Class Content: Have you always wondered about Stained Glass? During this fun and informative class, you will learn the entire “Tiffany” or copper foil method of creating stained glass from start to finish. All equipment and supplies are included. There will be several design patterns to choose from, and a selection of colored glass will be provided. You will trace the patterns, cut and prepare the glass, solder the pieces together and go home with a finished piece, all in three hours!

Supply List: Instructor will provide all materials and supplies

Biography: With a BA in Interior Design from Kent State University, Marc has enjoyed creative outlets most of his life, whether generating Frank Lloyd Wright inspired designs in paint, as floor treatments, or devising intricate designs for stained glass compositions. The college curriculum while design oriented, was also focused on architecture and fine art, including numerous drawing, visual organization, and construction technology courses, which have all added to the depth of Marc’s design acumen. In the mid-1990’s, Marc fulfilled a longstanding desire to learn Stained Glass techniques. Early on, Marc’s secondary career as a Stained Glass artist took the turn toward utilization of repurposed and reimagined materials and he has never looked back. In fact, many of his commissions feature unusual glass items or materials as their focal point, and it is these reimagined elements that serve as the inspiration for a given piece. He is a firm believer that Stained Glass is a complex hybrid of art and craft, requiring artistic creativity to design a composition and select the appropriate glass colors, patterns, and textures. It then takes the skills of a craftsman to fabricate the designed composition.

In 2013, with the opening of F.L.A.V.O.R. Studio in upstate NY, Marc realized a lifelong dream to have a dedicated art/work space, which not only allowed for an improved studio environment, but also provided a creative atmosphere where Marc could teach Stained Glass Workshops. With his wife, Debbie, Marc, was also responsible for the creation and administration of a county-wide art trail in Steuben County, NY that showcased the amazing art that was being created in that rural county in western NY. Featuring as many as 35 artists during the weekend event each April, attendees could visit each and every studio and artist, to watch live demonstrations, meet the artists in their work environments, and even purchase works to take home. Running for 8 years, the Arts in Bloom Art Trail helped create a community between the local artists and their neighbors and patrons.
Now in Knoxville, Marc and Deb have rebranded their studio from F.L.A.V.O.R. Studio to Master Repurposers to better reflect the inspiration that secondhand materials can bring to their art. His first local exhibit took place in April 2021 at the Fountain City Library, followed up by an exhibit in August at The Emporium with his wife in a joint show. In November, 2021, Marc was not only selected as one of five local artists to demonstrate his process at the United Way ADT Celebration Event, but he was chosen to film a live Stained Glass demonstration for the Discovery+ network for specific broadcast on their youtube channel.

Marc is excited to call Knoxville home, and in his first year as an artist here, he has found great support from both The Maker City and Arts Alliance organizations, and looks forward to creating exciting new collections in the coming year. He encourages you to find him at maker’s markets around the greater Knoxville area and at his home studio in Fountain City.

Instructor Website: masterrepurposers.com

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.

Class Content: Are you interested in trying a new art medium?  This one-day class will introduce you to the possibilities of using colored pencil to create art. It is a fun and easy-to-work-with medium which is portable and requires no other preparation beyond getting out the colored pencils and paper.

Colored pencil differs from wet media because the color is applied in layers, not mixed on a palette to achieve good depth of color. The use of the pencil, the type of paper, and the application of color with layering will all be explored in the class exercises. Handouts will be provided. 

Questions? Contact dcjcnance@gmail.com or agtv.president@gmail.com

Supply List:

Colored pencils: Set of 36, minimum of 24.
Brands: Primsmacolor, Caran d’Ache, Faber Castell
Please do not use other brands. Jerry’s Art in Knoxville carries these brands and Art Guild members receive a discount.
Color wheel
Graphite paper
Tracing paper
Drawing pencils (soft and hard)
9 x 12″ Strathmore 300 series Bristol paper (Vellum Surface)
Kneaded eraser
White eraser click stick
Erasing shield
Pencil sharpener, electric preferred. There are also battery powered pencil sharpeners available.
Wide soft bristle brush or large make-up-brush for removing eraser or pencil crumbs from artwork.

A portable drawing board is very useful for colored pencil work but not necessary.
Watercolor tape or blue painters tape.

Biography: As a native from Michigan I studied Fine Art and Illustration at Kendall College of Art in Grand Rapids, MI and Computer Graphics and Photography at Spring Arbor College in Spring Arbor, MI. I received a degree in Communications Technology from Kellogg College, Battle Creek, MI and worked in the graphic design and publications field. I have always been interested in art and photography and have worked in watercolor, gouache, acrylics and colored pencil. My husband and I first retired to Green Valley, Arizona in 2006 and I joined the Santa Rita Art League and exhibited in Green Valley, AZ and at the Otero and Red Poppy galleries in Tuba, AZ. I studied colored pencil techniques during a series of courses at the Sonoran Desert Museum Art Institute in Tucson, Arizona. In 2017 we moved to our home in the Kahite neighborhood of Tellico Village and I joined the Art Guild of Tellico Village in 2019.

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.

