Calendar of Events

Opening reception for artist Işık Sönmez's exhibition at The Stagecoach Place, 127 South across from the entrance of Cumberland state park in Crossville.

www.isiksonmez.com

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

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/

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

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

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.

"NIKON SMALL WORLD" traveling exhibition of 20 award winning photomicrographs that allow the museum visitor to see the unseen. Dynamic images at the intersection of science and art show the beauty and complexity of life as seen through a light microscope. AMSE Lobby.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. For information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

Come out, check out, and bid on over 90 photos of beautiful and creative images, painted on the chests of amazing women!

It's the 3rd Annual Support the Tatas Fundraiser!!

The auction starts at 6pm and bidding closes at 8:30pm. The highest bid wins, and the proceeds go to a local breast cancer survivor.

Only CASH or CHECK will be accepted. Bidding starts at $45/photo

Join us for wine, snacks, Bellydancing and awesome photos!

If you can't make it Friday, the images will be available for viewing all month at URBhana.

URBhana, 115 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-951-5454, www.urbhana.com

A very serious exhibition featuring work/play by nine emerging and established international artists. Show curated by Hali Maltsberger.
Works by: Thane Lund, Giorgio Sadotti, Kevin Van Aelst, Sean Naftel, Brian Nigus, Kiernan Dunn, Beka Peralta, Hali Maltsberger, Joshua Jobb.

Opening Reception June 3, 2011 6-10 PM

8 Shooters Studio, 1202 Central, Knoxville, TN 37919
Information: www.a1labarts.org

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