The Appalachian Arts Craft Center Blog

Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale

Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale

Plant & Garden Art Sale: May 7 - May 21, 2022    Is springtime your favorite time of year? Looking for a way to decorate or add some new plants to your garden? Make plans to join us at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center between May 7 - May...

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6 Reasons to Visit the Appalachian Arts Craft Center

6 Reasons to Visit the Appalachian Arts Craft Center

Just off I-75 in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee you’ll find an Art Center with a Gift Shop full of handmade, one-of-a-kind arts and crafts produced by talented local artisans. For over 50 years, the Appalachian Arts Craft Center (AACC) has...

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Spotlight on AACC Class Instructor Kath Ferring

Spotlight on AACC Class Instructor Kath Ferring

No doubt, one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of Appalachian Arts and Crafts is storytelling. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the region, for centuries native Americans created stories to explain natural phenomena and record important events...

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AACC Best Sellers: Karen Briggs 

AACC Best Sellers: Karen Briggs 

“Perseverance” is one lesson that aspiring artists and crafters should learn from the experience of Karen Briggs, one of the Appalachian Arts Crafts Center’s longest-running and best-selling juried artists.

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Spring Outside the Woodshop Door

Spring Outside the Woodshop Door

If your yard or property looks anything like my family’s, you may agree that it’s been a marvelous spring. Just outside my basement woodshop window, I’ve witnessed earlier and more brilliant blooms on nearly all our flowering plants and shrubs than...

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