Class Content: “Why Color Theory” with Kate Aubrey is not your usual, dry color theory presentation. It’s a one day crash-course, cheat-sheet presentation full of intriguing information you can use right away. There’s a lot to discover, so it’s fast-paced. Boredom is not an option. There will be demos. There will be student experimentation. There will be answers to your questions about how Kate mixes and uses color to achieve the effects that give more impact to her work. You, too, can learn to mix gorgeous color, so come prepared to take notes and experiment!

Note: Demonstrations will be in watercolor, but exercises can be done with other water-based media.

Supply List: Click here to review the supply list.

Biography: A devoted watercolorist for over 40 years and a great lover of people and portraiture, Kate Aubrey began drawing while sprawled on the living room floor at age six. Since then, she has graduated to easels, studying with such notable artists as Charles Reid, John Salminen, Stephen Quiller, Ted Nuttall, Don Andrews, Jeannie McGuire, and Lian Quan Zhen. Life has taken her to six states across the USA from Anchorage, Alaska where she picked up her first watercolor brush to the deep, rich artist’s culture of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While in Alaska, she worked as one of first women in the oil field at Prudhoe Bay, painting in her spare time. It all shows up in her work.

Arriving in Tennessee’s Knoxville area in 2014 to settle (she fervently hopes) for good, Kate teaches watercolor workshops inside and outside of Tennessee. She is a past Vice President of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, as well as a member of the Arts Alliance of Knoxville, the Art Guild of Tellico Village, and the Oak Ridge Art Center. Farther afield, she is a member of the National Watercolor Society with signature memberships in the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of Alabama, and the Tennessee Watercolor Society. She is also a Master Artist at the Cape Cod Art Center in Massachusetts.

Her work has earned many awards in multiple national and international exhibitions and has appeared in “Watercolor Artist Magazine”, “American Art Collector Magazine”, Artist’s Magazine’s “The Best of Watercolor” (Splash 21 and Splash 22), and the “American Watercolor Weekly” e-zine. When she is not teaching, she and her very large standard poodle can be found in her studio concentrating on her figure and floral paintings with a dash of still life or Apples thrown in. Although, truth be told, the poodle prefers bones…

Instructor Website: www.kateaubrey.com

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.

Workshop Content: This workshop will give the student a big dose of foundational instruction, including shapes, value, design, and composition. Then we will move to the more advanced techniques of perspective and paint applications including color mixing with a limited palette. While we often hear about the importance of light in painting, Aurora likes to emphasize the importance of shadows as well. Aurora will demonstrate and teach her approach to landscape painting with a landscape including water, reflections and rocks. This is a 2-day workshop, working Friday-Saturday 9-4 with a break for lunch.

Supply List: Students are to bring supplies to class. Click here to view supply list.

Biography: It has been said that Aurora’s paintings play on the viewer’s emotions and invite them momentarily to leave the real world behind and enjoy the mood she has created. Aurora’s expert ability to harmonize design and color allows her to depict a wide variety of subjects in a way that is both realistic and romantic. Working exclusively in oil, she uses a very limited palette consisting of only the three primaries. She combines opaque tones of soft colors, with layers of transparent glaze, achieving an authentic three-dimensional quality, tempered with subtle overtones. While being basically self-taught, she has honed her talent and skill by taking workshops in oil and other artistic media, such as watercolor and pastels. Aurora is the recipient of many awards and honors, from juried exhibitions to being a featured artist in North Light artist magazine. Her paintings hang in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience with others by conducting workshops and giving demonstrations.

Instructor Website: http://aurorasfineart.com

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.

Class Content: Barn Quilts have been a staple of Appalachian culture for centuries. Originally created on large pieces of wood, they took the block patterns from quilts and recreated them in very bright and bold colors which was then placed on the sides of their barns to signal to others which family the barn belonged to. It is now used as a form of traditional decoration and crafts still seen in the deep Appalachia’s as well as in local county fair competitions.

Lessons: For this class we will be creating artwork from papers, paints and your personal ephemera (optional) to create your very own quilt-inspired mixed media piece on a 16″ x 16″ substrate. The goal is to create a piece that expresses who you are as an individual! I will guide you through the process of making a barn quilt from choosing the pattern, color palette and collaging materials! We will be painting, taping, collaging, and much more. Anything you can think of to add we can do! Family photos, written works, old art? The goal is to create a beautiful mixed media piece in the style of a barn quilt that is unique for you!

Supply List: Included in the price is a 16 x 16 primed panel as the substrate (similar to Ampersand’s artist panel).

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Biography: I am a professional mixed media artist in Knoxville, TN and I am currently working as one of the assistant managers at Jerry’s Artarama. I have a bachelors of arts in Graphic Design from Maryville College. I have participated in a numerous number of regional art shows, the most current being the Regional Dogwood Arts Show. I have also started teaching at a variety of centers throughout the area due to the fact I am an art supply fanatic and want to spread my knowledge of arts and crafts. If it is an art or craft I have probably done it! My goal as an artist is to make sure everyone I meet knows the joys of art!

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.