Calendar of Events
Sunday, March 13, 2011
ART MARKET GALLERY MARCH: EXHIBIT & RECEPTION
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Fine Crafts
ART MARKET GALLERY MARCH EXHIBIT AND RECEPTION
Art Market Gallery of Knoxville is pleased to present an exhibit of recent works by Sissy Caldwell of Maryville and Gary Dagnan of Knoxville.
Ms. Caldwell creates unique jewelry by employing a combination of diverse techniques such as using a variety of off-loom bead weaving styles with precious metal clay (PMC). Mr. Dagnan is a landscape painter who works in watercolor, oil and acrylic. His inspiration comes from the rural landscapes of East Tennessee.
A First Friday Reception for the exhibit is planned for March 4 from 5:30-9 pm. with complimentary refreshments and live music performed by Grayson Dagnan with Robert Allen.
Member owned and operated by over 60 regional artists, you may find us at facebook: facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery
Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. For information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net
Theatre Knoxville Downtown: The Dining Room
Category: Theatre
By A. R. Gurney. A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical tour de force (and Off-Broadway success) in which six (or more) performers portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the dying lifestyle of wealthy WASPdom, and the now neglected room which was once a vital center of family life.
Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday; $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday. For information: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com
Clarence Brown Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Category: Theatre
by William Shakespeare. Scheming Sir John Falstaff tries to swindle and seduce not one, but two married women. Mistress Page and Mistress Ford exact their revenge and feminine wisdom triumphs! Performances will take place on the mainstage in the CBT.
1714 Andy Holt Avenue on the UT Campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.org
Knoxville Museum of Art: Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Film
Sarkisian explores the spatial and perspective possibilities of video, film, and sculpture through multi-media works that challenge perceptions of reality and illusion. This retrospective exhibition features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
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: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org
East Tennessee Historical Society: Roads I’ve Traveled: The Life’s Work of Jim Gray
Category: Exhibitions, visual art
For almost five decades, Jim Gray has painted in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains, creating a body of work that captures, according to the artist, "the ever changing pattern of light and shadow [that moves] across the ancient faces of the Smokies." The retrospective exhibition, Roads I've Traveled, showcases these East Tennessee-inspired landscapes, as well as additional selections from Gray's life's work, including wildlife, floral, and marine paintings and assorted sculptures in bronze.
East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. For information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org
Knoxville Museum of Art: Elementary Art Exhibition
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Kids, family
Fort Craig Elementary School
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
Oak Ridge Art Center: Women's Work
Category: Exhibitions, visual art
Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9AM-5PM; Saturday-Monday, 1-4PM. For information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org