We’re thrilled to announce our workshop lineup for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017! Whether it’s an eight-week concentration in crafting sculptural wood furniture or a one-week intensive on kinetic metal jewelry, there’s lots to choose from in each of our studios. Browse through all the course descriptions to find your next creative challenge.
Registration is open now, and scholarships are available for all fall and spring concentrations. Printed catalogs will be in the mail shortly.
Penland’s eight-week concentrations are known for being intense and immersive workshops that leave students with new ideas, new skills, and new friends. This spring’s timber framing concentration was all that, but it also left a permanent mark on the Penland campus. In just eight weeks, the class, led by instructor Raivo Vihman and studio assistant Tom Shields, raised a full timber frame that will become the permanent home of a historical display just behind the Craft House. It took weeks of work to prepare the beams and fit them all together, but the raising took place in just one exhilarating day! Here’s to teamwork, cranes, and careful planning.
Thank you, timber framers, for this gorgeous structure! It will be a cherished part of campus for years and years to come.
The following post is a photo slideshow. If you’re looking at it in email, we recommend viewing it on the blog.
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 5th at 8pm to celebrate the end of the session at the scholarship auction in Northlight!
