Calendar of Events

This is a free program for Knox County students ages 5-18. Instructor Aurora Harrison-Bull will demonstrate/show work and answer questions for the students about her career in art. Students may also tour the Center at no charge.
Advance reservations required? YES
How to obtain admission: Please call the Center at 865-357-2787 or e-mail fcartcenter@knology.net to RSVP for the session; be sure to leave a contact phone number or e-mail. Cut off to RSVP is 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 9. Children under age 16 must be accompanied by an adult; parents and adults are welcome to attend. The session will not take place if fewer than ten attendees are confirmed.
Contact: Sylvia Williams, 865-357-2787, fcartcenter@knology.net
213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37918 | www.fountaincityart.net

Robert deMaine, first chair cellist with the Detroit Symphony, and renowned pianist Andrew Armstrong will present a program of, among others, Bach, Saint-Saens and Rachmaninoff in the Lambert Recital Hall. The artistry of two such virtuoso musicians, the brilliant voice of the Recital Hall Steinway, and the magnificence of the Hall’s acoustics should serve these composers as they have rarely been served. Tickets are $30 for adults and $25 for seniors and students.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Tickets are available at the Clayton Center Box Office M-F 10AM-6PM or by phone or online: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

The third in a free concert series, yet the first to focus exclusively on instrumental music, the Small Instrumental Ensembles Concert hosted by Pellissippi State Community College promises to offer a wide variety of selections and musical styles.

The concert showcases the talents of the school’s music students. Music at the concert includes ensembles comprised of brass, guitar and percussion. A small instrumental mixed ensemble and a bluegrass ensemble perform as well. The audience will hear a variety of music in both styles and genres, including classical, blues, jazz and folk.

Like all events in the Pellissippi State music series, admission is free. However, donations will be accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship fund. The college provides plenty of convenient, free parking.

In the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. For additional information, contact Bill Brewer, Pellissippi State’s Music program coordinator, at 865-694-6701, www.pstcc.edu; lwbrewer@pstcc.edu

Reception - Nov 15, 6:30PM in the Ewing Gallery, immediately following the 5:30 PM lecture.

Photographing Auschwitz By Robert Heller

Featuring over 30 black and white and color photographs, Architecture of Evil is an extension of Heller’s travels while completing a separate documentary photography project. In 2005, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville opened Living On , a major travelling exhibition of Heller's photographs and interviews of Tennessee Holocaust Survivors and Liberators. After its exhibition in Knoxville at The East Tennessee History Center, in 2006, Polish Ambassador and former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe helped to arrange its travel to Warsaw during the summer of 2007. When Heller travelled to Poland for the opening, he was able to spend time photographing Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp. His work had come full circle: first photographing Holocaust survivors in Tennessee, and then documenting the place where many of them were imprisoned during the war. Heller spent only six hours photographing the concentration camp and describes it as the most difficult assignment he’s ever undertaken.

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

Five days and six continents add up to a lot of fun at Pellissippi State Community College’s International Week. The community is invited to the free events, which take place at the Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Festivities include cuisine from around the world, storytellers, musicians, photos and artifacts.

The celebration starts Mon., Nov. 15, with Australian folk music and stories by Seona McDowell. McDowell has appeared on numerous television shows in Australia, New Zealand and America. She performs 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1-2 p.m. in the Goins Building Auditorium.

“A Taste of Europe” is on the menu for Tuesday. Participants will sample baklava, cannoli, tiramisu and French pastries 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the College Center in the Goins Building.

Wed., Nov. 17, celebrates both South America and Africa. The South Carolina-based Tropical Island Players, recognized as one of the preeminent steel bands in the Southeast, performs 11:20 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and again at 1-2 p.m. in the Goins Building Auditorium.

The band is dedicated to performing the highest caliber of Caribbean calypso music, with a particular emphasis on the steel drum, better known as “pan” to the people of its native land (Trinidad and Tobago). The band represents both continents, since many people of the Caribbean islands can trace their ancestry back to Africa.

Asia is highlighted on Thursday at 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. in the College Center, with displays and entertainment provided by Pellissippi State international students.

The week winds up with North America, when American Indian artifacts are on display in the College Center. Pat Riddle, Appalachian storyteller and a Pellissippi State associate professor in Engineering Technology, presents “Industrializing the Valley,” noon-1 in the same location. He’ll tell the story of how the Appalachian hills have changed during the last 100-150 years.

Parking is available in any lot marked “open.” Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. For more information, contact Gayle Wood: 865-539-7160, www.pstcc.edu

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
Encore from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy

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

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

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

This month’s show features the oil paintings of Cindy Cutting and the furniture of Stephen Shankles.

Townsend Artisan Gallery, 7277 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Townsend, TN 37882. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5PM, Sunday 12-5PM. Information: 865-448-8018, www.townsendartisangallery.com

Opening reception Friday, November 5, 6-9 pm
Daniel Maw - Artist, Illustrator, Cartoonist - www.danielmaw.com

Unarmed Merchants, 129 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-7PM. Information: 865-549-5769, www.unarmedmerchants.com