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ni Penland Line Spring 2007 While everyone is busily preparing for summer 200y, program director Dana Moore is working on summer 2008. Last week, she decided to go through all the current class proposals at once and make notes. There wasn’t room to lay them out in her office, so she comandeered some space at Ridgeway Hall for a few days. It was quite a few files. PENLAND LINE Editor: Robin Dreyer Layout: Robin Dreyer Photos: Robin Dreyer, except for artwork and where noted Contributors: Sharif Bey, Mike Davis, Robin Dreyer, Jonathan Lerner, Jean McLaughlin, Wesley Middleton, Susan Klaffky Thanks to Donna Jean Dreyer, Susan Klaffky, Jean McLaughlin, Dana Moore, and Tammy Hitchcock Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in western North Carolina. The school offers workshops, artists' residencies, a community education program, and a gallery. The Penland Line is published twice a year to communi cate thoughts about the programs, people, and philosophy of Penland. We invite you to share your news, opin ions, and/or photographs with us. Email: publications@penland.org Penland School of Crafts P. 0. Box 37 Penland, NC 28765-0037 828-765-2359 fax: 828-765-7389 e-mail: office@penland.org website: www.penland.org Penland School of Crafts is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization. Penland receives support for its programs 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. C a t-- u n ^ NATIONAL ENDOWMENT fOn THE ARTS From the Director It’s been a great spring at Penland School. The Concentration that just ended had the highest enrollment we’ve ever recorded for an eight-week session. Summer enrollment is also looking very strong. As our fiscal year closed at the end of April, annual fund giving had signifi cantly exceeded our goal for the year. As this Penland Line goes out, we are at the beginning of the three-week break between spring and summer classes. Although things are relatively quiet and some staff members are taking much-needed time off, there is a swirl of activity at Penland, most notably the pending completion of the Paul Hayden Duensing Letterpress and Printmaking Studio. Various crews have been putting on siding, finishing electri cal and plumbing work, cutting trim, and moving equip ment. Yesterday we welcomed John and Robyn Horn, great friends of the school who just drove up from Arkansas with a 2o-foot trailer loaded with presses, type cabinets and other equipment for the new studio. Not only is John an excellent letterpress printer, it turns out he is a expert press mover as well. After he and Robyn unloaded the equipment from their carefully packed trailer, they pro ceeded to move two more presses and all of the type from our old studios to the new one (see page 12). Penland’s let terpress equipment has been spread between two distant buildings for many years and it’s great to see it all coming together in one place. Meanwhile, across the campus, preparations are being made for summer. Studio coordinators and the school store are ordering supplies for 98 classes. The facilities crew is taking this opportmiity to make dozens of repairs to hous ing and studios. We are already hard at work on the summer benefit auction—^the invitation is ready to go to the printer, and auction coordinator Kate Boyd is keeping track of the auction pieces that are arriving daily. Our program director Dana Moore, while tending to countless details of the upcoming summer, is deep into planning for next summer. As you will read in this Penland Line, in addition to the new letterpress and print studio, there have been a nmnber of significant improvements to the campus over the past year. We have also just completed the planning phase of an exciting new evolution in our community education pro grams. The Teaching Artist Initiative will provide profession al development opportunities for studio artists and teachers to hone the skills needed to integrate arts knowledge with classroom teaching, while expanding art education in the Mitchell County public schools. The planning process for this program included marvelous advisors such as Eric Booth of the Julliard School. In addition to helping us devel op the program, Eric was here this spring to teach a one- day workshop, titled Creative Engagement, to a full room of artists and teachers. It was an exciting, lively presentation on the role of teachers and artists as fadhtators of artistic experience. Look for more detailed information on this new program in the next Penland Line. We always look forward to keeping in touch with you through the Penland Line, and as technology evolves we have access to other means of communication as well. If you visit our website, you’ll see a link on the home page for our e- mail newsletter, which will bring you regular updates by e- mail. The website is also the place to find upcoming class information, updated information about which classes are still open and new photographs. As the trees leaf out and the flowers bloom we hope you are looking forward to an enjoyable and productive sum mer—and we hope it will include a visit to Penland. -JeanW McLaughlin, director .SilspSi A crew filming resident artist Anne Lemanski for the upcoming PBS Craft in America series. This three-part program premiers nationwide on Wednesday, May 30, 8:00—11 coo PM. The program, which is thefirst nationally-televised series on contemporary craft, includes a ten-minute segment on Penland School, and many of the artists featured during the three hours have been Penland instructors. So mark the date, make some popcorn, and invite the neighbors over.
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