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Posted on December 19, 2016 by Penland

Summer 2017 Workshop Catalog

Penland summer 2017 catalog cover with portraits of Penland students, instructors, staff, etc

We’re thrilled to present the Summer 2017 workshop catalog! It includes information about our ninety-seven unique summer workshops, including favorites like wood-fired pottery and letterpress and special offerings like bicycle building and leather inlay. Some workshops are for beginners, some are aimed at intermediate and advanced artists, most are open to students of all levels, and each is taught by knowledgeable artist-instructors. The front and back covers capture the range of our broad Penland community in a series of Penland portraits by resident artist Mercedes Jelinek. Read more about her photographs and all of this summer’s great offerings right here in the catalog.

Registration for summer workshops is open now, and everyone who registers by 5 PM on February 11 will be entered into the early registration lottery. Scholarships are available for all workshops. Apply for scholarships by February 17.

We are currently working on uploading full course information to our website. Look for it online by the end of December, with printed catalogs to follow in early January.

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Posted on August 31, 2016 by Penland

Handrail 2.0

iron class with railing

This summer’s session 5 iron workshop with Hoss Haley and Warren Holzman brought together a talented bunch of students with big ideas and impressive skill. Together, the class designed, constructed, and installed a new bronze and steel handrail on campus. The project included eight custom supports, hours at the power hammer, 44 feet of forged cap rail, and a whole lot of teamwork. We think the results are just stunning.

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Two students prepare a bundle of steel rods to be forged into one of the railing supports.

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Heat, patience, and an eye for detail make all the pieces come together smoothly.

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The new railing is a big improvement over the standard blue railing it replaced. Thanks, team!

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Posted on April 28, 2016April 28, 2016 by Penland

Photo(s) of the Week: Spring in the Studios

The following post is a photo slideshow. If you’re looking at it in email, we recommend viewing it on the blog.

Students at work in the "Artist and Weaver" concentration

The weaving studio has looked like a veritable Pantone book this spring

It takes teamwork to prepare pulp for papermaking

Learning the delicate art of Eastern papermaking

Handmade sheets of paper show their texture in the sun

The iron class started by forging spoons and other small objects

Products of an iron inflation demo in Elizabeth Brim's workshop

The glow of a coal fire in the iron studio

Taking a closer look at negatives during a 1-week workshop

Nancy Blum came to campus as this spring's visiting artist

This spring's clay concentration includes throwing, decorating, and handbuilding

Working with image transferring techniques

Students adding soda to a kiln during firing

A rainbow of inks in the letterpress studio

A few of the cloth bags that came out of one week of "Printfest!"

Just a small selection of the plates and prints that came through the studio in one week

Instructor Laura Wood in the studio during her "Make Show Repeat" concentration

For Alicia Keshishian's color theory workshop, the whole drawing studio got a colorful makeover.

Choosing palettes from a table full of color

Everything is scaled up in the wood studio this spring for the timber framing class

Working on site before the whole frame is raised

Wood students with their building-to-be!

Glass bubbles and tubes and twists before the addition of neon

Between seven concentrations and nine 1-week workshops, we’ve had a busy spring at Penland. It’s been exciting to see the progress that long classes make, whether it’s transforming straight beams into a fully-realized timber frame structure or collecting plant material to make into paper to make into books. Scroll through the photos above to get a glimpse of the colorful, experimental, detailed, thoughtful, beautiful things underway in the studios. And, if you’re in the area, please join us on May 5^th at 8pm to celebrate the end of the session at the scholarship auction in Northlight!