Calendar of Events

For June's First Friday, Bliss Home is highlighting Chuck Jensen. Join us at 29 Market Square for our first showing of Jensen's artwork. Jensen concentrates on well-known personalities using vibrant acrylic paint to bring his pieces of art to life. For this collection he has concentrated on the huge artists from Woodstock.
His Woodstock Collection will stay up through the month of June.

Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, Knoxville, TN
For more information, contact Anne at (865) 673-6711.

Featured artists for Art in the Garden, painting on site, are as follows:
Annamaria Gundlach, Lauren Karnitz, Chris McAdoo,
Brian Pittman, Bill Timm and Regina Turner.

This is a fundraiser for Random Acts of Flowers.

Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave, Knoxville, TN 37914. Hours: Gardens open daily from sunrise to sunset. For information: 865-862-8717, www.knoxgarden.org

FIRST FRIDAY AT BLOUNT MANSION
The Blount Mansion Association will be hosting a candlelight tour of the Craighead-Jackson House as a part of the Association’s “First Friday Fascinations” series.

Craighead-Jackson House w
as built in 1818 and is among the oldest remaining townhouses in Knoxville. William Blount owned part of that lot from 1791-1797, and the Craighead's bought the lot in 1808. John Craighead was an owner of a saw mill, a real estate investor, and designed Knoxville's first water works. It will soon open as an Education Center for the Blount Mansion Association.

Refreshments will be provided.

Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-525-2375, www.blountmansion.org

Artistic Dance Unlimited Dance Company presents: Putting on the Ritz in the Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Tickets are available at the Clayton Center Box Office M-F 10AM-6PM or by phone or online: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

The Museum garden will provide a living demonstration of vegetables typically grown in pioneer Appalachia.
In a real‐life demonstration of “farm to table,” the Museum restaurant will feature garden vegetables on the daily menu.
Visitors will receive an educational brochure highlighting farm implements
throughout the Museum. Signs will highlight cider presses, corn grinders,
an M‐30 tractor, farm wagons, butter churns, plows, harrows and rakes, scythes, an
“underground dairy” or root cellar, bee hive, cantilever barn, and numerous other agriculture‐related artifacts and structures throughout the Museum.

Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy., Clinton, TN 37716 (16 miles north of Knoxville at I-75, exit 122, then one mile east). Open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Information: 865-494-7680, www.museumofappalachia.org

Art Market Gallery of Knoxville is pleased to present an exhibit of recent works by Nelson Ziegler of Sevierville and Steve Smith of Mascot.

Nelson Ziegler, of Sevierville, is a nationally recognized, award-winning watercolorist and a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston and Northwestern Academy of Watercolor.

Steve Smith, of Mascot, creates incredibly detailed and intricate wood carvings, primarily of fish.

A First Friday Reception for the exhibit is planned for June 3 from 5:30-9 pm with complimentary refreshments and live music.

Member owned and operated by over 60 regional artists, Art Market Gallery is located at 422 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm & Sunday 1-5 pm. For more information, call 865-525-5265, visit artmarketgallery.net or join us on facebook: facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery

Student Apprentices Shine at 15th Annual Side/By/Side Visual Arts Exhibition
Many student created/ artist mentored artworks on display at the Community School of the Arts' 15th annual Side/By/Side exhibition at Bennett Galleries and Company, 5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN. The artists' reception and silent auction will be held Friday, June 3, from 5:00-8:00pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Student artworks will be displayed side-by-side those of their professional mentors. Participating artists in this year's program are Judy Brater, Bill Capshaw, Tina Curry, Don Dudenbostel, Susana Esrequis, Janet Harper, Richard Jolley, Marga Hayes McBride, Susan Roberts, Peter Rose, Tommie Rush, Andy Saftel, Robin Surber, Cynthia Tollefsrud, and Heather Whiteside. The exhibit will include a wide range of artwork, including painting, photography, mixed media, printmaking, ceramics, and glass.

Side/By/Side has been named "one of the top arts- and humanities-based programs in the country" by the National Endowment of the Arts and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and was one of 35 Finalists for the 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards.

