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Trumpeter Marcus Printup has been a mainstay in the trumpet section of Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1993. His fiery style and engaging personality have delighted audiences around the globe. This special program will highlight the music of some of jazz music’s most inspired trumpeters: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.
At The Square Room. Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

Opening reception on November 12, 6-7:30 PM with artists' talk at 6:30 PM. www.clinart.biz

Lil Clinard bases her watercolors on many of the photographic images she and husband John have taken on their wide ranging travels. She seeks expression in a loose and impressionistic manner of brush stroke, texture, color, light and composition, rather than photographic realism, allowing the viewer to complete the picture. "Watercolors lend themselves to this style and approach perfectly" she says.
She and John enjoy painting together and support each other's very different painting techniques. Lil has shown her work in regional group exhibitions, galleries and juried shows winning numerous awards. Her work has been juried into the Knoxville Arts & Cultural Alliance National Juried Show for the past three years. One of her cityscapes won “Best of Show” in the 2008 Tennessee Artists Association Juried Show, and she was awarded “Best Watercolor” in the 2010 Fountain City Art Center’s Juried Show. She participated in Artclamation! in 2009, and ArtXtravaganza in 2010. She is a member of the Art Market Gallery and active as an officer of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, Tennessee Artists Association and Art Guild of Tellico Village. She also is a member of Fountain City Art Center, Oak Ridge Art Center, and the Arts and Culture Alliance.

John Clinard
Though an Oak Ridge engineer by trade for 30 years, John Clinard's interest in art has existed since an early age. "Encouraged by my mother, Dot, to begin pencil drawings and oils I was inspired and taught by Dixie Snapp starting at the age of thirteen. (Dixie Snapp, now deceased, remains Greeneville’s most famous artist.) Later at UT in Knoxville, Charles Kermit Ewing taught both my wife Lil and me art appreciation and art history." John is, nevertheless, a mostly self-taught artist who has been painting for over 50 years. "I focus primarily on oil painting using a variety of subjects. Some paintings are composed from photographs from TN and from places visited, domestic and foreign. My work is mostly impressionistic, though certainly representational, with my focus on depth and perspective, contrast, simplified palette, and non-complicated but interesting composition." John is a member of the Fountain City Art Center, the Arts and Cultural Alliance, the Tennessee Artists Association, and the Tellico Village Art Guild.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Art Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM; Friday 9AM-4:30PM; Sunday 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present an exhibition by the Knoxville Watercolor Society entitled “For the Love of Water Media”. For nearly 50 years, the Knoxville Watercolor Society (KWS) has shared its love of painting in an aqueous media. Through monthly meetings and workshops, the organization has continued its purpose of educating its members as well as the community to understand watercolor or water media as a significant art form. KWS members have shown their work and won acclaim in regional, national, and international shows. The public can view the Society's latest aqueous creations from November 5-24 at the Emporium Center, beginning with an opening reception on First Friday, November 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM.

Membership in the Knoxville Watercolor Society is open to artists 21 years or older living within a 40-mile radius of Knoxville and currently active in the serious pursuit of watercolor. KWS holds its meetings on the first Monday of each month at 6:30 PM at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 6500 Northshore Drive. Most meetings are open to the public, and all people are encouraged to join KWS as associate members. Active members are selected through an annual juried process each November. For more information on membership, please contact 865-947-7857.

The reception on Friday, November 5 is free and open to the public, and complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served. “For the Love of Water Media” is on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, November 6, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled “Archetypes” by Kenneth M. Moffett, Knoxville architect and artist. The exhibition title refers to a set of diagrammatic master plans derived from work done over the years in collaboration with others in an architectural firm. This portion of the exhibition concerns a theory of coordinated aesthetic order embodied in the plans on display. In their original form, the plans were prepared for actual exposition parks and fairgrounds. The remainder of the exhibition consists of work by the artist in a variety of media, including drawings and acrylic paintings. These too, in some cases, are efforts to transcend conventional illustrative composition and achieve something more epitomized or “archetypal.”

“Archetypes” will be displayed in the Balcony at the Emporium Center. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on November 5 from 5:00-9:00 PM. On display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, November 6, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. For information: 865-523-7543, www.knoxalliance.com.

By Barbara Robinson. Join us for a laughter-filled, heart-warming evening and remember the true reason for the season!

