspiration for your writing and your life.

 Specifically, students will be:

  • given foundational information about the nature/creativity connection
  • guided through a sampling of free-writes and practices
  • guided through general ways to incorporate nature into their writing projects and creative process, coming to understand the role and benefit of such
  • given an opportunity to receive feedback about how to implement these practices specifically in relation to their own projects or creative impasses
Learn more and register here.

More Writers Studio Classes:

All Writers' Classes...

Get connected to the Artisan Network

From Electronic & Technical Arts to Writers, here's a list of the groups that are currently part of BARN, plus the name of the studio lead and links to get you connected. Looking for general information? Contact the administrative staff at info@bainbridgebarn.org
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