Calendar of Events

Admission is a new, unwrapped toy to donate to the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign 
James R. Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Bldg.
865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Students from grades six through 12 showcase their talents at the Knoxville Museum of Art during the fifth annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition, presented by the Tennessee Art Education Association and the KMA, offers students the opportunity to display their artwork and be honored for their accomplishments in a professional art museum environment. The awards ceremony for the artists on Tuesday, December 7 at 6pm at the KMA is open to the public and free of charge.

Awards for students total over $600,000. The Best-of-Show winner receives a purchase award of $500, and the artwork becomes a part of the collection of James Dodson, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection.

Categories for the competition include ceramic, drawing, digital imagery, mixed media, painting, computer graphics, sculpture, traditional photography, and printmaking. The competition includes works from middle and high school students, grades six – 12, from public, private or home schools in East Tennessee.

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

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, in collaboration with The WordPlayers, presents a delightful evening of holiday entertainment. The first act will be TKD's The Gift of the Magi followed by Nativity on the Square performed by The WordPlayers.

Performances will be at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. on Nov. 26, 27 @ 8:00 pm, Nov. 28 @ 3:00 pm, Dec. 2, 3, 4 @ 8:00 pm and Dec. 5 @ 3:00 pm. Tickets are $15 on Fridays and Saturdays and $10 on Thursdays and Sundays.

Tickets may be purchased online at www.theatreknoxville.com or at the door with cash or check. Please call 865.544.1999 for reservations.

The Gift of the Magi, is a warm-hearted, romantic comedy in which a young couple learns the importance of the gift of love. Della and Jim eagerly await their first Christmas together as a married couple. However, times are hard and the two find themselves lacking the money to buy each other the proper Christmas gift. In a strange twist of fate, they end up finding the perfect gifts but at an unexpected cost in this adaptation by Jon Jory of the O. Henry story.

In Nativity on the Square by Tom Long, the figures of a public creche scene come to life on Christmas Eve and attempt to discover who they are. A drunken bag lady explains the Nativity to them in a manner that is both comic and deeply moving.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown's mission is to encourage the growth, expansion and interest in theatre in the Knoxville metropolitan area and to promote the training of persons therefor. For more information, please visit www.theatreknoxville.com. Information about The WordPlayers can be found at www.wordplayers.org.

Stop by for some holiday goodies and wonderful gift shopping! Refreshments and demonstrations with be provided!

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. For information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Director and Musical Director: Barry Wallace
Movement and choreography: Gayle Greene
The holiday sequel to G.I. JUKEBOX takes our Hollywood stars to the 'front' for a holiday reunion. It's Christmas-time, the world is at war, and for 90 brief minutes, the world is at peace as our singing stars deliver some of the best music of the 1940's, framed by a collection of holiday and Christmas music, ranging from the classic to corny to silly and sentimental! G.I. HOLIDAY JUKEBOX is the perfect holiday gift for everyone!

Erin Presbyterian Church, 200 Lockett Road, Knoxville, TN

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, comes to life in this musical adaptation of the holiday classic. Stingy old Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by spirits and shown that, unless he changes his ways towards his fellow man, he will be faced with a sad fate. A delight for the whole family. Suitable for all ages. NOTE: This production is not a part of regular subsription, but can be added to your subscription.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway in Historic Jackson Square, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. For information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

Plan now to visit the UT Gardens in Knoxville for Holiday Express 2010.The UT Gardens and Mark Fuhrman have partnered again to bring East Tennessee an event that will delight visitors of all ages this holiday season. The garden-scale railroad display starts November 24, 2010 and runs through January 2, 2011.

New this year is a bridge that will enable visitors to walk through the display and Special Event Sundays. The bridge will allow visitors to get a close-up look at the miniature landscape and all of the detail that makes Holiday Express such an amazing and unique experience. Come out on December 5 and 19 for our Special Event Sundays. From noon to 6 p.m., families can explore Holiday Express and Knoxville Gardens together by participating in a scavenger hunt, making a few special holiday crafts and visiting with Santa Claus. Activities are free with Holiday Express admission.

The event will be open to the public every weekend from Thanksgiving through New Year's. Cost is $5 per person; children 4 and under are admitted free.

Hours: Thanksgiving Weekend:
November 24 - 27 12 - 8 p.m.
November 28 12 - 6 p.m.
Weekends (December 4 - January 2)
Friday & Saturday 12 - 8 p.m.
Sunday 12 - 6 p.m.

Special Event Sundays
December 5 12 - 6 p.m.
December 19 12 - 6 p.m.
Christmas Eve & Day
December 24 and 25 12 - 6 p.m.

http://utgardens.tennessee.edu

by Charles Dickens; Adapted by Edward Morgan and Joseph Hanreddy. For those who have embraced this Dickens’ classic as part of their holiday ritual -- and for those about to discover it for the first time -- Scrooge, the Cratchitts, and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet-to-come return to the mainstage.

December 1-3, December 8-10, December 17, Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 PM - These performances are part of the Penny Performance program for Knox County students ages 5-18. Visit www.penny4arts.com for more information.

1714 Andy Holt Avenue on the UT Campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.org

The Fantasy of Trees has been a holiday tradition in East Tennessee since 1985, and this year's event marks the 26th year of this special celebration of the season. In 2010, this special holiday event will showcase a theme of "A Holly Jolly Christmas," highlighted with whimsical decorations and wintry designs that celebrate and showcase the fun and festive holiday season with reindeer at play, this year's "hot holiday colors" of lime green and bright reds, and twinkling snowflakes, glitter and lights. In addition, new children's activities and shops will also reflect this year's festive theme. All proceeds from admission ticket sales, children's activities, designer sales and holiday shop sales at the Fantasy of Trees benefit Children's Hospital.

November 24, 26, 27 from 9-9
November 25 from 3-9
November 28 from 12-6.
Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 4-11, free for children under 4.

Information: 865-541-8165, www.etch.com/fantasy.cfm

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

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