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Penland featured on ‘Around Carolina’

A new piece about Penland made for the series Around Carolina, produced for Time Warner Cable in North Carolina. It features short interviews with student Katie Fee, metalsmith Ndidi Ekubia, core fellow Angela Eastman, and deputy director Jerry Jackson–and many faces from our mid-July workshops. If you’ve never been to Penland before, this is a good appetizer. Thank you to Richard Green for stopping in to visit with us.

 
 

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Photo of the week: One from the Auction

julie elkins at the Penland benefit auction

Our annual benefit auction was last weekend, and it’s impossible to represent with one picture. So instead of attempting that, we’re just posting a favorite picture. This is volunteer Julie Elkins in her elaborately decorated auction T-shirt carefully transporting one of the 192 water-filled glass globes that made up Pablo Soto’s beautiful auction centerpieces (4 globes per table). The auction was great and we’ll post a report in a few days when we have firm numbers. If you want to see more auction pictures, there is an album here.

 

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An Encaustic Adventure with Jane Wells Harrison

 

Sometimes my work is very thoughtful, but just as often, it is an overt expression that results from whimsical manipulations of materials I’ve selected.

Jane Wells Harrison

 

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Jane Wells Harrison, It Can Be A Rock, encaustic, 2014

 

Jane Wells Harrison will teach mixed media, collage, and encaustic painting on surfaces both conventional and unconventional (including old slate roofing tiles) at Penland this fall.

Wells writes in her artist statement that her work “takes me to the easel, the workbench, the heated palette, and the enameling kiln.” In the mixed-media spirit of the class, Jane has invited esteemed metalsmith Robert Ebendorf, who will be a visiting artist and conduct a demonstration for students.

More about Harrison’s work and process can be found on her blog.

Space is available, including a limited number of work-study spots. Class begins September 21 and runs eight weeks.

 

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Jane Wells Harrison
Mixed Media with Encaustic
September 21- November 14, 2014
This workshop will cover all aspects of working with encaustic paint, with a special emphasis on combining encaustic with mixed media. Working in series, students will find several solutions to each assigned project. We’ll work on wood, paper, and other surfaces, and we may use watercolor, gouache, and oil paint with encaustic, as well as graphite, charcoal, and found objects. Although this class is centered on the combination of encaustic and mixed media, encaustic is not a requirement for all projects. All levels. Code F00D

 

 Jane Wells Harrison, image of work
 from her Instagram feed

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Jane Wells Harrison is a studio artist who has taught at Pocosin Arts (NC), Rocky Mount Arts Center (NC), Turchin Center (NC), East Carolina University (NC). She has exhibited at Quirk Gallery (VA), Turchin Center (NC), Velvet da Vinci (San Francisco), and Studio Fusion (London) among others. Her metal work has appeared in Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print and Enameling Techniques by Linda Darty. She lives near Lenoir, NC.