Calendar of Events

Classic movies to be shown this summer:
June 24: "North By Northwest" with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint
July 8 & 10: "The Sound of Music"
August 5 & 7: "Some Like It Hot"
August 13 & 14: "Gone with the Wind"
August 19: "West Side Story"

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Alive After Five is an early Friday evening program of live music which takes place in the casually elegant atmosphere of the museum’s Great Hall and features dancing, food from a variety of area restaurants/caterers, two cash bars, and free freshly popped popcorn. The art galleries are open during the show, and there’s even a licensed therapeutic masseuse/masseur available for chair massages. Unless otherwise noted, prices are: $8 general admission, $4 museum members and college students with ID.

June 24 – Kirk Fleta Band - Bluesy folk-rock
July 8 – Soulfinger - Soul, funk and blues
July 15 – John Myers Band - Soul, gospel and roots music
July 22 – Carib Sounds Steel Band - Tropical island music ($9 / $5)
July 29 – Crawdaddy - Blues and rock
August 5 – The King Bees - Blues
August 12 – Blue Mother Tupelo - Southern soul and bluesy rock

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

OPA Juror and Signature Member, Bill Davidson, who received the Best Landscape Painter award at the 2010 Salon International, will teach students easier methods to better compositions, how to achieve color harmonies, adding vibrant impact to your colors and illumination to your values, and how to finish on a higher level for extraordinary paintings. His instruction also covers painting for national shows.

Two days of this workshop will be taught in the studio. Bill will simulate painting outdoors to make plein air painting much easier for students. Each student may bring one painting for Bill to critique.

ArtWorks Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee
www.ArtWorksChat.com

Open to all levels
Cost - $345
Min. 10/Max. 15
To learn more about Bill visit www.billdavidson.biz
To register call Lisa Seago - 770-235-1156
$100 deposit is required to reserve your space and remaining balance of $245 is due by May 10, 2011.

The Kuumba Festival serves as the largest African American Cultural Arts Festival in East Tennessee.There will be live entertainment with a world class African Market place that will host many crafts and food vendors for a cultural shopping experience.This event gives African American Appalachian Arts Inc.(AAAA) an avenue to reach out and service the Greater Knoxville community through the offering of cultural arts activities. KUUMBA Festival is located in three primary locations including: Knoxville Museum of Art, Market Square/ Downtown and Chilhowee Park.

African American Appalachian Arts, 100 S. Gay Street, suite 106, Knoxville, TN 37902,
Call: 865-951-2356 http://sites.google.com/site/kuumbafestival/

Sunset Music Series, Y'uns sponsored by BankEast.

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend, TN 37882.
Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday Closed on Sunday
Information: 865-448-0044, www.gsmheritagecenter.org

frican American Appalachian Arts, Inc. (AAAA) and area sponsors are delighted to present one of Knoxville's most anticipated and attended events the 22nd Anniversary KUUMBA Festival at premier locations throughout Knoxville: East TN History Center, Emporium Building, Downtown/Market Square and Chilhowee Park. KUUMBA (Ki-swahili for "creative") Festival is a multi-event celebration with more than 200 entertainers performing on two stages, demonstrations, and service by more than 100 crafts' people and food vendors.

For more information please call: (865) 951-2356, fax vendor or program ad book information to (865) 951-2356, visit our website at www.kuumbafestival.com or bring it by our office at 100 South Gay Street, Suite 106 The Emporium Building.

SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT BENEFITING BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES
JUNE 20 AND JULY 1 -2, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, JUNE 20, 5:00–8:00 p.m.

Please join us for an exhibition of small works by local & regional artists in the studio of Mike C. Berry (Suite 111) located in the Emporium building at 100 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville on June 20 from 5pm until 8pm. This event is free and open to the public. A portion of the sales will go to support the Bridge Refugee Services of Knoxville.

The exhibit will be on display June 20 AND First Friday July 1 & Sat July 2.

