Calendar of Events
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Arrowmont: Arrowmont Staff Creates
Category: Exhibitions, visual art
Loggia Gallery
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 576 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. For information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org
UT Downtown Gallery: Seeing Things by Joel Carreiro
Category: Exhibitions, visual art
Joel Carrerio will give a Gallery Talk March 4, at 7pm in the Downtown Gallery.
Joel Carreiro’s work organizes and recomposes small squares of imagery borrowed from Renaissance paintings, European drawings and Medieval manuscripts and transforms them into large works on wood panels that create a new visual language entirely different from its original intent.
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
Fountain City Art Center: The Knoxville Book Arts Guild and the Southern Appalachian Photography Society
Category: Exhibitions, visual art
Reception March 4, 6:30-8:30 PM
Also featuring Knox County Schools Student Art Exhibit: Farragut High, Middle, Intermediate, and Primary, West Valley Middle, and Hardin Valley Elem.
213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; Saturday, 9AM-1PM. For information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityart.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
