Blackhawk Carving ClubThe Blackhawk Woodcarver
Open Carving every Wednesday (12:00 to 3:00pm). Ken Rock
Community Center, 3218 Eleventh St, Rockford, IL 61109
Business Meeting; third Wednesday of the month. Friends and spouses of
carvers are welcome to come to meet and visit. Carvers
bring in finished carvings for “Show & Tell.”
Our
weekly carving session meeting time has been changed from our Wednesday
morning time period to Wednesday early afternoon, noon to 3:00 pm. This was
done in an effort to cooperate with Ken-Rock and to eliminate or minimize
the problem we have experienced with unexpected building availability.
Ken-Rock has found it unsustainable to continue to open and staff the
building in the mornings during the Winter, and even the Spring and Fall
periods, when they have no other reason than to open and man the building
for our club. The new Ken-Rock policy will be to open the building by noon
on weekdays. The “bad weather” or “snow day” closings will continue to
follow the Rockford Public School 205 closings.
Tyrone Johnsen
The
Presidents Report March 2019
Carving or whittling is enjoyable!
What it means to one, means something else to another. Carving is a hobby to
most of us It is a form of relaxation and an expression
of creativity or art. Our carvings represent many hours of our time and
work. If I were to consider going into the business of selling my carvings,
it would be a very poor plan. My hourly financial return would probably
yield only a few cents! Losing money is a more likely result and I would
starve! So the process of carving for me is for enjoyment, the satisfaction
of completion, and the elation resulting from praise by others.
We are all individuals; and that
makes belonging to the club more interesting. Experiences and opinions
abound! We all have different points of view, even on the exact same
experience. I am interested in trying to understand the other person’s point
of view. Each week it is interesting to see what the others are working on.
I love to see what idea each person is pursuing. Every idea or point of view
is also a sort of reflection of their unique personality. Many of their
different subjects and the focus of their carvings pleasantly surprise me!
Our club name includes Woodcarvers.
But we are more than that. I see the carving of gourds and other materials.
Our Bob Coleman is a great example of the diversity in carving which occurs
in our club. Bob not only carves from limbs and blocks but he also turns
dead trees into carved works of art. Sometimes his caricatures are carved
into golf balls. Recently he carved a colorful skull out of a bonded set of
color pencils. Wood carving it was! And, truly enjoyable to see a different
point of view!
Tyrone Johnsen
March 6 open carving
March 13 open carving
March 20 open carving and meeting
March 27 open carving
April 3 open carving
April 10 open carving
April 17 open carving and meeting
April 24 open carving
May 1 open carving
May 8 open carving
May15 open carving and meeting
May 22 open carving
May 29 open carving
June 5 open carving
June 12 open carving
June 19 open carving and meeting
June 26 open carving
July 3 open carving
July 10 open carving
July 17 open carving and meeting
July 24 open carving
July 31 open carving
Classes
at the Woodcraft Shop
Carving Caricatures with Floyd
Rhadigan. 60 different roughouts to choose from. March 8, 9, 10, 2019.
Friday to Sunday: $185 (plus roughouts: $15 to $55)
Carving Realistic Human Faces in
Bark with Alec Lacasse. Friday to Sunday: May 10, 11, and 12, 2019 - $174
plus $25 material fee
Medium Relief Woodcarving with John
Engler. Friday to Sunday: May 24, 25 and 26, 2019 - $185 (pre-stenciled
blanks are $35+)
The Woodcraft Shop, 2724 State Street, Bettendorf, IA 52722
For more information call toll-free 800-397-2278 or go to
www.thewoodcraftshop.com
Mid-Wisconsin Chippers Annual woodcarving
The Mid-Wisconsin Chippers Annual
woodcarving show is moving to the Oshkosh Convention Center in Oshkosh,
Wisconsin this coming spring. Our show date is Sunday May 5th, and our
table fees will go up soon on January 1st. The 2019 show is moving to a
great venue that is about a 3 hour drive from Rockford with plenty of
parking, a food concession, wood and tool vendors and we already have 33
tables registered.
