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Penland School of Crafts is an international educational center located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. 

It’s a place where people have intense, exciting, sometimes transformative experiences while exploring new skills and ideas in the company of others. 

The Penland campus is made up of more than 50 buildings, which are clustered on the side of a ridge like a village. A meadow opens to the south, and many of the buildings have porches facing that direction. 

The school was founded in 1929, and the campus includes recently constructed buildings...

...and structures that date back to the nineteenth century.

At the heart of Penland's program are single-subject, total-immersion workshops, ranging in length from one to eight weeks. 

Workshops are offered in books...

...and paper...

...drawing and painting...

...clay...

...glass...

... [NO NARRATION ON THIS SLIDE]

...iron...

...metals...

...photography...

...printmaking...

...letterpress...

...textiles...

...and wood...

...with occasional classes in mixed-media sculpture...

...performative art, and other areas.

Class content ranges from functional work to sculpture and two-dimensional media.

Although college credit is available for Penland classes, the school has no set curriculum and no permanent faculty. 

Workshop instructors come to Penland from across the country and around the world. 

They are a mix of full-time studio artists, who generally teach only in a workshop setting like Penland, and faculty from colleges and universities, who otherwise are available only to students in their home institutions. 

Classes are structured by the individual instructors, but most are a mixture of demonstrations, talks, and hands-on work,...

... with lots of time for individual instruction.

Penland students, like the instructors, come from all over the place. 

The minimum age is 18 and students range in age all the way up into their 80s.

The largest classes have 20 students; some may be as small as 5 or 6.

Most classes are open to students with different skill levels, and it’s common to see beginners working alongside experienced or even career artists. Although this is a challenge for instructors, it can make for an exciting class dynamic. 

It’s no surprise that beginners can learn from people who are more skilled than they are. But it’s also true that experienced students can be energized or even inspired by people who don’t quite know the rules yet.

Workshop education is a uniquely effective way of learning.

Penland students study a single subject and can work continuously from early in the morning...

...until late at night.

Meals are taken care of, and everyone is surrounded by people working with the same kind of intensity.

Instructors often say that they can cover semester’s worth of material in two weeks.

Unless you’ve done it, it’s hard to imagine how much you can absorb when you spend all your time working on one thing.

Classes are available from March through November. Summer workshops are one or two weeks long. In the spring and fall, Penland offers some one-week classes and a program of eight-week workshops.

These long classes give people a chance to make a big leap in their skills and to create a whole body of new work.

Penland is a small school offering high-quality education, and its programs are heavily subsidized through donations, grants, and endowments. 

To make it possible for people from a wide range of backgrounds and income levels to attend, Penland has a large scholarship program. More than 40 percent of students get some kind of financial assistance or discount. 

These come in the form of work-study scholarships, partial and full scholarships, studio assistantships, and discounts for people who take unfilled spaces at the last minute. 

Scholarship details can be found on the Penland website or in the class catalogs.

Summer scholarship applications are due in mid-February. Fall scholarship applications are due in mid-August. The spring deadline is in early December. There is no deadline for regular applications; if space is available, Penland enrolls students until classes begin.

Penland sessions include movement classes that are taught twice a day in the summer and several times each week in the spring and fall. 

Meals are eaten at The Pines dining hall. 

The food at Penland is excellent and there are always choices for vegetarians. 

There are instructor slideshows most evenings and occasional dances and other organized social activities.

An on-campus coffee shop keeps everyone fueled up and is a good place to sit and talk. There are a number of wireless hotspots available. 

Housing is scattered throughout the campus.

Rooms are simple but entirely adequate. 

In addition to workshops, Penland has two residency programs. The core fellowship is a two-year work-study program. Core fellows live on campus and take classes continuously while also doing part-time work for the school. 

There is no other program like it. Core fellows gain valuable work experience and can choose from more than 140 different classes each year.

Fellows are selected through a competitive application process. The deadline is in September. 

The resident artist program is a three-year residency that provides low-cost housing and studios to full-time, self-supporting artists at transitional points in their careers. 

Resident artists work in a studio complex that puts them in close contact with each other, making it easy for them to share ideas and information.

