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FOCUS Exhibition: Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods on view Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm, September 29-November 28. (Exhibitions)
Special Exhibition: Unusual Care
Unusual Care on view Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm, October 6-December 19. (Exhibitions)
Fall Concentration, 2026
6-week workshops for registered students. (Programming)
Spruce Pine Potters Market
The Spruce Pine Potters Market is an annual show organized by artists who live and work in the two-county area surrounding Spruce Pine. The region’s rich craft…
Slides: Textiles (Lower)-Amanda Thatch, Clay (Upper)-Esther Shimazu
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Slides: Andrew Glasgow Resident-Susie Silbert
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
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Slides: Print-Jun Lee, Wood-Chelsea Whitt
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Slides: Iron-Jim Cooper, Kilnworking-Norwood Viviano
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Mid-Session Studio Stroll
Check out “works-in-progress” from our Fall Concentration participants in the Clay, Glass, Iron, Metals, Printmaking, Textiles, and Wood studios. (Community…
Slides: Core Fellows
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Creatively Employed: Building a Career as an Artist
A panel discussion of current Penland instructors in the Northlight (Community Event)
Slides: Staff
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Slides: Studio Assistants
All are welcome! Enjoy 10-minute presentations about the work of Penland’s guest teaching artists, resident artists, core fellows, studio assistants, or staff…
Show and Tell in Northlight, Fall Concentration
View the work created by students and guest teaching artists during Penland’s six-week fall concentration. (Community Event)
Scholarship Auction in Northlight, Fall Concentration
Celebrate the joy of making and support Penland’s robust scholarship program. Generous students and teaching artists donate work created during the session,…
FOCUS Exhibition closes: Out of the Woods
Including hickory nut meditations, carved treen, greenwood chairs, spalted-oak-handled blades, relief print logs, and records of shadows in graphite and…
Visitor Center Gallery / Special Exhibition closing: Unusual Care
Katie Wigglesworth, a textile artist from California, and Leslie Smith, a book artist from North Carolina, met during a winter residency at Penland School of…
Community Open House 2027
(Community Event)