A club table is only $25 ($30 after January 1st), and entitles six of your
club members to have one entry each in the competition for judging. A
regular single artist table is also only $25 ($30 after January 1st), but
entitles that artist to 4 entries for judging.
This year with our move to Oshkosh, we hope to see some BlackHawk carvers
here promoting their club and bringing their art to Oshkosh. Our Show theme
is "Everything you need to get started and grow in Woodcarving." We always
have many pyrographers too. Attached is our 2019 Table Registration form
and our form for Judging Rules and Show Guidelines as well as a summary of
show info.
In addition, our club is sponsoring five upcoming classes. are in our
December newsletter on our website with sign up forms and other information.
Betsy Popp will have a six day class on the Pygmy Owl (Feb. 28, March 1,2,
7,8, and 9). Lee Belanger will teach a cottonwood bark carving class on a
lighthouse (March 14, and 15). One of your own, Denny Neubauer, of Denny
Knife fame, will teach three classes: knife making on May 6th, Sharpening on
May 7th, and carving "Little people" on May 8th. Please spread the word to
your club and if anyone has any questions they should feel free to call me
or send me an e-mail.
Thanks,
Cedric Richeson, Secretary Mid-Wis. Chippers Woodcarving Club. e-mail:
richeson@ameritech.net tel. 920) 420-1225
Deadline
for the news for the next newsletter is April 3, 2019
April
Birthdays (that we Know of)
9 Larry
Clark
10 Franklin Johnson
19 John Skaggs
21 Bunny Nordheim
25 Marjorie Simonds
Door
Prizes
Blackhawk Carving Club Minutes February 2019
Minutes
of the regular monthly business meeting of Blackhawk Woodcarvers; held on
February 20, 2019 at 3218 Eleventh Street, Rockford, Illinois.
President Tyrone Johnsen opened the
meeting at 1:20 pm.
Secretary, Steve Terrill read the
Minutes of the previous meeting December 19th.. The minutes were
approved as read.
Our new treasurer, Larry Stenzel
reported that we are solvent. If you need checks, see Larry.
Membership: Chuck
Drewes was absent. He did report to Tyrone that dues
continue to trickle in. We continue to pursue a picture
directory as the last one was 2016. The first step it to
get quotes for cost.
Gordy Moscinski had nothing new to
report on our website or on the newsletter.
Tyrone is concerned with the
Facebook because people are assuming they can send messages to him on
messenger, but Tyrone really does not have enough room on his phone to
receive and store those messages. He did recently receive
a message from someone who would carve him an urn with an angel on the top.
If anyone is interested contact Tyrone.
Old Business:
there was none.
New Business:
Roger Benedict is interested in giving a presentation on the Rockford
furniture industry at the next business meeting. It will
be a pictorial presentation.
Tyrone is interested in the carved
quilt the club did at Klehm Arboretum and the one at the Center For Sight
and Hearing out on State St. Tyrone would like to see us
do another one. He has talked with Roger about themes.
Roger Benedict was interested in the furniture industry and has done
lots of research into that. John Skaggs has more
information that he would like to share with Roger.
Tyrone wanted to recap what lead us
to the change in time for the meeting. He did write a
summary in the Newsletter. While the Sacred Heart school
moved out but still owns the building, the management of the building has
reverted back to Ken Rock Community Center. Ken Rock
cannot afford the personnel to man the morning as they have only afternoon
activities. Changing the time seemed to be a good short
term solution to the problem. Tony asked if we could
revert back to mornings in the summer. Tyrone is
reluctant to keep changing the time. Steve suggested that
this may be a discussion for the future when more people are in attendance.
Tyrone suggested we may want to revisit the concept of moving in the
future. People are encouraged to explore options for
moving to another location if they have one to suggest that meets out needs.
There was no further new business.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 pm.
Respectfully Submitted: Steve
Terrill, Club Secretary
After the meeting Dave Bock, a
friend of Tony’s gave a presentation on new ways to transfer designs for
relief carvings.
Vice Pres, Louis Jurisch, 568-7096
Treasurer, Larry Stenzel, 389-4714
Secretary, Steve Terrill, 708-0471