2-DAY SESSION | November 16 -17 | 9AM - 4PM each day
Tuition: $250 per person \ Member rate: $225 \ $75 materials fee \ 8 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 to people of all skill sets ages 14+. This Studio Arts Workshop from the Minnesota Marine Art Museum is presented in partnership with 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.
Participation in this workshop requires mobility and may be physically demanding at times.
Register
Registration is refundable until October 26, 2024. Students who cancel their enrollment 21 days or less prior to the first day of the workshop are not eligible for a refund.
Nate Gill
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
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.
Scholarships
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum studio arts workshop scholarship fund has been made available thanks to a grant funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board. While anyone with financial need is welcome to apply, the goals of the scholarship program are as follows (in no particular order): to increase the diversity of age and race in our student body; to offer opportunities to local residents of the Winona area; to support the learning of those with professional aspirations in a particular craft area; and to make our programming available to those with financial need.
An individual may receive one scholarship per year maximum. Scholarships cover full tuition and materials fee, though participants are required to supply any additional required materials.
Support Comes From
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund
