Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. Penland offers one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. The school also sponsors artists' residencies, educational outreach programs, and a craft gallery. Penland's mission. Photo of the "week": Large pots, hanging out next to the clay studio. (photo: Robin Dreyer) Click photo to see it larger. For other recent Penland updates, visit the photo of the "week" archive Penland School of Crafts P.O. Box 37 (67 Doras Trail) Penland, NC 28765 voice: 828-765-2359; fax: 828-765-7389 office@penland.org

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What's New? Summer 2008--complete information Excellence in Teaching Workshop, May 20-24 Open Positions at Penland Director of Development Gardener Studio Equipment Maintenance Technician Kids Camp--half-day art camps at Penland Penland on YouTube Penland Standby--discounts for teachers and local residents Give someone a class at Penland as a present. Links The Penland Experience--a great website developed by the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in conjunction with our 2004 exhibition. This site contains Penland photos and video along with pictures of all of the work that was in the show. Tradition/Innovation touring craft exhibition, co-curated by Penland's director Jean McLaughlin. Traveling to eight venues in the south. Unauthorized Penland web pages--You make 'em, we link 'em. The Penland Forum--Some good friends of ours got together to create this unofficial Penland website with a forum, a ride board, pictures, add your name and locale to the Penland map, and other community-minded content The Craft Revival Project--This is a Web-based digital history of the historic effort to revive handcraft in Western North Carolina. It draws on documents, letters, photographs, oral histories, and objects to tell the story of the craft revival during the half century from 1895 to 1945. Traveling in North Carolina? Visit the Discover Craft NC web site.

Penland School is a nonprofit, tax-exempt institution which receives support from the North Carolina Arts Council an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.