Blackhawk Carving Club Rockford

Blackhawk Carving Club Events

Meeting Schedule

Carving sessions every Wednesday 8:30-11:00 am (Visitors always welcome). Monthly business meeting - third Wednesday of the month, at 9:00 AM. Ken-Rock Community Center/Sacred Heart Academy (large dining/meeting room) 3218 Eleventh Street, Rockford, Illinois 61109 map and directions

At our meetings, carvers often bring in work they have finished. We all get to see and appreciate their results. Friends and spouses of carvers are especially welcome to visit and meet carvers.

Club Activity Schedule

April 4 open carving
April 10 Rockford Art Museum Tour
April 11 open carving
April 18 meeting & Welsh Love Spoons by Gary Curl
April 25 open carving
April 28 open house 9 am—3 pm

May 2 Caricature Carving by Carol Leavy
May 9 open carving
May 16 open carving and meeting
May 23 open carving
May 30 open carving

June 6 open carving
June 13 open carving
June 14 Club Picnic at Baumann Park 3 – 8 pm (Thursday)
June20 open carving and meeting
June27 open carving

July 4 open carving
July 11 open carving
July 18 meeting and meeting
July 25 open carving

Classes at the Center for Learning in Retirement

Your First Woodcarving Join us for your first experience of woodcarving and take home your completed rosette carving. A $5 materials and tools fee payable to the instructor covers all needs for this class. Enjoy the thrill of woodcarving with direction from a wood carver with 25 years of experience. NOTE: For beginner carvers only! Instructor is Don Stansfield. Monday April 16 at 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Place: RVC Bell School Road Center, room 2. Fee $15.00

Club Open House, Show, & Sale Saturday 28 April 2018

Blackhawk Woodcarvers will hold an Open House with displays of our wood carvings on Saturday 28 April 2018 at our normal carving and meeting room at Ken Rock Community Center. We are seizing an opportunity to showcase our club and the wonderful art and craft of woodcarving that our members produce and to help expand our club exposure to the area public. This event will also allow members to sell their carvings as well as for interested visitors to purchase tools, supplies, and carvings.

This event will be held at the same time as a Craft Show held by Ken Rock. They will hold their Craft Show in the gym; and we will use our normal area, the cafeteria dining ro om. The Craft Show is set to run from 9 to 3 and we will plan to do the same. We will both benefit from their advertising and traffic generated.

All club members are invited to participate with display of their work and, of course, we will need you to make this an enjoyable event and a success!

Tyrone Johnsen

2018 Blackhawk Woodcarvers Annual Picnic

The 2018 Blackhawk Woodcarvers Annual Picnic will be held on Tuesday, 12 June, at Bauman Park in Cherry Valley, Il. from 3:00pm until sunset. Members attending should provide their own meal and may bring a dish to pass. The club will provide water and soft drinks. If members plan on grilling they may use the grills provided at the park, bring your own charcoal and starter. If you have any questions, contact Tony DeVito or Gary Lundquist.

Gary Lundquist

Carving Books With Carving Blanks Kits

Don Stansfield will have the book First Projects for Woodcarvers by Larry Green and Mike Altman with woodcarving blanks for the book's projects available as a kit for $30.00. The projects are carving a boot, dog, and nativity. Prices for individual items are: Book $12.00; Boot $2.25; Dog $3.00; Nativity $20.00. This is a good beginner's book with good information on wood, tools, sharpening and good projects.

He will have a similar kit available in the near future with the book Carving Small Characters by Jack Price. This book has projects that are good learning experiences and a lot of fun.

Learning Seminar

Michigan Wood Carvers, May 21 through 25, 2018 at the fairgrounds in Midland, MI 6905 Eastman Ave, 48642. 17 instructors.

