As the heart of the home, why not add some handmade elements to your kitchen wares. How much sweeter will it be to proudly say you made it yourself? Use a variety of hand and power tools to make boards that will become cherished treasures. Focus on safety, prepping, edge joining, glue up, and refining your boards to suit your taste. Return home with a cutting and charcuterie board perfect for home use. $

Have a great time making a basic quilt that can take any number of creative spins. Learn all phases of quilt making from start to finish, including clever tips and tricks along the way to make the process easier, stress-free, and wonderfully successful. Discover how to incorporate additional elements to make a quilt that is truly unique and a one-of-a-kind creation. Choose your size, choose your spin, and make it your own!

Have fun turning a variety of practical and interesting projects that will introduce you to the exciting world of woodturning or tweak your tool skills if you have a bit of turning experience. Projects range from simple projects suitable for gifts including ball-and-cup game, whistle, boxes, simple ornaments, to a shallow bowl or platter. The class is open to beginners as well as more experienced woodturners.

Ready, set, bake! Get ready to create showstopping delights in a friendly, supportive environment. Learn basics like weighing ingredients for the most accurate results, then have fun baking a wide variety of British and European classics–delicious cakes, tarts, breads, and biscuits (cookies). Challenge yourself to create new flavor combinations for your own signature bake. Scones, shortbread, pies, Victoria Sponge, oatcakes, Sticky Toffee Pudding...and more! All levels welcome.

Come learn and explore the basic pottery making methods for hand building pots–pinch, coil, and slab. Also, for those more curious and adventurous souls, try a one-day experience of throwing on the pottery wheel. Return home with some finished, functional, and more sculptural pottery, as well as deep, meaningful memories between generations. All skill levels welcome.

Experience the magic of paper marbling with acrylic paint. Marbling involves floating pigments on water and creating designs with a variety of techniques. Learn how to create traditional and contemporary patterns on paper, fabric, and leather. End the week with colorful pieces to frame, use in book arts or basketry, and even wear!

Create unique, 3D animal puppets with natural materials found on the Folk School grounds using a collage-esq technique called assemblage. Bring regional Smoky Mountain creatures, like woodpeckers, lightning bugs, copperheads, and groundhogs, to life using materials from the woods, creeks, and countryside they call home. Part sculpture, part nature observation, and part puppetry and musical performance, experiment with puppeteering and give your creations a voice using a variety of instruments. $

Explore various ways to achieve monochrome and multicolor designs using powdered and other enamels. Practice rendering, drawing, making marks, and adding details on enameled copper. Discover useful applications for color theory and practice mixing colors. Execute geometric and organic designs inspired by patterned fabric, photographs, and paintings and bring them to life using watercolor enamels, underglaze pencils, overglaze paints, pen and ink, and more. All levels welcome.

Ignite your imagination and explore the realm of possibilities! Go through the steps of creating a finished piece from brainstorming methods, researching, to value breakdowns, color theory, and more! This will help you strengthen your ideas and concepts, boost your art fundamentals, and save you from major backtracking later down the road. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just starting on your art journey, you will take something away from this class.

Join an instructor who creates a comfortable space where beginners of all ages can learn the fundamentals of blacksmithing. Build confidence and make lasting memories as you bring multiple generations together around the anvil. Receive an introduction to safety, fire maintenance, and forging techniques. Enjoy forging items such as hooks, key chains, plant hangers, and a variety of campfire tools such as fire rakes, forks, and steak flippers.

Explore the traditional art of Carolina Gullah basketry with a fifth-generation weaver. Learn the coiling technique for creating a handwoven basket from sweetgrass, bullrushes, and pine needles lashed with palmetto palm strips. Benefit from the instructor’s generational wisdom about how to use these naturally grown materials to form a beautiful basket using patience and love. Join us for this immersive week of Gullah basketry history and heritage. All levels welcome. $

Marvel at how tin cans and found objects can be transformed into folk art robots–“fobots”–or fun and functional items such as boxes, scoops, notebooks, clocks, yard art, and collages. Practice or learn soldering, riveting, crimping, and other techniques for joining elements. Join us for a week full of creative energy, whimsy, and humor.

Join us for the inaugural game of weave tag! Work together in pairs to create weavings that respond to and build upon each other's ideas–just like a game of tag, but with fiber. Using beginner-friendly techniques such as warp painting, paper weaving, discontinuous weft, and more, take turns adding to the creative conversation through your work. Through hands-on weaving and thoughtful discussions, discover how traditional craft practices can become a language for connection across generations.