Metals Spring One-Week Session III
April 21-27, 2019

John Cogswell
Heart, Hand, & Hammer: Forging

Forging may be the oldest metalworking technique. It is the classic method by which wire, rod, or ingots are hammer-formed into elegant, lightweight, flexible forms. Forging is essentially a two-stage process. First the metal is shaped by a series of sequential hammering operations, transforming it into an object that possesses varied structural cross-sections and fluid, graceful contours. Then the surface of the rough-forged form is refined by planishing, producing the characteristic reflective, subtly hammer-textured surface. This workshop will focus on light forging to produce small-scale jewelry. All levels. Code S03MB

Studio artist; teaching: SUNY New Paltz (NY), Parsons School of Design (NYC), Haystack (ME); former director of jewelry and metalsmithing at 92nd Street Y (NYC); inducted into the National Metalsmith Hall of Fame; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Jewish Museum (NYC), Ackland Museum of Art (NC).

Glass Spring One-Week Session III
April 21-27, 2019

John Croucher & Luke Jacomb
Color for Glass Nerds

This workshop will show students how to formulate glass recipes to arrive at oxide percentages, expansion coefficients, and viscosity measurements. Each day we’ll make new color to explore some of the chemistry and properties of color. We’ll cover several different color systems to give students knowledge they can use in their future practice. We’ll be joined for a day or two by local glass artist Mark Peiser. Intermediate level: glass skills required. Code S03GA

John: founder of Gaffer Glass, a brand of colored casting and blowing glasses; early pioneer of New Zealand’s studio glass movement. Luke: studio artist; teaching: Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Urban Glass (NYC), Toyama City Institute (Japan), Pratt Institute (NYC), JamFactory (Australia); collections: Alfred University (NY), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Corning Museum of Glass, Ebeltoft Glass Museum (Denmark).

Clay Spring One-Week Session III
April 19-25, 2020

Kurt Anderson
Don’t Hate, Decorate!

Due to the current risks associated with bringing a large group of people together on our campus, we have decided to cancel all spring 2020 one-week workshops. Please see our COVID-19 Response page for more information. Thank you for your understanding and support as we navigate this evolving situation.

Print & Letterpress Spring One-Week Session II
April 7-13, 2019

Jason Bige Burnett
Swipe Right for Screenprinting

Build a new relationship with your creativity and learn the techniques of screenprinting! Whether you prefer working loosely with raw and unrefined marks or making prints that are polished and pristine, consider “swiping right” for screenprinting. We’ll cover printing, mixing inks, creating stencils, registration, and more. There will be plenty of time for exploration, play, and making prints to take home. Students of all levels will leave with the knowledge needed to make screenprints in their own studios and the foundation for incorporating the process into other mediums. All levels. Code S02X

Studio artist; teaching: Santa Fe Clay, Office for the Arts at Harvard (MA), Idyllwild Arts (CA); residencies: Arrowmont (TN), Belger Crane Yard Studios (MO); exhibitions: Northern Clay Center (MN), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Red Lodge Clay Center (MT); author of Graphic Clay: Ceramic Surfaces and Printed Image Transfer Techniques (Lark Books); former Penland core fellow.

jasonbigeburnett.com

Specials  Spring One-Week Session II
April 7-13, 2019

Alicia D. Keshishian
Chroma-Licious: Color Confidence

Color is everywhere, but how do we recreate colors? How do we incorporate color into our work? In this workshop we’ll explore color with a series of hands-on exercises to reveal not only the basics of color theory, but how each individual has a unique relationship with color. Color is important for any artist to harness because it’s the control of all the elements that establishes each person’s artistic voice. Once we break through some of the challenges of color mixing, we’ll do a series of design projects, applying your new-found knowledge to your medium. All levels. Code S02D

Studio artist, art director, and color consultant; owner and creative director of Carpets of Imagination with almost 40 years of textile, print, and illustration experience; Color Marketing Group board member; teaching: Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (GA), Penland; former Penland resident artist.

adkcarpets.com

Textiles Spring One-Week Session II
April 5-11, 2020

Wayne Wichern
Felt & Straw Hats: Traditional Blocked & Freeform

Due to the current risks associated with bringing a large group of people together on our campus, we have decided to cancel all spring 2020 one-week workshops. Please see our COVID-19 Response page for more information. Thank you for your understanding and support as we navigate this evolving situation.

Print & Letterpress Spring One-Week Session 1
March 22-28, 2020

Stuart Kestenbaum & Susan Webster
Word & Image

Due to the current risks associated with bringing a large group of people together on our campus, we have decided to cancel all spring 2020 one-week workshops. Please see our COVID-19 Response page for more information. Thank you for your understanding and support as we navigate this evolving situation.