They benefit from contact with Penland classes, and they provide students with examples of ways to make a life in craft. 

The deadline for resident artist applications is in October.

More than fifty former resident artists have settled in the area, making the resident program an important factor in the growth of the artistic community that surrounds the school. There are now dozens of studio artists living nearby and they are an important resource for classes. 

Some of them teach at the school, many of them participate in classes as visiting artists, and they welcome students to their studios. 

The whole community gathers at Penland for the annual July Fourth parade and other events.

… [NO NARRATION ON THIS SLIDE]

Penland also has several programs that make art experiences available in the local community. These include an annual community open house and supplemental art classes taught to local school children. 

The school has a beautiful gallery that showcases work made by instructors and students. Despite Penland’s rural location, the gallery attracts about 12,000 visitors each year. 

At Penland, craft is defined broadly.

Most classes are based on specific skills and materials,...

... but they have a strong conceptual component as well. 

The atmosphere at Penland is one in which a carefully made bowl or chair is respected and valued alongside expressive works of sculpture,...

...it’s all a continuum.

Penland’s programs are rooted in the idea that craft represents values that are important to the world:...
...the pleasure of working with one’s hands and making beautiful things;...

...the excitement and satisfaction of creation and new ideas;... 
...the learning that comes from interacting with materials;...

...the self-knowledge gained by pursuing challenging skills;...

...the importance of community;...

and the personal and cultural information that can be embodied in handmade objects.

… [NO NARRATION ON THIS SLIDE]

You are invited to be part of this.

Following that is a selection of work by instructors teaching in summer 2020 along with short descriptions of their workshops, as follows: 

Sanam Emami’s students will create ceramic serving dishes and explore surface decoration. 

Glass art stars Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas will co-teach an advanced workshop in blown glass sculpture.

Siblings Arturo Córdova and Cristina Córdova will present a workshop combining figurative ceramic sculpture and stop-motion animation. 

Ben Blount will cover letterpress printing with an emphasis on wood type plus image-making techniques. 

Jeffrey Altepeter’s books workshop will explore traditional calf-skin binding and decoration techniques.

Susan Bryant will teach traditional black and white photography and hand coloring. 

Makakatsu Chiba will co-teach traditional Japanese engraving techniques. 

Maegan Crowley’s workshop will cover techniques for forging and fabricating steel. 

Ellen Durkan will use wearable steel objects as the format for teaching a variety of blacksmithing and fabrication techniques.

Hillary Waters Fayle will explore the creation of art using natural materials. 

Jessica V. Gatlin’s workshop will explore garment construction, alteration, and decoration. 

Lisa Demagall will work with students to make sculpture from flameworked glass combined with other materials.

Yuri Kobayashi’s woodworking workshop will be all about curves. 

Forrest Lesch-Middelton will teach design, creation, and installation of ceramic tiles. 

Bryce McCloud’s workshop will explore printing as a technique for public art and social change. 

Jeweler Nicole Jacquard will challenge students to make new work with different materials every day.

Jeff Goodman will lead workshop exploring the relationship between photography and time.

Papermaker Hong Hong will lead students in creating unusually large works in handmade paper. 

Jeana Eve Klein will teach a workshop combining text with textiles. 

Pipo Nguyen-duy (gwin-die) will explore different approaches to photography that uses location as a central element. 

Rosy Lamb will teach painting from life using traditional oil-painting methods. 

Michael C. Krupiarz will lead an advanced beginning hot glass workshop.

Sharon Massey’s workshop will explore a wide variety of techniques for enamel on metal. 

Andrew Polk will co-teach a workshop in lithographic printing. 

Courtney Martin will cover handbuilt, functional ceramic ware.

Alberto Mier’s drawing workshop will center on the sketchbook as a creative tool. 

Delaney Smith’s workshop will focus on casting paper pulp to create 3D objects and unusual surfaces.

Stephanie Metz will teach felt sculpture. 

Printmaker Asuka Ohsawa will cover a range of screenprinting techniques. 

Maria Veronica San Martin will lead a workshop in the creation of artists’ books. 

Caterina Zucchi (zu-key) will lead students through creating blown glass beads and assembling them in to jewelry. 

