Calendar of Events

Curated by Sam Yates and Hideki Kimura, professor of art at Kyoto City University of Arts, Redefining the Multiple unites 13 printmakers from Japan who bring the techniques and concepts of printmaking to a wide range of contemporary and traditional media.

Of the selected participants, four make three-dimensional objects and installations, two paint with printmaking tools and techniques, three use digital photography and technology, while others utilize traditional and recognizable printmaking methods.

Participating artist and co-corator Hideki Kimura will give a lecture Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm with a reception to follow. Please join us! All events are free and open to the public.

There will be 2 opening receptions for Redefining the Multiple. Join us, Thursday, January 19, after Professor Kimura's lecture, or come to the UT Downtown gallery Friday January 20, 2012 from 5-9pm!

For additional information on this exhibition, please call the Ewing Gallery at 865.974.3200 or visit us online at www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

UT Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture - A+A Bldg. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., The University of Tennessee School of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Thursday, January 19

10 am NATURE PRESCHOOL: Animals in Winter
(Ages 4-5) How do animals get ready for winter? Probably not by digging out the winter coats and mittens. Join us as we discover who flies south, who sleeps through the cold and who just deals with it! Free to members, $15 for non-members. To register, please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110. Leader: Sarah Brobst

Saturday, January 21

10 am NATURE PRESCHOOL: Animals in Winter
(Ages 4-5) How do animals get ready for winter? Probably not by digging out the winter coats and mittens. Join us as we discover who flies south, who sleeps through the cold and who just deals with it! Free to members, $15 for non-members. To register, please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110. Leader: Sarah Brobst

10 am PUBLIC PROGRAM: Junior Hiking
(Ages 7-12) Are your kids getting cabin fever? Then get them outside with this kid-friendly hike. We will explore the park, stretch our legs and get a little fresh air. Note: Parents are invited to enjoy the exhibit hall or attend the Winter Birds program. Free to members, $5 for non-members. To register, please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110. Leader: Kara Remington

10 am PUBLIC PROGRAM: Winter Birds
Ijams Nature Center is home to a wide variety of winter winged residents. Songbirds, hawks, and woodpeckers can all be seen around the Visitor Center. Come learn more about these birds and how to identify them. This program is designed for adults; children are invited to participate in our Junior Hiking program. (Afterwards, join us for the trip to see sandhill cranes at Hiwassee. See next entry.) Free to members, $5 for non-members. To register, please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110. Leader: Stephen Lyn Bales

Noon WALKABOUT: Sandhill Cranes at Hiwassee
Weather permitting, we'll carpool to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge to see sandhill cranes spending the winter at the Meigs County location. Golden and bald eagles, wintering ducks and whooping cranes also a possibility. Meet at Ijams Visitor Center. Free to members, $5 for non-members. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register. Leader: Stephen Lyn Bales

1 pm LIVING CLEAN & GREEN: Winter Gardening Series
In the Winter Gardening Series, participants will learn tips and tricks to growing in the cold weather months. This program will introduce participants to various strategies that help protect produce during the winter. We'll even see how to build a cold frame. Free. To register, please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110. Leader: Peg Beute

2 pm PUBLIC PROGRAM: Animal Program
Join us every Saturday for a live animal encounter with one of our non-releasable education animals. Free to members, $2 for non-members. No registration required.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform the next installment of the Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series on Thursday and Friday, January 19 & 20 at the Tennessee Theatre. The concert will feature Van Cliburn International Piano Competition silver medalist Yeol eum Son performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, “Elvira Madigan.” The concerts, sponsored by Dalen Products and led by Guest Conductor Edward Cumming, will begin at 8:00 PM with a pre-concert chat taking place on the stage of the Tennessee Theatre beginning at 7:00 PM. The orchestra will also perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 23 and Symphony No. 40.
Tickets to the concert begin at $24.00 and may be purchased by logging on to the KSO website, www.knoxvillesymphony.com, or by calling the KSO Box Office at 865-291-3310 or Tickets Unlimited at 865-656-4444.

