We hope you will find your workshop experience with us such a memorable one that you will want to repeat several times a year. The information, presentation, food and family atmosphere will have you craving more than just an appetizer.
Low Key CameraRoom
High Key Camera Room
Production Room
Picture Framing Room
We are equipped with full production and framing facilities. We have much of the latest technologies and experience with some of the simplest technologies as well.
Multi-day workshops includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Later in the year we hope to open a full service restaurant, not only for the attendees, but for visitors to the school and upcoming gallery. The new gallery will become the largest photographic gallery in the region and will exhibit some of the finest photographs ever displayed.
The center is located at the base of the Smoky Mountains National Park. We are surrounded by beautiful mountains and scenery, that while learning from the best instructors available you may partake in some of the beauty available. The Old Elementary School building allows the feeling of learning while enjoying the mountains that surround you.
The Smoky Mountain Learning Center is the new photographic Mecca in the mountains. A renovated 1936 elementary school houses the new workshop center in the Smoky Mountains, between Cherokee and Bryson City, North Carolina. Owned and operated by JR and Darcy vanLienden, the Center will be hosting workshops by them and other notable photographers from around the country. The school’s main focus is photography and related programs including Photoshop, Painter, and other
graphics programs used by the photographic community.
One of the Classrooms