Arrowmont School offers art classes and craft classes for everyone from the novice to the professional. The school is located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the gateway to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On campus housing and meals are available for a modest fee. For more information and to order a workshop catalog, please visit the Arrowmont website: www.arrowmont.org.

Experience the fun and delight of combining the beauty of painted silk with the tactile appeal of quilting. We’ll use a variety of silk painting techniques to transform plain white silk into vibrant designs for machine quilting. Work in any design style that’s comfortable for you, from painterly representation or abstraction to geometric patterns. We will work small to complete work during the workshop and take home partially completed pieces for further exploration. Basic machine quilting experience required; silk painting experience can range from beginner to advanced.

Cost: $440.00 plus housing, meals and materials fee.

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Linda Gass exhibits her quilted paintings on silk internationally in galleries and museums. Her work has appeared in several books and magazines including the cover of Fiberarts, American Style, Surface Design, Art Quilts: A Celebration and Fiberarts Design Book 7. Her quilt After the Gold Rush won the Quilt National Rookie Award. She recently appeared in two episodes of Simply Quilts on Home & Garden Television and has taught at Arrowmont and lectured at Stanford University. Linda's love of color and texture plays a key role in her art informed by her activist passions; her work focuses on water issues in the American West. She travels extensively in the wilderness areas of the West where she finds much of the inspiration for her work.