41th Annual Woodcarving Show October 9 & 10, 2010

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  • Events Brochure (PDF)  The week of October 3-10, 2010, will feature a number of events relating woodcarving to the Scandinavian heritage. The featured guest woodcarver is Harley Refsal, master carver, from Decorah, Iowa.
    Harley Refsal is a specialist in Scandinavian-style, flat-plane carving — most often caricatures of farmers, laborers and common folk. Harley Refsal is a professor of Scandinavian Folk Art at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. After graduating from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN, he studied at the University of Oslo; Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN; and later returned to Norway, together with his family, to earn a degree in Norwegian Folk Art at Telemark University College in Rauland. During the summer months, when not involved in regular classroom teaching at Luther College, and on many weekends throughout the school year, Refsal has regularly taught figure carving courses and workshops throughout North America, as well as Norway, Sweden and Iceland, for over 25 years. In 1996 he was decorated by the King of Norway for his contributions to Norwegian and Norwegian-American folk art studies. Refsal has been commissioned on several occasions over the last two decades by Luther College and the city of Decorah to create carvings that have been presented to the King of Norway, the Crown Prince of Norway, national and international political leaders, as well as numerous Nobel Peace Prize laureates hosted by the College. Examples of Refsal's work can also be found at the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, at Luther College, and in private collections throughout the U.S. and Scandinavia. Refsal is the author of several books, including 'Art and Technique of Scandinavian-Style Figure Carving', many magazine articles, and is featured in an award-winning instructional DVD, 'Figure Carving Scandinavian Style with Harley Refsal'.
    Week Schedule:

    Day

    Date

    Time

    Activity

    Sunday

    Oct.  3

    1-3pm
    1 pm
    1:15
    1:30
    2:30

    Free Presentations at the ND Heritage Center
    Intro to Norwegian Cultural- Dance demo
    Intro to Swedish Cultural- Dance demo
    The effect of woodcarving on the Scandinavian Cultural(Harley Refsal)
    Ethnic food served by Scandinavians
    AntiqueScandinavian woodcarvings on display in Auditorium lobby area

    Mon-Wed

    Oct 4-6

    8-5

    Scandinavian woodcarving class taught by Harley Refsal  at the
    Heritage Center, Woodcarvings on display at Heritage Center all week

    Monday

    Oct. 4

    noon

    Presentation to Bismarck Lions Club

    Tuesday

    Oct. 5

     

    Presentation to St. Mary’s High School Art Class, Peggy Harzinski

    Wed

    Oct. 6

     

    Interview with Sara Kincaid, Bismarck Tribune
    Prairie Public Radio Interview(Dave Thompson)

    Thur- Sun

    Oct. 7-10

    8-5

    Second Scandinavian Woodcarving class taught by Harley Refsal at the Heritage Center, Sat. & Sun. Classes in the forenoon only. Woodcarvings on display until Friday evening.

    Thur. 

    Oct. 7

    Noon

    Guest on KXMB-TV Noon Show
    Guest on KFYR-TV  Morning Show

    Friday

    Oct. 8

     

    Presentation to Bismarck High School Art Class, Rebecca Young

    Sat- Sun.

    Oct. 9-10

    Noon
    -4:30

    Annual Woodcarving Show at the Doublewood Inn,
    All woodcarvers demonstrating woodcarving techniques.
    Woodcarving class for kids, Sunday, 8:30 to 11 am
    Annual Show theme is Scandinavian woodcarving.  Show participants are urged to carve items in the Scandinavian style to display at the show.  Types of Scandinavian woodcarvings represented include:
    Flat plane woodcarving, chip carving, Acanthus woodcarving, gnomes, trolls, mangle boards, kubbestols, Dala horses, etc.
    Antique Scandinavian woodcarvings on display all weekend.
    Tom Perdue Class- Old World Santa (Sat. & Sun. morning)
    Sat. Noncarvers at Heritage Center- Scandinavian artifacts(Jenny Y.)
    Sun. Noncarvers; Tatting Book Cover- Gynnel Torgeson
    Harley Refsal-Banquet speaker.  History of Scandinavian  woodcarving

    Sat. – Sun.

    Oct. 9-10

    Noon- 4:30pm

    Ethnic  art demonstrations:  Rosemaling(Karen Jensen) , wheat weaving(Nancy Feist), pottery(Deb Emerson), candles, and tatting(Mary Beth Osborne)
  • The theme for the 2010 annual show is Scandinavian woodcarving. The club is asking participants to include some Scandinavian woodcarvings in their display at the annual show. We will have a list of things that fit this format on the Flickertail website: flickertail.org. If you would like to carve an item not listed, use one of the blank boxes to register your choice. Some examples of Scandinavian woodcarving include: chip carving, flat plane figures, acanthus carving, Dala horses, trolls, Kubbestol, mangle boards, gnomes, etc. There can be many more than one woodcarvings in each of these categories.
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