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Craft Resources

The Penland Experience

a great website developed by the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in conjunction with our 2004 exhibition. This site contains Penland photos and video along with pictures of all of the work that was in the show.


Tradition/Innovation

a touring craft exhibition, co-curated by Penland's director Jean McLaughlin. Traveling to eight venues in the south.
Penland Experience


Craft in America

this is a rich site based on the Peabody Award winning PBS series. The site includes photographs of work, interviews with artists, educational guides, and more.


The Penland Forum

Some good friends of ours got together to create this unofficial Penland website with a forum, a ride board, pictures, add your name and locale to the Penland map, and other community-minded content.


Discover North Carolina

Traveling in North Carolina? Visit the Discover Craft NC web site.


The Craft Revival Project

This is a Web-based digital history of the historic effort to revive handcraft in Western North Carolina. It draws on documents, letters, photographs, oral histories, and objects to tell the story of the craft revival during the half century from 1895 to 1945.