Christina Shmigel Returns to Penland School of Crafts for Spring Workshop

This spring, Christina Shmigel will bring her keen observations and relentless inquiry back to Penland School of Crafts, where she will teach the eight-week concentration Sculpture with Fierce Intention. The workshop is for students with an ongoing studio practice who are eager to uncover the “why?” behind the work they make. It will take place in the Penland iron studio but will welcome a wide range of media based on student interest. Guest instructors Mike Rossi and John Watson will each join the workshop for a week to teach their specialties of steel and wood/plaster.

Sculpture with Fierce Intention will run March 11 – May 4, 2018. Registration is open now for all spring workshops.

 

Christina Shmigel, “The View in Fragments: Demolish” (left), 

“The View in Fragments: Nouveau Riche” (middle), 

“The View in Fragments: Green Sheath” (right) 

There’s a certain fearlessness to Christina Shmigel’s sculpture. Her pieces include traditional materials such as steel, wood, and paint, but they don’t stop there. From bright plastic pinwheels and cardboard to plumbing parts and found furniture, everything is fair game as a building block in her thoughtful, observant tableaus and constructions. Each finished piece is like a reflection of the world around her filtered through her keen eyes, skilled hands, and the particular quirks of her attention. There’s a fearlessness in that attention, too.

Christina comes to her sculpture practice with a particularly broad base of experience to draw on. Her BFA from RISD is in painting, and she followed it with an MFA from Brooklyn College that she describes as “more conceptual.” Later, she returned to school for a second MFA at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, this time with an emphasis on technical skills like blacksmithing and casting.

 

Christina Shmigel, “The City in Which I Love You: Da Shi Jie (Great World Sheathed)”

REGISTER FOR SPRING CONCENTRATIONS AT PENLAND
clay  |  letterpress  |  painting  |  metals  |  textiles  |  wood  |  sculpture
March 11 – May 4, 2018 

Penland School of Crafts is located at  67 Doras Trail, Penland, NC near Spruce Pine NC.  All information and photos provided by The Penland Sketchbook.

New Crafts Course Catalog Now Available on John C Campbell Folk SchoolCampus

The John C Campbell Folk School July 2013 - June 2014 Course Catalog has arrived. Copies may be picked up at the Keith House, and the colorful catalogs will reach subscrubers' mailboxes soon. The catalog's front and back covers display a whimsical peacock, and Page 2 features a very special story about the relationship between the two birds.

New for 2014, the January Advanced Weeks will be gone, and classes will be offered for multiple skill levels throughout January and 2014. All classes are now open for registration. So head for the Folk School grab a catalog or browse all the wonderful classes on the website.

Penland School of Crafts Summer Classes

Penland School of Crafts will be offering 107 fabulous classes for summer 2013. Here's a look at one of them:   

Kyoung Ae Cho, Broken Dream, roots, burn marks on recycled paper, 2 x 11 x 11 in.

Kyoung Ae Cho - Conversation with Nature

May 26 - June 7 in the metals studio:

 

Paying close attention to the marks left by time in nature and the environment, this class will explore ideas while expanding visual and conceptual language. Students will be encouraged to use natural resources as well as found objects in creating installations outdoors and objects in the studio. This class is less of a how-to and more of an experience in discovery, questioning, and finding ongoing ways of working. This workshop welcomes students of all levels.

Kyoung Ae is a professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has also taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. She is the recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant, and has exhibited at the Tweed Museum, the Kemper Museum, the Kohler Art Center, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Kohler Arts Center.

CLICK HERE for complete summer 2013 class information and registration.