Tin Can Art. What a blast! Where else can you have fun with whimsical creative folk art? Sunday night we got started by deconstructing our first tin cans and making ourselves distinctive name tags. See the picture below. Monday bright and early after a quick review, we got our initial projects started. What were they? [...]
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When the class introduced themselves on Sunday evening, they gave different reasons for taking the class–”I’m tired of making hockey pucks”, “I make one kind of bread and I want to learn to make more”, even “I’m interested in making bread for sale”. For such a simple food, there are a lot of details that [...]
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It’s raining again, and if this were boy-scout camp, there’d be a lot of soggy tents, unroasted marshmallows, and unhappy campers. But here at the John C. Campbell Folk School, each shower puts another bud on the lilies and another apple on the bough over at Orchard House, which will make for fine cider come [...]
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By Glenda Beall: What is it about the John C. Campbell Folk School that seduces us into coming back again and again, either as student or teacher? Like so many others, I was hooked after the first class. In 1995, I moved to the mountains of western North Carolina and found the folk school through [...]
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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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