PAID WORKSHOP – Beginner’s Bird Carving Workshop – November 8, 2026

Beginner’s Bird Carving Workshop – Jim Burcio, Pacific Flyway Decoy Assoc

DATE:  Sunday, November 8, 2026

TIME:    1:00 – 5:00 PM     .

LOCATION:  Upstairs Art Classroom, Hutchins Street Square – Lodi, CA

WORKSHOP FEE: $40.00 per person               Limited to eight participants

Join master carvers from the Pacific Flyway Decoy Association to learn how to carve a mini Green Heron.  All materials for this workshop will be provided.  Suitable for ages 15 and older.  

Master carver Jim Burcio has carved wildfowl for over 50 years, competed nationally, judged at Ward World Competition, and the three major carving shows on the west coast.  For the past 30 years, Jim has taught carving seminars for the Pacific Flyway Decoy Association.

Jim’s carvings have been displayed at the University of California Chico Campus Anthropology Museum and the Sacramento International Airport and are permanently displayed at the Bidwell Park Visitor’s Center in Chico, California.  In 2010 and 2012, he was selected by the Ward Foundation in Salisbury, Maryland to be a National Endowment for the Arts Grant instructor.