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Add personality and charm to your outdoor space! Create your own vision with these pre-welded blooms. You can shape, twist and choose a finish for your own unique piece of art.
Class size 6
Level Intermediate and above
Student Supply List Wear work clothing and work shoes, preferably cotton material, no shorts or sandals. Safety glasses and gloves will be available at the class but if you have your own please bring them. You may bring your own blacksmithing tools if you’d like, just have them identified as yours.
This workshop requires a Woodlanders Day Fee. Learn more here.
Bob Tuftee has been blacksmithing almost 30 years now. “I started out making ironware for my camping gear doing Mountain Man rendezvous events.” Bob lives in LeClaire, Iowa, and has done all kinds of blacksmithing, including forge work for his business, Upper Mississippi Valley Mercantile Company. He has sold to re-enactors across the country and has also sold ironware to movie and production companies. He has been the village blacksmith at Pioneer Village in Scott County Park, Davenport, Iowa, for the past 25 years, plus teaching and leading workshops at the Old Blacksmith Shop at the Galena History Museum in Illinois. Bob is an active member of ABANA (Artist Blacksmith Association of North America), IVBA (Illinois Valley Blacksmith Association), and UMBA (Upper Midwest Blacksmith Association), and is currently a board member of UMBA. He has taken several advanced blacksmithing classes throughout the years. Most of his blacksmithing work is done in a coal forge. Bob retired in 2012. He worked almost 45 years in skilled trades as a millwright and certified welder, the last 28 at Alcoa in the Davenport area.
Workshops
Add the $115 Woodlanders Day Fee for Saturday (or $60 Half-Day Fee) to your cart, then select as many Saturday workshops as you wish, ensuring that your choices don’t overlap times. Materials fees listed at the end of each workshop description will be added to the shopping cart as you make your selections.
Day fees include: your choice of workshops, lunch, snacks, beverages, and evening activities. Thursday and Sunday registrants are welcome to attend evening events on Friday or Saturday.
Half-day fees include: your choice of morning/afternoon workshops, am/pm snacks, and beverages. Does NOT include lunch, which can be purchased separately.
Saturday, July 13, Workshop Schedule:
7:30-8:30 am Registration & Morning Treats | Silent Auction | Art Cafe
8:30-11:30 am
C02 Get a (Rustic) Handle On It (reprise!) with Lindy Wilson | Potters House
C03 Silk Scarf Dyeing & Painting with Nancy Welch | Lind North
C04 Rustic Garden Bench with Jim Arendt & Max Kulick | Cabinet Shop
C06 Bloom—Kinetic Yard Art with Bob Tuftee | Blacksmith Barn
8:30 am-4 pm
C01 Carve a Shorebird with Nick Scheuer | Lind South
C05 Nature-Inspired Wall Art with Jamie Rogness & Regina Riley | Ellery House
12-1 pm Lunch on the Green | Silent Auction Closes
1-4 pm
C07 Gyotaku-Fish Printing with Cathy Kitto | Potters House
C08 Mosaic Birdie with Luann Smith | Lind North
C09 Rustic Serving Tray with Carole Spelic | Cabinet Shop
C10 Traditional and Rustic Toys & Games with David Eagan | Green
1-5 pm
C11 Twig Table Lamp with Todd Kingery | Green
5:00 pm Picnic on the Green
6:00 pm Fun Evening Event
18 Shake Rag St.
Mineral Point, WI 53565
(608) 987-3292
