Price range: $36.00 through $40.00
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: 12:00 to 3:00 pm
Age: Adults, 18+
Cost: $40.00 +HST/$36.00 + HST for members
Location: PIE Education Centre, MacLaren Art Centre
Show off your creativity this Halloween! Join award-winning pumpkin carver and artist Linda Laforge for a special workshop exploring etching as a method to decorate your very own pumpkin. Laforge will guide participants in the secrets and techniques to create stunning, detailed designs without cutting through the surface of your pumpkin—it’s easier than you think!
Pumpkin etching allows for incredible artistic detail and helps your masterpiece last longer than a traditional jack-o’-lantern. Laforge will walk you through everything, drawing on years of autumns spent perfecting this craft. We’ll cover the best pumpkin carving tools—both pro-level and DIY—to a complete step-by-step process and explore fun, no-carve pumpkin techniques to make your spook-tacular design pop.
Carving materials included. Register now, spaces are limited!
Please bring your own medium or large uncarved pumpkin.
Photos courtesy of Linda Laforge.
When traditional and digital artist Linda Laforge isn’t creating heirloom portrait commissions, she’s painting and writing. She is a storyteller. Her original work melds portraiture with her love of Celtic knot design to tell the stories of her subjects, mainly climate activists and heroic figures offering visual commentary on this time we live in. Look for opportunities to learn Procreate and Affinity from her soon.
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