As a featured artist for 2023, I am an invited guest this year. The Benefit Auction is Penland School of Craft’s major annual fundraiser, supporting our mission of Making Lives Meaningful Through Making. A joyous and festive celebration of craft, community, and all things Penland, we will welcome collectors, curators, artists, and friends from far and wide.

Hundreds of people and organizations come together to create the Penland Benefit Auction. It is a huge undertaking and a labor of love.

* Indigo Arts Alliance Artists-in-Residence @ Hewnoaks. Hewnoaks and Indigo Arts Alliance maintain a residency partnership exclusively offered to Indigo Arts Alliance Artists-in-Residence alumni and current artists. It is intended for professional, mid-career and emerging artists to continue to explore and grow their work in a creative atmosphere. Follow the links below to learn more about the 2023 cohort: Aminata Conteh (IAA Summer 2021), Tanya Crane (IAA Spring 2022), Brian J. Evans (IAA Summer 2022), and Aina Sullivan (IAA Spring 2022).

Metalwerx's 2021 Virtual Spring Symposium includes two live sessions every weekday, at 12 PM and 4:00 PM (all times EDT), with morning social events on Tuesday and Thursday and a final social event on Friday, April 30, 2021. All sessions will be presented live over Zoom, with links sent in advance to all registered Symposium attendees. Recording access will be available through August 1st. Each featured presentation is approximately 90 minutes long. Each presenter "short" is approximately 40 minutes long.

Fri, April 30

12:00-1:30 PM: Meditating on Pattern with Tanya Crane

Repetitive pattern and mark making has opened up an entire realm of possibilities for my work. In this lecture and demonstration, I will talk about how mark making can be a meditative practice that you can return to daily. In the demonstration I will show participants how to mix, apply and subtract enamel to reveal graphic patterns. Because of the nature of the material, your patterns can be left unfinished and returned to as a daily practice.

4:00-4:45 PM: Making A New Reality Through Form and Color with Mando Bee

7:00-8:00 PM: Closing Party- The closing social event of the symposium week!

I’m so excited to be joining ACC (American Craft Council) again during their newly formed virtual Craft show.