By Julie Sibley, Artist, Designer & Celebrating 25 years this year, of being a faculty member at the John C. Campbell Folk School Newly arrived to the mountains, in the Winter of 1977 as a Young Harris College art student, I hardly knew what to expect about anything. The perfect friend for a shy, not overly confident [...]
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Gypsy Wagon makes a two week stop in Brasstown The new year brings many interesting new instructors and classes to the Folk School. Book Arts and Ukulele instructors, Donna and Peter Thomas, from California, might top our “interesting” list. Teaching two classes this Spring, they will be traveling to the Folk School in their Gypsy [...]
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Monday afternoon in the cooking studio, my class had just gathered around the table to examine our first batch of bread–French baguettes–when we heard banging noises outside. One of the work-study students bobbed in the window; the work-studies had been outside all day, shoveling paths through the snow to every building on campus. (The Folk [...]
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A crowd gathered on Thursday in the Keith House Living Room to hear the Folk School’s Resident Writer, Nancy Simpson, read from her newly published book of poetry entitled Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems. The cozy Living Room with an assortment of refreshments provided a welcoming opportunity to come in from [...]
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The campus was decorated with Scottish flags last week during Scottish Heritage Week. With the blacksmiths learning ironworking techniques of ancient Scotland, the woodcarvers chiseling Celtic motifs, the cooks boiling broths on the open hearth and making hagis and bannocks – it’s a wonder we didn’t all start talking with Scottish accents. We did have [...]
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