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In the fall, the Mississippi Craft Center will offer a pottery class for children. Credit: Judy Baxter

The Mississippi Craft Center, (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland) will host a variety of creative classes in the coming months. Class topics include beginning quilting with Dorinda Evans, creative welding with Charles Buster and silk batik with Candy Cain. Participants can also learn weaving and spinning with Marcy Petrini; take introduction to pottery, combined handbuilding and the wheel with Robert Pickenpaugh; woodcarving with George Berry and many more.

Prices, dates and availability of classes vary; to check the details, visit http://mscrafts.org. If you do not see a date listed for a class, registration for that class will take place once there is sufficient interest to begin the class.

On Thursday, Aug. 25, enjoy “A Night of Craft at the Center.” The event is from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and is for adults only. Admission is $25 and includes food and wine. Attendees can meet craftsmen and learn how to make metal jewelry, fused glass, blacksmithing items or woven basket fabrics.

To register, contact the Mississippi Craft Center at 601-856-7546, or visit http://mscrafts.org. All classes require full payment at the time of registration.

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Digital Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi where he studied journalism. He started his journalism career years ago at the Jackson Free Press in Mississippi’s capital city as an intern and worked his way up to web editor, a role he now holds within the Mississippi Free Press. Dustin enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. Email him at dustin@mississippifreepress.org.