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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
Our Show is Saturday/Sunday, October 3 and 4 at My People Senior Center in Sevierville, TN. The Seminars will be before and after the show and listed below. Right now, working on interest/reservations, no $$ necessary now. If you have questions or would like to make a reservation, email me or text/call at 309-620-1197. Unfortunatley, Gary Falin will not be having classes. He is improving but not at the point to handle three days of classes. He will be at the show with a table. He is carving and has plenty of carvings/roughouts for sale. Classes are 9 am-4pm.
September 30, October 1,2
Phil Gentry will have a 3-day caricature class with his roughouts and some of Gary Falin's roughouts. Phil has won several competitions and his work is impressive and his painting puts them in the awesome stage. Examples of his work will be available on a later note.
Cost is $150 plus the roughout cost.
Ed Lampert will have a 2-day caricature Santa egg class October 1, 2. Ed is on of the best Santa carvers in East Tennessee. Ed sells his carvings in Gatlinburg craft community. The class will include carving and painting if you want to finish your carving. The goal is to have a completed project at the end of class. However, you can carve on both days. Examples of his project are show below.
Cost is $60 for one day or $110 for two days and includes the first project.
Doug Stainbrook will have a 3-day pyrography (wood burning) class. If you attended our show in the past, Doug had a table with some fantastic work displayed. He also displays in the craft area at Dollywood. Doug's background is drawing, oil painting, artistic engraving and woodworking. He took a class from Michele Parson years ago and was hooked on pyrography. One of his projects was featured in the Pyrography magazine in 2020. You can check out examples of his work on his website, SlyFoxArt.com. If you have questions on his class, email Doug@SlyFoxArt.com. Cost is $150 and will include a board and patterns available for your project. He will have a tracing paper and pens to transfer your pattern to the board. Plan to bring your woodburning unit so you learn with it. He does have 3 loaner woodburning units; if you need to borrow a unit, let me know in advance.
John Griscti will have two 1-day classes. You can attend either or both.
Beginner Class Thursday, Oct. 1 class is primarily for beginners where he will teach the basics on tools, safety and basic/intermediate techniques. Experienced chip carvers are welcome, and he will assist you on your project on day 1.. Most of the focus will be on techniques for the beginner. Cost is $50 plus $15 for basic project, advanced project pricing listed below. John will have loaner chip knives so you can take class and see if that is your passion. Chip carving techniques can add to your other projects.
Experienced class Friday, Oct.2. You must have taken the basic class or have experience in chip carving to select this class. Projects are the sunflower $35, Trivets $10-15, ornament blanks $5 and free tree form blanks are $10. Pictures are below He address painting techniques if interested. If you would like to do the Sunflower project, we need know before June 30 to prepare it for class.
Vic Hood will have a 3-day class on realistic busts. This class is using mallet/chisels and limited to 8-10 people. I don't have all the details yet but will share later. If interested, let me know since sign up for this new class is underway. Vic is very popular so don't linger with your reservation.
October 5,6 (Monday/Tuesday after the show)
Rich Wetherbee will have a two-day clay carving class. This class is ideal for developing ideas for future carvings. The project can be a go-by or even stand as an art piece itself since it can by painted. Carving students can do these days as well but priority reservation to clay participants. Last year, he had room for carving students. Cost is $85/day plus clay costs.
October 7/8 (Wednesday/Thursday after the show)
Rich Wetherbee will have a 2-day realistic/caricature or bark carving class. The class will start from roughouts (wetherbeecollectionllc.com) or bark with your original idea. Cost is $85/day plus the cost of roughout/bark. The website might not have his most recent projects; I will include them later. Last year, the Wetherbee classes filled up, please don't delay on getting your reservation.
You can call or email for a reservation, course fees will be collected in August. It's important to get these reservations in so we can insure we have a viable class, and instructor can get us in his schedule and plan for a great class. If you have trouble getting information from websites, let me know.
Lodging info will be coming soon. Only 151 days till the first class!
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JR
309-620-1197
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