Calendar of Events

Featuring recently retired Knox County art instructors: Alan Seneker, Sue W. Lane, Rikki Taylor, Melynda Whetsel, Christine Harness, Chico Osten, and Judy Jorden.

Reception July 30, 6:30-8:30 PM

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; Saturday, 9AM-1PM. For information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityart.org

Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defense of a black man wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout and Jem, learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley.

30 Jul 2010 at 8:00PM and 1 Aug 2010 at 2:00PM

Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Vibrant art crawl on the last Friday of every month at various locations in downtown Maryville. Coordinated by the Maryville Arts Coalition who has enlisted local businesses of all types to help foster its emerging art scene. Directions: From downtown Knoxville, take Alcoa Hwy past the airport. Veer left at the split (411). Pass the Sun Trust, Food City, and Kroger on your right and take a right on Broadway. Park at either of the two big parking lots on your left. Information: www.maryvilleartwalk.com

Pistol Creek Catch of the Day will perform at the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five. Known for their acrobatic and energetic performances, Pistol Creek Catch of the Day plays an eclectic range of music ranging from rockabilly and western swing, to vintage rock and country, to dance music from the twenties and thirties. Pistol Creek is comprised of four multi-instrumentalists: Edward Harper (vocals/guitar/harmonica, drums), Bill Cabage (vocals/lead guitar/fiddle), Scott Hinds (vocals/lead bass, guitar), and Carl Gombert (bass/scratchboard/banjo, percussion).

Tickets are $8 for general admission, $4 with museum membership or student ID, and free for ages 17 and under.

Billed as a musical within a comedy, "The Drowsy Chaperone" is a hilarious, tuneful, Tony Award-winning take on musicals and theatre. when a die-hard musical theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, a 1928 smash hit called "The Drowsy Chaperone," the show magically bursts to life in his run-down apartment and the audience is instantly immersed in the glamorous, rollicking tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day. Populated with a cast that includes jovial gangsters, a hapless bridegroom, a harried best man, a latin lothario, a flaky chorine, a boozy chaperone and many others this is a joyous and fun-filled shows that will send laughter soaring into the rafters. This production is suitable for General Audiences.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway in Historic Jackson Square, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. For information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

A unique installation of video, films and multi-image performance works by Norman Magden, School of Art Professor of 4D Arts, will be on display at the University of Tennessee, Downtown Gallery. The exhibition is titled THROUGH A TRANSPARENT LENS INSIDE OUT, which refers to the time based images displayed and Magden’s focus on transparent and super imposed images to create a mesmerizing effect. The exhibition will be a quasi-retrospective in that one part will show earlier works and another section will contain more recent pieces.

Magden’s work recently received first place in the Experimental Film category at the Los Angeles Movie Awards and received several Awards of Excellence for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. He also received First Place in the Experimental Film category in the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival with additional awards of Best Cinematography, Best Concept, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Other venues where his work was selected for screening include New Filmmakers (Hollywood), International Vampire Film Festival (New Orleans), Festivus Film Festival (Denver), Peoples Awards Film Festival (Quito, Ecuador), Byron Bay International Film Festival (Australia), Kansas City Film Festival and The Rome International Film Festival (Georgia).

The exhibition will open on Friday, July 16 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM, as a special premiere for A1LabArts members. The public opening and reception will be the First Friday, August 6 from 5:00-9:00 PM.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. For information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

The Tennessee Stage Company will be back on Market Square for our eighth season of Shakespeare On The Square (and our twentieth summer Shakespeare season) playing at 7:00 pm Thursday through Sunday evenings July 15 – August 15, and featuring Romeo & Juliet and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). The Complete Works will be directed by Jenny Ballard - the Artistic Director of Children’s Theatre of Knoxville - and Romeo & Juliet by Tennessee Stage Artistic Director Tom Parkhill. Played on a rough replica of the new Globe Theatre in London (a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s original theatre) the plays will be presented in the timeless style of Elizabethan Theatre presentations. The Tennessee Stage Company encourages our audience to spend an evening on the Square: do a little shopping, have a nice dinner, see the play and maybe stop into a pub afterward. All of this and more is available on Market Square nightly. So come early and see the Square!

