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Big Bear Cabin is located within 5 minutes of the Orchard at Altapass, 10 minutes of the areas best gem mining, 15 minutes of the nationally acclaimed Penland School of Crafts, 10 minutes of the beautiful Linville Falls Recreation Area, 25 minutes of Mount Mitchell, 45 minutes of the ski slopes, 20 minutes of Grandfather Mountain and 10 minutes of Linville Caverns.
 

Penland School Of Crafts
Less than 4 miles from Spruce Pine NC, the home of Bear Den Campground and Big Bear Cabin at Bear Den, Penland School of Crafts is located in a retreat-like setting in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Penland North Carolina. Penland School of Crafts is recognized as a nationally and internationally renowned center for education in traditional and contemporary craft. Lucy Morgan, originally an Episcopalian teacher at the Appalachian School, founded Penland Weavers and Potters craft group in 1923 after spending a few months at Berea College learning the craft of weaving. Morgan was committed to reviving handing weaving in mountain communities through the Penland Weavers and Potters group, a cottage industry that provided local women with looms, materials and education about weaving and then marketed and sold the hand-woven goods.

In 1929 the Penland School was born when Lucy Morgan persuaded a renowned weaving expert to come and teach a week-long class at Penland School. Several out of state students, in addition to the local women, turned out, and today Penland remains a one-of-a-kind institution with no standing faculty. Penland School receives teachers from colleges and universities and studio artists each year to carry out its commitment to the mission of promoting and celebrating the education and practice of craft within a harmonious and stimulating sanctuary.

Today, Penland School of Crafts offers classes in its idyllic setting during the Spring, Summer and Fall in over 10 media, namely, books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. Offered in one-week and two-week classes in the Summer and eight-week sessions, called Concentrations, in the Spring and Fall, the Penland School classes are attended by those aged 19 to 90. Over 1200 students, from beginners drawn to Penland’s allure to professional craftspeople looking for inspiration, refinement and technical exchange of information on their craft, come to Penland each year for instruction. Penland also offers 9 students each year the core fellowship program, two-years of full-time study at Penland. Similarly, the resident artist program hosts students for three years with low-cost housing and studio space.

Whether you are one of the 14,000 visitors that pass through Penland School each year or an student taking classes at Penland, Bear Den Campround and Big Bear Cabin is the perfect Spruce Pine NC Cabin Rental for you to experience the community created to encourage, as Lucy Morgan termed, "the joy of creative occupation and a certain togetherness-working with one another in creating the good and the beautiful." Visitors can tour the Penland School of Crafts campus (listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and purchase the work of the students, resident artists and instructors.
 

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