Calendar of Events

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

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

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

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

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

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