Calendar of Events

When Donavon Frankenreiter was 10 years old, he got his first surfboard. Six years later, he picked up his first guitar. It was the beginning of a wildly creative journey: His improvisational twin obsessions have carried him around the globe and into his fans' hearts. With the release of his fourth album, Glow, the 37-year-old singer/songwriter/pro surfer admits he still thrives on simply taking the plunge. "We don't have a set show, if we did, I would go crazy," he says. "You never know what's going to happen. I love that element of surprise with music and surfing – you never catch the same wave twice."

At this special show ticket buyers will have the opportunity to purchase Frankenreiter's new album Glow for only $1!

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

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

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

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

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

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