We’ve taken a peak in some of the classes at the Folk School this week. See what they’re up to! Folk Harp with Lorinda Jones (that’s her class playing and singing in the video!) Charleston Sweetgrass Basketry with Sarah Hammond Blacksmithing 18th Century Tobacco and Smoking Implements with Jerry Darnell
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On Tuesday afternoon, Folk School students piled into a caravan of vehicles and drove down the road to Hayesville. There they visited David Goldhagen, a local artist who creates incredible sculptures and vessels in his glass blowing studio. Apart from the art and David himself, David’s studio features several impressive features. The first thing I [...]
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The Cooking Studio is a nice place to be during the summer. The windows along two sides of the building look out to the fields and herb garden. Inside the kitchen is bright and clean and, while class is going on, full of hustle and bustle. I stopped in during Mary Lou Surgi’s cheese making [...]
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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 [...]
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