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Maine Primitive Skills School
Location: 716 Church Hill Rd, Augusta Maine
Description: The Maine Primitive Skills School is an intentionally small learning facility with a mission to provide quality instructor level courses. These courses teach primitive skills, bushcraft, wilderness survival, self reliance, permaculture design, and outdoor education. These are ancient skills that develop awareness and sufficiency with the focus of individuals, community interactions and the environment.
Contact: http://www.primitiveskills.com/, staff@primitiveskills.com, 207-623-7298
Category: Foraging, Plant ID, Camping, Survival, Backpacking, Off the Grid, Home building
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The Steel Yard
Location: 27 Sims Ave, Providence RI
Description: The Steel Yard is an award-winning industrial arts center, a manufacturer of custom and functional public-art, a craft school and shared studio, and Providence's most unique private outdoor venue.
Contact: http://www.thesteelyard.org, contact@thesteelyard.org , 401.273.7101
Category: Blacksmithing, Welding, Jewelry, Pottery,
Hannaford Career Center
Location: 51 Charles Ave, Middlebury, VT , 05753
Description: Our mission is to provide educational experiences that prepare secondary and adult students with the knowledge and skills to enter the workforce in careers that are high skilled, high demand, and that pay a livable wage and to continue their education. Including adult education courses.
Contact: http://www.hannafordcareercenter.org, jbosworth@pahcc.org, (802) 382-1012
Category: welding, cooking, animal husbandry, plant ID, poultry, gardening, organic, composting, sustainable agriculture, cooking,
New England School of Metalwork
Location: 7 Albiston Way Auburn, Maine 04210
Description: An educational facility devoted to the promotion and strengthening of metalworking skills.
Contact: http://www.newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com/, dglaser@newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com, 888-753-7502
Category: Metalwork, Blacksmithing, Welding
Lincoln Electric
Location: 22801 St Clair Ave, Euclid, OH 44117
Description: A school that teaches the theory, techniques and practices of welding safety and arc welding processes since 1917.
Contact: http://education.lincolnelectric.com/, weldschool@lincolnelectric.com, 1-844-818-6038
Category: welding
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Location: 550 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
Description: A welding program designed for working adults who wish to begin a new career as a professional welder.
Contact: https://wit.edu/workforce-training-and-development-welding, admissions@wit.edu, 800-556-0610
Category: welding
Tulsa Welding School
Location: 2545 East 11th Street Tulsa, OK 74104
Description: A professional Welder training program where the majority of the classroom experience is through interactive workshop courses.
Contact: https://www.weldingschool.com/programs/professional-welding-training/, 888-765-5555
Category: welding
Tulsa Welding School
Location: 3500 Southside Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32216
Description: A professional Welder training program where the majority of the classroom experience is through interactive workshop courses.
Contact: https://www.weldingschool.com/programs/professional-welding-training/, 888-765-5555
Category: welding
Tulsa Welding School
Location: 243A Greens Rd. Houston, TX 77060
Description: A professional Welder training program where the majority of the classroom experience is through interactive workshop courses.
Contact: https://www.weldingschool.com/programs/professional-welding-training/, 888-765-5555
Category: welding
Modern Welding School
Location: 1842 State Street Schenectady, NY 12304
Description: A school whose goal is to educate and train individuals who desire to enter the welding field by using their time test techniques and practices in both theoretical and hands-on applications.
Contact: http://modernwelding.com/, wdaubert@albany.twcbc.com, 800-396-6810
Category: welding
Artist's Asylum
Location: 10 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA, 02143
Description: Artisan’s Asylum is a non-profit community workshop in Somerville, Massachusetts. Our mission is to support and promote the teaching, learning and practice of fabrication.
Contact: https://artisansasylum.com/, general-info@artisansasylum.com, (617) 284-6878
Category: carpentry, fiber arts, crochet, jewelry,metal work, welding,
Washington County Community College
Location: One College Drive Calais, ME 04619
Description: The Community Education Division of the college offers credit and non credit offerings, as well as, customized business and industry training. The division provides superb up-to-date training in a wide variety of areas. Courses can be taught at basic, intermediate or advanced levels, depending on particular needs of the trainees and be scheduled on campus or onsite during the day, evening or weekend. In addition, children’s camps, vocational programs, elderhostel and non-credit courses are offered for personal enrichment and enjoyment. In our effort to provide affordable, accessible, and flexible education, WCCC has developed educational services for the communities of the Washington County area.
Contact: http://www.wccc.me.edu/professional-development/continuing-education/, admissions@wccc.me.edu, 207 454 1000
Category: welding, trades-other
New England Institute of Technology
Location: One New England Tech Boulevard East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818
Description: Get the intensive, hands-on training you need to begin a career in welding through New England Institute of Technology’s Welding Engineering Technology associate degree program. You will not only hone your welding and pipefitting skills, but you'll also learn about CAD, building design, how to read blueprints and other theory and best practices preparing you for a variety of jobs.
Contact: https://www.neit.edu/Programs/Associate-Degree-Programs/Engineering/Welding-Engineering-Technology, 800-736-7744
Category: welding,
Stonybrook Fine Arts
Location: 24 Porter Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Description: Stonybrook Fine Arts is a small school of qualified and dedicated artisans who provide education in a variety of sculptural media with a focus on jewelry, welding, metal casting, stone carving, mold making and live figure modeling.
Contact: http://stonybrookfinearts.com/, info@stonybrookfinearts.com, 617-522-3331
Category: jewelry, welding, metal work
The Crucible
Location: 1260 7th Street Oakland, CA 94607
Description: At The Crucible, classes are designed for beginners as well as experienced artists and tradespeople. The Crucible’s educational programs serve over 8,500 people each year in over 175 classes and workshops. Our hands-on classes average one instructor for every six students, guaranteeing that each student receives personal attention and learns technical methods in a format that allows them to gain practical, working knowledge of material processes.
Contact: https://thecrucible.org/mobile-search/, info@thecrucible.org, 510-444-0919
Category: Welding, Glass work, Blacksmithing, Metalwork,
New England School of Metalwork
Location: 7 Albiston Way Auburn, ME 04210
Description: The New England School of Metalwork is a full 501 C3 non-profit educational facility devoted to the promotion and strengthening of metalworking skills. Started in 2000 and located in Auburn, Maine, the concept of the school was developed by Maine Oxy, a local welding distributor and Dereck Glaser, a local artisan metalsmith. After several years of individuals inquiring about welding skills and ornamental metalwork instruction the decision was made to build the school. We set to the task of designing and planning a dual purpose facility for metalsmithing and welding.
Contact: http://www.newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com/, dglaser@newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com, 888-753-7502
Category: blacksmithing, metal work, welding,
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