Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival
Townsend, Tennessee
March 16-17, 2012
Join us for this interactive arts event connecting the community with fiber arts activities. The festival will include fiber animal exhibitions, Marketplace of Vendors, classes, educational demonstrations of spinning, weaving, needlecrafts, dyeing, and many other fiber processes, hands-on projects with children and adults, local artists' work and fiber craft supplies, and information about local fiber activities, groups, businesses, and instructional resources.
Please check back with us. We will be posting updates. Please call 865-448-6134, 800-525-6834 for more information and schedules.
Vendors: contact Nancy at gsmhcevents@yahoo.com
Instructors: contact Deborah Adams, quiltsbydeborah@gmail.com .
The Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival
is Presented by
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center (www.gsmheritagecenter.org)
Smoky Mountain Convention and Visitors Bureau (www.smokymountains.org)
Townsend Artisans Guild (www.townsendartisanguild.net)
And our wonderful Sponsors!
Dear Participant,
We’re delighted this year to welcome you to the 2012 version of SMFAF. This year’s event will take place in one location that’s familiar to some of you – Townsend Visitors Center - and a new location that you may not have visited yet – Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center. Here in the shadow of the Great Smokies, you’ll find fiber arts classes and demonstrations, vendor shopping, great food, good friends and a memorable experience in an unforgettable setting.
This event celebrates all things Fiber Arts, beginning with the raw materials (catch the sheep herding and sheep shearing demonstrations while you’re here), through the creative processes (check out the classes and non-animal demonstrations at both locations), and finally, the end product (visit a great collection of vendors who will fill your every supply and project need)!
Townsend is the peaceful side of the Smokies, and a place you’ll find far different from other communities near the national park. We hope you’ll enjoy your visit here – we look forward to seeing you in March! --The SMFAF 2012 Committee
At the Townsend Visitors Center: Border Collie Sheepherding by Leigh Anne and Paul Tucker and Sheep-shearing by William Rick, plus demonstrations of weaving, spinning, and other fiber crafts. Click here for a schedule of demonstrations: or download Fiber Demonstrations--table.docx
At Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center: Fiber classes and workshops, marketplace of vendors, demonstrations, museum exhibits of Smoky Mountain cultural history. Click here for the list of Vendors, or download: Vendors list.docx or Vendors list.pdf
Click here for the list of Classes with instructors, dates and times, descriptions, and fees.
At the Townsend Artisan Gallery: Exhibits of fiber arts and many other beautiful works by local artisans.
Click here for an area MAP.
You'll also enjoy the Smoky Mountain Quilt Show, March 23-25 at Maryville College.
Special lodging rates for the Fiber Arts Festival are offered by Tuckaleechee Retreat Center and Talley Ho Inn and Highland Manor Inn.
For more lodging information, click here: Townsend Accommodations.
Sponsors:
Festival Patron:
Call Pet Supplies Plus at 865-984-1055.
Festival Partner:
Smoky Mountain Spinnery; 865-436-9080
Festival Pals and In-Kind Donations:
Smokey Mountain Feed and Pet Supply 865-977-0689
Tuckaleechee Retreat Center 865-448-6442. Ask about our discount for Fiber Fest participants!
Blount Veterinary Clinic 865-983-4020
Foothills Farmers Co-Op 865-982-2761
Bearly Rustic Cabin Rentals 888-448-6036
EconoLodge Parkside 800-348-7090
Talley Ho Inn 865-448-2465
Campbell Tent Company 865-983-3456
Townsend IGA 865-448-3010
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center 865-448-0044
Townsend Artisan Guild 865-448-8018
Smoky Mountain Convention and Visitors Bureau/Blount Partnership 865-448-6134
Paul Tucker, Border collie sheep-herding
Click here: for more pics.
