Welburn Gourd Farm

Take a Class on all 3 Days Before the Festival and Get a FREE Gourd Festival Admission Ticket!

An incredible line up of 40 Gourd Art Classes are offered the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday before the Gourd Festival, June 18th, 19th, and 20th, and when you take a class all three days, you’ll receive a FREE admission ticket to the Gourd Art Festival! A $9.00 value!

(Just bring photo ID to the Welburn store located on the Festival grounds on Friday, June 20th to collect your free ticket).

New Festival Classes Just Posted!

Back by popular demand is “Wax Resist” with Kathy Riker (see photo, left)! If you’ve yet to take a class with Kathy, now is the time!

“I took the Wax Resist class from Kathy Riker … I fell in love with gourd art all over again” -Kathleen

“I had my first class with Kathy Riker and it was OUTSTANDING. Kathy is an inspired teacher who is generous and whose patience and understanding far exceeds what I have come to expect in a gourd teacher and the class experience. What a joy to finally get a chance to participate in one of her classes. It will not be the last one I take from her.” -Bill D.

Another section of “Faux Raku the GourdMaster™ Way,” with Dianne Connelly Just Added! This is one of the classes that is so popular, it fills up almost immediately. The first class we posted has long since been sold out, but now a second one has been added! Get your spot now! Click here!

Be sure to check out some of the incredible new classes being offered this year, like Kimono Inlay with Betsy Roberts! (see photo, right) This is a fun class because all the cleaning and cutting is done for you so you can get right to the fun of color and inlay! Discover an exciting new way to finish the inside of your gourd with a beautiful, textured finish in “Textured Metallic Gourd” with Sue Brogdon!

Not only will you learn a valuable technique you can use on all your gourd art, you’ll leave class with a stunning finished project complete with pine needle weave trim!

New to the world of gourds? Join veteran artist, Whitney Walsh, for “Beginning Gourd Crafting the GourdMaster™ Way ,” and learn all the insider tricks to gourding that will save you hours of hard work and frustration learning on you own!

Sign up for a Gourd Art Class on all 3 days preceeding the Festival and receive a FREE admission ticket to the Gourd Art Festival! Just visit the Welburn Gourd Farm store (located on the Festival grounds) where they will have a master list with the names of all students who enrolled in classes thest 3 days, and present your photo ID to receive your FREE ticket!

For the entire list of classes and full descriptions and photos, click here!

If you would like to enroll over the phone, please call the Welburn Gourd Farm main office at 760-728-4271.

See you at the Festival!

The 12th Annual Int’l Gourd Art Festival
http://www.gourdfestival.com