Scrimshaw Classes
- Learn Scrimshaw from a Master -
Planning a trip to Newport? Book this once-in-a-lifetime experience today!
What You'll Do:
A brief explanation of the history of Scrimshaw will be given - covering the early days of whaling to the modern forms of the art.
Guests will be shown examples of the materials used such as Wooly Mammoth ivory, as well as several 19th Century original sailor-made artifacts made on whalebone and whale teeth.
Take a studio tour of Artist Brian's workshop, and prepare the antique piano key ivory pieces with him. Brian will demonstrate a step by step of the engraving process before instructing the guests on how to make their very own piece of scrimshaw!
Along with the finished piece, all guests are provided a bag of ancient mammoth ivory, a scribe and ink to continue creating the art at home!
About Your Instructor:
"I am a scrimshaw artist. Scrimshaw is the art of engraving on ivory or bone originally made by the American whalers in their idol time on board ships while hunting for whales as early as the 18th c.
I apprenticed with my brothers while in college and I opened my first store in Baltimore, MD in 1982. I then relocated to Newport in 1986 to my store located on Bowen’s Wharf. I make all of the scrimshaw jewelry and knives in the store."
-Brian J. Kiracofe, Scrimshaw Master and Instructor
