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Photo of the Week: Eight Shots of Spring

Penland runs well over 100 workshops every year, and this fast pace means it can be hard to fully appreciate the creative leaps and transformations that happen—quietly but powerfully—in each one. Before we move on to the exciting flurry of summer workshops starting this Sunday, we want to spend another moment or two taking in all the great things that came to life during our spring sessions, from new shoes to new furniture designs to new friendships. Below, we present a mini slideshow of eight photos, one from each of our eight-week concentrations and an extra one of the sweet moments in between. For more spring photos, including shots from our spring one-week workshops, head over here to view our longer album.

"Experimental Editions" with Marianne Dages
"Meta-Furniture" with Tom Shields
"Persuading Metal" with Adam Whitney
"The Perfect Union: Paint, Collage & Transfer" with Holly Roberts
"Wheelthrowing and Handbuilding Techniques" with Sunshine Cobb
"Sculpture with Fierce Intention" with Christina Shmigel
"From Shoes to Boots: Footwear 101" with Amara Hark-Weber
...and a moment of friends and spring green outside The Pines

 

Registration just opened for our next round of fall and spring workshops—take a look at all the great instructors we have lined up! There are also spaces open in many of our summer workshops starting as soon as May 27th.

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Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Workshops!

Catalog cover: woman winding a warp in the textiles studio

The beautiful thing about the Penland schedule is that it is simultaneously very regular and very unpredictable. We know that there will be seven 8-week concentrations and nine 1-week workshops offered in the fall and spring, but their content can vary dramatically from year to year—will textiles students be sewing quilts or making shoes? Will the iron studio be forging or pouring iron? Will the clay class be firing sculpture at cone 03 or pots at cone 10?

Today, we’re thrilled to answer these burning questions and reveal our Fall 2018/Spring 2019 workshop lineup! We’ve got classes programmed in each of our studios (including our shiny new paper and photography studios), and there’s something on offer for just about any creative interest. Get a peek at our Fall 2018 Concentration workshops below, or browse our workshops by studio or by session to see everything we have planned.

2018 Fall Concentrations
September 23 – November 16, 2018

  • Clay – Red Clay Every Way with Maggie Jaszczak & Tom Jaszczak
  • Glass – Pattern & Texture with Benjamin Johnson
  • Iron – Forged & Filed with Seth Gould
  • Letterpress – Letterpress Possibilities with Beth Schaible
  • Painting – Color & Abstraction with Tonya D. Lee
  • Textiles – Surface Design: Fundamental to Experimental with Tim Eads
  • Wood – Seriously Messing with Wood with Stephen Proctor

Registration for Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 workshops will open Monday, May 21 at 11:00 AM EST on a first-come, first-served basis. Scholarships are available for all 8-week concentrations—apply by August 1 for fall and November 28 for spring.

And if you’re the type of person who just loves to leaf through our offerings in paper, don’t fear; the catalog is at the printer now and will be on its way to mailboxes across the country shortly!

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Photo of the Week: Nice Boot!

Student Mira Brown finishing up a beautiful pair of work boots at the end of the stellar eight-week shoemaking workshop taught by Amara Hark-Weber.

 


Here are shoes from the whole class on display at shoe-and-tell.

And more!

WLOS, the local TV station, came by and did a short piece on the class for the evening news. Watch it here.