World Educational Conference 
Learn to create award-winning carvings with World Champion and professional carvers at the 2012 Educational Conference. A full menu of 4-day, 3-day and 2-day classes are offered by the Education Department in conjunction with the Ward World Championship. Classes take place prior to the competition in various locations throughout Ocean City, MD starting Monday, April 23rd and ending on Thursday, 26th. Students enrolled in these classes receive 2 free passes to the show for the weekend!
CLASSES
4-DAY: Monday through Thursday, April 23 - 26
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Bob Guge: Carve and Paint a Downy Woodpecker
Castles in the Sands Hotel
$450 Members, $500 Non-Members
Use power tools, texturing and acrylic paint to create a Downy Woodpecker with Bob Guge. The emphasis of this class is carving and painting. This bird was chosen by popular demand. This class fills fast, early registration is recommended. |
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Bud Evans: Carve and Paint a Least Sandpiper
Castles in the Sands Hotel
$450 Members, $500 Non-Members
This class is perfect for those with novice and intermediate carving and painting experience. Spend four days learning carving and painting techniques and leave with a finished Least Sandpiper! |
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3-DAY: Tuesday through Thursday, April 24 - 26
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Rich & Ross Smoker: Carve and Paint a 1936 Ward Brothers Style Goldeneye Drake
Princess Bayside Beach Hotel
$350 Members, $400 Non-members
Join Rich & Ross for an exciting three days of carving and painting. The brothers will use both traditional tools and power tools to carve and paint with oils to reveal a 75-year-old finish. All aspects of this project will be described and instructed. Attend this class to learn why the Smoker brothers say, "carving should be both fun and instructional." Rich Smoker is a Ward Museum Board of Directors member and the 2008 Shooting Rig World Champion.
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Del Herbert: Carve and Paint a Willet Silhouette
Princess Bayside Beach Hotel
$350 Members, $400 Non-members
Silhouettes have been used extensively as field decoys. Del won Best of Show in the Shorebird Decoy division at the 2009 Ward World Championship with a willet silhouette, which was also the subject of a recent article in the winter issue of Wildfowl Carving Magazine. This 3-day class will cover construction and painting of this field decoy. Painting techniques will emphasize obtaining three dimensional effects using a simple color palette. This class will focus on stipple texturing, blocking in base colors, dry brushing and finishing techniques. A roughed out silhouette will be provided. Please note that this class will not cover airbrushing techniques.
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Jeff Rechin: Paint an American Robin
Princess Bayside Beach Hotel
$350 Members, $400 Non-members
Paint a life-size cast of an original American Robin carving by two time world champion Jeff Rechin using acrylics. The course will cover color mixing, the use of washes, shading and highlighting. Special attention will be paid to feather highlights, shadowing and color tone layouts unique to the robin. Painting methods will include paint from light to dark as well as dark tones back to light of feather edges. Refining detail will finish this project.
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2–DAY: Wednesday through Thursday, April 25 - 26
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Thomas Horn: Model Making and Design
Roland E. Powell Convention Center
$250 Members, $300 Non-members
Learn how to design and build clay models during this two-day class. Also learn how research and planning will produce better results. Discover how these techniques will help you create a new level of wildfowl art.
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Chris White: Create an Interpretive Carving
Roland E. Powell Convention Center
$250 Members, $300 Non-members
This class is designed to challenge a person’s way of viewing woodcarving. The emphasis is on sculpting wood into a series of lines, planes, and forms. Simple principles of movement are repeatedly applied and exercised as students turn a piece of found wood (primarily Mesquite or West Texas juniper) into polished fluid forms. Once learned, these principles become tools that can be applied in wood turning, woodcarving, or classic sculpting. Students will learn the use of the cabinet maker’s pattern rasp, designing a piece to shine, and how to finish wood to a glass like glowing finish. They will also learn how to bring out the full potential of a piece of wood by finding, simplifying, and refining the inherent lines, planes and forms found in the wood. Use of grain pattern is also discussed.
Wood is provided for the first project, students will sculpt an abstract sculpture that can stand alone or be used as a base for an additional representational sculpture of a bird, fish, or other subject.
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SEMINARS
Friday through Sunday, April 27 - 29
A variety of seminars will be offered during the show. Check back for these opportunities.
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FIELDTRIPS
Friday & Sunday, April 27 - 29
FRIDAY - Sunset Boat Trip (7-8:30 p.m.)
$25 Members, $30 Non-members
Enjoy a beautiful sunset aboard the Assateague Explorer while touring the coastal bays around Skimmer Island and the North Shore of Assateague Island National Seashore. Glimpse oystercatchers, cormorants, loons, terns, piping plovers, wild ponies and more! Boat space is limited. Pre-register early to ensure your spot on the boat. Arrive at Talbot Street Pier promptly at 7 pm.
SUNDAY - Birds in the Hand & Field (8:30 a.m. -noon)
$25 Members, $30 Non-members
See songbirds being banded for scientific study at The Nature Conservancy’s Nassawango Creek Nature Preserve - Maryland’s largest private nature reserve. With more than 70 recorded species of migratory birds at Nassawango Creek, the reserve is a critical stopover point for migratory birds along the Atlantic Coast Flyway. Since 1978, the Conservancy has protected more than 9,300 acres of bald cypress swamp and upland forest along the preserve. Participants will see professionals capture, process, and band songbirds. Bring your camera for close-up shots! Trip includes a short walk along the Prothonotary Birding Trail. After two and a half hours in the field, the trip returns to OC Convention Center. Fieldtrip departs from OC Convention Center promptly at 8:30 a.m. If it rains, fieldtrip will be cancelled and refunded. Maximum 15 participants
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Register by contacting the Ward Museum Education Department at 410-742-4988 ext. 110 or emailing WardEducation@salisbury.edu.
Pre-registration is required for all classes. Payments are due in FULL by Friday, March 16th, 2012.
Please Note: All classes are subject to cancellation before April 1, 2012. Refunds honored in full upon administrative cancellation of class.
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