About
Shakerag Workshops
Shakerag
Workshops opened in June 2004, with six classes in clay, digital arts,
and book arts. From that small beginning, we doubled in size and offered
twelve classes in June 2005 in book arts, clay, digital arts, papermaking,
felting, and watercolor. Each week 50-60 participants gather to work
together in small classes with their teachers, enjoying the studio
immersion
and the relaxation that is afforded by being away from the daily concerns
of one's life. Participants of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience
have come to Shakerag - ranging in age from 21 to 85, varying in experience
from beginners to professional studio artists,
coming from near (Sewanee and Monteagle) and far (Hawaii and England).
Each week a new community is created - and participants leaving at
week's end have felt renewed
and invigorated by their Shakerag experience.
Shakerag Hollow
Shakerag Workshops at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School adjoins the hollow by the same
name. Shakerag Hollow boasts one of the finest wildflower trails in the area.
The Shakerag Trail, linked with the St. Andrew's-Sewanee Perimeter Trail, is
immediately accessible to workshop participants.
The
Legend
Shakerag Hollow is named for an old Sewanee custom whereby residents could
procure moonshine before the advent of liquor stores. A customer wanting moonshine
would come to the bluff at Beckweth Point, near what is now the fourth hole
of the Sewanee golf course, shake a rag at the moonshiner who lived down in
the hollow, and leave money for a purchase in a tree stump. Then, as the song
about Uncle Bill puts it, "you go 'round the bend, and when you come back,
then, there's a jug full o' good ole mountain dew." When he returned,
the customer would find a jar of moonshine left in the stump, and the money
removed.
Studio
Intensives at St. Andrew's-Sewanee • Sewanee, TN