Textiles Spring One-Week Session I
March 22-28, 2020

Amanda Thatch
Handweaving: Foundations & Exploration

Due to the current risks associated with bringing a large group of people together on our campus, we have decided to cancel all spring 2020 one-week workshops. Please see our COVID-19 Response page for more information. Thank you for your understanding and support as we navigate this evolving situation.

Ben Elliott, Ebb & Flow, March 22-28, 2020
Unfortunately, this workshop has been cancelled. We look forward to welcoming Ben to our studios at a later date.

Wood Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Yuri Kobayashi
Design with Curvature

Making curved shapes from flat wood is like making s’mores: it’s messy and fun and requires a bit of strategy. Sometimes it even takes a village, as it is often a collaborative team effort. We’ll first get up to speed on basic woodworking—from hand-cut joinery to coopering, steam bending, and lamination. Through daily demonstrations, exercises, and hands-on instruction, students will tackle design challenges to create utilitarian objects such as trays, containers, wall shelves, small tables, form studies, or other projects that incorporate curved wood. We’ll have weekly design discussions and group critiques. Our goal will be to explore and experiment with ideas expressed in wood. All levels.

Studio artist; teaching: Rhode Island School of Design, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (ME), recent exhibitions: Arizona State University Art Museum, Center for Art in Wood (PA), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Fuller Craft Museum; residencies: State University of New York Purchase, University of Wisconsin Madison, Arizona State University. 

yurikobayashi.com | @ykcurio

Textiles Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Celia Pym
Visible Mending: Damage and Repair

This workshop will explore textile repair: how and why to do it. Students will develop skills for making visible repairs with hand-stitched darning, embroidery, and patching. We’ll play with ideas, color, and materials, and explore narratives, damage and decision making, the qualities of tenderness and care in mending, and mending’s relationship with fashion and the environment. Students will work on their own garments and those of others. A playful attitude and openness to ideas is central to this workshop.  All levels. Third-floor textiles studio.

Studio artist; teaching: Royal College of Art (London), London College of Fashion; exhibitions: Herald St (London), Firstsite (UK), Harewood Biennial: Radical Acts (UK), Trading Museum (Paris), Victoria and Albert Dundee (Scotland); collections: Crafts Council UK, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. 

celiapym.com | @celiapym

Print & Letterpress Spring Concentration
March 6 – April 29, 2022

Jamie Karolich
Print/Process/Production

Letterpress is a democratic art form; it disseminates information widely through its ability to produce multiples. Whether you are experienced or new to letterpress, this workshop will explore this democratic idea and what it means to learn, share, and reproduce. Students will gain knowledge in multiple printing methods and processes, including handset type, polymer plate printing, die cutting, wood and linoleum relief printing as well as experimental techniques. Front loaded with technical information and small collaborative projects, this workshop introduces print techniques and encourages students to think outside of their own creative default. Students will have time to journey into their own self-guided projects and can expect to leave with a new, diverse portfolio of prints that exemplify traditional and experimental techniques and explorations. All levels. Letterpress studio.

Printer and proprietor of Small Batch Studio; co-organizer of Southwest Print Fiesta (NM); exhibitions: New Mexico Printmaking Invitational, New Grounds Remarque Print Workshop (NM), Light Studio (NM), El Sol (NM), At Work (IN), PLAY (NC); residencies: The Common Press (CO), Arrowmont (TN), Western New Mexico University, smART Kinston (NC), Penland Core Fellowship. 

jamieannekarolich.com | @jamiekarolich

Photo Spring Concentration
March 6 – April 29, 2022

Mercedes Jelinek
Processing Process

This workshop will take students on a journey through analog, digital, and hybrid photographic processes. We’ll cover large-format camera use, film development, and traditional darkroom printing. We’ll also scan film, shoot digitally, and use these files to make archival inkjet prints. From there, we’ll learn to further manipulate our photographs through collage and alternative photographic processes. This workshop will also cover basic and advanced shooting techniques, composition, framing, digital workflow, archiving, digital editing (with Lightroom or Photoshop), and more. All levels. 

Studio artist; teaching: East Carolina University Italy Intensives Program, Appalachian State University (NC), Penland; former Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Odgen Museum (New Orleans), SoHo Photo (NYC), Satellite Art Show at Art Basel Miami, Pingyao International Photo Festival (China); publications acquired by Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Whitney Museum (NYC), Library of Congress (DC), Aperture Foundation (NYC), Getty Institute (Los Angeles). 

 mercedesjelinek.com | @mercedes_jelinek

Metals Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

David Harper Clemons
Narrative Jewelry: Well-Worn Tales

Whether they are drama, mystery, social commentary, or personal history, stories can teach us lessons, memorialize events and people, and project the future. Students in this workshop will make wearable pieces and small sculpture. Guided technical and conceptual exercises will help them develop and hone their use of materials, iconography, and form to convey narratives through their work. We’ll cover surface embellishment, cold connections, soldering, mechanisms, hydraulic forming, casting, basic stonesetting, enameling, and using alternative materials. Bring curiosity and willingness to explore as you execute numerous pieces and live a great story during our eight weeks. All levels. Upper metals studio. 

