When you bump into Charley Orlando at the Folk School, one can’t assume he is teaching Blacksmithing, though he’s been teaching it here since 1989. This is because Charley also teaches Tin Can Art and Knitting. Charley’s classes are usually full with students waiting patiently on the sidelines hoping to get in. Maybe we should [...]
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When twelve spinners begin spinning, the Wet Room Studio resembles a maze of tools with fiber and wheels in every available space. At one end of the room, the drum carders were set up, piles of wool lay in the middle of the floor, and on the stove tops the dye pots were simmering. Before [...]
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In the Wet Room studio this week we have “Sheep to Shawl” with resident artist Martha Owen. “This class is a process class, not a production class,” Martha reminded her students. In the middle of the week we were working with piles of wool, roots, vegetables, bugs, and other such ingredients. But how would it [...]
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Martha Owen and Norman Kennedy joined together this past week to teach an advanced spinning class at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Norman learned to spin, knit, and weave from his grandparent’s generation, from people who were working with textiles in the late 1800s, when Victoria was still the Queen. Martha is the resident fiber artists at the Folk [...]
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Whether you’re here for the first time, or returning for your sixth visit, the John Campbell Folk School is a destination that’s more a state of mind than a place. Sure the food is great and the mountains are beautiful, the people are friendly and the classes engaging…but it’s sort of a Peter Pan kind [...]
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