Join us for a weekend of playful sustainability in the darkroom! We’ll work with ecologically-friendly and sustainably sourced materials to make cameraless photographic prints, both in the darkroom and under the bright blue skies of our beautiful Warren Wilson campus.

Experience how fiber arts can have a powerful impact on storytelling, building community, and create a space for healing. Learn hand stitching techniques such as embroidery, applique and fabric collage, bringing story into a visual tactile piece of art.

We will explore the definition of a chair and balance. The course will cover shaping wood and mortise and tenon joinery by using a drill press, routers, tapering jig, tenoning jig on a table saw and a square chisel mortiser. We will also cover sanding and finishing. By the end of the class you will have a stool that you will enjoy for a very long time.

In this weekend course, learn to design and carve your own lino-style stamps and block print onto fabric! You can print repeating designs all over your fabric or garments, or just do one main focus print and move on to the next. Your instructor is a professional fabric dyer, so we will also learn how to use low-impact dyes to create beautiful backgrounds for our printed clothing and fabrics. Students can bring anything from home they would like to print on, dye, or both.

There was a time in which folks around the world bundled native grasses together to form brooms used to sweep. In this workshop you will spend the weekend learning skills practiced for generations here in the Appalachian mountains to craft a series of whisk brooms and a floor sweeping broom. At the end of workshop, you will have developed some broom-crafting skills and you will have made a small collection of brooms to take back home with you.

In this two-day course, we’ll learn what makes natural products natural, formulating and making these products, figuring cost of goods to sell wholesale or retail, buying to maximize profit, branding and marketing and much more!

In this week-long course, we’ll learn what makes natural products natural, formulating and making these products, figuring cost of goods to sell wholesale or retail, buying to maximize profit, branding and marketing and much more!

In this week-long course, explore the wonderful world of weaving on a floor loom. Explore a variety of weaving techniques in your Day 1 sampler, then learn how to thread a loom and spend the rest of the week weaving a set of towels, a scarf, or a scroll of art cloth of your choice.

Unite your photographic practice with the materiality of place in the week-long course. We will begin by making meditative images on the Warren Wilson campus and along the Swannanoa River, considering elements of geologic time and cycles of nature. Next, we'll incorporate materials from the landscape, including soil pigments and found plant fragments, into unique handmade papers. Finally, we will join these two art forms through photographic transfer processes.

In this fast paced workshop, we will modify one of Earth’s most elemental resources into objects of utility essential to the blacksmith’s craft: the cross peen hammer & and bolt jaw tongs. Students will be guided through basic concepts of toolmaking and old school mechanical engineering that leverage the thermal properties of steel and the practical advantage of power hammers and presses as production tools.

Create beautiful designs in wool with just a few simple tools! No water or soap or scrubbing needed: this is the easiest form of felting, and you can start and stop whenever you like, making it a great craft for busy people. Patch holes in sweaters in a snap, add design elements to garments you already wear, or just create beautiful felted patches to be sewn onto things or to be hung on the wall. Using 100% natural wool, a needle tool, and a foam pad for safety, so much beauty is possible!

In this week-long course, we dig our own clay, process it and cover hand building skills, such as coil, slab, and pinching to create gestural and emotive figure sculptures. The class will conclude with a pit firing.

In this week-long course, you’ll experience a magnificent and thorough foray into all the knitting skills and knowledge you'll need to get you through infinite Autumns & Winters knitting happily away. Hats, shawls, mittens, even sweaters or socks: all skills start here with the basics! Great for newbies, returners, or intermediate knitters who want to refine their skills.

Tage Frid was a Danish-born woodworker, educator and author. His design work was often in the Danish-modern style, best known for his three legged stool.

In this week-long course, working with ash or oak lumber, we’ll learn a few advance techniques in woodworking, including round wedged tenons, angled dovetails and shaping wooden parts with a spokeshave. Both hand work and machine work will be implemented to create the stool.

This is a week-long art course that focuses on the approach and techniques of French Impressionist Painters of the 19th century. Using art history, drawing, and painting we will create our own emotional impressions of the Western North Carolina landscape.