Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Join us at Dancing Bean Coffee House for a cozy afternoon of creativity and community! In this special Bean & the Guild event, Mary Kay Buckner of the Townsend Artisan Guild will guide you through the enchanting art of watercolor. Mary Kay, a retired art educator who rediscovered her passion for painting after moving to […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Thursday, April 24th | 3:00-5:00pm | The Dancing Bean Coffee House | $40pp (includes a nonalcoholic beverage of your choice) Class Description: Introduction to ZentangleJoin Townsend Artisan Guild member Mollie Nicholson for a relaxing, beginner-friendly exploration of Zentangle—a meditative art form that uses structured patterns to create beautiful, abstract designs. In this class, you’ll learn […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Join us at Dancing Bean Coffee House for a cozy afternoon of creativity and community! In this special Bean & the Guild event, Mary Kay Buckner of the Townsend Artisan Guild will guide you through the enchanting art of watercolor. Mary Kay, a retired art educator who rediscovered her passion for painting after moving to […]
Calling all plant lovers and green thumbs! We have teamed up with the Tuckaleechee Garden Club for a monthly Prop & Swap at the Dancing Bean Coffee House. When: First Tuesday of every month, 9:30AM-11AM Where: Dancing Bean Coffee House, Townsend, TN Here’s your chance to: Bring your plant propagations and swap them for new […]
Friday, October 20th 3pm-5pm $45 per person We are excited to announce our next installment of the Bean & Guild class for 2023 coming Friday, October 20th from 3pm-5pm! Suzette McCauley, a local Townsend artist and member of the Townsend Artisan Guild, will be hosting a fused glass class where participants will cold fuse glass beads onto […]
Friday, August 18th 3pm-5pm $40 per person We are excited to announce our next installment of the Bean & Guild class for 2023 coming Friday, August 18th from 3pm-5pm! Susan McCollum (@susan_mccollum_art), a local Townsend artist and member of the Townsend Artisan Guild, will be hosting a mixed media card class where participants will create cards […]
We are excited to announce the next Bean & Guild class for 2023 coming Friday, April 27th from 3-6pm!
This class will feature Sissy Caldwell, owner and designer of Featherbells Fine Jewelry & Gifts. Sissy is a member of the Townsend Artisan Guild and will be teaching the art of bead weaving. In this class, you will spend 2 hours creating a heart pendant perfect for Valentine’s Day with various types of seed beads and stitching.
Sissy is a native of East Tennessee, and grew up right here in the Smoky Mountains. She discovered her talent of jewelry making later in life after retiring from her business career. Sissy’s artistic signature is off-loom bead weaving blended with a variety of other jewelry-making and fiber-arts techniques, including embroidery, precious metal clay, glass, and natural items to create truly distinctive jewelry and gifts.
We are excited to announce the FIRST Bean & Guild class for 2023 coming Friday, February 3rd from 4-6pm!
This class will feature Sissy Caldwell, owner and designer of Featherbells Fine Jewelry & Gifts. Sissy is a member of the Townsend Artisan Guild and will be teaching the art of bead weaving. In this class, you will spend 2 hours creating a heart pendant perfect for Valentine’s Day with various types of seed beads and stitching.
Sissy is a native of East Tennessee, and grew up right here in the Smoky Mountains. She discovered her talent of jewelry making later in life after retiring from her business career. Sissy’s artistic signature is off-loom bead weaving blended with a variety of other jewelry-making and fiber-arts techniques, including embroidery, precious metal clay, glass, and natural items to create truly distinctive jewelry and gifts.
We are excited to announce our 4th installment of The Bean & The Guild!
This class will feature Lauren Kline, a professional portrait artist, and you will spend 2 hours learning the art of colored pencil drawing. Lauren’s love for animals and art come together to create wonderful masterpieces. In this class, you will learn to draw a black bear (see example below) on a small square piece of paper (much like the bird in the photos below).
Her pet, people, and wildlife portraits are all made of strictly high quality colored pencils on archival paper. From cats and dogs to birds and bears, her passion doesn't end there.
Lauren also tutors other aspiring artists online. Her colored pencil membership allows you to learn all sorts of drawing skills from colored pencil basics to tricks you would have never thought of using.
For this class, Lauren suggests bringing:
- Set of any colored pencils
eraser
sharpener
Lauren will be providing some extra pencils, erasers, and sharpeners just in case - but please come prepared! Your paper will already be cut and ready to use.
We are excited to announce the FIRST class in The Bean & The Guild Artisan Workshop Series. This carving session features award-winning woodcarver, Bill Shinn, demonstrating a safe and simple way to successfully carve the "Spirit Man" by learning the basics of sculpting "the old man" in Balsa Foam using a tongue depressor. The techniques […]