Bridge is the refugee resettlement agency for East Tennessee, and continues to case manage the families until they are eligible to apply for U. S. citizenship. Over the last 20 years, we have resettled more than 1,500 families from Bosnia, Burundi, Congo, Kosovo, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Sudan, Ukraine, Viet Nam and many other countries. Bridge shepherds the family through the first six months of their new lives and provides services to ensure that the new arrivals' living conditions are safe and sanitary; that the families are in good health and that they have access to medical care; that all children over the age of five are enrolled in school; that the adults have fair and full employment; and that the family has sufficient information to make the cultural adjustment

For more info please contact: Mike at 865-591-7528
THE EMPORIUM CENTER | 100 S. Gay St. | Knoxville, TN
(corner of S. Gay St. & W.Jackson Ave)
*If you have a piece of artworkthat you would like to include please call

Reception June 17, 6:30-8:30 PM

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

The Incredible Steve Kaufman's Concert Series in the Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre
Tickets are $15 per evening
Line up:
June 13: Steve Kaufman, Eddie Pennington, Mike Clemmer, roberto Dala Vecchia, Jeff Scroggins

June 14: Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth,TJ Wheeler, Jim Hurst, Joe Collins, Hiwassee Ridge Revisited

June 15: Stacy Phillips, Rusty Holloway, Steve Baughman, Tyler Grant

June 16: Chris Proctor, Robin Kessinger, Marcy Marxer, Keith Yoder and Friends

June 17: Kathy Chiavola, Eddie Pennington, Steve Kaufman and the Week's Cast

June 20: Gary Davis, Barry Mitterhoff, Ivan Rosenberg, Mike Clemmer, Jim Hurst, Mike Witcher

June 21: The Kruger Brothers, Dan Crary, Hiwassee Ridge Revisited, Andrew Collins

June 22: Beppe Gambetta, Mike Kaufman, Alan Bibey, Janet Davis, Kathy Chiavola, Jeff Scroggins

June 23: Don Stirnberg, Stacy Phillips, Mark Cosgrove, David Harvey, Casey Henry, Keith Yoder and Friends

June 24: Emory Lester, David Harvey, Adam Masters, Steve Kaufman and the Week's Cast

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

Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun (b. 1944) began work on his series of Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized internationally for these sculptural forms. The basis of his work is individual, triangular, Styrofoam shapes. Individually, these shapes are minuscule. Taken together, however, their visual impact is immense. This concept of the aggregate is what drives Chun’s work.

The Styrofoam shapes are covered in Korean mulberry paper. In Korea, the paper is a mainstay and has many utilitarian uses from floor and window coverings to candy and medicinal wrappers. It also resonates with personal meaning for the artist, who recalls trips to an herbalist as a small child. Medicines wrapped in mulberry paper hung from the ceiling of the shop, the paper protecting the contents from dampness and insects.

Chun uses pages recycled from old books to cover the geometric forms. These pages are covered in Korean and Chinese characters, adding another layer of cultural and personal meaning. He hand ties the paper over each shape, twisting pages into string to complete the wrapping. In this way Chun is able to integrate traditional materials into a contemporary context.

There will be an exhibition preview party Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 5:30-7:30pm.
Curated by Susan Moldenhauer. Funded in part by the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum and the Wyoming Arts Council through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming State Legislature.

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

Art Exhibit/Artist Reception: "The Vast Within" by Shana Kohnstamm
Opening: Friday, June 10th from 7-9pm Refreshments provided
(Showing through June)

Red Line Gallery, 11519 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM. For information: 865-288-0277, www.redlinegallery.net

Learn about the plants and animals that come out in the evening! Wear your walking shoes and let us guide you and your family through the Gardens during twilight.
Meet the Flowers - Tuesday, June 7, 6:30 p.m.
Explore your Senses - Tuesday, July 5, 6:30 p.m.
Taste Buds - Tuesday, August 2, 6:30 p.m.
Going on a Bug Hunt - Tuesday, September 6, 6:30 p.m.