Wayne Barton, Chip Carving advanced
Gary Bityk, Architectural fantasies in cottonwood bark
Carol Jean Boyd, Cyprus Knee carving
Doug Evans, Beginning Carving
Gary Falin, Charicature carving/hand
Dave Stirling, S. W. Owl-power
Leah Goddard, realistic animal, carve and paint, hand and power
Chris Howard, Native American/ power carved
Dick Lamphier, Realistic cariature; expressions and details/hand
Brenda Lodermeier, Wood burning
Floyd Rhadigar, Caricature carving
Dave Sharp, Realistic animal
Fred & Elane Stenman, Shaoolw relief/wood burning/painting
Bob Thurston, Caricature carving
Debbie Edwards, Realistic animals
Bruce Henn, Caricature carving

Michigan Wood Carvers website is www.miwoodcarvers.com

Classes at the Woodcraft Shop

Carving Caricatures with Floyd Rhadigan, Caricature Soldiers
March 9, 10 and 11, 2018. Friday to Sunday: $185 plus roughouts: $15 to $55

Carving Fur,Hair and Curly Beards with Joe Land
Friday to Sunday: May 11, 12and 13, 2018 - $185 (+ a $24 material fee)

Medium Relief Woodcarving with John Engler
Friday to Sunday: May 25, 26 and 27, 2018 - $185 (prestenciled blanks are $35+)

Realistic Bird Carving and Painting with Josh Guge, Vermilion Flycatcher
Friday to Monday: September 14, 15, 16 and, 2018 - $270.00 + a $20.00 Material fee

The Woodcraft Shop, 2724 State Street, Bettendorf, IA 52722
www.thewoodcraftshop.com

2018 Congress Seminar Registration Maquoketa, IA

5 Day Class : Monday, June 11 to Friday, June 15 $225.00
Chris Howard - Realistic Human Bust Carving
Janet Denton Cordell - Human Figgres, Animals
John Engler - Relief Carving and Painting
Vic Hood - Carvinga bust in butternut
Leah Goddard - Realistic Animal Carving

3 Day Classes: Wednesday, June 13, to Friday,
June 15 $135.00
Carole Jean Boyd - Carving Santa Bottlestopper
John Guge, Carving & Painting a Rufous Hummmingbird
Denny Neubauer - Carving little people
Bruce Shostak - A beginners intro to woodcarving
Rick Harney - Portrait relief carving
Alec LaCasse - Realistic bark carving
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography
Ryan Olsen - Caricature Carving
Jan Jensen - Old world Chip Carving

2 Day Classes: Monday, June 11, June 12 $90.00
Alec LeCasse - Realistic bark carving
Jan Jensen - Old world chip carving
Ryan Olsen - Caricature carving
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography

1 Day Class: Saturday, June 16 $45.00
Denny Neubauer - Knife sharpening
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography
Ryan Olsen - Caricature carving

For more information go to thewoodcraftshop@mchsi.com

The 52nd Congress will be held in Maquoketa, IA, the 2nd full week of June - 6/09/18 through 6/17/18.

The 2018 final schedule will be published closer to Congress. The following tentative schedule is subject to change; please check back.

Saturday, June 9 & Sunday, June 10

Carry in carvings - times to be announced. (Tentative times: noon-5:00 Saturday, noon-4:00 Sunday)

Monday & Tuesday, June 11 & 12

Closed Judging - showroom closed to all but IWC Board and volunteers

Monday, June 11 through Saturday, June 16

Seminar sessions: Doors open for instructors at 7:30 am. Students not admitted until 8:00 am, to allow instructors time to set up for the day, etc.

Wednesday, June 13

Show setup - showroom closed to all but IWC Board and volunteers

Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15

Competition Showroom open 10:00 AM thru 5:00 PM

Five and Three Day seminars in their last day

Saturday, June 16

Competition Showroom open 10:00 AM thru 5:00 PM

Saturday classes start at 8:30 AM and end at 4:30 PM

Judges Critiques Session 1:00 PM, in the back of Pearson Hall

Annual Awards Banquet, Pearson Hall (Cash bar 5:00 PM, Dinner 5:30 PM)

Sunday, June 17

Competition Showroom open 10:00 AM thru 4:00 PM

Annual Membership Meeting, 10:30 AM, same area as Judges Critique

Judges Critiques Session 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM, same area as Saturday

Silent Auction bidding closes at 2:30 PM, held right in the Competition Showroom

End of Show; carvings are released for pickup at 4:00 PM (Not before, so please don't ask).