Crossville, TN. Information: 931-484-5000; www.ccplayhouse.com

String quartets from The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will travel to local libraries during the month of November to read stories and play music for pre-school aged children as part of the orchestra’s Story Time Program. The theme for this season’s program is Happy Birthday KSO! The program will open with a reading of the KSO’s recently published book Better Than Cookies, As Good As Cake, written by KSO cellist Stacy Nickell Miller. Pre-school children will then learn about the “treats” that animals eat in The Wide-Mouthed Frog, hear Dr. Seuss’s Happy Birthday To You! and join in wishing the KSO a happy 75th birthday! These performances will help to highlight the connections between music and literacy and introduce the string instruments to young audience members. All Story Time performances are FREE and open to the public.

November 2 10:00 AM Burlington Library
November 3 11:00 AM Karns Library
November 5 10:30 AM Powell Library
November 5 4:00 PM Cedar Bluff Library
November 9 10:30 AM Sequoyah Library
November 10 11:00 AM Halls Library
November 12 10:15 AM Fountain City Library
November 13 11:00 AM Borders Books (Deane Hill Shopping Center)

Information: 865-291-3310; www.knoxvillesymphony.com

The Farragut Folklife Museum invites the community to visit “An Old Fashioned Christmas” exhibit. This special holiday exhibit will feature items from the Museum’s collection of artifacts as well as items belonging to Folklife Museum Committee members. Three dollhouses will be on display, including one designed and built in 1929 by local architect Malcolm Rice for his daughter. The Rice doll house was a National Architecture Award recipient in 1930. Originally with electricity, the doll house was enjoyed by three generations of the Rice family. In addition, visitors will see the Colonial doll house, designed in 1970 by an Atlanta architect and built and furnished by Chester and Mattie Dunlap for their daughter. Chester is the brother of the late Bill Dunlap, who served as the Museum’s exhibits designer since its inception as part of the Tennessee Homecoming ‘86 Celebration. The exhibit will also feature an antique baby cradle donated by Museum Committee member Libbie Moulden Haynes. Built in the 1850s, the cradle was made on a Strawberry Plains farm owned by Libbie’s ancestors and passed down for many generations in the Moulden family. Other highlights of the exhibit will include a doll dating back to 1900 and numerous antique games.

Farragut Folklife Museum, 11408 Municipal Center Dr, Farragut, TN 37934. Hours: Monday-Friday, 10AM-4:30 PM. For information: 865-966-7057, www.townoffarragut.org

The Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus presents “Distant Conversations: Paintings of Marcia Goldenstein and Tom Riesing”. The exhibition in the Clayton Center’s Blackberry Farm Gallery features paintings by Marcia Goldenstein, a professor at UT’s School of Art, and Tom Reising, chair of the Department of Art at Ball State University. A reception will be held Nov. 22 from 6-8 p.m.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

By Connie Ray & Alan Bailey. Country holiday songs blend with traditional favorites, including handbells and Christmas ornaments. A joyful, funny, touching, and heartwarming show! Playing for the 11th season.

Crossville, TN. Information: 931-484-5000; www.ccplayhouse.com

By Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick. A romantic musical comedy about anonymous pen pals who are co-workers in a gift shop and unknowingly fall in love.

Crossville, TN. Information: 931-484-5000; www.ccplayhouse.com

By Lerner & Lowe. The magic and beauty of the Scottish Highlands form a backdrop for the enchanting story of a magical village that only appears for one day every hundred years.

Crossville, TN. Information: 931-484-5000; www.ccplayhouse.com

Interested in learning what role Jewish community members Sam and Virginia Morrison played in Elvis Presley’s career? (Hint: It happened on Market Square.) Ever wonder what Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” would have been called if one of Knoxville’s Jewish community leaders, Max Friedman, had not spoken up? Curious about what distinguishes the Jewish Congregation of Oak Ridge as unique in American history?

The story of Jewish immigration to Tennessee and how those who came here embraced the culture they found is the subject of this touring exhibition from the Tennessee State Museum. It follows the Tennessee Jewish experience from the 1770s, when the first Jews immigrated to upper East Tennessee to escape religious persecution in Europe. The exhibition then guides visitors through more than 200 years of history by way of compelling stories and images that illustrate the development of Jewish communities across the state; in East Tennessee, congregations located in Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Chattanooga, and Blountville are featured. The exhibition also explores how Jews were able to preserve their religious and cultural heritage while at the same time embracing and supporting the culture found in Tennessee.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. For information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org