2023 Core Sound Decoy Festival Poster Contest Rules

Get out your pencils and paintbrushes….it’s time for the 2023 Core Sound Decoy Festival poster contest! This will be the 22nd year for the contest, which is sponsored by the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. The Guild encourages artists to submit artwork that, if chosen as the winning entry, will be used on decoy festival…

Jamie Hand Carving Class – June 3rd & 4th 2023

The Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild is thrilled to offer yet another carving instructional by master carver and living legend J.P. Hand. The exhibition is a two day long event, scheduled for Saturday, June 3rd, and Sunday, June 4th, 2023. The class will focus on making traditional, working New Jersey style decoys – participants will…

Kids Carving Saturdays!!

Kids Carving is BACK! Join us on the third Saturday of each month for Kids Carving! Throughout the year on the third Saturday of most months you will find Guild members working with budding decoy carvers and painters at the Guild workshop. From 10 am to 12 pm, youngsters from ages 7 to 15 gather…