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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): $115 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.
It’s like summer camp for adults!
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!
Thursday, July 13
7:30-8:30 Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Embossed Gourd Vases: Deb Ready
8:30-11:30 Learn to Use a Pottery Wheel: Katie & Joelle White
8:30-11:30 Chalet die Bestäubern (The Pollinators’ Chalet): Carole Spelić
8:30-4:00 Carve a Red-winged Blackbird: Nick Scheuer
8:30-11:30 Rustic Shelf: Phil Nelson
8:30-4:00 Woven Basket Tote: Regina Riley
11:30-1:00 Lunch on the Green
1:00-3:30 Washi Egg Ornaments: Deb Ready
1:00-5:00 Farmhouse Clock: Carole Spelić
1:00-5:00 Rustic Accent Table/Plant Stand: Dan Soman
1:00-4:30 Historical Blacksmith Display: Dennis McKernan
1:00-4:00 Nature’s Bounty – The Many Uses of Wild Plants: David Eagan
Friday, July 14
7:30-8:30 Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Forging Hooks & Leaves: Hal Aavang
8:30-11:30 Leaf Stamp & Stitch Pillow Cover: Evy Thuli
8:30-11:30 Broken Pieces Mosaic Tile: Cindy Fleming
8:30-11:30 Personalized Walking Stick: Marcia & John Whitt
8:30-11:30 Create a Comforting Doodlebird: Ann Ristow
11:30-1:00 Lunch on the Green
1:00-5:00 Forge a Calla Lily: Hal Aavang
1:00-4:00 Nature’s Garlands: Evy Thuli
1:00-4:00 Nature Imprints in Clay: Diana & Claire Johnston
1:00-4:00 Board-Mounted Rustic Hooks: David Eagan
1:00-4:00 Willow Garden Trellis: Jim Arendt
1:00-5:00 Spirit of the Garden Twig Sculpture: Todd Kingery
5:00-6:30 Picnic on the Green
630-8:00 Friday Evening Fun Event
Saturday, July 15
7:30-8:30 Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Forge a Triangular Dinner Bell: Bob Tuftee
8:30-11:30 Rustic Garden Bench: Max Kulick & Jim Arendt
8:30-11:30 Silk Scarf Dyeing & Painting: Nancy Welch
8:30-11:30 Soaps & Scrubs: Megan Kulick
8:30-4:00 Face of Nature: Kelly & Michael Bird
8:30-4:00 Bottle Cap Fish Sculpture: David & JoEllen Wollangk
11:30-1:00 Lunch on the Green
1:00-5:00 Rock & Bottle Rain Chain: Jamie Rogness & Carole Spelić
1:00-5:00 Carve a Doodle Fox or Cat: Ann Ristow
1:00-3:00 Woodturning Demonstration with the Harry Nohr Woodturners
1:00-5:00 Rustic Twig Signs: Todd Kingery
5:00-6:30 Picnic on the Green
7:30 Saturday Evening Fun Event
Sunday, July 16
7:30-8:30 Registration & Check-in
8:30-11:30 Faux Scrimshaw on Deer Bone: Jim Kostohrys
8:30-11:30 Rustic Wood Garden Journal: Christina Kubasta
8:30-11:30 Foraging for Ceramic Morels: Liz Carter
8:30-11:30 Elgin Twig Mosaic: Elizabeth Johanna
8:30-11:30 Weave a Mug Rug: Regina Riley
8:30-11:30 Copper Wire & Stone Trees: Cheryl Smeja
11:30-1:00 Lunch on the Green
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.
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Coach House
18 Shake Rag Street
Art Café
Ellery House
restrooms
4 of 33restrooms
5 of 33restrooms
6 of 33Open Air Parking
7 of 33Lind Pavilion Parking
8 of 33Roadside Parking
allowed on Commerce Street
Smejas’ Studio parking
10 of 33Smejas’ Studio
30 Doty Street
Curbside Parking
as indicated
Accessible Parking
with curb cut
Accessible Parking
with curb cut
Alley Stage
15 of 33Cabinet Shop
French Cabin
1830 Log Cabin
Potter’s House
Blacksmith Barn
Federal Spring
21 of 33Monarch Garden
22 of 33Lind Pavilion
411 Commerce Street
two blocks to
High Street & Commerce Street
Restaurants, Shops & Galleries
To Grocery Store
Point Foods
622 Dodge Street
Street Parking with Additional Parking behind Smejas’ Studio
26 of 33The Green
open air park
Stair Steps
between
Cabinet Shop & Lind Pavilion
Stair Steps
to Alley Stage
Stone Bridge
over
Federal Spring
Weaving & Fiber Arts Studio
Cannery Row Arts Incubator
121 Water St.
Footbridge
33 of 33ADA accessible buildings: Lind Pavilion, Coach House (first floor), Smejas’ Studio
18 Shake Rag St.
Mineral Point, WI 53565
(608) 987-3292