Calendar of Events

Old Gray Cemetery will hold its annual Lantern and Carriage Tour, including carriage rides, refreshments, and re-enactors sharing tales about the lives of several of the cemetery's permanent residents. From ministers to soldiers to society belles, their experiences were nothing like you might expect. Join us for an entertaining evening filled with stories of war, violence, kidnapping, and even one raging love affair.
Old Gray Cemetery, 543 North Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917. Open daily during daylight hours. For information: 865-522-1424, www.discoveret.org/oldgray

Prescient songwriter

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

A panel of University of Tennessee “experts” will identify rocks, fossils, bones, and Indian artifacts.
Advance reservations required? NO
How to obtain admission: Museum admission is always free.
Contact: Jeff Chapman, 865-974-2144, jchapman@utk.edu
1327 Circle Park Drive on the UT Campus, Knoxville, TN 37996 | http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

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

FREE and open to the public.

At the Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Bldg., 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. Please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

This is your opportunity to dig in the UT Gardens and take home a load of choice plants for your own use. Learn how to dig and divide perennial flowers, herbs and ground covers. Divisions will be shared among class participants. Tools will be provided, but if you have favorite digging tools and hand pruners, bring them along. Dress comfortably and be prepared to get dirty and have a good time! Meet at the entrance to the Gardens.

Cost: $35 for members; $40 for nonmembers. Space is limited to 30 people. To register, call 865-974-7151 or email Emily Smith at esmith27@utk.edu.

Marble Springs State Historic Site, in conjunction with the South Doyle Area Homeowners Association, will be hosting the fourth annual John Sevier Days Arts and Crafts Show, Sept. 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sept. 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You can expect to enjoy 18th century demonstrations such as spinning, woodworking and open-hearth cooking; weapons demonstrations, which will showcase tomahawks and period-appropriate firearms; Tours of the historic buildings, an 18th century style military battle; and regional arts and crafts, among other period treats. Children’s activities, musical entertainment and tasty ‘victuals’ will enliven your day, so please join us with your family and friends and enjoy an early autumn festival to kick off a memorable fall season at Marble Springs! Admission $5.00; Parking is free. All activities take place at the Marble Springs State Historic Site: 1220 W. Governor John Sevier Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920. Information found at 865-573-5508; marblesprings@gmail.com; www.marblesprings.net

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

University of Tennesee, Knoxville, School of Art graduates Bill FitzGibbons (BFA, sculpture, '72) and Creighton Michael (BFA, painting, '71) are featured in this joint exhibition at the UT Ewing Gallery. Included are paintings from Michael's MOTIF series, FitzGibbons' new Fire Drawings, and a collaborative video and dimensional drawing piece by both artists. A correlative lighting installation by FitzGibbons will also be on display at the Knoxville Museum of Art.

A catalog of the exhibition will be available from the Ewing Gallery. Please join us for a public lecture by FitzGibbons and Michael at 7PM, Thursday, September 16, followed by the exhibition opening reception next door at the Ewing Gallery. Light refreshments will be served.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday: 10AM-8PM; Tuesday-Friday: 10AM-5PM; and Sunday: 1-4PM. For information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

At the 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: www.knoxart.org; 865-335-3358, holahoralatina@yahoo.com, www.holafestival.org

Free and open to the public
Opening reception Friday, September 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists' talks at 7 p.m.

This exhibit features the art work of Bobbie Crews and photographs of Clay Thurston. Bobbie Crews has been painting professionally since 1993. She earned her BFA in studio art from the UT School of Art, graduating Suma Cum Laude in 2007. Her artwork is widely collected in the U.S. and overseas. Locally her work is exhibited in schools, government buildings, churches, businesses, and private homes. Bobbie teaches art, speaks on art and is a courtroom sketch artist. She is also an activist for women in the form of artwork for education and awareness of domestic violence. A retired physical education teacher with the Oak Ridge schools, Clay Thurston now pursues photography full time. He has traveled extensively in the continental U.S. and Alaska and across the globe photographing the beauty and diversity of the land, its wildlife, and its people. Clay has been an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer for about 35 years. Inspired by his wife and best friend, Bobbie Crews, he now seeks to find the art in an even wider range of subject matter.

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