Calendar of Events

Clay Thurston: Artist Statement
"A wildlife and nature photographer for over 35 years, I've been lucky to travel the world recording wildlife and nature in their natural habitats. Sharing these experiences through workshops, programs and exhibitions makes me want to photograph even more. I enjoy recording the personalities of the animals that I photograph...nature has provided me with many hours of entertainment and amazement. I feel fortunate to be able to witness things that others will never see in person. I truly enjoy what I do and photography is as much therapy as it is work! I do all of my own printing, matting and framing...using only archival inks, papers, mats and framing techniques. My photographs will be around for many years to come. I have been honored to present m work to the North Amerian Nature Photographers Associaiton and to many other fine photography and civic organizations. "

Bobbie Crews: Fine Art
Bobbie Crews is originally from Northwest Ohio, but has called Knoxville home since 1990. Her studio is in the Emporium Center for the Arts, at 100 Gay St. Murals, portraits and design have been her livelihood since 1993. She holds a BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee, and is called on regularly to critique and give presentations. Crews’ portraits, other fine art and murals are included in private and corporate collections nationally, in Bermuda and Africa. Her favorite mediums are oils and watercolors, and her paintings are displayed in Federal and city buildings locally, the UT Vet School, restaurants, churches, schools, homes and businesses. She works as a courtroom sketch artist, teaches workshops and gives individual instruction and critiques in painting and drawing. Crews oversees a weekly life drawing session for other professional artists at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Her artwork addressing domestic violence contributes to the awareness of the same and is exhibited as a learning tool in the Knoxville Family Justice Center. Her most recent body of work is focused on intimate portraits of classic cars much like human portraiture, capturing the character and narrative of that particular automobile, its history, and past lives. She is an intuitive painter, bringing forth the human element in her subjects.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

Art Market Galley of Knoxville is pleased to present an exhibit of recent works by Kristine Taylor and Jonathan Howe, both of Knoxville. Artist Kristine Taylor creates unique, one-of-a-kind and limited edition art jewelry using a blend of polymer clay and traditional jewelry materials including stones, pearls, glass, metals and fibers. She is a member of several regional craft guilds and has participated in many regional art shows. Painter of Jonathan Howe is an award-wining landscape, still-life and portrait artist. His passion lies in the intimate details that form a true likeness in oil portraits and the subtle lighting of rolling landscapes. In addition to painting, Howe works in many other fields of art including drawing, photography, graphic design and carving.

A First Friday Reception for the exhibit is planned for March 2 from 5:30-9 pm with complimentary refreshments and live music.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

February 24 – March 23, 2012

Join us for the opening of Fountain City Art Center's open entry theme exhibit, "Connections."
At the opening reception, Friday, February 24, 6:30 – 8:00 PM, we will have candle light to greet you. Our brand new lighting will be switched on at 6:45 PM! The reception will take place from 6:30 – 8:00 PM, with awards announced at 7 PM.

by Alan Ayckbourn
Trevor and Susannah, whose marriage is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany. A long-running hit in London and New York.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday; $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday. For information: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com

Children’s Theatre of Knoxville will present a live stage adaptation of the spooky fairy tale “Rapunzel,”for 13 performances, Thursdays through Sundays from February 24 through March 10.

Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 PM
Saturday, Feb. 25 at 1 PM and 5 PM
Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3 PM
Thursday, Mar. 1 at 7 PM
Friday, Mar. 2 at 7 PM
Saturday, Mar. 3 at 1 PM and 5 PM
Sunday, Mar. 4 at 3 PM
Thursday, Mar. 8 at 7 PM
Friday, Mar. 9 at 7 PM
and Saturday, Mar. 10 at 1 PM and 5 PM.

Reservations are strongly recommended for all CTK performances. To reserve tickets for the production, e-mail the number of adult and child tickets needed, along with your requested performance date and time, to tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.com at any time.
Or you may call us at (865) 599-5284 between the hours of 1 PM and 5 PM.

The play is being performed at CTK’s theatre in downtown Knoxville, located at 800 Tyson Street.

By Frank Higgins; at the CBT Mainstage. A search for lost African-American folk music leads Susannah, an ambitious "song collector" for the Library of Congress, to Pearl, a woman with a soulful voice, a steely spirit and a dramatic story. Over twenty folk songs and spirituals create an American musical tapestry that unites these two different women, as they journey toward their way out of the shadows and into the light of personal freedom.

