June Gala & Benefit Auction
Gala tickets are now available. Please click here to purchase tickets online or visit the Folk School Craft Shop!
The John C. Campbell Folk School is looking forward to our upcoming auction— the June Gala & Benefit Auction. This event will be held in the Keith House on Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. The Gala will feature spectacular food, wonderful music, and amazing art from our instructors, resident artists and students. We hope you will join us and auctioneers, Tim Ryan and Bob Grove, for a wonderful evening of togetherness, art and camaraderie. This auction helps guarantee that the Folk School will continue to be a haven where artists can learn, work and be inspired.
Featured Artist: Don McGowan
Place of Blue Smoke II, Medium: 21/200 Photography
Don McGowan is owner of EarthSong Photography, specializing in nature and natural light commercial photography as well as photographic tours of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, stock photography, environmental photojournalism, and fine art nature images. A freelance writer as well, Don’s images and articles have appeared in Smoky Mountain Memories, Georgia Journal, Outdoor Photographer, Smoky Mountain Living, Preservation, and Smokies Life magazines, and his work even appears on the label of Misty Mountain Spring Water.
Featured Item: Kevin Crowe’s Wheel Thrown, Wood Fired Vase
Kevin Crowe works in the Blue Ridge foothills, where he lives with his wife Linda. His sons Bram and Kai live in Nelson County and Charlottesville. Kevin produces wood-fired functional stoneware with strong Asian and English roots. His work ranges from 4” teabowls to 48” vases.
Kevin’s pots are fired in a 450 cubic foot, 3- chamber combination anagama and noborigama kiln. Firings last 4 days, consuming 5 cords of wood and firing 1200-1500 pots.The kiln is fired twice a year when the moon is right and it’s not soccer season.
Pawleys Island is a small,
non-commercial resort island, four miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, situated on the coast of South Carolina, twelve miles north of historic
Georgetown and 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach. Pawleys
Island is an historic resort
catering to a relaxed family
atmosphere.
Activities are practically unlimited: golfing, fishing, boating, sailing, nature trips, historic tours, shell
gathering and river cruises. For “bright lights, etc., Myrtle Beach is approximately 20 miles to the north. There is an abundance of good restaurants in the
immediate area, and the local stores offer a complete
variety of food, drugstore, hardware, sporting goods and clothing.
“Bottoms Up” is a 50-year old ocean front cottage in the middle of the Island.Updated 5 years ago, it has central heat and ac, 7 bedrooms ( 3 w/ Q bed, 2 w/ D & S bed in each and2 w/ 2 D beds each ) 4 full baths and 1 half bath, washer/dryer, fully equipped kitchen. Living area has 2 sitting areas overlooking ocean, large flat screen TV (cable),WiFi access , wet barand game table.Large dining table plus table in kitchen.Covered deck area w/ grill, patio furniture, picnic
tables and Pawleys Island hammock, of course!Large enclosed outdoor shower, porches ocean and
creekside.Creekside walkway w/ covered dock.
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