Workshop Content: We will be making miniature dioramas within deep frames. A diorama is a three-dimensional, miniature scene from a historical, fictional, or natural subject using models and various materials.

This class is for beginners and intermediate learners of diorama making.

You will learn to craft miniature dioramas from start to finish. I will supply all sorts of fun objects that can be remade into miniature furniture, landscaping, people, etc. I will also bring clay for anyone who wants to learn how to make or enhance any of their miniatures with it.

The creation is only as limited as your imagination. This class will teach how to repurpose, reimagine, and rethink.

Supply List: Instructor will provide all supplies

Biography: My artist dreams started when I had my nervous breakdown and subsequent 3-month hospitalization at Blount Memorial Hospital at the end of 1990. At the time, I was raising two very young children and was married. I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD and a brain injury due to the physical effects of childhood family trauma.

While in the hospital, several positive experiences led me to where I am today. I was able to define my life goals, which included going to college. I now have a master’s degree in Speech Communication. Before, I had thought that an impossibility. I went to UTK and the Universita di Urbino, in Italy. I learned I am stronger than I had previously thought. I found that I have artistic talent and that it is okay to lean into it.

I also learned that it was okay to want things for myself, including travel. Since then, I have traveled extensively and visited some of the most famous museums in the world. I have also visited and worked at many artist communities around the world. My art is still hung in many of these communities, including: Oaxaca, Mexico; San Luis Obispo, California; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Lazio, Italy; Bronx, NYC; Seattle, Washington; Managua, Nicaragua. Every country I have visited has taught me that my love for all things art is always in my heart.

I have been working consistently on my current series, “Fairy Tales Reimagined,” where I reinvent known stories into new tales using the inner feelings of one or more of the characters. I have been able to explore a lot of emotions during this series and have loved all of it. If anyone is interested in a comprehensive list of places where I have shown my art and been showcased, please send me a message and I will get that to you.

Instructor Website: Website: https://whimsicalmischief.art (live on November 2, 2025); Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhimsicalMischief.Art; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacymondayart

Now’s your chance to explore making stained glass in this 12-hour class spread over 4 days.  You’ll learn to cut glass, assemble the pieces and solder the seams to make cool suncatchers and small panels.  The classes are held in my studio in Tellico Village.  Sign up for either the morning (9-noon) session or the afternoon (1-4) session.  The cost is $225, which INCLUDES all the glass and supplies. In previous years, the classes have filled up quickly, so please send a check or Venmo (@Greg-Downs-13). 

COST:  $225 for 12 hours of instruction and includes all supplies and glass

PROJECTS:  Suncatchers & small panels.  Students with prior experience can work on any project.  To learn more about the class and watch a video of the process, visit www.StainedGlassByGreg.com/classes

Class Content: Gelli Plate printing is a versatile and fun way to create unique prints that can either stand on their own, or be used in mixed media collage artwork. Artists of all skill levels are encouraged to come and try their hands at creating their own unique mixed media art, using gelli plate printing as the primary tool. Along the way, we’ll learn the basics of using the gelli plate to create background and texture prints, as well as color-mixing and collage techniques. Then we’ll use the prints (along with other collage material) to assemble the final mixed media pieces.

Supply List: All materials will be provided, including a variety of collage papers. You will have the use of a gelli plate during the workshop (along with all the assessories and paper you need to make prints), acrylic paints, acrylic mediums for adhering collage to the surfaces, substrates for your final pieces (e.g., canvas or board), paint brushes, etc.

You are encouraged to bring along any additional collage material that appeals to you personally. This can be any type of paper (magazine papers, painted papers, tissue papers, text or images from old books, cut-outs, maps, etc., etc.). The more material you have, the more choices you will have when it comes time to assemble your final pieces.

I suggest you also bring along an apron or something to protect your clothing. Acrylic is unforgiving if you get it on your clothes!

We will have a short lunch break, so please bring your lunch along, too.

Biography: Pamela Salyer is a Knoxville-based mixed media artist, working with acrylic, image transfer and collage to create multi-layered pieces inspired by the natural world. She comes from a science background, but was able to focus on art full -time after moving to Knoxville in 2015. She has been a juried member of the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville since 2017, and a member of the Foothills Craft Guild since 2023. Her work has been accepted to a number of juried exhibitions including Arts in the Airport at McGhee-Tyson Airport, the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition, and the “Big Tiny Show” at the District Gallery. She teaches mixed media workshops at the Oak Ridge Art Center and for the Art Guild of Tellico Village

Instructor Website: https://www.artmarketgallery.net/shop/pamela-salyer/143