Calendar of Events

A new play by Percy Bell. At Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay Street, Thursday-Friday-Saturday at 8:00 PM. Information: www.thewaterseries.org

The Water Series is pleased to announce the world premiere of Spring: A Knoxville Sonata by Percy Bell. Performances will be at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay Street, November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14. Tickets will be available for purchase or reservation on the website: www.thewaterseries.org

Marianne Worthington, editor of the Motif book anthologies, will be discussing the challenges of editing a multi-volume, multi-genre anthology, and will be conducting a reading from Writing by Ear, An Anthology of Writings about Music, with several of the book's Knoxville contributors lending their voices. The meeting, which will be open to the public, will be held at the Laurel Theater at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street (in Fort Sanders ). A $1 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible. Information: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org

With Alice Wershing and Lorrie Willbergh. Explore and learn to use a variety of tools as literacy supports for students who struggle with reading and writing. Demonstration Cd's will be available for future use at home and at school. Come and learn how to creat e interactive storybooks, interactive activities for skill development, comprehension and written expression to support the needs of all students and all learning styles. This will be Session 2 in a series of 3 workshops. Participants who attend all 3 sessions will receive an additional reward! At the East TN Technology Access Center, 4918 N. Broadway, Knoxville TN 37918. Please pre-register as seats are limited. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop computer if possible. For more information call Alice Wershing at (865) 219-0130, or visit www.discoveret.org/ettac.

All art work is hand made by UT undergrads, grads and faculty. Money raised benefits the individual artist and clubs to support educational trips and visiting artists. At the Art and Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard. Information: 804-334-9746

Featuring two member artists: Kathy Holland, painter and Jen Hamilton, wire sculpture. The Gallery will host a First Friday Reception for the Featured Artists on Friday, November 6 with music by 'Webford Brown & the Town'. The Gallery is now selling 'artist made' Christmas Ornaments to benefit the Community School of the Arts in Knoxville. The Art Market Gallery is located at 422 S. Gay St. Holiday Gallery Hours are Monday – Saturday, 11am – 6 PM & Sunday 1 – 5pm. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

Art has taken Paula Clendenin to England, France and multiple states throughout the U.S. Now it will bring the West Virginian to Knoxville for a November exhibit at Pellissippi State Community College. Clendenin grew up in the small Appalachian coal-mining town of Cedar Grove, W. Va., and she uses the inspiration of her childhood surroundings as the primary source of her art. That makes her a perfect fit for an exhibit staged in conjunction with Pellissippi State's Common Academic Experience, a program in which one book—the Common Book—is selected each academic year to serve as a common denominator in developing curricular and co-curricular activities. Clendenin's artwork is evocative of environmental concerns about coal mining and mountaintop removal. The artist, whose works have been shown in collections ranging from the Library of Congress to London's International Art, Ltd., has been the recipient of prestigious resident fellowships in France, Vermont and New Hampshire. Clendenin's art is mixed media, making use of everything from enamel, latex and oil paint to graphite, metal and even coal dust. An opening reception with the artist is set for Nov. 6, 5:30-8 p.m. The reception and exhibit are in the Gallery of the Bagwell Center for Media and Art, located on the Pellissippi Campus on Hardin Valley Road. Both events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Information: 865-694-6445.

Interested in the links between art, science, and technology through the ages, New York artist Devorah Sperber deconstructs familiar images to address the way the brain processes visual information versus the way we think we see. "As a visual artist," she says, "I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic than the act of seeing—how the human brain makes sense of the visual world." Using ordinary spools of thread, Sperber creates pixilated, inverted images of masterpieces, which appear as colorful abstractions to the naked eye. When viewed with optical devices, however, the works becomes immediately recognizable as the famous paintings. The thread spools works are hung upside down in reference to the fact that the lens of the eye projects an inverted image of the world onto the retina, which is corrected by the brain. A clear acrylic sphere, positioned in front of each work, functions like the human eye and brain, not only inverting but also focusing the image so that it appears as a sharp, faithful, right-side-up reproduction of the famous painting. 1050 World's Fair Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm. FREE admission. For more information: (865) 525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Opening night, October 30

1714 Andy Holt Avenue on the UT Campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.org

Recent photographs by Lui Ho-Jang. Opening reception & Meet the Artist, Friday October 23, 6-9pm. Consisting of large digital photographs, this exhibition of recent work by Liu Ho-Jang offers the Knoxville community the unique opportunity to experience the art of one of Taiwan's leading contemporary artists. Liu Ho-Jang has an extensive international exhibition record. His visit to Knoxville is sponsored by the UT School of Art. 106 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wed-Fri 11-6, Sat 10-3. Free Parking in the Jackson Ave Lot. Information: 865-673-0802 or www.ewing-gallery.org/New_Downtown/Index/DT_Index.html#

A series of weekend multimedia events centered on the life and career of writer James Agee sponsored by the University of Tennessee and others.
October 23-25: The James Agee Film Festival. Films, lectures, readings, exhibits. November 1: An Afternoon in Agee Park. Lecture, readings, refreshments. November 6, 14 & 15: James Agee, Walker Evans, and Abraham Lincoln. Lectures, exhibits, reception.
November 20-22: One Last Weekend with Jim. Lectures, music. For more information, visit http://web.utk.edu/~english/news/agee100.html or http://www.knoxlib.org/agee100

Knoxville artist Russell Briscoe's paintings reflect the work of a historian, as well as an artist, and cover some 190 years of the region's past. Subjects include "Clinch and Gay, 1896," "Christmas Morning," "First Train in Knoxville, 1855," and "The 1897 Gay Street Fire." Information: 865-215-8830, www.east-tennessee-history.org