Flameworker Janis Miltenberger making a vessel on the mighty glass lathe. Janis was part of a group of flameworkers who rented the Penland studio for the last week of February. The group also included fellow Penland instructors Sally Prasch, Elizabeth Mears, and Joe Peters. They had a heckuva good time together.
Core fellows Jack Mauch and Liz Koerner have been collaborating this winter on a beautiful table that will eventually grace the dining room of the Penland’s new core house (we’re still raising money to build the house). Here Jack is doing a wire inlay signature of sorts.
Core fellows Rachel Garceau and Molly Spadone execute a big, complex ceramic slip pour in the clay studio. Rachel is making a series of porcelain umbrellas that will be part of an upcoming installation.
Sculptor Alison Collins working on a piece that will be installed in the Dye Shed this spring. She is copying an excerpt from Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time onto a long piece of muslin. She is using a dye made from iron oxide she collected from some of her steel sculptures that had rusted in storage. The piece will be one of four installations at Penland that are part of a joint project with the North Carolina Museum of Art titled 0-60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art.
This is another one of the series of 360-degree panoramic photos made at Penland by photographer Christopher Ellenbogen. This one was taken next to the volleyball court, so as you scroll around you can see The Pines, meadow, the Dye Shed, and the clay studios. If you take a class at Penland this summer, it might look just like this. The controller in the upper left corner will let you zoom in and out and scroll horizontally and vertically. You can also click in and out of full-screen view. Here’s a link to the big version on the 360 Cities website where you will find all of Chris’s Penland panoramas.
Taking a winter afternoon breather, Penland staff make some raku Christmas tree ornaments in a little workshop led by clay coordinator Susan Feagin. Right now, it looks a lot like making clay cookies; presumably the part with the flaming trashcans comes later.
This is a group project done by all the member’s of the fall drawing and painting class taught by painter Robert Johnson and botanist Ken Moore. Titled A Closer Look at Nature, class combined drawing, water color painting, geographical exploration, botany, and plant identification.
