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Brushmaking Road Trip to North Carolina
Ah, Appalachia in the autumn!
A great time to visit. And it’s been too long.
So, it is with great pleasure that I invite you to join me for one of two North Carolina brushmaking workshops now accepting registration:
Penland School of Craft Fall Weekend
Stan Simmons Studio in Fayetteville
Both locations offer bamboo stands where I will discuss how to choose and harvest materials for brush handles.
s always, I will have a variety of brush fibers for brushmakers to experiment with. Handmade brushes offer a substantially more personalized experience than using mass-manufactured brushes.
If you’re interested in brushmaking and/or a road trip to beautiful North Carolina, please join me. I look forward to meeting you there!
Maker Focus on … Me
In the Wild, a Maker Focus on Troy Bungart opens Tuesday, July 26 at Schaller Gallery. Please catch it online. It contains my most recent work.... While I’m working I am always trying to infuse my pieces with the joy I feel in making them. When I see my work up on the gallery’s website I know I’ve succeeded!
Our Summer of Love
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but I prefer growing relationships in person if possible. Especially after living through 2020.
I’ve discovered that as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned to appreciate relationships more than I did when I was younger.
Turn "Out" ... It was a productive summer
Tune "Into" ... It was a low tech summer but also a high TECH summer
Drop "In" ... It was a sociable summer
Love knows no season. It's there for us winter, spring, summer or fall.
2021 and the State of the Studios
New year, new website platform, new products, new workshops.
It’s 2021. I’m working on creating a “new normal” (except that I’ve always been more focused on new than normal).
The new and improved website looks different because of the new platform.
My shoulder is healing.
I’ve been playing with clay and developed some new ideas.
Online brushmaking workshops are coming soon!
The Room Show Must Go Online
A room show isn't just a place to see what people have for sale. It's a place where you can count on meeting up with friendly faces year after year. It combines the positive energy of a flash mob, an art opening, a fund raiser and a cocktail party. With a little bit of Christmas thrown in. People who have never experienced it before are amazed.
Are we gonna let a cancelled conference and social distancing stop The Room Show from happening? Hell, NO!
Sticking with Stickers
I'll let you in on my secret for making friends and being able to find my lost cell phone. I decided to stop being anonymous.
Luckily, I've never completely beaten down that daring 9-year old boy who lives inside me and cheers me on to feats of both foolishness and greatness. I made a lot more friends when I discovered there are lots of people like me with a 9-year old still jumping up and down inside them.
I mean, who doesn't like stickers? Especially outrageous stickers.
Remembering Bali
My good friends Paul Blais and Hillary Kane published a podcast interview this month about Hillary's work at Gaya Ceramics in Bali, Indonesia. Listening to Hillary talk about Gaya and Bali got me reminiscing about my trip to Bali where Hilary and I taught a 2 week workshop called Brushstrokes and Fire: Toolmaking and Anagama Firing.
The Good, the Bad and the BEST: 2019 in Review
January 2020
Not everything goes as planned. But sometimes it does.