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Two New Scholarships for Summer

The deadline for summer scholarship applications is fast approaching (it’s Friday, February 25th) and we’re pleased to announce two newly-endowed scholarships: the Betsy and Marc Rowland Scholarship and the Glass/Apple Scholarship.

Penland Scholarship in Metals

The Betsy and Marc Rowland Scholarship Fund provides one full work-study scholarship for a student in a summer metals or clay class. Betsy is the sister of Penland trustee Polly Allen, has taken several workshops in metals, and is a frequent Benefit Auction attendee.

The Glass/Apple Scholarship Fund offers a full work-study scholarship to a summer student from Rockingham County, NC. It was endowed by Ed and Sue Glass of Cornelius, NC, in partnership with the Apple Foundation.

For more information about these and other Penland scholarships, applications, and class offerings, click here to visit our website.

Our heartfelt thanks to Betsy and Marc, Ed and Sue and our friends at the Apple Foundation, and to all of the generous donors who make Penland’s scholarship opportunities possible.

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Penland’s Annual Report Available Online

Penland School of Crafts Annual Report FY 2010Penland’s annual report for fiscal year 2010 is available for downloading from our website.

Here’s the link.

It’s with a little pride and a lot of joy that we get to tell the world about the cool stuff that goes on here, and the astonishing creativity and generosity of the people who make Penland a part of their lives each year. So have a look, and then give yourselves a hand. They’re your stories.

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Remotely Sensing by Jennifer Bueno on USA Projects

Jennifer Bueno's Remotely SensingJennifer Bueno, a mixed-media sculptor and former Penland resident artist, is fundraising on USA Projects for an upcoming installation at The Annex in Raleigh, NC. Her project, Remotely Sensing, is based on the out-of-body feeling generated by observing the earth via satellite images:

…Recently, I’ve found myself engrossed in satellite images. Though these images are created by data gathered directly from our planet, they seem otherworldly.  Their false colors are created by gathering specific frequencies from the spectrum that give an alien glow, and when you think about it are really only “false” to our species who see a limited number of frequencies.  And yet they are accessible. In the terrain I can identify a river, a mountain, a city; viewing the earth at a certain distance creates an odd sense of knowing place.

I would like to create a body of work that ruminates on how these now ubiquitous images affect our perception of place.  I see this body of work as a focus of my exploration of awareness within the context of experience. Some of these satellite images invoke an out of body feeling similar to a kind of ”spirit projection”.  For me looking at these images creates a distance in time between myself and the place that I see. They create a magical change that I am extremely excited about. It is our home becoming something else….

If you’d like to read Jennifer’s proposal and perhaps consider supporting her project, click here to visit her USA Projects page.

You can also click here to visit Jennifer Bueno’s website, to learn more about her other artwork.