Penland School of Crafts 27th Annual Benefit Auction
August 10-11, 2012
Ahoy there! Here's an unexpected special edition in our ongoing series of Penland Benefit Auction newsletters, featuring artists whose work will be a part of this year's auction. We have invited trustees, staff members, collectors, artists, and friends to write about pieces that will be included in the summer 2012 benefit event and to comment on living with the works they have purchased in past auctions. We thought we'd sent our last auction newsletter for the year, but then we received a surprise donation that we're too excited about not to share!
A few words about the Sophie Glenn, a stunning last-minute addition to this year's auction...
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Penland's 5th Session Wood Class, Sophie Glenn, Atlantic white cedar, cyprus, sapele, ash, 14 feet long
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The Sophie Glenn is a 14-foot lapstrake rowing skiff designed by the renowned boat builder and designer Ed Monk and built by the 5th session wood class under the direction of instructor Tim Lee. She comes with two pairs of oars.
She is constructed from Atlantic white cedar, with cyprus frames, and sapele transom stem guards and rails. The oars are made of ash. The class named the boat Sophie Glenn, after the one female student among them. Instructor Tim Lee is from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
The boat will be sold in Saturday's silent auction, from 1 - 3:30 pm in the Gorelick Social Hall of Northlight building. If you're not going to be there, but would like nonetheless to throw the bones for a chance to sail away with this trim and lively piece of traditional, hand-built functional art, you can click here for more information about absentee bidding. Anchors away! May the wind be at your back....
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It's not too late to join us...
To reserve your auction tickets, click the link below:
Saturday tickets are sold out! Reservations for Friday will be accepted until available spaces are filled, and we have begun a waiting list for Saturday ticket requests. All ticket purchasers and absentee bidders receive an illustrated catalog.
A PDF of the auction catalog is also available for download on our website.
Absentee and phone bids are accepted for all auctions until noon on Friday, August 10, for a fee of $25 (includes catalog).
Exhibition preview and silent auction, dinner, live auction, dessert party, live music, and dancing.
The Penland School of Crafts Annual Benefit Auction is a gala weekend in the North Carolina mountains featuring the sale of 237 works in books, clay, drawing, glass, iron, letterpress, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. The Penland auction is one of the most important craft collecting events in the Southeast and a perfect opportunity to support Penland's educational programs, which have helped thousands of people live creative lives.
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Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Penland offers workshops, artist residencies, a gallery, and community collaboration programs. Penland School is a nonprofit, tax-exempt institution that receives support for its programs from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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