Adele Stafford will teach weaving with an emphasis on the stories and history embodied in the materials and processes. 

Adam Whitney will teach a number of approaches to raised metal vessels. 

Sylvie Rosenthal’s students will use many approaches in the creation of hybrid objects made of wood and other materials.  

Penland Slideshow Narration--straight text

Penland School of Crafts is an international educational center located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s a place where people have intense, exciting, sometimes transformative experiences while exploring new skills and ideas in the company of others. 

The Penland campus is made up of more than 50 buildings, which are clustered on the side of a ridge like a village. A meadow opens to the south, and many of the buildings have porches facing that direction. The school was founded in 1929 and the campus includes recently constructed buildings and structures that date back to the nineteenth century.

At the heart of Penland's program are single-subject, total-immersion workshops, ranging in length from one to eight weeks. Workshops are offered in books and paper, drawing and painting, clay, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, and wood, plus occasional classes in mixed-media sculpture, performative art, and other areas. Class content ranges from functional work to sculpture and two-dimensional media.

Although college credit is available for Penland classes, the school has no set curriculum and no permanent faculty. Workshop instructors come to Penland from across the country and around the world. They are a mix of fulltime studio artists, who generally teach only in a workshop setting like Penland, and faculty from colleges and universities, who otherwise are available only to students in their home institutions. Classes are structured by the individual instructors, but most are a mixture of demonstrations, talks, and hands-on work, with lots of time for individual instruction.

Penland students, like the instructors, come from all over the place. The minimum age is 18 and students range in age all the way up into their 80s. The largest classes have 20 students; some may be as small as 5 or 6. Most are open to students with different skill levels, and it’s common to see beginners working alongside experienced or even career artists. Although this is a challenge for instructors, it can make for an exciting class dynamic. It’s no surprise that beginners can learn from people who are more skilled than they are. But it’s also true that experienced students can be energized or even inspired by people who don’t quite know the rules yet. 

Workshop education is a uniquely effective way of learning. Penland students study a single subject and can work continuously from early in the morning until late at night. Meals are taken care of and everyone is surrounded by people working with the same kind of intensity. Instructors often say that they can cover semester’s worth of material in two weeks. Unless you’ve done it, it’s hard to imagine how much you can absorb when you spend all your time working on one thing. 

Classes are available from March through November. Summer workshops are one or two weeks long. In the spring and fall, Penland offers some one-week classes and a program of eight-week workshops. These long classes give people a chance to make a big leap in their skills and to create a whole body of new work.

Penland is a small school offering high-quality education, and its programs are heavily subsidized through donations, grants, and endowments. To make it possible for people from a wide range of backgrounds and income levels to attend, Penland has a large scholarship program. More than 40 percent of students get some kind of financial assistance or discount. These come in the form of work-study scholarships, partial and full scholarships, studio assistantships, and discounts for people who take unfilled spaces at the last minute. Scholarship details can be found on the Penland website or in the class catalogs.

The deadline for summer scholarship applications this year is February 15. Fall scholarship applications are due in mid-August. The spring deadline is in early December. There is no deadline for regular applications; if space is available, Penland enrolls students until classes begin.

Penland sessions include movement classes that are taught twice a day in the summer and several times each week in the spring and fall. Meals are eaten at The Pines dining hall. The food at Penland is excellent and there are always choices for vegetarians. There are instructor slideshows most evenings and occasional dances and other organized social activities. An on-campus coffee shop keeps everyone fueled up and is a good place to sit and talk. There are wireless hotspots throughout the campus. Housing is scattered throughout the campus. Rooms are simple but entirely adequate. 

In addition to workshops, Penland has two residency programs. The core fellowship is a two-year work-study program. Core fellows live on campus and take classes continuously while also doing part-time work for the school. There is no other program like it. Core fellows gain valuable work experience and can choose from more than 140 different classes each year. Fellows are selected through a competitive application process. The deadline is in September. 

The resident artist program is a three-year residency that provides low-cost housing and studios to full-time, self-supporting artists at transitional points in their careers. Resident artists work in a studio complex that puts them in close contact with each other, making it easy for them to share ideas and information. They benefit from contact with Penland classes, and they provide students with examples of ways to make a life in craft. The deadline for resident artist applications is in October.

