This is the central section of the Pines Portico, which incorporates a woven twig installation by sculptor Patrick Dougherty. It’s also a nice place to eat lunch. And lately…
…it’s become the home of this little visitor.
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Photo of the Week: A New ‘do for the Knoll
In Kyoung Ae Cho‘s special first-session workshop, Conversation with Nature, core fellow Angela Eastman spent the afternoon french-braiding the meadow grass atop the Penland knoll.
Photo of the Week: The Doors
The doors of Lily Loom were briefly taken away for refinishing this week (don’t they look nice now?!); in the meantime, we were treated to the incongruous sight of fully functional custom-fit temporary plywood replacements.
Photo of the Week: Caliente Otra Vez!
A Penland Studio Style photo of jeweler and instructor Lola Brooks from Spring Concentration 2011 makes it’s glamorous public return in the pages of Ornament Magazine this month! Click here to check out the preview on Facebook. Or click here to read the full article.
Photo of the Week: Bill Thomas Comes Home
Bill Thomas’s recent workshop at Penland School of Crafts was a sort of homecoming for the woodworker, whose parents, Vern and Shirley Thomas, live in nearby Spruce Pine. “Most of my family is buried in Bandana,” he recalls. “I was born in Spindale, and my father was born near Micaville. He moved out in the early ’40s, looking for work. He moved back the day he retired.” Thomas taught “Building the Fox Canoe,” a class featuring his technique for fabricating a sleek, lightweight canoe from plywood panels and fiberglass, in Penland’s wood studio the week of April 7 – 13. He has been a professional woodworker for over 35 years, designing and building custom projects from cabinetry and furniture to sailboats, powerboats, kayaks and canoes, for a wide range of clients. He lives in southern Maine, where he says the environment reminds him of North Carolina. There’s more information about Bill at billthomaswoodworking.com.
Photo of the Week: Looking Down by Dan Bailey
This is Gene Ayscue and Dan Bailey finishing up the installation, in the Penland Gallery lobby, of Dan’s incredible piece called Looking Down: Penland School of Crafts. The piece was constructed from over 15,000 photos taken in July, August, and October 2012 from a tethered balloon. They have been collaged by hand and placed onto the background satellite image to form a chronicle of human activity on the Penland School campus. Magnifying glasses will be available for visitors. This piece is part of the 0 to 60 project, which is a collaboration between Penland School and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
This is Dan’s piece as it appears on the Gigapan website, where you can scroll around and zoom way in and see all of the activity recorded in the collage. It includes bits from July 4, from the auction, a few sequences of groups of people walking through the landscape, people playing with the balloon shadow, and other delights. Click here and say goodbye to the next half-hour.
Photo of the Week: Chimney Builders
The spring clay class is building a new wood kiln (that is going to rock!). This crew is getting ready to work on the part of the chimney that sticks up above the roof.
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