Clarence Brown Theatre 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Thursday 2/23
Old North State, Jordan Eastman

Friday 2/24
Jonathan Edwards, Chuck Brodsky

Saturday 2/25
Fifth on the Floor, Eric Congdon

Monday 2/27
The Steel Wheels, Christopher Bell

Tuesday 2/28
Orbo and the Long Shots, Carey Murdock

Wednesday 2/29
Sara Tindley, Eric Jennings

Thursday 3/1
Chuck Mead, Big Daddy Love

Friday 3/2
Robert Anderson, Jack Wilburn

Saturday 3/3
The Skip Cherryholmes Quintet, Just Us Bluegrass Band

Monday 3/5
The Mumbles

Tuesday 3/6
Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers, The Afterwhile Band

Wednesday 3/7
The Royal Hounds, The MacDaddies

Thursday 3/8
The City Lights, Y'uns

Friday 3/9
Grace Adele, Jimmy Bowskill

Saturday 3/10
Hooves

Knoxville Area Transit is pleased to announce the upcoming events surrounding the unveiling of our new suspended kinetic sculpture.

The sculpture, by internationally-known artist Bob Emser, will be suspended from the vestibule entryway of Knoxville Station. The commission, juried by a panel of both art experts and transit passengers, was approved by the City’s Public Art Committee and will be installed in February.

LECTURE AND SCULPTURE VIEWING
Mr. Emser will speak at the Knoxville Museum of Art (1050 World’s Fair Park Drive, 37919, www.knoxart.org) on Monday, February 20, 2012, at 3:30 p.m. Following the lecture, participants will take a shuttle to the transit center to see the artwork. A return shuttle should arrive at the KMA around 5:00pm. The KMA and lecture are FREE and open to the public. For more information, call KAT at 215-7800.

FIRST FRIDAY ART INTRODUCTION
KAT will host a First Friday introduction to this dramatic work on Friday, March 2, 2012, from 4 pm to 7 pm.

Bob Emser is an internationally-recognized sculptor, with exhibits on 4 continents, 7 countries, and 27 states in the U.S. During his 30-year career he has served as a visiting artist and has taught at several universities, held a tenured professorship, and founded a not-for-profit art center that is still in existence. Currently he is the president of the Chicago Sculpture International, a local affiliate of International Sculpture Center, on whose Board of Directors he has served.

Pre-order your 2012 Limited Edition Print, Scenic Road!
We are thrilled to announce that Scenic Road by Andrew Saftel was chosen as the 2012 Dogwood Arts Limited Edition Print!

Born in Massachusetts, and receiving his B.F.A. from San Francisco Institute of Art, Andrew’s interest in art began after working to publish editions of prints and sculptures at a printmaking workshop in San Francisco. He moved to Knoxville in 1985 and immediately felt inspired by the landscape and folk artists.

Scenic Road will be on sale for $100 to the public for the first time at the Dogwood Arts House & Garden Show, February 17-19, at the Knoxville Convention Center. The original artwork will be available for purchase at Bennett Galleries for $5,000 during the month of April.

Due to limited reproduction, we encourage you to pre-order your Scenic Road print via dogwoodarts.com or by calling [865] 637.4561.

Part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy. The poignant and funny memoir captures the life of a struggling pre-war Jewish family living in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn home. Adolescent Eugene Jerome, dreaming of baseball and girls, must somehow cope with the mundane existence of his family life: a formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother. Add in his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two rapidly aging young daughters, and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

Reception: Friday, February 24, 2012
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

Horizons is an installation by noted Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir. The exhibition includes 12 androgynous, life-sized iron figures in the KMA’s South Garden. Each is unique in pose and expression, and has a polished glass band inserted in its torso. The artist explains this juxtaposition of glass and iron, “The color of the iron signifies their primal quality—as if they are emerging from the earth” while “Glass as a material has a lot of different connotations. It can be fragile, yet dangerous. It can be translucent, or solid . . . It's like water, but also like air.”

Thorarinsdottir has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan, and Australia over the last 30 years, as well as in the United States, where Horizons has been traveling for the past three years. The installation is featured in the documentary Horizons by independent filmmaker Frank Cantor, which won the CINE Special Jury Award in Washington as the best documentary of 2008. Thórarinsdóttir’s work is held by collectors worldwide, and she has been commissioned by both the Icelandic and English governments for major sculptural installations. She has received numerous awards including the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland in 2009.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org