Penland Line
HONORING FRIENDS AND HELPING STRANGERS
Penland has a number of scholarship funds which have
been set up in honor of particular individuals by providing
work/study opportunities. These are special purpose funds
which have extended Penland’s outreach to particular
groups of students.
The Abby Watkins Beraon Fund was established in
memory of a young woman who was a student of
printmaking and photography at Penland in the early
1980s. She had hoped to follow a career in one of the
graphic arts. Proceeds from this fund are used to provide
Work/study awards for women who are beginning their
studies of printmaking, photography, drawing, or book
arts, with the intention of pursuing a career.
Last summer, Debbie Erskine from Black Mountain,
NC, and Mary Ellen Williams from Clyde, NC, both
drawing students, received work/study awards from the
Abby Watkins Demon Fund. Debbie is trying to make a
living with her art, working from her apartment doing
silkscreening on paper. She produces notecards which are
Sold through the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild
and at other locations in the Appalachian area. She chose
Judith Meyer’s Landscape Drawing class because she felt
It Would improve her skills and add new images which
Could be incorporated into her work. Mary Ellen has a
background in art education and has been teaching pri
vately and in high school for many years. She was inspired
by Virginia Derryberry’s more tonal, pastel approach to
drawing. She is hoping to incorporate drawing and print-
'og with weaving.
A FUND FOR DIVERSITY
^he Lucy C. Morgan Fund was established in 1979 to
honor Penland’s founder. To encourage diversity, a por
tion of these funds provides work/study awards in any
^ledia for people of color, the physically challenged, and
Veterans. Last summers recipients were Pat Nevin from
%racuse, NY, who took Introduction to Weaving with
^bilis Alvic and Ty Brady from Floyd, VA, who took
L^lare Verstegen’s Screenprinting on Fabric. Ty is a
Veteran with a degree in mechanical engineering, who
^^c>pes to be self-employed doing large-scale screenprinting
photographs on fabric for use as wall murals. “My
approach is more technical than artistic,” he said.
who has mobility problems, has been able to take a
'"‘iiniber of Penland classes with the help of work/study
l^tants. “This class has given me the opportunity to
^I'oaden my skills into a new area,” said Pat, who is already
‘'Accomplished potter. She wishes that more older
^Voiuen would think about coming to Penland and
commented that Lucy Morgan’s mission in the beginning
was directed toward women, many of them older. She said
she thought it was fitting for an award from this fund to go
to an “elder” like herself
Two artists have been honored with funds to provide
assistance to students in their particular media. The
Grovewood Gallery Fund, named for an Asheville Art
Gallery, honors Doug Sigler, a furnituremaker, long
time teacher, and friend of Penland School. Last summer,
Pete Williams from Palmyra, PA, was able to take the
Tim Cozzens class in Furniture Design and Construction
as a Grovewood work/study student. Ginger Edwards
from Boone, NC, received a work/study award from the
Harvey/Bess Littleton Fund which was established by the
Hellers of Heller Gallery and the Littletons to support
students working in hot glass.
The friends and family of Dorothy Heyman have set up
The School Teachers’ Fund in her memory. Although
Dorothy was a weaver, this fund provides work/study
opportunities in any media for art teachers. The Heymans
have a home in Penland, and Dorothy was a long-time
student and friend of the school. Sherrie Pettigrew of
Gainesville, Florida, studied Exploratory Drawing with
William Schafiflast summer as a recipient of a work/study
grant from this fund.
EASTERN CAROLINA FUND
Penland Trustee Lisa Anderson and other Eastern Caro
lina friends of the school created the Eastern North
Carolina Fund to provide a work/study award to a student
from the eastern part of North Carolina. Kathleen
O’Neal, from Ocracoke, which is about as fir cast as you
can go, studied jcwelr)' with Chuck Evans last summer
supported by a grant from this fund. Kathleen was self-
taught in metals for six years and this class was her first
formal education in this area. She hasa BFA in drawing and
sculpture from Pembroke University. “I’m so isolated in
Ocracoke,” she said, “this scholarship was a real gift. 1
could not have come without it."
Penland’s goal is to make it possible for anyone who wants
to learn a cratt, but is unable to atTord the tuition, to be able
to come to Penland assisted by a work/study grant. The
contributors to these funds are helping us reach that goal.
To contribute to one of these funds, simply indicate the
name of the fund on your check. For information about
setting up a new fund, please contact the Director of
Development. To apply for one of these work/study
grants, follow the application procedure in the catalog.
Neighborhood News
Clyde has been active with a wide range of organizations
and has served on many boards, some of which are the
A. 1. Fletcher Foundation, Greensboro Symphony Endow
ment Fund, Excellence Foundation, and University of
North Carolina/Creensboro. He has also been a trustee of
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital and North Carolina Baptist
Hospitals, and on the Guilford College Board of Visitors. ^
Susan /Martin is a partner in Whaley, Levay, Wilson and
Martin, consultants In development for non-profit
organizations in New York City. She was the Senior Vice
President for Plannning and Development at the National
Audubon Society from 1986 to July, 1993, and Vice
President for Development of the Detroit Symphony from
1981 to 1986.
A lawyer, businessman, and exhibiting photographer.
Max Wallace has a particularly personal tie to Penland. He
and his wife Diana Parrish, also a photographer, met in
one of Evon Streetman’s classes here. They were later
married in Gainesville where Evon performed the cer
emony. He is the President of Trimeris Corporation, a
biotechnology company developing drugs to combat
AIDS and other viral diseases.