Instructor Suzanne Pugh demonstrating the investment process. which is part of metal casting. The best thing she said during the demo: “This is a dirty mixing bowl. If you come out here and find a mixing bowl in this condition, then one of your classmates just spat on your shoes. So be sure to clean your mixing bowls.”
Here is a slideshow from our annual, homemade July 4 celebration.
If you have any trouble with the slideshow linked above, you can click here for the slightly fuzzier YouTube version.
Recent photography instructor Neal Rantoul produced this suite of photographs en route to and during his 3rd session workshop, The Expressive Landscape:
Penland, North Carolina by Neal Rantoul
“These photographs were made in late June and early July 2012 on a trip from Boston, where I live, to teach at Penland School of Crafts near Spruce Pine in North Carolina. I drove down there and back, photographing some along the way, but mostly photographed in the small town of Spruce Pine and near to Penland. Each morning at 6:30, often with two or three students along, we would spend a couple of hours photographing in Spruce Pine. The idea of coming back to someplace to photograph, to study it and one’s results from the previous day seemed to resonate with the students and it certainly did for me. Spruce Pine is small, bifurcated into older and newer parts and reflects present day US economics and hard times. It has a railroad that goes right through it, sits in a valley alongside a river and is lush in late June with dark green foliage.
Working this way in North Carolina brought me back to days in my deeper past. There were many road trips spent photographing, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends, sometimes with students, pulling over in some little town, walking and shooting what I saw and what seemed worth trying to make into a picture.” – Neal Rantoul