Romeo & Juliet: July 15, 17, 23, 25, 29, 31 and August 6, 8, 12, 14
Complete Works: July 16, 18, 22, 24, 30, and August 1, 5, 7, 13, 15

Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

An exhibit featuring the art work of Ken Moffett and photographs of Karen Krogh will be on display at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
Karen Krogh, Photographs - "TVUUC: The Light of Love"
For 23 years photography has been an artistic passion for Karen Krogh. The opportunity to freeze a moment in time and to reflect upon it drives her interest in this art form. Beginning as a photo lab assistant in California she became a corporate photographer for the Toyota Motor Company. Later she moved on to magazine and public relations work. She is currently associated with a Knoxville commercial studio and also accepts freelance assignments.
The images in this exhibit are reflections from a most difficult and challenging year in the life of Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Her photographs convey the incredible resiliency of a congregation of courageous and loving people.
Ken Moffett, "Transparent Colors"
Ken Moffett's exhibit features five decades of watercolor painting by this architect/artist. His vocation as an architect has limited his time for artistic activities but not his success as an artist. His work has been exhibited in five states and is represented in several private collections. Ken's technique of using a single brush for an entire painting helps to define his work, freeing him from conventional detailing and creating integrated and somewhat abstract compositions. He has lived in Knoxville since 1975 and has been a member of TVUUC since the 1980s.

Opening reception Friday, July 16, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists' talk at 6:30 p.m.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org

Boone, NC artist Sandy Adair has been creating custom weavings, off-loom weavings, and macramé wall pieces for over 28 years. The Blue Ridge mountain landscape surrounding Adair's home has been a continuing source of inspiration to her. Tapestry weaving is a slow process of layering in one needle of yarn at a time until an image is formed. Once completed, the weaving is stretched across a frame, secured and backed with muslin. Adair's award winning tapestries have been collected internationally.

Kim Nixon, a traditional rug hooker, believes in artwork that reminds us of our past while transcending the present. She uses pattern to bridge the gap between what is background, where we have come from, to what we see in front of us. Her rugs, foot stools and stair risers are hooked with strips of hand-dyed wool. Nixon's works mesmerize with their mosaic beauty and set up their own rhythm, offering images that stir universal associations.

Hanson Fine Art & Craft Gallery, 5607 Kingston Pk, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Monday-Friday 10AM-5:30PM; Saturday 10AM-5PM. For information: 865-584-6097, www.hansongallery.com

Reception on July 10, 7-9PM with gallery talk at 6:30 PM.

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9AM-5PM; Saturday-Monday, 1-4PM. For information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. For information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled “Forms and Figures”, featuring work by seven artists:
+ Alan Finch (Knoxville, TN) – Finch is a visual artist and independent curator whose current digital photography focuses on the abstract in nature. www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/photographers/?inc=details&id=116603
+ Kathy Frankford (Morristown, TN) - Frankford is a visual artist with landscape and natural happenings as the focus of her photography series. http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kathy-frankford.html
+ Carl Hill (Knoxville, TN) – Hill is a landscape/nature/travel photographer whose current panoramic photography emphasizes the forms and structures of the horizon.
+ Scott Lee (Knoxville, TN) – Lee is a film director/producer/artist and photographer. His “Dirty Bride Series” is a photographic conceptual set that includes six images of a woman dressed in a bridal gown. www.35degreesnorth.com
+ Ross Mol (Clinton, TN) – Mol’s main interest in photography is getting “the shot” with as little editing as possible.
+ Carole Usdan (Florida/North Carolina) – Carole is a fine arts photographer using a photographic dialogue to describe the ubiquitous push and pull among solitude, alienation and intimacy. www.usdanphoto.com
+ Dennis Usdan (Florida/North Carolina) – Dennis is a fine arts photographer and retired lawyer focusing on the clarification of observed details. www.usdanphoto.com

“Forms and Figures” will be on display in the Balcony at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from July 2-30, 2010. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM. The Emporium Center is located at 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, July 3, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed on Monday, July 5. For more information, call (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.