We do not have any scheduled Workshops at this time. Stay tuned, we may do a schedule at some point.
Feel free to e-mail us with requests.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 9:30am
Primitive Folk Art Mailbox Painting Workshop with
Primitive Folk Art Mailbox Painting Workshop with Gladys Desmond (The Itinerant Painter),
renowned Rhode Island Folk Artist~
Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 9:30am Hearthside Cooking Workshop with Marlo Paju
(Hollow Oak Farm)~Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 10 & 2 Wattles & Hedgerows Workshop with Marlo Paju
Wattles & Hedgerows Workshop with Marlo Paju(Hollow Oak Farm)~Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 9:30am Punch Needle Fraktur Workshop with Doreen Frost
(Vermont Harvest Folk Art)~
Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 9:30am Christmas Ornament and GarlandWorkshop
with Kris Casucci (Walker Homestead)~
Join us for a workshop with renowned Rhode Island Folk Artist, Gladys Desmond, "The Itinerant Painter". Students will create a primitive folk art painting on a mailbox, suitable to use outside in the weather. Project will be similar to mailbox pictured. All materials, pattern and luncheon are included. Fee $95, pre-registration is required as class space is limited. Download application.
Gladys Desmond, "The Itinerant Painter", lives in Rhode Island in a 1600's farmhouse that once sheltered itinerant farm workers. She has continued in the tradition of her home by calling her business - "The Itinerant Painter". Having lived in New England all her life, with its rich abundance of history, traditional farms and landscapes, she captures and paints them in a primitive manner.
Gladys paints on antique and reproduction surfaces, as well as traveling throughout New England painting murals. Her greatest pleasure is to create a mural for someone with a little bit of their own life in it - their cat sitting on a tree branch, their children in colonial clothing playing with barrel hoops, an old historical school they attended as children, anything meaningful to them. She combines the past and the present with a few brushstrokes.
Join us for a day of hearthside cooking with Marlo Paju of Hollow Oak Farm. We will prepare our meal in the fireplace here at Walker Homestead. Our period correct menu consists of roasted poultry, lentil & ham soup, baked beans, roasted root vegetables, biscuits and bread pudding. Learn about what early settlers would have had available to them in February, how they would prepare it and take home receipts (recipes) to try it at home. Fee $65 Download application.
Marlo Paju lives in New Hampshire in a 1800's farmhouse with her two sons and other critters. There she farms 200 acres, raising Scottish Highland and other heritage breeds of cattle, pigs, Shetland sheep, chickens and geese. Having lived in Louisiana a good part of her life, she is full of anecdotes of her southern childhood. She was a docent at Kent House Plantation, one of the oldest standing structures in Louisiana, where she provided period appropriate food preparation and hearth cooking demonstrations. She is an experienced hand spinner, needle felter, gardener and farmer. Her soaps, lotions, maple syrup, pickles and preserves are highly sought after. She is a lover of all things early and useful, but most of all, a mother, farmer and antiques dealer.
Photo by Mark Kimball Moulton
Participants with learn the art of making wattle fencing and hedgerows with New Hampshire homesteader and jack-of-all-trades, Marlo Paju of Hollow Oak Farm. This abbreviated class allows students to learn the art of making hedgerows (a live fence) and wattle fencing (woven fence, typically of willow but other saplings can work) and take home a wattle trellis. Fee $25, bring your clippers or shears, workgloves and dress appropriately for the weather. Download application.
Marlo Paju lives in New Hampshire in a 1800's farmhouse with her two sons and other critters. There she farms 200 acres, raising Scottish Highland and other heritage breeds of cattle, pigs, Shetland sheep, chickens and geese. Having lived in Louisiana a good part of her life, she is full of anecdotes of her southern childhood. She was a docent at Kent House Plantation, one of the oldest standing structures in Louisiana, where she provided period appropriate food preparation and hearth cooking demonstrations. She is an experienced hand spinner, needle felter, gardener and farmer. Her soaps, lotions, maple syrup, pickles and preserves are highly sought after. She is a lover of all things early and useful, but most of all, a mother, farmer and antiques dealer.
Christmas ornaments and garlands are our favorite things to create at WALKER HOMESTEAD. Join us for a Workshop and create various types of ornaments and garlands made out of natural materials including nuts, dried fruits, spices, beeswax and more. All materials and a seasonal luncheon are included in your fee of $85 and participants will take home ornaments and a garland they create. Download application.
Kris Casucci has been gardening at Walker Homestead for 30 years. She is an antique dealer, gardener and contributing author for "A Simple Life" magazine. In a prior life, she worked as a title examiner, researching early land records for surveys and title issues. She recently retired from selling real estate in order to pursue her business, Walker Homestead, together with her husband, Paul.
Join us for a day of punch needle embroidery with Doreen Frost of Vermont Harvest Folk Art. Doreen Frost has designed a fraktur-style punch needle pattern for us to work on (as pictured) and all materials are included. All participants will take home a framed punch needle piece of art suitable to hang on their wall. We will work in the Tavern Room, with a blazing fire and wonderful luncheon. Fee $130 Download application.
~Doreen Frost ~ Designer, Teacher & Merry Maker of Original Needle Work Creations, Folky Fraktur Punchneedle, Wool Worked Animals & Needle Work Patterns. At the foot of Round Mountain, tucked in among the graceful Maples, sits a cozy brown house, smoke billows from the chimney 8 months out of the year, a river rambles nearby, sheep & cows graze in the meadows and turkeys forage nearby. Here you will find her...surrounded by wool & cotton threads, hoops and needles on her lap and sketchpads scattered about.
Call 508-867-4466 or email info@walkerhomestead.com for an application and additional information.
