Calendar of Events

The UT Downtown Gallery is proud to present the third in a series of fall exhibitions. Featured will be the art of a current member of the UT School of Art faculty and a former participant in the Visiting Artist in Residence program. This month we are featuring, recent paintings by UT Professor of painting Jered Sprecher who joined the faculty in 2006, and New York artist Carrie Moyer, who taught at UT during the fall semester, 2001. Carrie Moyer will give a lecture, sponsored by UT School of Art's
VASDCO committee, November 4, 2010 at 7:00pm in the Art & Architecture Building, Room 109.

Please join us for a First Friday Opening reception with the artists November 5 from 5:00pm until 9:00pm. Admission is free and the public is welcome.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. For information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

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

Ms. Fitch paints wooden furniture and toys with colorful, whimsical patterns that bring smiles to adults and children alike. Mr. Gebhart is a nature and landscape photographer who draws much of his inspiration from the Smoky Mountains. He endeavors to initiate the viewer to make a connection with the natural world around them. A First Friday Reception for the Featured Artists is planned for November 5th from 5:30-9 p.m. with complimentary refreshments and live Celtic music performed by Gil Draper.

Starting in November, the gallery will offer hand-made ornaments for sale to benefit the Community School of the Arts, a non-profit program that provides free instruction in music, visual arts, modern dance and drama to children from underserved areas of Knox County.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Special Holiday Gallery hours are Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm & Sunday 1-5 pm. For information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

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

Artist Reception is Friday, November 12th from 7-9pm
Refreshments Provided

Red Line Gallery, 11519 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM. For information: 865-288-0277, www.redlinegallery.net

UT Art Education & Knox County Schools Full Service School Project

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

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

The exhibition includes more than 40 works Bates produced in response to Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it brought to the Gulf Coast. His iconic images capture in dramatic fashion destroyed property and displaced people, as well as the emotional devastation in the wake of this event. Many of the paintings are monumental in scale, including The Storm, a triptych that measures 21 feet in width. In this series, Bates’ paintings affirm both horror and life and serve as powerful reminders of the ability of art to represent the spectrum of human experience.

Bates, a well-known Texas artist who has long chronicled the people and places along the Gulf Coast, is based in Dallas. His work has been presented around the country in solo exhibitions at major galleries and in numerous important group shows.

The Knoxville Museum of Art is the only venue in the eastern United States hosting this exhibition, which is organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

A members-only preview party is scheduled for Thursday, October 28 from 5:30 – 7:30pm and will include a gallery talk by the artist.

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

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

For ages 13 to 18

CTK Instructor Ashlee Latimer teaches this class, which centers on work with an actual play script and how to bring it to life through performance skills. Students memorize lines and sharpen acting techniques in order to perform the short play on the final day of class. The instruction fee for the 7.5 hour workshop is $150. Class size limited to 8 students.

Located at 800 Tyson Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-599-5284, www.childrenstheatreknoxville.com, info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.