Choose your days, then fill them with as many workshops as you can fit into your schedule (be sure your choices don’t overlap times). Register online or call our office.
Fees
Day Fee (Thursday-Saturday): $115Â includes your choice of workshops, lunch, snacks, beverages, and some evening activities.
Half Day Fee (Thursday-Sunday): $60 includes your choice of workshops, am/pm snacks, and beverages. Does NOT include lunch, which can be added on.
Material fees are additional and listed at the end of each workshop description. Friday and Saturday evening dinner picnics are also additional.
Friday & Saturday Evening Fun Events
July 14 Friday 6:30-8pm Woodlanders Olympics
Join us for a lawn games including classics like horse shoes at the Blacksmith Barn, bocce ball on the Green, giant Jenga alongside the stream, and a relay with summer silliness that includes important skills like transporting tablespoons of water over hurdles and under a limbo pole while employing team-building strategy. The winners will be crowned Woodlanders Olympians! Fun and free for Woodlanders participants, with some suds to wet your whistle!
July 15 Saturday 7:30-9:30pm Backyard String Band with the Prairie Lights String Band
At Alley Stage, you’ll be treated to the musical stylings of the Backyard String Band, a group of friends from the Mineral Point/Spring Green/Dodgeville area. Starting as a ukulele group, BSB has added guitars, violins, mandolins, an upright bass, hand percussion, and the random odd instrument to their ranks. BSB’s songs encourage you to smile and sing along! The Prairie Lights String Band is an acoustic trio offering unique takes on bluegrass, folk, Americana, country, and blues music. An intergenerational group in both membership and song selection, they perform a variety of arrangements spanning American roots to contemporary music. Open to the public. Tickets $5 & available at the door.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced craftsperson, you are in for an incredibly fun and creative time with nearly 40 nature-based workshops to choose from and more than 30 talented instructors to work with. Create rustic furniture, gourd art, pottery, or garden projects; try your hand at blacksmithing, woodcarving, nature printing, fabric dyeing, and more. Start your days with morning coffee and treats on the Art Cafe patio, enjoy daily lunches on the Green, and browse the incredible Woodlanders Silent Auction featuring rustic arts, nature crafts, books, tools, and more donated by instructors and students and benefiting Shake Rag Alley scholarship students. Take time to relax, soak up the sunshine, enjoy the company of a great group of nature-loving folks, and discover the magic of Shake Rag Alley’s lush gardens, tall trees, historic buildings, and natural spring-fed stream.
Come for a day, two, three or the entire four days and have the time of your life!Â
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
THURSDAY
Thursday, July 13
7:30-8:30Â Â Â Â Â Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30Â Â Embossed Gourd Vases: Deb Ready
8:30-11:30 Â Â Learn to Use a Pottery Wheel: Katie & Joelle White
8:30-11:30   Chalet die Bestäubern (The Pollinators’ Chalet): Carole Spelić
8:30-4:00Â Â Â Carve a Red-winged Blackbird: Nick Scheuer
8:30-11:30 Â Â Rustic Shelf: Phil Nelson
8:30-4:00 Â Â Â Woven Basket Tote: Regina Riley
11:30-1:00Â Â Â Lunch on the Green
1:00-3:30 Â Â Â Â Washi Egg Ornaments: Deb Ready
1:00-5:00    Farmhouse Clock: Carole Spelić
1:00-5:00Â Â Â Â Rustic Accent Table/Plant Stand: Dan Soman
1:00-4:30 Â Â Â Â Historical Blacksmith Display: Dennis McKernan
1:00-4:00 Â Â Â Â Nature’s Bounty – The Many Uses of Wild Plants: David Eagan
FRIDAY
Friday, July 14
7:30-8:30Â Â Â Â Â Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Â Â Forging Hooks & Leaves: Hal Aavang
8:30-11:30Â Â Leaf Stamp & Stitch Pillow Cover: Evy Thuli
8:30-11:30Â Â Broken Pieces Mosaic Tile: Cindy Fleming
8:30-11:30 Â Â Personalized Walking Stick: Marcia & John Whitt
8:30-11:30Â Â Create a Comforting Doodlebird: Ann Ristow
11:30-1:00Â Â Â Lunch on the Green
1:00-5:00Â Â Â Â Forge a Calla Lily: Hal Aavang
1:00-4:00 Â Â Â Â Nature’s Garlands: Evy Thuli
1:00-4:00Â Â Â Â Nature Imprints in Clay: Diana & Claire Johnston
1:00-4:00Â Â Â Board-Mounted Rustic Hooks: David Eagan
1:00-4:00Â Â Â Â Willow Garden Trellis: Jim Arendt
1:00-5:00Â Â Â Â Spirit of the Garden Twig Sculpture: Todd Kingery
5:00-6:30 Â Â Â Â Picnic on the Green
630-8:00 Â Â Â Â Â Friday Evening Fun Event
SATURDAY
Saturday, July 15
7:30-8:30Â Â Â Â Â Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Â Â Forge a Triangular Dinner Bell: Bob Tuftee
8:30-11:30Â Â Rustic Garden Bench: Max Kulick & Jim Arendt
8:30-11:30Â Â Â Silk Scarf Dyeing & Painting: Nancy Welch
8:30-11:30Â Â Soaps & Scrubs: Megan Kulick
8:30-4:00 Â Â Â Face of Nature: Kelly & Michael Bird
8:30-4:00Â Â Â Bottle Cap Fish Sculpture: David & JoEllen Wollangk
11:30-1:00Â Â Â Lunch on the Green
1:00-5:00   Rock & Bottle Rain Chain: Jamie Rogness & Carole Spelić
1:00-5:00 Â Â Â Carve a Doodle Fox or Cat: Ann Ristow
1:00-3:00Â Â Â Woodturning Demonstration with the Harry Nohr Woodturners
Purchase a Woodlanders Day Fee for each day you plan to attend the Woodlanders Gathering
Day fees include: your choice of workshops, lunch, snacks, and evening activities. Thursday and Sunday registrants are welcome to attend evening events on Friday or Saturday.
If you are registering more than one person for workshops, please use the Additional Information box at checkout to identify who will be taking each workshop to help us prepare welcome materials and inform instructors.
Guest lunches for persons traveling with you who are not attending workshops are available for purchase below scheduled classes.