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WORKSHOPS

“The practice of dry stone walling is doing a little a lot”
- Dan Snow

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THE STONE TRUST
The The Stone Trust in Dummerston, Vermont offers dry stone walling workshops for all levels of expertise. Contact The Stone Trust at www.thestonetrust.org.
The Stone Trust, 707 Kipling Rd, Dummerston, VT 05301.

WORKSHOPS

  • 2026 Two 3-day workshops. Monument to Rare Coincidence is a commentary on the periodic flooding of the monument’s location due to the combination of a very high tide and strong westerly gale. The area surrounding the southern half of the piece temporarily becomes a moat. The center of the northern half of the piece temporarily becomes a well. Across two 3-day workshops spaced a week apart, teams of 10 participants built the entire 10 meter x 20 meter x 4 meter dry stone installation. Conception and layout by Dan Snow. Orchestration by Sveinn Enoc Johansson and Dan Snow. May 15–17 and May 22–24, Hafnir, Iceland,

  • 2025 Intro to Dry Stone Walling Workshop (1-Day), April 23, The Stone Trust, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2025 Random Walling Workshop (1-Day), April 25, The Stone Trust, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2024 Intro to Dry Stone Walling Workshop. September 14, The Stone Trust, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2022 Two-Day Cheek End Workshop, May 21-22, The Stone Trust, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2021 Workshops cancelled due to the Covid Pandemic.

  • 2020 Workshops cancelled due to the Covid Pandemic.

  • 2019 Dry Stone Walling Workshop May 25-26,
    The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT.

  • 2019 The Stone Trust Workshop: Walling Day: Retaining wall feature, May 4, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2018 The Stone Trust Workshops: Bridge Prep Aug 26 & Bridge Build Sep 8 – 9, Mont Vernon, NH.

  • 2018 The Stone Trust Two Day Workshop: Feature Build, May 5-6, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2017 Dry stone features workshops, October, Norway.

  • 2016 Wilder Cemetery, Volunteer Walling Day, Oct 23, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2016 Wilder Cemetery, Volunteer Walling Day, May 15, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2015 City of Boise, Dry Stone Walling Workshop, Boise WaterShed River Campus, Oct 8-11, Boise, ID.

  • 2014 English Harbour Arts Centre, Stone Art Workshop, July 27-31, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.

  • 2014 Woody Point Dry Stone Walling Workshop, St. Patrick’s Church, July 21-22, Woody Point, Bonne Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.

  • 2014 Stone Trust Spring Outdoor Workshop, May 10-11, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2013 Stone Trust Fall Outdoor Workshop, Sept 7-8, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2013 Dry Stone Workshops at English Harbor Art Center, July/August, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada,

  • 2013 Firelight, Wall Dry Stone Walling Workshop, July 1-5, Turtagrø, Norway.

  • 2012 English Harbour Arts Center, July/August, Newfoundland, Canada,

  • 2011 One Day Dry Stone Walling Workshop, Dummerston Hiking Trail, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2011 Two five-day workshops to create land sculpture, artist-director, English Harbour Arts Center, Newfoundland, Canada.

  • 2010 Workshop Instructor and Competition Judge, Dry Stone Conservancy, Lexington, KY.

  • 2010 Six-day workshop, Hope Builders Group, Elkhart, IN.

  • 2010 Barn foundation workshop, Deforest, WI.

  • 2010 Two five-day workshops to create land sculpture, artist-director, English Harbour Arts Center, Newfoundland, Canada.

  • 2010 Scott Farm Wall Building Workshop, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2010 Parmelee Farm Stone Wall Workshop, Killingworth, CT.

  • 2009 Parmelee Farm Stone Wall Workshop, Killingworth, CT.

  • 2009 Lead instructor, 2-day Wall Workshop, Grand Valley, Ontario, Canada.

  • 2009 Artist in residence, Kansas State University, sculpture installation with Landscape Architecture students, Beach Art Museum, Manhattan, KS.

  • 2009 Five-day workshop to create land sculpture, artist-director, English Harbour Arts Center, Newfoundland, Canada.

  • 2008-2009 Director for the re-creation of the 1796 Town Pound, 44 participants in five workshops, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2008 Lead Instructor, 3 day walling workshop, Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, NY.

  • 2007 Leader, 1 day walling workshop, Hinesburg Land Trust, Hinesburg, VT.

  • 2007 Instructor, two-week Environmental Art Workshop, Koli National Park, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland.

  • 2007 Instructor, 2-day, 24 person, dry stone workshop, Great River Arts Institute, Dummerston, VT.

  • 2006 Leader, 2-day, 24 person, walling workshop, Great River Arts Institute, Brattleboro, VT.

  • 2005 Instructor, California Landscape Contractors Association Convention Center trade show, Los Angeles, CA.

  • 2002 Instructor, week-long, dry stone walling workshop, Isles of Shoals, Gulf of Maine, NH.

With special thanks to Michael Turek for the Newfoundland workshop photo/storyboard.