Tend Your Hearth and Home
The fall and winter represent a retreat to home and hearth: a time for congregation, household, and feast. For centuries, the hearth was essential to the home for warmth and food preparation – a center...
View ArticleCrafting Words
Observing painters, musicians, enamelists, woodturners and their work is transformative, and being part of the creative process of master and student crafter is a privilege. Word follows image because...
View ArticleCraft Heaven
The beautiful campus of the Folk School inspires the writer in all of us. The cusp: a potter at her wheel, wood turner at his bench, weaver and loom, blacksmith and forge, fiddler and fiddle,...
View ArticleLuttie May Comes Alive
Brasstown, NC “I can’t believe it’s over!” said Luttie May. “Maybe I should have left my suitcase in the room at Rock House so we’d have to come back and get it.” “And you were dreading the class...
View ArticleFacing the Footwork
Are you trying to write a memoir or a novel? Let me guess… you aren’t sure how to get started because of the mountain of notes & information that need organized. A new and unique writing class...
View ArticleAsia to Appalachia: Japanese Influence at the Folk School
Bonsai by Tim Ryan Japanese aesthetic philosophy inspires us all the way from the Far East to the Folk School. Radically different from Western design, Japanese design principles mesh especially well...
View ArticleDiscovering Author Valerie Nieman
Valerie dips her feet in the sand at Pacifica, CA – always close to water. Acclaimed North Carolina writer Valerie Nieman will be teaching The Breath of Life: Discovering and Depicting Characters at...
View ArticleMeet Host Donna Glee Williams
Donna Glee’s felted creations from the class “Nuno-felt Collage” with Liz Spear & Neal Howard Our current host, Donna Glee Williams, is a writer of fantasies for the teenager in all of us, as well...
View ArticleFrom the Writing Studio: The Blacksmith’s Wife
Earlier this fall, Donna Glee Williams taught a writing class at the Folk School: “Write What You Don’t Know.” In the class, students took inspiration from life at the Folk School to find prompts for...
View ArticleExpectations
It is Thursday afternoon. Outside the writing studio window, the day is bathed in sunlight, the limb patterns on the grass motionless. Inside the studio, writers are at work with pen or laptop, or...
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