2-DAY SESSION: SATURDAY, June 24 - SUNDAY, June 25 [9AM - 4PM]*
Tuition: $250 per person \ Member rate: $225 \ $75 materials fee \ 12 available spots
Unlock a lifetime exploring the quiet, waking river backwaters or northwoods lakes by learning to make your own canoe paddle. Take this two-day canoe paddle making workshop is open people of all abilities ages 14+. This Studio Arts Workshop from the Minnesota Marine Art Museum is presented in partnership with Waking Worlds Exhibition Hospitality Partner Sanborn Canoe Company in their Winona based shop. This hands-on workshop will teach you the skills to make your own paddle - from wood selection and wood grain considerations, to paddle sizing and the theory of shape as applied to handles, shafts and blades, to finishing and surface decoration. Students choose from a variety of paddle designs, and leave with a custom-designed paddle they constructed with simple hand tools, as well as memories that will last a lifetime.
About the instructor
Nate Gill
Whether out of need, thrift, or curiosity, Nate Gill has been a tinkerer and maker most of his life. Born in Queensland, Australia, he moved to Minnesota in his teen years, and took up the hobby of woodworking. Now a craftsman with Sanborn Canoe Company, he takes great joy in knowing hundreds of examples of his handiwork exist across the country, and internationally - in the hands, on the walls, and propelling the canoes of both friends and strangers. A profession in woodworking feeds, rather than dulls his interest in the art, and his bench is always home to a personal side project in progress.
*There are two 2-day sessions available, June 24 & 25 and October 14 & 15. Please indicate which session you wish to attend.
