PRIVATE MENTORING BY GARY RAWLINS , 3-hour sessions reduced from $150 to $100 for all Ponder Cove Guests

Work with this highly trained craftsman, Gary Rawlins, observing his techniques and latest works. Bring a piece of yours along for an expert critique. These sessions are designed around your skill level. You will be gifted with a copy of Gary's teacher ,James Krenov's book, A CABINETMAKER'S NOTEBOOK. To quote Gary "a must read for those that share my passion for wood. It is not a how to but a why".

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  Gary Rawlins
  Gary is our in-house furniture maker and co-owner of Ponder Cove. Trained in England and   under the tutelage of James Krenov, Gary developed a style and a level of craftsmanship   touted to be among the best. [Web Site]

Michael Cullen
Michael Cullen's interest in furniture design evolved from his background in mechanical engineering and love of art. During the past decade, his work has been featured in both trade and design publications and has received numerous awards. His work is shown and collected throughout North America and Europe. [Web Site]

Don Ray
Don Ray was born in Los Angeles California in 1938. He discovered his passion and talent for the arts while attending California's public schools. He went on to New York's Art Student League to receive advanced training and later apprenticed with sculptors Ken Kaiser and Jose DeGreff. With a growing interest in the art of Mali, he traveled in 1976 to Africa to study at the Museum of Bamako. [Web Site]

Skip Rohde
Skip Rohde was an officer in the U.S. Navy for over 22 years. After retiring in 1999, he went back to school and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating in 2003. Rohde has studied art in a number of venues since grade school. During his first undergraduate college career, he studied fine art at Memphis State University. [Web Site]

Kay and Steve Workman
Kay taught art in Greenville, South Carolina, for thirty-one years before she retired in 2002. Though her career was rewarding, she enjoys the new opportunity to pursue her own artistic interests. She and her husband Steve love the mountains and find Burnsville to be a perfect mix of natural beauty and artistic inspiration. [Web Site]

Jane Troup
As an artist my intent is to create physical objects that inspire. This is my highest aspiration. Each painting is like a novel, a story told through many details, relationships, colors, rhythms and subject matter. The painting is created with layers upon layers of ideas, intentions and paint. It is a process, an experiment and a search, and the reason the end product is so visually rich................ [Web Site]

Mary Maupin Brumo
Mary Maupin Brumo has been painting in oils and acrylics for 45 years. To quote Mary "My heart beats in color. I paint because it is who I am." As you can see from this small sample her sensitivity to color reflect her personality, talent and vibrancy for life. Mary lives in Madison County, N.C. and can be reached at her studio in Marshall or mmaupinbrumo@gmail.com.

Bill Weldner
The digital art work online is a concentration of images in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Each piece includes a combination of several photographs which are manipulated, altered and woven together on the computer using Photoshop. Every print is numbered in a limited edition so each is printed and signed individually, they are not reproductions. [Web Site]

Joan Mediclott
I was born on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, back when it was truly paradise. I married at eighteen and had three children. When I was 29 I started back to college and as we moved a great deal, it took me about 10 years to finish a BA in History. Later, I went on to get a Masters in Counseling. Because of my husband's work I have lived in Chicago; New York; Miami and Ocala, Fl.; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Nürenburg, Germany.................. [Web Site]

Molly & Adrian Rice

Molly was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1971. She holds degrees in Theatre Arts Education and English as a Second Language. In America, she has worked extensively in the theatre as an actor, director and stage manager. Now living in Belfast, she works as a freelance artist in drama and creative writing and is on the NI Arts Council's 'Artists-in-Schools' scheme. [Web Site]

Adrian was born in Belfast in 1958. He is a poet and editor. Being an established poet on the Arts Councils' 'Writers-in-schools' schemes, he teaches creative writing workshops in schools & colleges throughout Ireland. His first sequence of poems appeared in Muck Island (1990), a collaboration with leading Irish artist, Ross Wilson. His second poetry sequence, Impediments (Abbey Press, 1997), also earned him widespread critical acclaim. In 1997, he received the Sir James Kilfedder Memorial Bursary for Emerging Artists. [Web Site]

Jane Renfroe Designs
Renfroe Designs is the studio of sculptor and potter David Renfroe, located high in the Western North Carolina mountains. We are happy to be able to share both new concepts and old favorites with you.
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Tom Turner Porcelain
Noted potter Tom Turner now resides in Madison County after a distinguished career taking him from South Carolina to Ohio. Considering North Carolina "The Pottery State", Tom chose WNC as his new home to teach, practice his craft, further develop his glaze techniques while spreading his phylosophies of clay. Website

Hand Made in America
Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, HandMade in America, works to develop community strategies that will enhance our region's role nationally and internationally within the handmade field. We work to implement environmentally sustainable economic solutions that emphasize the craft industry, enhance opportunities in the marketplace, and develop entrepreneurial strategies for the region's crafts artisans. [Web Site]

Madison County Arts Council
The MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ( MCAC ) is a community based nonprofit cultural organization that provides services and resources to artists and organizations and presents and produces culturally diverse programming for the public. We promote the arts at the local level, endeavoring to make them a part of the daily fabric of community living. [Web Site]

Rapid River Monthly
Asheville North Carolina's Arts and Culture Monthly
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