Penland School of Craft

The school was founded in the 1920s in the isolated mountain town of Penland, Mitchell County, NC. In 1923, Lucy Morgan (1889–1981), a teacher at the Appalachian School who had recently learned to weave at Berea College, created an association to teach the craft The center, called Penland Weavers and Potters, Penland buildings were designed primarily by North Carolinian architects, including Frank Harmon and Cannon Architects in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Dixon Weinstein Architects in Chapel Hill. The school campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Penland School Historic District. ==Overview==

, Penland offered Spring, Summer, and Fall workshops in craft disciplines, including weaving and dyeing, bead work, glassblowing, pottery, paper making, metalworking, and woodworking. It also offers fine arts subjects, such as printmaking, painting, and photography. There are about 1200 people who study at Penland each year. An exhibition of works created at Penland was held at the Mint Museum. == References ==