A Penland tale
Posted June 10, 2009 by bec_young in Justseeds Collective Projects
I spent the last two weeks making art at the Penland School of Crafts, located in the gorgeous Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. The class I took was in papercutting, with the incredible papercut artist Béatrice Coron, who this week is back in New York busy on a new residency at the Museum of Arts and Design, for an exhibition in October called Slash: Paper Under the Knife. I cannot begin to explain what an amazing time I had there, except to say it was inspiring, challenging, transformative, ridiculous, fun, and exhausting. Here are a couple shots- above is a miniature part of the paper cut that Béatrice created during the two weeks. This part of her paper cut shows the printmaking studio, and the person working on the bird head is me. Far below to the right is a print of which I made a small edition, just printing directly from cut cardstock on a printing press. It shows the studios of Penland among the hills, and a friend swiftly skating to the bottom of the hill. Directly below is a studio shot and a group photo of some of my fellow papercutters- I don't know what they're doing, though, I just told them to say "cheese"...
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The paper cut in the bottom right corner is beautiful! Really impressive!
Posted by: Josh at June 15, 2009 9:28 PM