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Fall Craft Week

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Location Montreat
Dates September 30, 2018 - October 05, 2018
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Fall Craft Week
Work with your hands and create beautiful handmade works of art.
September 30 - October 5, 2018

Come create with your hands, gain proficiency in an art form, and enjoy the community of other artists during a fall week in the mountains.

Years ago M. C. Richards, renowned potter, came to Black Mountain College to teach poetry but ended up with her hands in clay. In her book Centering she defines the word craft as "Craft, as you may know, comes from the German word Kraft, meaning power or strength. We can't fake craft. It lies in the act."1

The idea wasn't totally new. In fact, the Arts and Crafts Movement, which found real fruition in these mountains, had already introduced the idea of "craft" into an increasingly industrialized culture. "They sought to provide an alternative code to the harshness of late nineteenth-century industrialism, to foster spiritual harmony through the work process(by encouraging) individualism, the creation of hand-made goods in place of machine uniformity, and a reappraisal of design materials."2

The Fall Craft Week is our quest here at Montreat Conference Center to celebrate the profound idea of "craft" in a world where technology dominates and where people mainly use their hands to operate smart phones and computers. Our goal is to bring people together as a community of artists to work with our hands with beautiful and natural materials. Mark your calendars now, and plan to join this community of artists as we create our own craft!
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