The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts was originally a settlement school in Gatlinburg, founded in 1912. The school provided the only public education in the Gatlinburg area until Sevier County took control of public education in the early 1940s.
The property where the school is located is rented from Pi Beta Phi women's fraternity, and the fraternity has announced it will not extend the lease beyond 2012.
If Arrowmont cannot buy the land on which it sits, the school may have to move to Knoxville or Greeneville.
