Penland School of Crafts – Fiber Art by Carola

The Penland Experience

Connect with the creative energy surrounding you to promote self-care. Penland School of Crafts has been a healing nurturing experience in my artistic life.

Paulus’s Just Dance Movie Trailer

7th Session Closes Out The Summer With A Teaching From Paulus Berensohn “Just Dance” Dance Intertribal | Drum Yellow Hammer | Old School CD, “Intertribal” (4.19)

Moments in life are full of unexpected changes. The older I get the less I understand about people and circumstances. I do know a few truths, one of which requires me to stay in the moment in order to walk out my purpose. Mat Randolph described four traps set for all of us inContinue reading “Walking Out Transformation”

From Wait List to a Summer Class @ Penland

Everyone who knows me as a creative hands person, knows that I owe by loyalty to Penland School of Crafts. I love Penland the way some women love a man. I love Penland because it’s the place on Earth that consistently provides me with an opportunity to transform my life and my creative hands. AContinue reading “From Wait List to a Summer Class @ Penland”

A New Year With Penland On My Mind

The blessing of a new year is the privilege to roll the dial back to 001. Being at one signifies a new day, a brand new start, having another opportunity to get living life right. My reward to myself is a continuous 28-day pledge to draw, make color and journal the process. I’m a teachingContinue reading “A New Year With Penland On My Mind”

Reflections On Being a Teaching Artist

As difficult as it can be to attend a university, teaching at one is harder, especially working as an adjunct. But, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m blessed with a dream job teaching at a small Christian school nestled around a beautiful park. I drive through rural Eastern North Carolina to Squirrel ParkContinue reading “Reflections On Being a Teaching Artist”