Penland School of Crafts Summer Classes Deadline

Summer Deadlines Approaching at Penland School of Crafts:

The Lottery: February 11th - To give a greater number of people a chance to enroll in the most popular classes, applications received by 5pm on February 11th will be placed in a lottery and treated equally. (For example, if a class has 12 spaces and we receive 15 applications by February 11, we will take all 15 names and randomly select 12 of them.) After February 11, applications will be processed on a first-com/first-served basis. This only applies to classes that receive more applications than there are available spaces. Most classes never go to lottery. But if you think you're signing up for a really popular class, you may want to get your application in now in case it fills.

Scholarships: February 15th Scholarship applications must be in paper form, received by Penland no later than 5pm on February 15, and must include your letters of reference and the $50 processing fee. After this deadline, scholarship applications will only be considered in the event of cancellations. Applicants will be notified by April 1,

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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. 

Special flameworking opportunity at Penland this summer

May 27 - June 8:  Sculpting with the Flame: Abstract Expression with André Gutgesell

Session 1 in the flameworking studio:

This class will cover special techniques for creating sculpture from glass tubing and rods. After a short introduction to the peculiarities of working with soft glass, especially tubing, students will learn to build objects using the montage technique. Expression through color and abstract imagery will also be part of this class. Intermediate level; basic flameworking skills required.
Flameworker Shane Fero writes, "Andre Gutgesell is a glass artist, designer and montage master from the edge of Lauscha in Ernstthal, Germany in the Thuringian forest where he maintains his studio with his wife and fellow artist, Rebekka. His work exhibits clean, beautiful forms and colors with elegant design, mostly in the montage tradition. He studied with Kurt Wallstab and Uta Feiler and has had the influences of other montage masters living and working in his vicinity. He received his Master's Certification from The School for Glass in Lauscha in 1991. Among his long history of exhibitions, Andre has shown at the Museum of Glass Arts in Immenhausen, the Museum for Glass in Lauscha, and the Museum for Modern Glass in Coburg, Germany, and won the Immenhauser Glass Prize in 2003. He has taught at various institutions in Germany as well.

Andre has only taught once before in the US at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in 2006 after he demonstrated at the St. Louis GAS conference. Apart from Kurt Wallstab, who demonstrated around the U.S. in the 1980's and taught a formal class at Pilchuck in 1991, and Thomas Mueller-Lizt who, demonstrated and taught here at Penland, we have not had the privilege to observe or take classes from these German Masters in the US. They are the ones who pioneered these wonderful montage techniques in soft glass. Andre's class at Penland School of Crafts this summer is a rare opportunity for people to study with him and take advantage of Penland's bringing this wonderful glass artist from Germany."

You can visit his website at:
glasgestaltung-gutgesell.de
(Be sure to click on the English menu to get the English version.)

You can click below for complete class and registration information for Summer 2012. Choose a link to search for your summer class either by medium or chronologically by session:

Penland Classes by Studio