Calendar of Events

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

Brown bag luncheon featuring a tour with gallery talk about "Open Show 2010".

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

Guests are invited to the Zoo after hours for a rare chance to purchase art created by the zoo's favorite and most creative residents. Art Gone Wild! patrons can enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as they peruse inspired works available for purchase by some of the zoo’s artists in residence. The offering includes paintings by black bears, chimpanzees (with special pieces by baby George), gorillas, elephants, African wild dogs, meerkats, beavers, otters, bobcats, lions, tigers, penguins, red river hogs, donkeys, baboons and snakes. Some very special creations by the zoo’s red panda
cubs will also be available, as will one-of-a-kind tote bags and walking sticks. Tickets are $30 per person and are available online at www.knoxville-zoo.org, by phone at (865) 637-5331, at the zoo’s ticket window during business hours as well as the evening of the event. Zoo members receive a $5 discount.

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. For information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

Knoxville’s own Southern rockers

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents the 2010 Artscapes auction Friday, September 24 from 6 to 9:30pm. The event includes a live and silent auction as well as cocktail buffet. Approximately 84 works of art will be on preview beginning September 14 through the evening of September 24. Artists of regional and national reputation are represented as well as some rare works by renowned artists such as James McNeil Whistler and Joan Miro. Art can be viewed at the KMA website www.knoxart.org. The auctions offer selected glass, painting, photography, sculpture, pottery and jewelry.

Tickets are $100 per person and include the two art auctions and cocktail buffet. For reservations, contact Susan Muse McGuire at 865.247.6020.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Friday, 10AM-8PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. For information: 865-934-2036, www.knoxart.org

Join your friends at the Clayton Center for the Arts when the award-winning Appalachian Ballet Company opens their season with Blue Jeans and Ballet Meet Broadway! This popular event won second place this summer in Best Event in the 2010 Daily Times Readership Choice Awards. Former Broadway performers Kathy MacDougal and Brad Moore will sing as the dancers kick up their heels to Broadway favorites. A harvest dinner will be served on the Plaza at 6:00pm, while dancers entertain you. The performance will take place in the Lambert Recital Hall. Tickets are $55 and are available at the Clayton Center Box Office (865-981-8590) or the Appalachian Ballet Company studio (865-982-8463). www.appalachianballet.com

A New CD
Sarah Pirkle makes her home in Walland, Tennessee in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She plays original acoustic music seasoned with flavors of bluegrass, classic country, old-time, and folk. Sarah has released two albums with husband Jeff Barbra, Dog Years and The Barb Hollow Sessions, performed and recorded with the Maid Rite String Band, and has just released a solo album Walking Tall Through High Weeds.

In advance: $10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Advance • $6 Children 12 and under. Fees apply. $12 General Admission at the door.
Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra celebrates 75 years of music during the 2010-2011 season! The KSO will open the Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Season with some of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works. The first half of the concert will feature his Coronation March and Violin Concerto with Dylana Jenson. Following intermission the orchestra will perform Swan Lake and The 1812 Overture. Under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman. Performed at the Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information and tickets: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

This is a Penny Performance for Knox County students ages 5-18. Visit www.penny4arts.com for more information.

EVENTS in the ART CENTER, SEPT. 22-25, 10:00AM-5:00PM: 4-day art & decorative items sales continue at bargain prices; “Silent Auction,” premium items, continues until cut-off time, at 4:00PM on Sat., Sept. 25. Buy mugs for “endless cups of chili” Sat. the 25th in the Park.

Art Extravaganza: paintings, prints, pottery, decorative items, jewelry, hand-painted chairs; home-baked goods, all 4 days, 10AM-5PM!! SILENT AUCTION: all 4 days, premium art, jewelry, & items donated by area businesses! SATURDAY in the PARK 10:30AM-4:30PM: Music: Swing, Folk, Blue Grass, Pop, Jazz
Activities: Chili Cook-off, Whistling Contest, Children’s art activity booth, horse & buggy rides, artists’ booths & demonstrations, Food by Creamery Park Grill & SalsaRita’s!

213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityart.com

A traveling exhibition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. One of the most celebrated styles of Maya pottery is Chamá Polychrome, named for a small site tucked into a curve of the Chixoy River in the Alta Verapaz of modern Guatemala. Other than the beautiful ceramic cylinders, spectacularly painted with multi-hued portraits and narrative scenes, very little is known about the site. Through artifacts, text panels, rare photographs, maps, graphics, and videos, this unique exhibit reveals the world this Maya region during the Late Classic era (AD 700-900). The exhibit portrays a time of political change in a troubled outpost of the Maya world, and a human story of power and intrigue among people who lived more than 1300 years ago. Nineteen Chamá Polychrome vessels are accompanied by more than 100 objects that illustrate Maya daily life, religious ritual, and shifts in rulership. The history of one Maya group unfolds in the exhibit’s themes:
• Class and hierarchy among the Maya.
• Trade along the Chixoy River, down to Tikal and the other great Maya cities of the Petén.
• Pilgrimage journeys to sacred caves and rivers.
• Religion and ritual in the sacred landscape of the Popol Vuh, the great Maya creation myth.
• Chiefly power and artistic style in scenes on polychrome vessels that illustrate historic events.
• The Maya of Chamá today, heirs of a culture the survives more than 500 years after the Spanish conquest.
• New techniques of scientific analysis that help us understand the ancient Maya through their material remains.

1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Mon - Sat: 9:00A to 5:00P, Sun: 1:00P to 5:00P. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Encore from Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Italy

At Carmike Wynnsong 16 Theatres, 200 North Peters Rd, Knoxville, 37923. Information: 865-691-0948, www.operaincinema.com

Juried mixed media exhibition by regional artists. Reception on September 18, 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