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      • Craft Shop
      • History Center
      • Nature Trails
      • Studios
    • Vision, Misson and Values
    • Visitor Guidelines
  • Our Programs
    • Find a Weeklong or Weekend Class
    • Mentorships, Residencies, & Internships
      • Traditional Craft Mentorship
      • Artist in Residence
      • Garden Internship
    • Music & Dance
      • Community Dance Teams
      • Winter Dance Week 2022
    • Online Classes: January – March 2023
    • Registration Policies
    • Scholarships
      • Folk School-Funded
      • Grant-Funded
      • Donor-Funded
    • Student Host & Work Study
    • Tuition Discount for Locals, Teachers, and Young Adults
      • How to Apply
    • Virtual Programs
      • Morningsong
      • Online Classes – Lessonface
      • Appalachian Traditions Discussions
    • Youth Programs
      • Intergenerational Week
      • Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM)
      • Little Middle
  • Events
    • All Events Calendar
    • Volunteer
    • Blacksmith & Fine Craft Auction
    • Empty Bowls
    • Fall Festival
    • Fireside Sale
    • Friends & Family Day
    • Little Middle
    • May Day Parade & Maypole Dance
    • Morningsong
    • Olive’s Porch
    • Shape-Note Singing
    • Winter Dance Week 2022
  • News & Stories
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    • Fund-A-Need Gifts
    • Planned Gifts
    • Scholarship Gifts
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      • Stock Transfers
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      • Soap Making
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Beadwork

Blacksmithing Hammering hot metal

Blacksmithing

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Book Arts

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Broom Making

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Calligraphy

Restoring old chair

Chair Seats

Clay pot on the pottery wheel

Clay

Preparing strawberries for desert

Cooking

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Dance

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Beautiful dyed fabric

Dyeing

Making the enameled leaf glow with the torch

Enameling

A felted fox

Felt Making

Flameworking

Group playing music outdoors

Folklore

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Fused Glass

Students learning about gardening

Gardening & Homesteading

Person doing some woodburning techniques on a gourd.

Gourds

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Hat Making

Man building a dulcimer

Instrument Making

A beautiful silver jewelry pendant

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Kaleidoscopes

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Knitting & Crochet

Image of a leather bag

Leather

Marbled paper

Marbling

Hammering a circular metal piece

Metalwork

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Mixed Media

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Morel mushrooms

Nature Studies

Sewing a circle design

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Watercolor painting

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A student learning how to paper quill

Paper Art

Snapping a photo of campus

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A print of a dog

Printmaking

Image of a hand puppet

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Image of a man woodturning a tiger

Pyrography

A colorful quilt

Quilting

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Image of Lighthouse carving into bone

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One-of-a-kind leather shoes

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A rainbow selection of soaps

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A woman learning to spin

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Stained Glass

Creating a mosaic masterpiece

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A man telling a captivating story

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