More than fifty former resident artists have settled in the area, making the resident program an important factor in the growth of the artistic community that surrounds the school. There are now dozens of studio artists living nearby and they are an important resource for classes. Some of them teach at the school, many of them participate in classes as visiting artists, and they welcome students to their studios. The whole community gathers at Penland for the annual July Fourth parade and other events.

Penland also has several programs that make art experiences available in the local community. These include an annual community open house and supplemental art classes taught to local school children. 

The school has a beautiful gallery that showcases work made by instructors and students. Despite Penland’s rural location, the gallery attracts about 12,000 visitors each year. 

At Penland, craft is defined broadly. Most classes are based on specific skills and materials, but they have a strong conceptual component as well. The atmosphere at Penland is one in which a carefully made bowl or chair is respected and valued alongside expressive works of sculpture—it’s all on a continuum.

Penland’s programs are rooted in the idea that craft represents values that are important to the world: the pleasure of working with one’s hands and making beautiful things; the excitement and satisfaction of creation and new ideas; the learning that comes from interacting with materials;  the self-knowledge gained by pursuing challenging skills; the importance of community; and the personal and cultural information that can be embodied in handmade objects. You are invited to be part of this. 

Following that is a selection of work by instructors teaching in summer 2020 along with short descriptions of their workshops, as follows: 

Sanam Emami’s students will create ceramic serving dishes and explore surface decoration. 

Glass art stars Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas will co-teach an advanced workshop in blown glass sculpture.

Siblings Arturo Córdova and Cristina Córdova will present a workshop combining figurative ceramic sculpture and stop-motion animation. 

Ben Blount will cover letterpress printing with an emphasis on wood type plus image-making techniques. 

Jeffrey Altepeter’s books workshop will explore traditional calf-skin binding and decoration techniques.

Susan Bryant will teach traditional black and white photography and hand coloring. 

Makakatsu Chiba will co-teach traditional Japanese engraving techniques. 

Maegan Crowley’s workshop will cover techniques for forging and fabricating steel. 

Ellen Durkan will use wearable steel objects as the format for teaching a variety of blacksmithing and fabrication techniques.

Hillary Waters Fayle will explore the creation of art using natural materials. 

Jessica V. Gatlin’s workshop will explore garment construction, alteration, and decoration. 

Lisa Demagall will work with students to make sculpture from flameworked glass combined with other materials.

Yuri Kobayashi’s woodworking workshop will be all about curves. 

Forrest Lesch-Middelton will teach design, creation, and installation of ceramic tiles. 

Bryce McCloud’s workshop will explore printing as a technique for public art and social change. 

Jeweler Nicole Jacquard will challenge students to make new work with different materials every day.

Jeff Goodman will lead workshop exploring the relationship between photography and time.

Papermaker Hong Hong will lead students in creating unusually large works in handmade paper. 

Jeana Eve Klein will teach a workshop combining text with textiles. 

Pipo Nguyen-duy (gwin-die) will explore different approaches to photography that uses location as a central element. 

Rosy Lamb will teach painting from life using traditional oil-painting methods. 

Michael C. Krupiarz will lead an advanced beginning hot glass workshop.

Sharon Massey’s workshop will explore a wide variety of techniques for enamel on metal. 

Andrew Polk will co-teach a workshop in lithographic printing. 

Courtney Martin will cover handbuilt, functional ceramic ware.

Alberto Mier’s drawing workshop will center on the sketchbook as a creative tool. 

Delaney Smith’s workshop will focus on casting paper pulp to create 3D objects and unusual surfaces.

Stephanie Metz will teach felt sculpture. 

Printmaker Asuka Ohsawa will cover a range of screenprinting techniques. 

Maria Veronica San Martin will lead a workshop in the creation of artists’ books. 

Caterina Zucchi (zu-key) will lead students through creating blown glass beads and assembling them in to jewelry. 

Adele Stafford will teach weaving with an emphasis on the stories and history embodied in the materials and processes. 

Adam Whitney will teach a number of approaches to raised metal vessels. 

Sylvie Rosenthal’s students will use many approaches in the creation of hybrid objects made of wood and other materials.