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| Miniature driftwood twig furniture created in George C. Clark's workshop at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point, Wisconsin on July 11, 2014
WOODLANDERS GATHERING is a four day festival of mostly rustic arts and crafts held each year at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Artists and craftspeople from all over the Midwest gather to exchange skills and ideas. It's like a summer camp for creative adults (although our youngest participants this year are 13 and 14). I have been attending these events since 2006 and since 2010 I have been teaching workshops in making miniature rustic twig furniture there. This year the emphasis was on making a miniature settee, loveseat, chair, garden bench, or, as one participant styled it, "divan." A photo of the three-hour workshop's output is posted above. I'm always blown away by my students' imagination and creativity.
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| Garden Bird by George and Pat Clark (approximate height 30 inches)
This is an example of what we do at the Woodlanders Gathering besides my miniature furniture workshop. Pat and I constructed this garden bird out of scrap lumber, white glass insulators and piano parts. The positioning of the bird's wing "feathers" is adjustable with wing nuts.
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