Rabbit Laser Cutter Certification – March
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USAfter this workshop you will be certified to rent time on Contemporary Craft's laser cutter!2-Hour WorkshopDate: Tuesday, March 18, 2024If you can't make this date, this workshop is offered the third Tuesday of every month. You can see all of the dates here. Please note this workshop is limited to 2 students to ensure plenty […]
Exploring Individual Needle Felted Projects in Wool with Erin Carlson
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USPhoto credit: Larry Berman6-Part Workshop SeriesDates: Tuesdays, March 18-April 22, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: Join local fiber artist Erin Carlson of Red Cottage Fiber Studio in exploring the possibilities of sculptural needle felting. This course will begin with an introductory bird project designed to familiarize students with the basic felting skills required to complete a larger project […]
Weaving 2 Series
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USExpand your weaving skills!8-Week WorkshopDate: Tuesdays, March 18-May 6, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: Expand your weaving skills!In this series, students will have the opportunity to design and weave individualized projects on one of Contemporary Craft’s 4-harness looms. We will dive deeper into the specifics of planning a woven project, including reading—or adapting—a weaving pattern draft, selecting yarn, […]
Beginning Bobbin Lace Series with Margaret Dugger
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USLearn the fundamental techniques of Torchon Bobbin Lace.8-Week Series WorkshopDate: Tuesdays, March 18-May 6, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: In this introductory bobbin lace workshop students will focus on learning the fundamental techniques of Torchon Bobbin Lace. Using bobbins, a bobbin lace pillow, thread, and pins, students will focus on building up the foundational skills from which all […]
Spoon Carving Series with Teresa Audet
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USLearn how to use a carving gouge and whittling knife to create several types of spoons!8-Part Series WorkshopDate: Tuesdays, March 18-May 6, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: In this series of workshops students will learn how to use a carving gouge and whittling knife to create several types of spoons. Students will be introduced to multiple techniques during […]
Weaving 1 Series with Jamie Boyle
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USLearn basics of how to use a 4-harness loom and gain an understanding of cloth structures that can be created on this type of loom.8-Week WorkshopDate: Thursdays, March 20-May 8, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: Interested in learning to weave?Meet the newly extended family of looms at Contemporary Craft!In this introductory series, students will learn basics of how […]
Metals 1 Series with Maria Camera-Smith
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USExplore the fundamentals of Jewelry and Metalsmithing8-Week WorkshopDate: Thursdays, March 20-May 8, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: Learn to design and construct your own jewelry. You will be introduced to a range of metalsmithing basics such as:Basic metalsmithing skills of sawing, piercing, filing and sandingBasic cold connections of flush, flat, and tube rivetsHow to use a torch to […]
Rug Hooking 1: A Modern Twist on a Traditional Craft with Kirsten Ervin
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USLearn about this traditional or "primitive" craft using fiber remnants ("thrums") to create household goods.8-Week WorkshopDate: Thursdays, March 20-May 8, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: The course will provide an overview of traditional or “primitive” rug hooking, a utilitarian craft using fiber remnants (“thrums”) to create household goods. Participants will create two different rug hooking projects during the […]
Chase & Repoussé Workshop with Kattie Jones
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USHammer your heart out and create your own design on Copper with guidance from Kattie!7-Hour WorkshopDate: Saturday, March 22Time: 10am-5pmDescription: Learn one of the oldest metalsmithing tricks in the books, Chase and Repoussé! Often used together, chasing creates outlines on the front of the metal, while repoussé creates raised designs on the back. Hammer your […]
Metals 2 Series: Enameling with Katie Rearick
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USTBD8-Week WorkshopDate: Tuesdays, March 25-May 13, 2025Time: 6pm-9pmDescription: Explore the magic of fusing powdered glass to copper to add vibrant color to your jewelry and small metal sculpture. In this class you will learn metal preparation, basic enameling application such as sifting and wet inlay and the use of opaque and translucent enamels. Experimentation will […]
Hemp Hand Brooms with Tia Tumminello of Husk Brooms
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USExplore broom making with natural fibers with Tia Tumminello of Husk Brooms.Hemp Hand Brooms with Tia Tumminello of Husk Brooms2-Hour WorkshopDate: Saturday, March 29Time: 10AM-12PMDescription: In this 2 hour workshop students will create a bundle brush, and simple cottage brush crafted with hemp cordage. The main cordage used will be hemp twine in natural color.Students […]
Sculptural Basketry with Teresa Audet
Contemporary Craft 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Pittsburgh, PA, USLearn several types of sculptural basket weaving using rattan reed and waxed linen.3-Hour WorkshopDate: Saturday, April 5, 2025Time: 10am-1pmDescription: In this exploratory workshop, students will learn several types of sculptural basket weaving using rattan reed and waxed linen. Everyone will get to try a few techniques and then combine them to create a sculptural vessel […]