Arts and Crafts Demonstrations
in the Visitor Center Exhibit Room& Calendar of Events
See the calendar below, and come by to visit with and buy directly from talented artists! Or enjoy some of the many recreational and educational activities in Blount County.
Take a craft or music class this winter! Click here to view Workshops and Classes.
Click here to view our Smoky Mountain Festivals website!
The Cades CoveLoop Road reopened April 24, 2010with new paving and pulloffs. Enjoy this scenic and historic drive. Click here for more great explorations nearby:Discover the Smokies Beyond Cades Cove.
Calendar of Events:
Stay tuned! The schedule can change. Call the Townsend Visitors Center at 865-448-6134 or 800-525-6834
Plan ahead! Click here for the 2012 Calendar:
2012 Calendar of Events
Townsend Visitors Center and Blount County, 2012:
Calendar of Events, 2012
Including classes, arts and crafts exhibitors, and festivals (in bold) at the Townsend Visitors Center, and regional events:
Winter Workshops and Classes are offered from January through March at the Townsend Visitors Center. Learn basketry, pottery, rug hooking, broom-making, and flat-picking guitar.
APRIL
1-3 Photography Exhibit—Rodney Hall
4-6 Woodturning—Tom Sciple
7 Herb and Wildflower Program,
Townsend (865-448-6134)
8-10 Arts and Craft Exhibit--Deede Edele
11-13 Stained Glass—Larry & Paul McLain
14 Spring
Sprint 5K Run (Alcoa, 983-9244)
16-18 Art & Woodcrafts—Myron & Sanford Downs
19-21 Photography Exhibit—Linda Waterhouse
Decoupage Plates/Ceramics—Anna Bolton
Doll Making—Carolyn
Gregory
20-21 Spring Arts & Crafts Show
Foothills
Mall—865-983-9244)
21-22 Sam Houston Birthday
Celebration
(Schoolhouse,
Maryville, 865-983-1550)
22-23 Woodcarving—Hezzie Holden
24-26 Art Exhibit—Fred Weiser
27-29
Photography Exhibit—Barry Spruce
MAY
4-5 20th
Annual Spring Festival and Old
Timers Day
(Townsend, 800-525-6834)
5-6 Spring Open Softball Tournament
(Maryville—865-983-9244)
5 Young Pickers Contest , Great Smoky
Mountain Heritage
Center, Townsend
8-9 Photography Exhibit—Barry Spruce
10-12 Assorted
Crafts—Norma Jean Tosh
Porcelain Dolls & Kewpies-Marge Totten
11-12 New Midland Plaza Spring Art & Craft Fair
(Alcoa—865-983-9644)
11-12 Blount British Car Show—Talley-Ho Inn,
Townsend (865-448-2465)
12 Tour de Blount -www.foothillstriders.org
13-15 Art Exhibit—Cathy Coulter
16-17 Woodcarving—Hezzie
Holden
18-19 Studebaker Car Show—Talley Ho Inn
18-20 Trout Fest—(Townsend—865-558-8782)
18-20 Scottish
Highland Games-MaryvilleCollege
21-23 Art Exhibit—Randy White
Woodcrafts—Charles Goosie
24-26 Photography Exhibit—Rodney Hall
27-29 Art Exhibit—Roma McCammon
30-31 Woodturning—Monte
Walker
Horseshoe Decorations-Bonnie McCampbell
JUNE
2 Smoky
Mountain Pottery Festival
(Townsend, 800-525-6834)
5-7 Art &
Woodcrafts—Myron & Sanford Downs
8-10 Art Exhibit—Don Lay
10-16 Kaufman Kamps & Concerts, Maryville
865-982-3808 (www.flatpik.com)
11-13 Photography Exhibit—Barry Spruce
Cards & Christmas Ornts.—Donna Erdman
14-15 Baskets—Karen Kenst & Bonny
Kate Sugg
Wool Applique’—Joyce Jarman
16 Summer Solstice—8K
(Walland)
16-18 Stained Glass—Larry & Paula
McLain
Pottery—Carol Ware
17-23 Kaufman Kamps &
Concerts, Maryville
19-21 Photography Exhibit—Linda
Waterhouse
Decoupage
Plates/Ceramics—Anna Bolton
22-24 Art Exhibit—Cathy Coulter
23-24 Nawger Nob Arts & Crafts Show
(Townsend,
865-448-2259)
25-27 Art Exhibit—Fred Weiser
28-30 Jewelry Exhibit-Julia Schirack &
Carol Dean
Photography Exhibit—Don Curry
JULY
1-2 Art
Exhibit—Cathy Coulter
3-5 Assorted Crafts—Norma Jean Tosh
Art & Crafts Exhibit—Deede Edele
6-8
Doll Making—Carolyn Gregory
Photography Exhibit—Don Curry
9-11 Woodturning—Monte Walker
Horseshoe Decorations-Bonnie McCampbell
12-14 Art Exhibit—Gloria Nelson
Stained Glass—Larry & Paula McLain
13-15 Smoky Mountain Classic Softball
Tournament—(Maryville—865-983-9244)
15-17
Art Exhibit—Fred Weiser
18-20 Woodcrafts—Charles Goosie
