On the last morning of their Slow and Savor: Mindfulness and Service in the Craft Arts workshop, beloved Penland neighbor and many-time instructor Paulus Berensohn and former core student Caverly Morgan lead their students and guests in a celebratory dance around the work they’ve made together.
Woodkilns don’t last forever, and this spring, the clay class is building a new one. Guided by Kevin Crowe and Dan Finnegan, the class spending about a month building the kiln and then they will spend the rest of the session firing it several times (this will also involve making pots, of course). The first step was to knock down the old one, which happened just before the session started.
Then onto construction.
This is the front of the pile of bags of vermiculite (1500 pounds) that are waiting for a later stage of construction.
Finished at last, core fellow Liz Koerner and former core fellow Jack Mauch pause to reflect on, and in, the beautiful surface of their specially-commissioned table for the future Core House.
