by Cory Marie Podielski | May 31, 2016 | Craft, Featured Artists, Interview
I first met Tim Ryan on a misty morning in the Folk School Garden when I was a Work/Study in 2011. My immediate impression of him was that he was a very witty & interesting character with lots of fantastic stories. Tim is involved in the Folk School in so many...
by Cory Marie Podielski | May 21, 2016 | Cooking, Craft, Featured Artists, Folk School
Every year, we have a sweet tooth soothing tradition in Emily Buehler’s bread baking class. On Thursday, students team up to make a special recipe: Emily’s Mom’s Sticky Buns. The beginning of the week is spent learning the basics of breads like...
by Cory Marie Podielski | May 3, 2016 | Folk School, Seasons
The Maypole Parade & Dance took place on April 30. Community folks gathered early to make wreaths, finish costumes, and prep puppets. The parade started at the Festival Barn, marched through Studio Row to Keith House and ended by the Maypole. Then the Morris...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Apr 10, 2016 | Craft, Featured Artists, Folk School, Pottery
Clay students of all levels joined Rob Withrow in the Folk School Clay Studio this past week to learn new skill and techniques on the wheel. Many students had never thrown on a wheel and were eager to get started. Rob is a local Brasstown potter and owner of Smoke in...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Mar 24, 2016 | Craft, Featured Artists, Folk School
This week for our celebration of Scandinavian heritage, Elmer Roush is teaching Viking-style Ironwork in the Blacksmith Shop. Students are focusing on reproducing 10th-century Viking relics including spearheads, axes arrowheads, and locks. Elmer is renowned for...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Mar 7, 2016 | Craft, Featured Artists, Folk School, Interview, Old Time Music
This May, the sweet-stringed sounds of Leah Dolgoy’s autoharp will once again fill the Folk School campus with joy and magic. She returns to Brasstown to teach a music class focusing on the legacy of the Carter Family for continuing autoharpists. Leah is a...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Mar 1, 2016 | Craft, Folk School
Students in Kay Patterson’s “Needle, Nuno, and Wet–Feltmaker’s Sampler” class learned all about different kinds of felting making. Many of us in the class found a love for making felting hats. By the end of the week, we were our own fashion...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Dec 27, 2015 | Book & Paper Arts, Craft, My Designs
Here is one of the first things I designed! An ornament I made in 1982 when I was three. It is my favorite ornament on my parents tree and my mom puts it near the top of the...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Dec 23, 2015 | Book & Paper Arts, Featured Artists, Folk School, My Designs
Under my tree this year is another tree and it looks like this: In the Book Arts class, “Ornamental Books and Boxes for the Holidays” with Dea Sasso we tackled three ambitious projects for the Long Weekend. The first project was the tree pictured above...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Nov 4, 2015 | Cooking, Folk School
Halloween weekend brought delicious dismemberment to the Folk School. Don’t panic! All the butchery occurred under the expert tutelage of Mark Rosenstein in the Cooking Studio for the class “Whole Bird Weekend,” where students learned advanced techniques for preparing...