Heavenly Opera concert at Church of the Ascension, Northshore Drive.
January 19, 7:30 PM.
(865) 524-0795, www.KnoxvilleOpera.com

Hideki Kimura has been teaching printmaking at Kyoto City University of the Arts in Japan since 1988. He is the founder of MAXI GRAPHICA, a contemporary printmaking group in Kyoto, and served on the editorial board for The History of Contemporary Printmaking in Kansai Area. Kimura is a participating artist and co-curator of Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers .

January 19, 7:30 pm, room 109, Art and Architecture Building. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville
For additional information on this exhibition, please call the Ewing Gallery at 865.974.3200 or visit us online at www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

Steve Scarborough, a founder of Dagger Canoe Co, will talk about The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme, in the year’s first Brown Bag Green Book program, 12 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18 at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street.

The series continues on February 15th with Elandria Williams, Educational Consultant for Highlander Education and Research Center talking about My Work Is That of Conservation: An environmental biography of George Washington Carver by Mark D. Hersey.

On March 28th, Katie Ries, Marketing and Outreach Director for Three Rivers Market, will talk about Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

On April 18th, David Massey, Neighborhood Coordinator for the City of Knoxville, will discuss the book Bringing Buildings Back: From abandoned properties to community assets by Alan Mallach.

On May 16th, Dr. Agricola Odoi, Associate Professor in UT’s College of Veterinary Medicine will talk about Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It by Paul R. Epstein

The Brown Bag Green Book program series is sponsored by the Knox County Public Library (KCPL) and the City of Knoxville. For more information, please call Emily Ellis at 215-8723.

BAIN BUTCHER: PAINTINGS

Exhibit Opening Reception

5:30-7:00PM January 20th

Come and meet the artist!

Exhibit Dates: January 18 - February 24, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 15, 2012 from 2-4 PM. Gallery Talk 2 PM.

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9AM-5PM; Saturday-Monday, 1-4PM. Information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org

Curated by Professor and Distinguished Scientist Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Assistant Professor Micah Jessup, both from UT's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the exhibition focuses on the formation of mountain ranges and the forces that continually alter them. Our own beautiful landscapes of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, part of the Appalachian Mountains, whose genesis was more than 250 million years ago, is one focus of the exhibit; the other is the striking and rugged Himalaya Mountains, the much younger and still rising result of tectonic movements, the global effects of which we learn about often in the news.

Introducing the subject in the gallery will be a fifteen minute video, created by award-winning producer Steve Dean (the Heartland Series) and featuring views of a number of sites in the Blue Ridge and Smokies sections of the Appalachians as well as original images of Himalayan locales and the Tibetan plateau. The dynamics of plate tectonics and processes of erosion are explained in animated segments.

Breathtaking as the surface topography may be, the exhibit will also delve into the structure of the respective ranges, as that is where the keys to the how and the why may be found. Three-dimensional maps, video animations, and of course, rocks will show visitors how we know what we know, and perhaps give viewers a new way to look at the world as well as the landscape around them. The past, the present, and the tectonic future await.

Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Tennessee Mountain Writers January Jumpstart workshops - January 13-15, 2013
Tennessee Mountain Writers will present "January Jumpstart XIII" featuring a fiction workshop led by Darnell Arnoult, Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University, and a poetry workshop led by Nashville poet Bill Brown. The event, to be held at the Magnuson Hotel in Sweetwater, will open with an informal social hour on Friday evening; workshop sessions will run from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Participation is limited to 20 per workshop. The registration fee of $110 includes lunch on Saturday; there will be an optional catered dinner at the hotel Saturday night for an additional $16. For registration information, see www.tmwi.org, or email theorrs@usit.net.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Open Monday - Saturday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception for Central High’s 2nd Annual National Art Honor Society Exhibit to be held at the Fountain City Art Center at 213 Hotel Avenue . The reception will be held from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. The Art Honor Society members and their instructors, Peggy Leland and Phyllis Ball, will be designing and distributing their own invitations, hanging their own show, bringing their reception food, and providing judges for the artwork. If you came to their show last year, you know that it was very impressive. After that show, the Art Center decided to offer them an opportunity to exhibit every year as a featured show. Be sure to mark your calendars!