Calendar of Events

This show will feature primarily oils and watercolors and will be judged. Guild members encourage everyone to attend the reception or at least come by the Center to view the exhibition. Reception November 12, 6:30-8:30 PM.

Also featuring Knox County Schools Student Art Exhibit: Bearden High & Middle, Cedar Bluff Middle, A. L. Lotts Elem., Cedar Bluff Elem., Rocky Hill Elem., and West Hills Elem.

Closed Dec 20 - Jan 3 for Christmas Holidays. 213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityart.com

The Fountain City Art Guild and Fountain City Art Gallery proudly present the 2010 Annual Holiday show and sale. Guild members will display a diverse range of paintings from watercolors to acrylics, oils and mixed media. Free and open to the public. Opening reception Friday, November 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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; www.fountaincityartguild.com

At the Jacob Building · Chilhowee Park · Knoxville
This event showcases the high-quality, handmade crafts of over 140 juried Guild members and several invited guest artists. Featured at the show are various craft demonstrations and a hands-on Kids' Craft Booth. Please join us for a unique shopping experience in the historic Jacob Building! If you like to purchase gifts made in Tennessee or enjoy using or displaying fine craft items in your home, then this is the show for you. Pottery, woodwork, fiber arts, jewelry, printmaking, sculpture, and more - there is something for everyone. All of our exhibitors have had their work approved through a rigorous standards jury process and are present at the show to talk to customers. All our guild members live and work in Tennessee; your support of A Fine Craft Fair keeps many Tennessee crafts artists thriving!
Open: Friday and Saturday 10 - 6; Sunday 11 - 5. Admission: $6 adults · $5 students and seniors; children 6 and under free.

Foothills Craft Guild: 865-470-0669, www.foothillscraftguild.org

Momentum Dance Lab is proud to present our third annual Fall Performance, Chance and Circumstance, on Friday, November 12 at 7:30pm and Sunday, November 14 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm at the Clarence Brown Lab Theater. The works in this show are based on randomness, serendipity, and happenstance; making use of chance and circumstance in a variety of ways. After the Friday night show there will also be a dessert and coffee "meet and greet" reception at the theater.

Advance tickets are available through www.KnoxTIX.com. $12 general admission and $8 for seniors and children under 16. Fees apply. Tickets will be available at the door for $15 general admission $10 for students and seniors, and $5 for college students with ID. Tickets for the reception are $10.

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave, Knoxville, TN 37996.
Momentum Dance Lab: 865-670-2748, www.momentumdancelab.com, momentumdancelab@gmail.com

The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti

Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM; Saturday & Sunday at 2:30 PM

At the Bijou Theatre, 803 S Gay St., Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events; or 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com

Presenting HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN TEN MINUTES OR LESS. With the support of TN Arts Commission, this workshop/production is free to the public. The six day workshop is being taught by DOUGLAS STEWART, Ed.D, an author, playwright, director and performer. He is a board member of Senior Theatre USA, and an Honorary Board Member of the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Playhouse. His plays have won several competitive awards. His preferred themes are in the areas of social relations, global environment, and our rapidly changing cultural values and behaviors. He has conducted theater workshops for actors, directors, and playwrights in all three of these subject areas. His special interest and focus is in working in these areas with senior performers and playwrights. The workshop will be taught in day and evening sessions.

The plays will be performed November 12 & 13 at The Mason Jar, 1241 Armstrong Avenue, Knoxville. The workshop and performances are FREE but donations are appreciated.

Wild Thyme Players: 865-932-6738, brandonslocum @ gmail.com

At the Knox Heritage Office, 1300 N. Broadway
Friday, Nov. 12, 9:00 - 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 13, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Browse through our collection of salvaged architectural pieces such as doors, wood flooring and trim, pedestal sinks, light globes, and more.

Knox Heritage: 865-523-8008, www.knoxheritage.org

On the second Friday of each month. All ages and experience levels are welcome to participate in this fun, family event. Kids love the Raku process. Or it could be a great "date night" event. Plus, you will be taking home a beautiful piece of art to decorate your home that you helped create! We offer three options for participation:
+ Pick One: The $30 fee includes: your choice of 1 bisque piece, use of our studio raku glazes and participation in the firing.
+ Make One*: The $30 fee includes: 5 lbs of Raku Clay, bisque firing of your piece, use of studio raku glazes, and participation in the firing. (*The 'Make One' option requires that your piece be in our hands, ready to bisque no later than Tuesday the week of the firing. Please contact us for more information regarding this option.)
+ Bring One: The $20 fee includes: Use of studio raku glazes and participation in the firing. (Bring your own bisque piece.)

Mighty Mud, 2444 Sutherland Ave, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6PM. For information: 865-595-1900, www.mightymudclay.com

First Generation Bluegrass

The Chattanooga based Dismembered Tennesseans, led by champion fiddler Fletcher Bright, was formed in 1945. They have performed from Florida to Washington to Ohio and Colorado and points between, showing their unique music and humor to the world, bluegrass “sung from the heart through the nose.” Regulars at the Laurel Theater, Fletcher is joined by Ed “Doc” Cullis on banjo, bassist and vocalist Laura Walker, multi-instrumentalist Ansley Moses, guitarist and vocalist Bobby Martin, mandolinist Don Cassell, Brian Blaylock on mandolin and dobro, and Fletcher’s son George Bright on flat top guitar.

Advance tickets are: $10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Advance • $6 Children 12 and under. Fees apply. Tickets (if available) will also be sold at the door the night of the event for $12. 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

http://www.segmentedwoodturners.org

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 576 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. For information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

Walk past the painting of Napoleon and you’ll swear that his eyes are following you. Seated airplane passengers appear to pitch back and forth on another canvas. No, these are not images from a scary movie, but rather two of 13 works soon to be on exhibit at Pellissippi State Community College. “Fw: Re: Zek,” an exhibit featuring the paintings of nine artists based in Slovenia. The exhibit will travel around the state to a variety of other colleges, all of them members of the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies.

Not only are the paintings unique, but so too are the artists. The young painters are all former graffiti and street artists who are part of a creative collective known as the Zek Crew. Formed in Slovenia in 2001, the Zek Crew members turned their talents for street graffiti into a design cooperative. The Crew now counts among its members graphic and industrial designers, typographers, illustrators, an architect and a VJ.

The Zek Crew is best known for its award-winning internet comic generator, the Stripgenerator. In 2009, Zek Crew was recognized for its custom-made billboards, winning the prestigious Grand Brumen Award at the Fourth Biennial of Slovene Visual Communication. The members have been the focus of numerous exhibitions and graffiti events across Europe, including Italy’s Biennale of Young Artists in 2008 and Belgrade Design Week in 2009.

The “Fwd: Re: Zek” exhibit at Pellissippi State was housed this spring at the Embassy of Slovenia in Washington, D.C. Its debut at Pellissippi State marks the exhibit’s first stop on a statewide tour coordinated by TnCIS.

And what about those roving eyes and swaying passengers? The works on exhibit are printed on “lenticular” panels that give the illusion of animation to otherwise static images. The concept can best be described as “dynamic posters” or “interactive pictures.” Anyone who is familiar with the old-fashioned prizes in Cracker Jack snack boxes or who has seen the Rolling Stones’ tongue logo has witnessed the lenticular effect at work. The Zek Crew brings that process to the art of painting.

“Fwd: Re: Zek” runs at the Bagwell Center for Media and Arts gallery on the Pellissippi Campus. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday or by appointment. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Classes of art students are invited to attend as well.

Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-539-7280, www.pstcc.edu; tcastillo@pstcc.edu

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