FROM THE
REGISTRAR'S DESK
Penland's Residency Program has been
providing support and encouragement for
emerging professional craft artists for over 25
years. This two-year program provides
housing and studio space at minimal cost.
For many it is.a vital step toward establish
ing a career in crafts. There are openings each
year; applications are reviewed twice
annually and are due either by November 1
or May 1. Reviews will take place and
notification given by December 1 st or June 1st.
Residencies can begin immediately after
notification or as openings allow. Call or
write for application information.
Penland Fellows are members of the Penland
family who study, live and work in exchange
for room, board and access to classes. They
are selected from former Penland students
and come for one or two years. h
FELLOWSHIP
PROGRAM
The Fellowship Program is drawing to a close
with another successful season. The Fellows
came together with their annual year end
show October 7 at Ridgeway Gallery
attended by the community, a group from the
Renwick Gallery and friends and family. A
great time was had by all! Future plans:
Linda Crabill, Julie Leonard, Mary Trechsel,
Jesse Davenport and Carla Illanes will stay
the winter at Penland. Vicente Martinez is
coming to the end of his two-year stay at
Penland as a fellow and will be returning to
Miami with plans for graduate study in
photography. Fellows for the 1990- season
will be chosen in early November.
Applications are due by October 27th. ■■
CAREER MILESTONES
Penland Line congratulates Chris Yarborough who was named as the 1990 Winston-Salem Artist of
the Year by the Sawtooth Center for Visual Design at the Annual Meeting held on September 12th.
Chris is a studio artist working in papermaking and bookbinding. In addition to being a Penland
instructor, she teaches at Arrowmont, SECCA, Old Salem and at the Sawtooth Center. A found
ing member of Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc., she has exhibited at SECCA, the Renwick Gallery in
Washington and in numerous national and regional juried and invitational exhibitions. As
Winston-Salem Arist of the Year, Chris will create a five-color, hand-pulled, limited edition
lithograph in collaboration with Tamarind Master Printer Cappy Kuhn of Winstone Press. The
edition of 100 prints is to be pulled on handmade paper, the artist adding stitching on each one.
Proceeds from the sales of the printing will benefit the programs of the Sawtooth Center.
Our good friends and neighbors Dorothy Riley and Cynthia Bringle were featured in a two-
artist show at the Twisted Laurel Gallery in Spruce Pine. One of Dorothy's works from that
show, "Reflections," was chosen for the juried exhibition of the Watercolor Society of North
Carolina at The Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, October 1-20. The juror was Don
Andrews, AWS. "Land of Fire and Ice," Dorothy's watercolor entry in the Springs 31st Annual Art
Show, is one of 32 honorable mentions chosen by juror Serge Hollerbach from 571 entries. The
painting will join the Best in Show and five Merit Award winners in the Springs Traveling Art
Show, touring museums and galleries throughout North and South Carolina until July 1990.
That painting was included in her solo exhibit at Mayland Community College last February.
During the month of October, works by Penland-related artists are being exhibited at the Cone
Center Gallery at UNC/Charlotte. The exhibition Maker's Mark: Around Penland includes work
by William and Katherine Bernstein, George Bucquet, Kathy Campbell, Kenny Carder, Rick
Eckerd, Glen Gardner, Kathryn Gremley, Marvin Jensen, Rob and Wanda Levin, John Little
ton and Kate Vogel, Joe Nielander, Marsha Owen, JoAnn Schnabel and Randy Shull. Frank
Heitmann from the Gallery wrote us that this show is the most ambitious programming for the
Cone Center to date. Both Randy and George will be giving gallery talks.
Geri Camarda has received an NCNB Purchase Award for "Transilion I" Sculpture at the 4th
Annual Sculpture Competition sponsored by the Caldwell Arts Council and Broyhill Foundation
in Lenoir, NC, August ll-12th. Geri has just finished a 6-day wood firing of three new sculptures
which she'll be taking to Winston-Salem in November when she joins lots of other Penland
friends at the PCI Fair November 3,4 and 5. Randy Shull won a Merit Award in the same
Sculpture Competition.
See Resident Alert for more good news... ■“
PENLAND
RESIDENTS...
Bart Kasten,
Paul Lewarchick
& Sally Rogers,
Yoko Higuchi
(l-r)