Cedar Valley Wood Carvers
2024 Show Winners More pictures on the Pictures page
Winners from the judging of our artistry in wood: From right to left:
Bruce Kruse - Best of Show Artistic Turning
Stacy Nehl - Best of Show - Armadillo
Tom Garwood - 2nd Place - Crappies
Julio Martinez - 3rd Place - Miniature Bunny
Don Lund - Best Instructor Assisted - Blue Jay
Upcoming CVWC Meetings
March 12th at 6:00pm
April 9th at 6:00pm
Location: American Legion Post 298, 625 31st Street, Marion.
Check out our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/CVWoodcarvers/
Welcome to the Cedar Valley Woodcarvers Website
We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at American Legion Post 298 at 625 31st Street in Marion at 6 p.m. and you are cordially invited to come see what we do and how we do it. Our meetings last about a half hour and are followed by classes taught by our members.
The Club elected the following officers for 2024:
President - Don Potter
Vice President - Randy Gager
Past President - Kayla McPherson
Treasurer - Melissa Bates
Secretary - Don Lund
Board of Directors are the above and: Harold Miller (newly elected for 2 year term)
Kay Lund (2nd year of 2 year term)
Clark Crane is Librarian
Upcoming Classes at Larry's
May 10-12
Jan Jenson
Oct 18-20
Floyd Rhadigan
Aug 5-10
Roger Nardchal
Apr 24_NL.pdfHere is our most recent newsletter.
Julio puts it out for us.
Need help with your Carving?
If you would like help learning and mastering new techniques, contact the CVWC Mentoring Program.
Program Directors: Larry Sylvester 319-929-6155 Don Potter 319-551-5055
Club Members volunteering to help teach carving
Larry Sylvester Beginning and advanced carving techniques
Don Potter Beginning and advanced carving techniques
John Marion Beginning and advanced carving techniques
Merle Krug Beginning and advanced carving techniques
Ann Ristow Chip carving, Wood burning
Linda Langenberg Curtis Power carving, Animals and more
David Steil Power carving, Birds and more
Don Lund Power carving, Fish and more
Ken Ormiston Chain saw, Animals and more
If any carver would like help on a project, they can call on of the programs directors and they will put them in contact with someone who can help them.
Craving class - Cedar Valley.pdfCarving class report
By Gregg Lind
We honor one of our members in memory of one of our own carvers. Annually we give the Harold Davis Award to a member who has given a lot to our club and to the hobby of carving. Nominations are made to the Board by the membership and the board votes on the winner.
Beginning with the 2019 year, we have renamed the award to the Kirt Curtis Award.
Our winners so far are:
2004 Kirt Curtis
2005 Larry Sylvester
2006 Jerry Schierholz
2007 Maurie Vandewalle
2008 Linda Langenberg-Curtis
2009 Jody Warren
2010 Jim Gerlich
2011 Don Lund
2012 Clark Crane
2013 Roger Norfolk
2014 Scott Garbe
2015 Larry Lebeda and Sherri Wilcox
2016 Tom Roe
2017 Laurie Frisch
2018 Kay Lund
Now the Kirt Curtis Award -
2019 John Marion
2020 Ken Ormiston
2021 We didn't really give it to COVID -
2022 Larry Sylvester
2023 Ann Ristow
2024 Jerry Schierholz
We have a scholarship available to members
SCHOLARSHIP GUIDELINES revised.pdfSCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION.pdf
We are just a bunch of folks that share and promote the joy and art of woodcarving.
Our club collage is kind of cool.