PRIVATE WOODWORKING LESSONS:

Cirvan Hamilton can teach you how to make a project, such as these proud students with the display dining table they made!  They put their special stones and shells under the glass.  Contact Cirvan for private lessons on a project you dream of completing!

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Cirvan's students with their table.

Cirvan helped his students build their dream table. Here it is all finished in their home.

​WORKSHOPS ARE AVAILABLE PRIVATELY AND IN GROUPS AT STONE TREE STUDIO AND OTHER LOCATIONS!

This horse was carved by a student from JD Hodgson Elementary School!​
STONECARVE SMALL SCULPTURES
  Ages 10 and up
​Learn how to design your sculpture, remove extra stone with a hacksaw, define with rifflers, sand smooth with polishing papers, and add finishing details after it has been oiled.  Carve a small sculpture in a 3 hour workshop or have longer lessons using chisels & mallets to work on large pieces!   




                                                                                                                          

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These necklaces  were carved by two women at a workshop at the Rosseau.
STONECARVE AMULETS
​Ages 6 and up
Come carve amulets in a 1.5 or 2 hour workshop.  Think of a symbol and learn how to carve it out of soapstone or alabaster.  It can be a touchstone or necklace.  If you focus on an intention while carving it can have extra meaning.

Masks are just one of many possibilities at an Expressive Arts session.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
All ages
Elise Muller has her post-grad certificate in Expressive Arts from Fleming College and a Healing With The Arts Certificate from University of Florida.  Healing with the Arts / EXA sessions use a variety of media,  visual arts, creative writing, music and movement, to help you relax and access your creativity!   Research has shown how healing the arts can be and some doctors even prescribe art  to their patients.  Individual sessions can be arranged but it can also be fun to get a group of friends together for a couple of hours!

                                        Pictured below is Elise teaching a stone carving workshop at the Baysville Library. Photo credit: Sandy McLennan

Elise Muller has been sculpting stone since 2001 and has taught stone carving workshops privately and in the schools through electives, Kaleidoscope in Muskoka, and Artists in the School for Haliburton County.  She has a post-grad certificate in Expressive Arts from Fleming College and a Healing With The Arts Certificate from UF and also offers sessions in that field.  Elise has received three Township of Lake of Bays Youth Programming Grants to run programs in 2014/2016/2017 ( Arts 4 Youth/Fine Art Bootcamp/Storytelling Thru the Arts).  Elise has had interactive booths for all 8 of the Nuit Blanche North festivals in downtown Huntsville - Mask decorating, Hat making, Textile Printing, Stone Carving, Wing making, Costume Drawing, a Labyrinth of lights "A-Maze-ing Answers", and "Same Sun Group Mural".  Elise is passionate about encouraging creativity in herself and her students.  She has taught at Haliburton School of Art + Design offering Soapstone Carving for Adults and  Kids' Craftabulous in 2018 and 2019.  Elise's large Granite sculpture "Attunement"  won the 2018/9 Canadian Sculpture Competition at Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, NB.
www.stonetreestudio.ca
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