Art Exhibit—Randy White
21-22 Volkswagen Show—Talley
Ho Inn
21-23 Art Exhibit—Roma McCammon
24-26 Photography
Exhibit—Barry Spruce
27-29 Art Exhibit—Don Lay
30-31 Pottery Exhibit—Carol Ware
AUGUST
1 Pottery
Exhibit—Carol Ware
2-4 Art Exhibit—Fred
Weiser
4 Slimfest (Midland Plaza, 865-983-9644)
5-7 Stained
Glass—Larry & Paula Mclain
8-10
Woodturning—Monte Walker
Horseshoe Decorations-Bonnie McCampbell
11 Scholars
Run 5K (Maryville, 865-983-9244)
11-12
Civil War Encampment, Sam Houston
11-13 Art
& Woodcrafts—Myron & Sanford Downs
14-16 Woodcrafts—Charles Goosie
Art Exhibit—Randy White
17-19 Art Exhibit—Don Lay
20-22 Pottery Exhibit—Carol Ware
Woodcarving—Hezzie
Holden
Dullcibox Exhibit—James Dull
24-26
Decoupage Plates/Ceramics—Anna Bolton
Doll Making—Carolyn
Gregory
27-29
Woodturning—Tom Sciple
30-31 Photography Exhibit—Barry Spruce
SEPTEMBER
1-3 Stained Glass—Larry & Paula McLain
4-8 Art Exhibit —Randy White
Woodcrafts—Charles Goosie
7-8 New Midland Plaza Fall Art and Craft
Fair
9 Wears Valley 15K Road Race
(Townsend—865-805-2008)
9-11 Art
Exhibit—Roma McCammon
12-13 Porcelain Dolls
& Kewpies—Marge Totten
14-16 Art Exhibit—Cathy Coulter
17-19 Pottery
Exhibit—Carol Ware
Woodcarving—Hezzie
Holden
Dullcibox Exhibit—James Dull
20-22 Woodturning—Tom Sciple
28-29 20th Annual Heritage Festival and
Old Timers Day (800-525-6834)
29 Old Timers Day, Cades Cove & Townsend
29
Blue Ribbon Country
Fair, GSM Heritage Center (865-448-0044)
29 Railroad Days—Little River
Railroad Museum, Townsend
29-30 Nawger Nob Arts & Crafts Show
OCTOBER
2-4 Woodturning—Monte
Walker
Horseshoe Decorations-Bonnie McCampbell
5-7 Photography
Exhibit—Rick Kratz
Jewelry Exhibit-Julia Schirack & Carol Dean
6-7 Smoky Mtn. Woodcarvers Festival, GSM
Heritage Center,
Townsend (865-448-2259)
8-10 Art Exhibit—Fred Weiser
11-13 Woodcrafts—Charles Goosie
Art Exhibit—Randy White
12-14 Foothills Fall Festival (Maryville)
13 Townsend
10K (865-546-1000,
Howard)
14-16 Art Exhibit—Roma McCammon
17-18 Wool Applique’—Joyce
Jarman
Baskets—Karen Kenst & Bonny Kate Sugg
Art & Crafts—Deede Edele
19-21 Art Exhibit—Cathy Coulter
Doll Making—Carolyn Gregory
20 Maryville
College Harvest Craft Fair
22-24 Art & Jewelry Exhibit—Maxine Falls
25-27 Assorted Crafts—Norma Jean Tosh
Painted Rocks—Terri Zimmer
25-26 Cards
and Christmas Ornts-Donna Erdman
28-30 Art & Woodcrafts—Myron & Sanford Downs
31 Photography Exhibit—Linda Waterhouse
Decoupage
Plates/Ceramics—Anna Bolton
NOVEMBER
1-2 Photography Exhibit—Linda Waterhouse
Decoupage
Plates/Ceramics—Anna Bolton
3-5 Stained Glass—Larry & Paula
McLain
6-8 Photography Exhibit—Barry Spruce
9-11 Photography Exhibit—Rodney Hall
12-14 Woodturning—Tom Sciple
16-18 Art
Exhibit—Fred Weiser
19-20 Woodcarving—Hezzie
Holden
21-25 Art Photography—-Mary Grace McCaffery
26-28 Townsend Artisan Guild Exhibit
29-30 House of Santa Mouse -Maryville College
30 Art Photography—-Mary Grace
McCaffery
DECEMBER
1 Sam Houston Schoolhouse Candlelight Tour
1 House
of Santa Mouse, Maryville College
1-2
Art Photography—Mary Grace McCaffery
2 Townsend Christmas
Parade, 865-448-6886
2 Reindeer Run 5K (Maryville, 865-983-9244)
7-9 Art Photography—Mary Grace McCaffery
14-24 Art Photography—Mary Grace McCaffery
26-31 Art Photography—Mary Grace McCaffery
Enjoy good music throughout the year in Townsend and Maryville:
Pickin' on the Porch
Saturday Nights, May-October 7:00 p.m.
"Pickin' on the Porch" at Wood N' Strings Dulcimer Shop. Various local musicians and storytellers will be entertaining from the porch . (865) 448-6647
Rocky Branch Community Center
Every Friday night enjoy local musicians for a time of jamming, singing at the Rocky Branch Community Center.(865) 983 -3330www.blountweb.com/musicmakers
Music Row
Friday night dances and Bluegrass music on Saturdays and Mondays. Maryville, TN.
www.musicrowofmaryville.com
Historic Palace Theater
Visitwww.palacetheater.comfor concert schedules.