Calendar of Events

The Annual Student Art Show, an exhibit showcasing the best works by art students at Pellissippi State Community College, begins a 12-day run on Monday, March 28.

Featuring pieces created by students from all levels in their studies, the exhibit is free and open to the public. This year’s display showcases paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and design pieces.

The exhibit is in Pellissippi State’s Bagwell Center for Media and Art gallery, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu

2nd annual juried photographic exhibition.
Opening Reception : March 26, 7—9 PM with a gallery talk at 6:30.

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

March 25 - April 10, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00 PM; Sunday, 3:00 PM

A comic mystery play as part of Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play festival.
Advance reservations required? YES
How to obtain admission: 10 admissions are available each performance for $0.01 each. Please call TSC at 865-546-4280 to reserve tickets. Cut-off for purchasing Penny Performance tickets is 24 hours before show time.
Contact: Tom Parkhill, 865-546-4280, tennesseestage@bellsouth.net
Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37917 | www.tennesseestage.com

This is a Penny Performance event for Knox County students ages 5-18. Visit www.penny4arts.com for more information.

One of the oldest student competitions in the United States, the exhibit will feature juried artworks in all media. The exhibit will open with a reception and awards ceremony on Friday, March 25, from 7:00-9:00 pm. The reception, which is free and open to the public, will feature live music and food donated by Knoxville-area establishments.
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

“Handler” is a story about forgiveness. Geordi has just been released from prison, and his wife is a devoted member of the Holiness Way sect. When Geordi unexpectedly handles snakes at a service for the first time, he’s bitten and dies. Three days later, he’s resurrected from his coffin. What is to become of Geordi now? What does this miracle bring?
Tickets are available at the Clayton Performing Arts Center Box Office 30 minutes before each show. The performances are free, but donations will be accepted at the door at the following rates: $8 for Pellissippi State students and faculty, $10 for area students and seniors, and $12 general admission. All proceeds go to the Pellissippi State Foundation to support the Theatre program and scholarships.

An exhibit of nature photography by Becca Childress will be on display in the Visitor Center at Ijams Nature Center. Childress is a graduate of Appalachian State University where she received a BS in technical photography. She is also a former CAC AmeriCorps member on the Earth Flag team at Ijams. “I had the good fortune of working for two environmental non-profits after graduating: Ijams Nature Center and RiverLink,” says Childress. “I learned and grew working as an environmental educator, and consider myself extremely fortunate. These experiences offered some great photo opportunities as well.” The photos are for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to the nature center.

Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

The Knoxville Watercolor Society will be showing their newest works in a Spring Show and Sale at the Knoxville Museum of Art's Community Gallery from March 18th to May 15th. On Sunday, March 20th an opening reception which is free to the public will take place from 2 to 4 PM. Refreshments will be served.

Call Wilda Clark at 865-588-6828 or the Museum at 865-525-6101 for more information. 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

C. S. Lewis’s dramatic allegory of faith and sacrifice
comes to brilliant life on the stage of Children’s Theatre
of Knoxville.

Four children in a mysterious mansion find a gateway to
another world deep within an old wardrobe and discover
the wisdom of faith, honor, valor, and bravery during an
intense series of adventures featuring unicorns, elves,
dwarves, leopards, wraiths, and all the animals of the wood.

Reservations are strongly recommended for all CTK performances.

Children's Theatre of Knoxville, 800 Tyson St , Knoxville, TN 37917. For information: 865-599-5284, www.childrenstheatreknoxville.com

February 17, 2011 (Knoxville, TN) – The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments March 11–May 15, 2011.
Amplified Moments is the first major U.S. exhibition to survey the work of Xiaoze Xie (pronounced shout-zah shee-ay), an important Chinese contemporary artist. More than 30 works document his achievements in painting, drawing, photography, installation, and video, and represent his use of books and newspapers to symbolize the fragile nature of history and memory.

Although Xie intended to pursue a career in architecture, the violent military crackdown on student protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 compelled him to shift his energies. He left the People’s Republic of China three years later after completing his training as a painter, and began using symbolic imagery derived from newspapers, decaying books, museum libraries, and media images of current events. For Xie, stacks of printed pages represent not only cultural memory and the passage of time, but the ways in which history is interpreted and recorded according to various belief systems and political agendas.
Xie’s labor-intensive paintings consist of successive layers of pigment applied over several weeks. Working largely from photographs, the artist paints in a manner that is influenced by his camera. Some imagery appears cropped, blurred, and hazy, as if viewed through a photographic lens or perhaps through the filter of memory. The resulting compositions reach near-photographic precision without losing the evidence of the artist’s masterful brushwork.

KMA members are invited to an exhibition preview Thursday, March 10, from 5:30 to 7:30pm. The artists and exhibition curator Dan Mills will present a short gallery talk at 6:30pm. A cash bar will be available.

Admission and parking are free. For more information, contact Angela Thomas at 865.934.2034 or visit www.knoxart.org.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Friday, 10AM-8PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. www.knoxart.org

The 11-month residency program is an opportunity for emerging artists to further develop both artistically and professionally. This exhibition showcases their progress.
Reception: April 9, 6:00-8:00 PM

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 576 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. For information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

What: Art exhibit

Elizabeth Porter: "Disconnected"
Mixed media

Conrad Reinhardt: "Beyond Time and Place"
Digital photographs and oil paintings

Free and open to the public

When: March 6 through May 6, 2011
Opening reception Friday, March 11, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists' talks at 7 p.m.
Where: Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery
2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918
An exhibit featuring the art work of Conrad Reinhardt and Elizabeth Porter-Moses will be on display at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919.
Contact: Roy McCullough
Sperrin@bellsouth.net
865-281-2435

The 2011 Knox County Elementary Art Show will be held at the Phoenix Building March through April 25th.

A local student from Bearden High School won the design contest and will be receiving a free trip to New York courtesy of Sargent Art. The art was made into a flag that will be displayed in Washington representing Tennessee in the Flags Across America YAM Ceremony.