Monday, June 18

Show breakdown and clean-up - volunteers welcome!

All carvings not picked up will will be re-packed, labeled and taken to the Woodcraft Shop for return shipping. Please remenber that shipped-in carvings must have a prepaid return shipping label if they are to be returned by the same carrier.

All other items and displays related to the show must be cleaned out and returned to storage. Anyone still in town that can help the Board of Directors and local carvers with the process, please come to Pierson Hall at at 8:30 AM. Clean-up is usually done by noon; any and all help is greatly appreciated.

A few notes concerning the seminars:

We are fortunate that both seminar areas have concrete floors. We are asking everyone to police the area where they’re carving at the end of each day. That should keep the chips down to a reasonable level. On Friday when all the seminars wrap up, a thorough cleaning of all the seminar areas is necessary. Don’t think that “someone else will do it”. Everyone is responsible for the cleanup.
If you are using a carving stand that sits on the floor, please bring something to set it on, like a carpet remnant or rubber pad. If you are clamping a holding device to the table, you need to cushion that also. We need your cooperation to make a good impression in order to be invited back for years to come. If you are going to be standing for most of your carving session, we recommend bringing some sort of floor mat to stand on for your comfort. You also may want to bring a comfortable chair to sit on unless a folding chair works for you.
If your instructors are going to be painting or staining, we asked them to make sure the tables are covered very adequately in order to protect them. Please be very careful during the painting sessions to avoid any spills.
Lunch is available daily!!! There is a snack bar located right in Pearson Hall. They will be open from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM daily to serve your lunch needs. You can’t get any handier than that! They will be serving sandwiches (Sloppy Joes, BBQ Pork, Chicken Salad, Polish Sausage, Hot Dogs), Pizza Slices, Soup, Nachos, Chips, Ice Cream Bars, Candy, etc. etc. The menu will vary somewhat daily.
Lighting is not the best so you have to adjust accordingly. Bring your own supplemental lighting as well as a power strip and an extension cord. Please do not complain about the lighting; do something about it by bringing your own!
The two building we use are air conditioned! Are you hot blooded? Cold blooded? It’s hard to regulate the air-conditioning to suit everyone. More than likely it will be cooler than warmer, so if you chill easily bring a sweatshirt, sweater or whatever.

Mail In Carvings:

Ship mail-in carvings to The Woodcraft Shop, to arrive between May 14 and June 7. Ship to: AWC, Ltd. c/o The Woodcraft Shop, 2724 State St., Bettendorf, IA 52722. See packing recommendations on the Competition page to help ensure your carving arrives intact.

Musky Area Wood Carvers Workshop - August 14 - 17, 2018

Wes Spadgenske will be leading a class in carving Lady Slippers, the state flower of Minnesota.
Dan Haack will teach carving caricatures and wood spirits.
Bob Harris will be painting and carving a Baltimore Oriole.
Larry Stenzel will be teaching Wood Burning Basics.
Dave Kublank will teach a class in spoon carving.
Gordy Moscinski will teach a beginning carving class.
Denny Neubauer will be making a knife, a tin can forge and carving little people.
Elaine & Fred Stenman will be back to lead a class in low relief woodcarving.
Greg Wirtz will teach relief carving and will have multiple patterns to choose from.
James Thalacker will teach how to carve and burn a rainbow trout in basswood.
Lee Belanger will teach a class on carving a basswood "Whimsical Gnome Home".
Dorothy Huse and Sylvia Kendzior will be teaching a variety of gourd art.

For more information go to muskyareawoodcarvers.com