From the monthly archives:
I’m Pam East, and my first experience with the Folk School was teaching an enamel bead making class in 2003. From that very first time I knew I had stumbled upon a truly special place. Since then the John C. Campbell Folk School has become my home away from home. Even though I’m [...]
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This week is a time of celebration for David Baker’s Kaleidoscope Class. It all started Sunday night with Valentine’s Day when the students arrived at the studio and the walls were covered in red heart fabric. Everyone was invited to take a treat from under the white Valentine’s tree covered in Cupid’s feathers decorated with [...]
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Studio Row is a place on campus where, in one twenty-yard stretch we have the Enameling, Clay, Woodcarving, and Jewelry Studios as well as the outside wood-fired and gas-fired kilns.
Recently in the Enameling Studio Tony Prince inspired his students to make miniature glass animals in the “Free-Form Flamework” class. In his demo Monday evening he [...]
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Our very own Folklorist David Brose has been doing a show on one of our local radio stations that I think you should know about.
On WLSB 1400 AM and WYHG 770 AM on Saturdays from noon to 2 pm, David presents a 2 hour show called “The Mountain Valley Homecoming” that features 18 years of [...]
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I began noticing changes happening in the wooded area at the base of the Red Rail last summer, where Robert and Olivia Anderson, both Folk School instructors and part-time local residents of Brasstown, were spending big portions of time. They were moving rocks and pulling out plants that had no business being there (the really [...]
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