Upcoming events.
All classes listed are hosted at our small homestead in Cookeville TN, about 90 minutes east of Nashville and approximately the same distance west of Knoxville, just 15 minutes off I40
we try to limit class sizes between 10-20 students per class, smaller class sizes allows more 1 on 1 interaction and insures that each student receives what they need to fully understand the concepts presented for each class
If you would like to host Josh as an instructor at your space or would like to start a conversation about designing a custom program for yourself or your group, click this link to send an email!
3 Day Hide Tanning Intensive
With almost 20 years of experience, Josh Barnwell guides students step by step through the transformation of deer skin into buckskin. Each participant will tan a hide from start to finish and leave with their own self tanned deer skin as well as all the knowledge and first hand experience to duplicate the process on their own.
Bark Mask Making-a unique expression on natural material
Creating an alter for ourselves can be a form of expression not often explored, yet freeing in a way. Whether your new visage connects to the wild animals that inspire us, something frightening to scare back the darkness, or something completely surprising that you never dreamed of these bark masks are a 1 of a kind way to create something new, beautiful and otherworldly.
Class size: 20
Cost: 45
Natural Leather Making Course
This one day class breaks everything down into easy to understand, simple steps, from proper skinning technique, to final stages leaving students with the confidence to return home and apply what they learned on hides from their own hunts or harvests.
Bark Mask Making-a unique expression on natural material
Creating an alter for ourselves can be a form of expression not often explored, yet freeing in a way. Whether your new visage connects to the wild animals that inspire us, something frightening to scare back the darkness, or something completely surprising that you never dreamed of these bark masks are a 1 of a kind way to create something new, beautiful and otherworldly.
Class size: 20
Cost: 65
Bark Basketry-an unusual craft
This traditional Appalachian craft utilizes an often overlooked and discarded material - The bark of a tree - to create beautiful, functional containers that can last a lifetime. These folded type baskets are perfectly suited for foraging for berries, collecting all those cool rocks from the creek, anything where the “weave” of other type baskets may let precious small objects fall through.
Class size: 20
Cost: 65
Bark Basketry-an unusual craft
This traditional Appalachian craft utilizes an often overlooked and discarded material - The bark of a tree - to create beautiful, functional containers that can last a lifetime. These folded type baskets are perfectly suited for foraging for berries, collecting all those cool rocks from the creek, anything where the “weave” of other type baskets may let precious small objects fall through.
Class size: 20
Cost: 65
Bowdrill Friction Fire
Creating a fire with the simplest of tools and barest of resources can be challenging but I guarantee, the feeling you get when you blow that first ember into flame, is like no other and carrying that skill and knowledge with you through your life is a source of strength and security that nothing can take from you.
Class size:20
Cost: 65
Fire Fundamentals-Build a Better Fire
Demystifying fire building is what this class is all about. By breaking down the process of building a fire into the building block steps we can take a logical approach and learn to really “think” fire and gain familiarity with the foundations equipping us to invite fire into our lives.
Class size: 20
Cost: 40
Cordage-Tying Our World Together
Fiber arts are a hugely uniting skill. Across time and among all peoples the ability to produce rope, thread and cord and in turn to tie, lash, or weave them together has been vital to survival. Even in modern times we interact with fibers on a daily basis from the threads in our clothing, to the laces on our shoes, humanity the world over is inextricably tied to the fiber arts that our ancestors perfected.
Class size: 20
Cost: 35