Studio artist; teaching: University of Arkansas Little Rock, Haystack (ME), Pocosin Arts (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Penland; collections: Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Arkansas Art Center (AR), Metal Museum (TN), Renwick Gallery (DC); representation: Day in the Life Gallery (OR), Penland Gallery.

davidharperclemons.com | @harperclemons

Iron Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Stephen Yusko
Forged and Finished

Participants in this workshop will create objects that balance the industrial history of steel with a gracefulness of form. Building on a solid base of fundamental forging, forming and fabricating techniques, students will expand their visual vocabulary through creative problem solving and by exploring inventive uses of material. Techniques covered will include pattern and texture development, sheet and hollow forming, tube and pipe forging, hot and cold connections and finishing. All levels.

Studio artist; teaching: Haystack (ME), Cleveland Institute of Art, Peters Valley (NJ), Touchstone (PA); residencies: SUNY Purchase (NY), San Diego State University (CA); Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award (OH); Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship (OH); exhibitions: Metal Museum (TN), FORGE, International traveling exhibition (UK and USA); publications: 500 Metal Vessels (Lark), Metalsmith SNAG JAMS, American Craft. 

stephenyusko.com | @stephenyuskostudios

Glass Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Kit Paulson
Borosilicate Fieldnotes: The Explorer’s Notebook

A notebook is a license to explore the world: in this workshop we’ll explore and catalog ideas, methods, and structures in flameworked borosilicate glass. There will be a strong emphasis on daily hand-skill practice supplemented by drawing, reading, demonstrations, and slide shows. Students will learn techniques for solid structural flameworking along with building a strong foundation in making hollow, blown forms. All levels. Flameworking studio.

Studio artist; teaching: Pilchuck (WA), Bildwerk Frauenau (Germany), National College of Art and Design (Dublin), Pittsburgh Glass Center, UrbanGlass (NYC); residencies: Rosenberg Residency (MA), Tacoma Museum of Glass (WA), S12 (Bergan, Norway); collections: Tacoma Museum of Glass (WA), KODE (Bergen, Norway), Renwick Gallery (DC). 

kitpaulsonglass.com | @kitpaulson

Clay Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Justin Rothshank
Decals, Soda Firing, and Pottery

This workshop will cover a variety of throwing/production techniques with earthenware and stoneware, and you will learn how to transfer your imagery onto ceramic work using decal, stamping, and layering techniques. We’ll cover image preparation, printing and transferring decals onto greenware and glazed pots, layering decals, commercial decals, and firing temperatures for various types of decals. We’ll fire all kinds of kilns, including wood, and we’ll specifically experiment with electric and soda kilns. We’ll talk about business for the studio potter, including daily production, marketing, and efficiency. All levels. Upper clay studio.

Studio artist; teaching: Touchstone (PA), Arrowmont (TN), Harvard Ceramics (MA), Baltimore Clayworks; co-founder of Union Project (Pittsburgh), Michiana Pottery Tour (Michigan, Indiana), and Indiana Clay Conference; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Frick Museum (Pittsburgh), San Angelo Museum (TX); author of Low Fire Soda and Ceramic Decals: New Ideas and Techniques. 

rothshank.com | @jrothshank 

Books Spring Concentration
March 5 – April 28, 2023 (8 Weeks)

Alex McClay
Form, Content, Book

In this workshop we’ll create meaningful and moving works of art by making books that merge form and content. We’ll begin by covering a plethora of bookbinding techniques, including one-page books, zines, pamphlet stitch, coptic stitch, drum leaf binding, case binding, and box-making. At the same time, we’ll practice creative exercises that will evoke your artistic voice and encourage content development. Then we’ll spend some time in the letterpress studio getting that content onto paper. You’ll learn to set type, make polymer plates, pressure print, and collagraph print, all while planning carefully for the book form. We’ll put it all together back in the books studio. Demonstrations, presentations, discussions, meditations, and exercises will enrich the workshop experience. Students will leave with a collection of handbound artists’ books and a working knowledge of bookbinding and letterpress printing. All levels. 

Studio artist; teaching: University of Cincinnati (OH), University of Georgia (GA); residencies: Tiger Lily Press (OH), Penland Core Fellowship (NC); exhibitions: Weston Art Gallery (OH), ArtSpace (NC), Haggerty Gallery (TX), Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking (GA).

alexmcclay.com | @raaalex