Come make a flower for someone special this holiday season! You'll pick your petal colors and solder together a beautiful flower out of stained glass. Petals come pre-cut. Sign-off: none Prerequisite: none Age: ages 12-15 parent must also be a paid student; ages 16-17 parent must remain in lab. Instructor: Caitlin Forrest has been a stained glass artist for over 15 years and loves creating nature-inspired pieces.
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Fast‑paced intro class at Nova Labs teaches wood understanding, milling, joinery, curve cutting, and glue‑ups while building a wooden tool tote.
Open studio at Nova Labs where makers handbuild clay projects, chat, listen to music, and tackle a weekly challenge, free for all ages.
The Civil War (Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center) — Exhibit presents 1861‑1865 conflict, Southern secession, slavery tensions, casualties, and emancipation.
Veteran's Day: Library Closed (Oakton Library, Oakton Meeting Room 1 and Meeting Room 2).
Fast‑paced evening boot camp at Nova Labs teaches wood understanding, milling, joinery, band‑saw curves, and glue‑ups while building a wooden tool tote.
Tool safety sign-off session covering Grizzly bandsaw, DeWalt sliding miter saw, scroll saw, track saw, drill press, disc and belt sanders; requires close-toed shoes and safety glasses.
MIG Welding 101 class at Nova Labs teaches welding basics and offers a MIG welder sign‑off.
Makers Circle & Art Lab at Nova Labs: members bring projects, work with others, exchange ideas, share tools across crafts like knitting, metalwork, digital art.
Knitting circle for novices and pros meets in City of Fairfax Library Meeting Room 101A, adults only.
Free-form sculpture and art using found objects in the City of Fairfax Regional Library meeting rooms, registration required, for ages 5–10 and 13–18.
New member orientation at Nova Labs covers shop safety, policies, tool sign‑off process, onboarding steps, key contacts, volunteering info, and provides a member door key.
At Nova Labs, participants heat‑treat stainless‑steel knife blanks to 1900°F, cryo‑quench them, grind a fillet knife shape, and learn metallurgy and handle‑making, 16 and over.
