Penland School of Crafts Announces Spring Workshops

Penland School of Crafts Spring 8-Week Workshops:

METALS

Multiples: Fabrication Through Repetition with Sarah Loertscher 

(Above is a repeated image of Sarah Loertscher's Structure Neckpiece #13)

CLAY

Form Focus with David Eichelberger

 

HOT GLASS

Glass Smorgasbord with Amy Rueffert

IRON

Contemporary Thermodynamic Design with Mike Rossi

LETTERPRESS

Moving Pictures: Animated Letterpress with Rory Sparks

TEXTILES

Personal Cartography with Robin Johnston

WOOD

Make Do with What You Have, Take What You Can Get 

with Tom Shields

Workshops run March 9-May 2, 2014.

Read complete descriptions for each workshop here.

  

Spring Work-Study Scholarship Deadline: November 29

Please note: scholarship applications are due at Penland on this date. Overnight services often fail to make it to Penland overnight; please plan accordingly.
 

Penland offers Winter Residencies in Letterpress and Printmaking for Artists and Writers

Application deadline: September 15, 2013

Are you an artist or writer fascinated by the possibilities of ink on paper (in multiples, maybe)?  If so, you might enjoy spending a couple of weeks this coming January in Penland's letterpress or print studio working with support and guidance from an experienced printer.

Here are the details:

These residencies offer self-directed time to pursue a proposed project in the excellent Penland studios. Artists with any level of printing experience are eligible to apply. A lead printer in each studio will be available throughout the residency to offer technical and conceptual assistance as needed.

Through this program, Penland hopes to foster new connections and cross-pollination between writers, printmakers, letterpress printers, and all artists drawn to the versatility of print media. Past residents have created unique works and editions including (but not limited to) broadsides, prints, small publications, and artist books.

Penland is looking for artists who can working independently and are able to conceptualize a project that fits the time and equipment offered. Ten residents, including one writer, will be selected for each session - five residents for the letterpress studio and five for the printmaking studio. There are two sessions in the 2014 residency: Session 1, January 6-17 and Session 2, January 20-31.

The cost to each resident is $500. Penland will provide studio and housing; artists cover their travel expenses and supply their own materials and food. Meals are not provided, but housing includes access to a shared kitchen.

A new online registration process is offered. Click here for more information, bios for the lead printers, and details about the application process.

Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina near Spruce Pine. Penland operates year-round providing opportunity to study in one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in fifteen professional teaching studios. Penland programs also include artists’ residencies, an educational outreach program, archives, winter studio independent study, and the Penland Gallery and Visitors Center. 

Penland is located in Mitchell County, North Carolina, fifty-three miles northeast of Asheville and six miles from Spruce Pine, the nearest town. Penland Road can be reached from either US 19 E of NC 226.

Penland Fall Scholarships Still Available

Want to spend the fall at Penland??   Scholarships are still available.  There are still a few work-study scholarships available in the following fall classes and a scholarship for a student who will teach movement (see below):

Books and Letterpress: From Print to Page with Margot Ecke.  This workshop will teach you to create sophisticated, finely considered artist books from beginning to end.

Hot Glass: Form Follows Failure with Matthew Szöz.  This workshop will combine the skills and work ethic of the craft tradition with an open-minded and innovative approach to the act of making.

Photography: The Extended Image with Keith Johnson. This workshop is about storytelling through photography--about taking an idea and extending it into a body of work.

Wood: Under Pressure with John Clark.  Along with a thorough exploration of traditional furniture making methods, the secrets of using a vacuum press for curved laminations and veneering will be demystified.

Click here for complete information about these classes.

There is not set an application deadline for these scholarships. Applications  are reviewed on a first-come/first-served basis. If you are interested in one of these scholarships, please call the registrar (828-765-2359, ext. 15) to confirm availability.  Scholarship application information is available here.

Yoga teachers, please note that there is still a work-study position available for a student who will teach movement classes and also do some office and garden work. If you are interested, please call the registrar: 828-765-2359, ext. 15.

Penland Still has openings for Spring Workshops

There's still time... time... time... to sign up for a spring workshop and fire a wood kiln with Kevin Crowe and Dan Finnegan, build a Fox canoe with Bill Thomas, photograph architecture with Neal Rantoul and friends, weave with Edwina Bringle, or practice calligraphy and decorated letters with Elizabeth Rideout...

Click here for a complete list of open spring classes at Penland School of Crafts.

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.

Penland School of Crafts Announces 2013 Catalog of Summer Classes

Penland School of Crafts will be mailing out its new 2013 catalog of classes next week. The catalog may also be viewed online.

You can peruse the one- and two-week summer offerings organized by studio or by session. (The studio listings include everything that's currently scheduled, beginning with spring classes, so be sure to scroll down a bit to find our summer classes.)

As usual, most workshops are open to students of all skill levels: the generous Penland instructors will meet you wherever you are. With 105 classes in a broad range of media, this summer at Penland covers an extraordinary range of topics, from pewtersmithing, functional pottery, fresco painting, making steel garden tools, and weaving with locally-harvested kudzu fibers to a class that explores the space between still photography and video, a writing workshop, a class in business for artists, and three classes (two in metals and one in wood) combining craft materials with sensors, motors, sound, light, and microcontrollers.
 
Penland is dedicated to helping people live creative lives, and believes one of the best ways to enhance your creative life is to spend a couple of weeks completely immersed in something that inspires you. If you can do that surrounded by other people with a similar passion, and you've got someone making nice meals for you, well, it's hard to think of anything better.

Scholarship application deadline is February 15: Penland is pleased to be able to offer hundreds of scholarships in several different categories. Get more scholarship information here.

Lottery deadline is February 11: Although most applicants for Penland classes are enrolled in the class they want, a few very popular classes get a lot more applications than there are spaces available. To give everyone a shot at those classes,  all applications received by February 11 are treated equally. After that, spaces are filled on a  first-come, first-served basis. A list of open summer classes will be posted in April and students can enroll right on through the summer, if space is available. 

Summer Classes at Penland School of Crafts

It's not too late to take a class at Penland this summer.  There are still openings in a bunch of fabulous workshops:  Click here for a complete list of summer classes with open spaces.

For example, here's a look at just one of the fantastic classes you could take at Penland:

A Worthy Vessel with James Viste - Session 3 (June 24 - July 6) in the iron studio:  This class will involve the manipulation of ferrous materials through a combination of forging, fabrication, and low-relief die-forge production and application to create functional/sculptural vessels. There will be an emphasis on the observation and influence of other craft materials such as clay, wood, fabric, and leather. All levels.

James Viste is an artist blacksmith and the manager of Edgewise Forge. He teaches at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.