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William Harper's comments on two week session at Penland

WILLIAM HARPER (b. 1944), evaluation of the first two-week concentration course held at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina, August 1971, five pages. For Penland director Bill Brown, the creative process was collaborative. He encourage cross-media experimentation and nurtured a sense of community by maintaining an open-door policy at the studios and through his concentration courses and residency program. Brown assessed the 1971 concentration course as "a modest and warm experience of how creative people working together can go beyond objects and egos and begin to make a real life together." William J. and Jane Brown papers. Gift of Jane Brown, 1995.

William Harper's comments on two week session at Penland, 1971 Aug. Questionaire. 28 x 22 cm. William J. and Jane Brown papers, 1948-1991. Archives