Bennett Galleries, 5308 Kingston Pike , Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone (865) 584-6791 Fax (865) 588-6130
info@bennettgalleries.com www.bennettgalleries.com
For more information: Visit Side/By/Side

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

A popular Imagination Library book takes the stage!
Knox County Public Library is pleased to welcome Dollywood’s Imagination Playhouse featuring the Penguin Players as they delight audiences of all ages with a musical adaptation of Otis by Loren Long. The show is free and open to the public.

The show premieres at the 7th annual Children’s Festival of Reading on Saturday, May 21st, in downtown Knoxville’s World’s Fair Park. Joining the performers will be amazing authors, illustrators, storytellers, other stage productions, a mad science experiment area, a bouncy house and even a hayride—and over 12,000 people expected to kick off a summer of literary fun! It’s the perfect way to kick off summer reading at the Library. From there, the show hits the road, visiting nearly every corner of Knox County.

Touring Schedule:
Saturday, May 21, 10:00 a.m. at World's Fair Park Amphitheatre
Monday, May 23, 3:00 p.m. at Howard Pinkston Branch Library
Tuesday, May 24, 10:30 a.m. at Murphy Branch Library
Wednesday, May 25, 10:30 a.m. at Cedar Bluff Branch Library
Wednesday, May 25, 3:30 p.m. at North Knoxville Branch Library
Thursday, May 26, 3:00 p.m. at Norwood Branch Library
Friday, May 27, 10:30 a.m. at Powell Branch Library
Saturday, May 28, 11:00 a.m. at Lawson McGhee Library
Saturday, May 28, 3:30 p.m. at Burlington Branch Library
Tuesday, May 31, 3:00 p.m. at Carter Branch Library
Wednesday, June 1, 11:00 a.m. at Karns Branch Library
Wednesday, June 1, 4:00 p.m. at Farragut Branch Library
Thursday, June 2, 11:00 a.m. at Bearden Branch Library
Thursday, June 2, 3:30 p.m. at Halls Branch Library
Friday, June 3, 10:30 at Fountain City Branch Library
Saturday, June 4, 3:00 p.m. at Sequoyah Branch Library

Knox County Public Library: http://knoxrooms.sirsi.net/rooms/portal/page/10111_Features_and_Events

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Learn how to capture a perfect garden photograph while enjoying an early morning walk through the gardens. A member of our staff will lead an hour-long walk focusing on the best lighting and garden location during that particular walk. This event is a unique opportunity to have time with fellow photographers and garden lovers while having some serious photography time in the garden. Photography walks will be held every third Friday: May 20, June 17, July 15 and August 19. Walks begin at 7:30 a.m. and depart from the Friendship Plaza at the entrance to the Gardens.

We are excited to have a variety of monthly walks. Walks are rain or shine, and will be cancelled only in the event of dangerous lightening. All walks are FREE and meet at the entrance to the Gardens. (Advance registration appreciated, but not required.)

Thirty local artists have graciously volunteered to create beautiful works of art on 55-gallon rain barrels to help the Water Quality Form raise awareness about water conservation and water pollution. 87 unique rain barrels and been created and through their sale, education and conservation efforts will be funded.
On display at at the Museum of Art and online.
You can have access to the website with the following link:
http://www.drygap.com/rdbo/2011/index.html

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

Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau developed out of the first Artist-in-Residence Program at the Museum of Northern Arizona. The goal of the program is to develop new understandings of the Colorado Plateau region through the artistic process. In September 2007 three Woodstock New York painters, Judy Abbott, K.L.McKenna and Eva van Rijn were the first artists selected for the new program. During their three week visit, these three women created a large body of work dedicated to the region. Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau showcases their artistic interpretation in celebration of the spirit of this place.
The art of New York Painters Abbott, McKenna and van Rijn convey a contemporary journey in the tradition of the nineteenth century Hudson River Hudson River Valley artists. For three weeks in September of 2007, the trio, who made their home base in the historic residences of the Museum of Northern Arizona, spent most of their time traveling throughout the region in search of subjects and painting outdoors.
The Artists will attend the Friday Artwalk June 24, 2011.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Tickets are available at the Clayton Center Box Office M-F 10AM-6PM or by phone or online: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com