Events

Instructor: Ace McArelton Jacob Deva Racusin
Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School
Tuition: $750
http://yestermorrow.org

[ May 9, 2010 to May 14, 2010. ] Henry Beston noted how the hand-made thing has the mark of the living soul. This course will teach you how to create and apply beautiful hand finished plasters and paints on many wall surfaces. People around the world have been using clay, gypsum, and lime as plasters and paints for millenia, and these materials have [...]

Instructor: Kindra Welch, John Curry, Sara Schmidt
Location: Dripping Springs, Texas
Tuition: $800 (discounts for early registration and couples)
http://claysandstraw.com

[ May 8, 2010 to May 15, 2010. ] Start Date / End Date:: May 8 – May 15, 2010Join us for a week of natural building and living in the beautiful Texas Hill County outside of Austin. Professional builders Kindra, John and Sara will take a week off from their packed building schedules to share their passion and knowledge of cob construction. [...]

Instructor: Greg Allen
Location: Durham, NC
Tuition: $550
http://cobandon.blogspot.com/

[ May 8, 2010 to May 15, 2010. ] This is an 8-day, intensive cob workshop. We will be learning not only the basics of mixing and building with cob, but will be studying how to integrate windows, and a door frame into the building. Students will build a cob archway, and will get the opportunity for sculpting shelving and niches in the interior [...]

Instructor: Michael Smith, Tom Shaver and others
Location: Emerald Earth Community, Northern California
Tuition: $450
http://emeraldearth.org

[ April 14, 2010 to September 14, 2010. ] Come live and work in our rural intentional community and join us in constructing our new Community House. Areas will include framing, natural wall systems, base coat and finish plasters, living roofs and finish carpentry. Visit www.emeraldearth.org or contact community@emeraldearth.org.