For our final GlassRoots Fellow guest blog post, Serenity Sewell writes about her time at Peters Valley, and how she’s grown since being here. Serenity will be a business major in college and she says that her artwork, “expresses my constantly evolving feelings, emotions, and outlook on life as I take steps to become the […]

Kayla (Eleven) Muldrow is one of our current Fellows through the GlassRoots program at Peters Valley this summer. She is an artist and poet, organizer, leader of ceremonies. She says her work, “is a fluid expression of the secrets of life and the changes happening within and around me.” Kayla wrote this powerful piece about what […]

Continuing with our GlassRoots blog takeover series, here is a note by current fellow Inique Bristol on her experience at Peters Valley so far: “Hello everyone! My name is Inique– Unique with an I– and I make things. I’m so grateful to GlassRoots and Peter’s Valley for this opportunity! During my time here at Peters […]

Today’s guest blog post comes from Erin Meyers, an art educator at High Point Regional High School. Erin is a long-time friend of Peters Valley and this summer received an Art Educator Scholarship to attend a ceramics course on campus. Below, she writes about her experience and shares photos from her class.   “I am […]

This week, we hear from Myia Graham on what her experience as a Fellow through the GlassRoots/Peters Valley program has been like: “Hello, hello, is this mic on? Hi, so let me introduce myself; I’m Myia, one of the five GlassRoots fellows. Peters Valley is the most relaxing, energizing, and helpful place with a wonderfully […]

Our second cohort of GlassRoots Fellows arrived from Newark last week and we are excited to be able to continue our series of blog posts with these talented artists. First up, we have Manny Ogbonnaya. Here’s what Manny has to say about his first couple of weeks at Peters Valley: “It is day 11 of […]

As we wrap up this first series of guest blog posts from our GlassRoots Artist Fellows, Joshua (Red) Jackson has written an incredibly moving post about his experience at Peter Valley: “Have you ever had a dream you felt you couldn’t make come true? That’s easily a massive part of my life, and for a […]

Continuing our series of guest posts by our fabulous first cohort of GlassRoots Fellows, Gerald Abreu writes about his experience at Peters Valley below:  “I’m writing this post during my 6th week here at Peter’s Valley. I’ve taken seven classes thus far, and truthfully, this has been a fantastic experience. I came to Peters Valley […]

One month into his GlassRoots fellowship, Erlea Dani Jimenez writes about how Peters Valley has opened his eyes up to new mediums and ways of making: “My experience at Peters Valley has been absolutely thrilling! This experience has helped me gain a new perspective on the arts world. My first introduction to the arts world […]

This post from Adelin Figueroa is the second in our series of guest blog posts with our current GlassRoots Fellows: “A couple of years ago I was trying to discover what my art meant to me. I was fresh out of high school and became an art fellow at a craft school. During that time, […]