Calendar of Events

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

This musical follows the woodland adventures of two amphibious friends, a worrywart toad and a perky frog, with their assorted colorful hopping, crawling and flying companions, over the course of a year. This is a great show for kids. RSCC Theatre, Harriman, General Admission $10, Students $7.

March 22-24, 29-31 at 7 pm
www.roanestate.edu/theatre

Matinee performance March 25 & April 1 at 2 pm

Thursday 3/22
Toy Soldiers, Justin Stens and the Get Real Gang

Friday 3/23
Drunken Prayer

Saturday 3/24
Jack of Hearts, Amy Hart

Monday 3/26
Dave Gleason

Tuesday 3/27
Ganasita

Wednesday 3/28
Mary Gauthier, Bart and the End Times, Spasm Band

Thursday 3/29
Kelley McRae, Laura Thurston

Friday 3/30
Pontiac BlueNow You See Them

Saturday 3/31
Sandy Ray and the Cold Shoulders

In March former KSO Assistant Conductor Daniel Meyer will return to Knoxville to conduct the orchestra. The concert will open with Kernis’ Musica Celestis. Mary Persin will join the orchestra to perform Handel’s Viola Concerto in B minor. The concert will conclude with Holst’s The Planets with the women of the Knoxville Chamber Chorale.

Performed at the Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information and tickets: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

Scruffy City Roots will bring together local and nationally touring acts in a new live monthly radio show hosted by Scott Miller and broadcast on PBS and WUTK from the Square Room on historic Market Square in downtown Knoxville.

Each show will be between two-and-a-half hours, and the series debuts on March 22 Scruffy City Allstars -- Robinella, Cruz Contreras and Jill Andrews -- Delta Rae, and Rayland Baxter. Metro Pulse columnist Jack Neely will be conducting interviews.

The Square Room
Monthly, Third Thursdays at 7pm, kickoff March 22
$15/ $10-student

Mighty Mud's pottery club meets once a month on the fourth Thursday of the month. It is a great way to work on projects, learn new tips and techniques, and socialize with other artists.

March 22: Copper Chain Mail Jewelry
April 26: Handbuilt Masks
May 24: Raku firing (for masks created in April)

Mighty Mud, 2444 Sutherland Ave, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6PM. For information: 865-595-1900, www.mightymudclay.com

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

The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Several Silences March 16-May 20, 2012.
Several Silences presents installations, videos, sculptures, and drawings by a diverse selection of contemporary artists from around the world who approach the theme of silence in distinctly individual ways. This group exhibition explores various kinds of silence—meditative, ambient, memorial, etc.—and calls attention to the rarity of the absence of sound in our growing “culture of distraction.”

There will be an opening reception Thursday, March 15 from 5:30-7:30pm at the KMA. Free and open to the public. Cash bar.

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,

A Creative Continuum - Arrowmont Artists-in-Residence Anniversary Exhibition
Reception: Thursday, May 17, 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

Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM

A world premiere play of a murder mystery by Knoxville playwright Craig Smith. The play has strong language; young people would need to be accompanied by an adult. Seats are first come, first served (up to 50 per performance).

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

The Knoxville Watercolor Society presents “Illuminations”—a mix of recent transparent watercolor paintings by the Knoxville Watercolor Society. The Show will be in the downstairs gallery of the Knoxville Museum of Art from March 16 to May 6. An opening reception with refreshments will take place on March 25 from 2 to 4 PM. The Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 5 Pm and on Sundays from 1 PM to 5 PM and is located at 1050 Worlds Fair Park Drive. More information can be obtained by contacting the museum at 865-525-6101 or the show chair person, Lil Clinard at 865-274-6394. To find out about membership information and view members works go to www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

The senior adult Young at HeART art group from Marietta Cumberland Presbyterian Church will display their "ART" Senior Adult Art Show in March at the Farragut Town Hall. Public Reception: Sunday, March 25 - 2 to 3 p.m. The art show and reception are free and open to the public.

At the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive (across from the Farragut Branch Post Office), Knoxville, TN 37934. Info: lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.