Antfarm Studios

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🧑‍🌾 Gardener
🧑‍🍳 Day prep cook
🧑‍🏫 Fall teaching artist intern

Join our team: https://boards.greenhouse.io/penlandschoolofcraft

Penland School of Craft is a national center for craft education offering residential workshops, residencies, community education programs, and exhibitions.

Located on 420 acres in the NC Mountains, Penland has 16 teaching studios and 60 historic and contemporary buildings. We are an equal-opportunity employer with a staff of 50+. We are located about an hour northeast of Asheville, NC.

Antfarm is hosting a 30th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, April 28th from 4-7. The celebration will take place next door at Rebus Works where our current member Jay Campbell is exhibiting their paintings for the month of April. During the event, other Antfarm members will be set up showing their work as well.

A limited number of presale tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite for $20. The presale tickets include 2 drink tickets (one alcohol and one non-alcholic beverage / or two non-alcholic), snacks, and admission to a guided tour through the AntFarm Studios.

If you don’t purchase the $20 presale ticket for the event, we will be accepting donations at the door; you can join the celebration without the drink tickets and tour. Rebus Works is selling food and drinks a la carte.

We're ready to celebrate turning 30!

Ceramic Artist Studio Space Available Antfarm in Downtown Raleigh!

Seeking a third ceramic artist for spacious ceramics studio in historic artist cooperative in Boylan Heights, DT Raleigh. Shared equipment available: slab roller, electric kiln, dry materials, pug mill, wheel, electric kiln, shelving, wedging table, and raku equipment. 24 hour access and free parking.

$260/month + $200 non-refundable membership fee.

For more information or to schedule a tour, please email [email protected]

Come see us!

MJ Clark is the featured Exhibiting Artist at Oberlin Regional Library in Raleigh. She works in several art formats, including metal, paint, and mixed media. Her work is currently on display at the library through early January 2024. Visit her website at www.mjclark.art
to see more of her work.

Come see us this weekend at

DIY Punk Rock Flea Market DIY Punk Rock Flea Market is back. Vendors for 2 days.

Come see me at the Raleigh DIY/Punk Rock Flea Market this weekend! I’ll be in front of Antfarm Studios.

Today! Come see MJ Clark at Oberlin Regional Library at 10:30am to talk about her work and see her hand forged metalsmithing designs!

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Next blog post:

Part 1 – Acknowledgments and Reflections… (2003) “At its tenth anniversary the Antfarm is an important artistic factor in the cultural fabric of the City of Raleigh as well as in North Carolina. …its presence and influence stretches f…

We're digitally documenting our history, here's some high praise from the exhibition catalogue, "Antfarm Decade" celebrating our 1st 10 years.

https://antfarmraleigh.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/part-1-2003/

Spotlight on: Antfarm
Look at this article published in IndyWeek in ~2000~
"We're not a gallery, we're a community"
antfarm https://antfarmraleigh.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/spotlight-on-antfarm-2000/

How an early antfarmer's experience in the late 1990s started an seemingly anachronistic business that is still thriving today.
https://antfarmraleigh.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/growing-up/

Just a reminder about how important the arts are.

Arts Action Fund New stats for North Carolina from the Americans for the Arts Action Fund for 2022 with the latest data from the BEA (2020), NEA, and state arts leadership. You can download this PDF and share it, o…

“…the space just had that kind of electric creative energy that lends itself to making things. I knew I had to be a part of this, it was perfect in so many ways.”
--Read this essay written by former ant farmer Dan Metz in 2003 on our website: https://antfarmraleigh.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/new-farmers-2003

Read this essay by former antfarmer Chris Alexander in 2003! Did you even know antfarm was 20-NO!! 30 YEARS OLD this year???

Help us tell the story of antfarm in the Raleigh/Boylan Heights/NC State School of Design/Artists community! Are you an antfarm alumni? Tell us about it and share your photos! https://tinyurl.com/36pt4u7x

Do you have photos or memories of antfarm over the past 30 years? We are collecting info-please submit via this google form: https://tinyurl.com/36pt4u7x
*these photos, taken in 1993, were originally published in the booklet "antfarm decade" in 2003*

"Antfarm is a diverse group of artists, coming together to form a supportive nurturing environment. Here, we utilize the talents and energies of each other to foster growth and further our education. Antfarm strives to create exceptional work and share it with the community."

-our first mission statement

New night lights now available

Recent slump run

Come see the Antfarm Studios artists at the Boylan Heights ArtWalk!

Come see the Antfarm Studios artists at the Boylan Heights ArtWalk!

Jet playing with some new brushes!

It’s a great arts and crafts show!

Visit antfarm studios Sunday, Dec 4, noon-5pm
See you at the 30th Annual Boylan Heights ArtWalk~