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My People Senior Activity Center
1220 W Main Street (HWY 441), Sevierville TN
Just 1.5 miles from HWY 66
(865) 453-8080
Carving & Pyrography Classes, Carving Demonstrations, Carving Supplies for Sale, Whittling Contest, Silent Auction,
Raffle, Food
Carvers Displaying Their Carvings (available to buy)
Show is Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, 2025
We will have demonstrations, raffles...largest in Southeast!, silent auctions including carvings from several top carvers and cash payouts for category winners along group winners. Not too soon, to get some entries carved!
Show Details
Table rentals are $25 for club members, $35 non-members
You do not need to rent a table to show carvings
Entry Fees $20 for 15 entries, $5 for additional 10 entries
Or $10 for first entry and $3 for additional entries.
Brochures including entry form will be coming out soon.
Dinner will be Saturday evening with free raffle of carvings for attendees!
We will have wood sales
Bob Stadtlander will have his "store" there...6-8 tables..at least of supplies. You can avoid shipping costs but contacting him in advance.
Training
Wednesday-Friday October 1, 2 and 3
Instructors Gary Falin, Ed Lampert, Richard Houlden caricatures
Linda Feagans Wood Burning
Gary's class, $150, 3 days Includes carving and painting if ready on 3rd day
Richard's will be 2 days $100. More info later.
Ed's Class Bark ornament is 1 or 2 days $60, $100 First ornament blank is included.
Linda's class is 3 days, $150 includes projects (more info later)
Monday-Wednesday October 6-8(half day on 8th)
Bill Johnson Chip Carving $225 (more info later)
Monday/Tuesday Oct 6/7
Rich Wetherbee clay, Rich will help you with your design (see examples below)
Wednesday/Thursday Oct 8/9
Rich Wetherbee Bark, caricature, realistic
Rich is trying to accommodate all the interests. The cost is $85 per day, and you can take one or two days of carving. The clay class will require participation in both days. It's set up like this to allow you to carve your clay model if interested. He is flexible on the schedules, so let me know what you would like to do. Note, if you want to carve your clay model, we need to discuss the wood requirements. Here is link to his website. https://www.wetherbeecollectionllc.com/roughouts
It's not too early to sign up, no deposit needed yet, just let me know. We are beginning to fill up sessions so don't wait till the last minute.
Here is the work being done presently.
1. Working on motel pricing. Not overly optimistic but will do the best we can to get a reasonable price. We have a place that rents cabins for $155 per night. I will be sending out info soon on it and other options.
2 Postcards for show dates and pertinent info are complete (attached below) and ready to distribute. Let me know if you need some mailed to you for events or your club or if you want your own postcard. Reply to me. Not reply all.
3.We haven't firmed up categories, but the plan is to reduce some of the categories to improve the payouts since it requires 4 entries per categories for $$ payout.
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Smoky Mountain Wood Carvers Association