Spring One-Week Session II
April 11 - 17, 2010

Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome.

Letterpress/writing

Lisa Beth Robinson

Lisa Beth Robinson and Gary Hawkins - Craft, Poetry, and Printing

“Inspiration springs from tradition.”
–Gary Frost

Building language and building books, like any crafts, are improved by investigation and inquiry paired with practice. Moreover, the poet who works in the context of making a book writes beyond individual poems, and the bookmaker who works in the context of arriving poems builds purposeful constructions. Through writing exercises and an introduction to letterpress printing, the class will collaborate to develop and print a small edition book. All levels.

Lisa Beth: studio artist, proprietor of Somnambulist Tango Press, instructor at East Carolina University (NC); solo shows: Rocky Mount Arts Center (NC), Vespine Gallery (Chicago); collections: Whitney Museum (NYC), Wustum Museum (WI),
Joan Flaxman Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Gary: poet, essayist, writing faculty at Warren Wilson College (NC);
work published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Emily Dickinson Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly.

lisabethpress.com

Masonry

Joe Dinwiddie

Joe Dinwiddie - Drystone Masonry for the Landscape

This class will cover a specific methodology for constructing stone landscape features without mortar. It will include tool selection, use, and maintenance; safety; design; and formulas for estimating quantities of stone. We will build or repair a drystone masonry landscape feature on the Penland campus. All levels.

Mason; teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Touchstone (PA); certified by the Drystone Walling Association of Great Britain.

drystonejoe.com

Photo

Robin Dreyer

Robin Dreyer - Light and Time

“What makes photography a strange invention . . . is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
–John Berger

This class will be a headlong plunge into making analog (i.e. non-digital) photographs. We will start with pinhole cameras to explore the physics and chemistry of capturing light and time. Then we will put film in cameras, take lots of pictures, print them in the darkroom, and talk about them. We will cover camera functions, film processing, and printing, plus a little design, history, psychology, etc. Visits by guest teacher Jeff Goodman will keep us on our toes; the Penland Photobooth will make us locally famous. Beginning level; experienced students welcome.

Robin: photographer, Penland communications manager; workshop teaching: Penland, Hendrix College (AR); work published in books, magazines, and Penland publications; collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC).
Jeff: teacher of photography, video, media studies, and science materials at Appalachian State University (NC).

rdreyer.com