Calendar of Events

The Knoxville Museum of Art announces the spring series of Alive After Five, premiering with Christabel & The Jons on Friday, March 30, from 6:00 to 8:30 pm.

Alive After Five is a unique live music series presented on thirty or more Fridays per year in four seasonal series. The programs take place in the smoke-free, casually elegant setting of the Great Hall in the Knoxville Museum of Art. There is a live band on stage, seating at tables, two cash bars, food from area restaurants, free freshly popped popcorn, free parking, and a licensed therapeutic masseuse available. Audience members can enjoy listening to music, dancing, and browsing the museum’s art galleries.

Admission to the spring series premier of Alive After Five is $9 for general admission and $5 for museum members and college students with ID. Ages 17 and under are admitted free. For more information about the Alive After Five series, please contact Michael Gill at (865) 934-2039.

The 2012 Spring Series Schedule for “Alive After Five” (all shows 6:00-8:30 pm)

March 30 – Christabel & The Jons “Tennessee Swing”

April 13 – Jenna & The Accidentals Rhythm & Blues and funk

April 20 – Boling, Brown & Holloway - “Trio Life” CD Release Party Jazz

May 4 – Carib Sounds Steel Band Caribbean steel drum music

May 11 – Draper, Reynolds & Rodgers Americana and folk

May 18 – Milele Roots Reggae and ska

CTK has incorporated an academy approach to our popular classes in creative dramatics, allowing us to offer a broader scope of curriculum, provide more
individualized instruction with smaller classes, and involve as many creative children as possible.

Classes are structured into 3 levels of activity, with each level being a pre-requisite to the following level.

Each class meets for a 6-week term. The cost of the 6-week term is $180. 50% of the term fee is due upon registration, wth the balance due on the first day of class.
All classes now take place at our classroom space at 15 EMORY PLACE.

Pre-registration is REQUIRED for all classes. To begin the registration process, e-mail Caroline King at caroline@childrenstheatreknoxville.com . Or call her (865) 712-8626.

CREATIVE IMAGINATION (LEVEL 1):
“From Page to Stage”
For 5 to 7 year olds.
Wednesdays, 4:30 to 5:30 PM. Mar. 28 – May 2.

ACTING (LEVEL 3): “Advanced Acting Ensemble”
Admission based on performance resume.
Tuesdays, 4:30 to 6:00 PM. Mar. 27 – May 1.

ACTING (LEVEL 1): “Basic Acting”
For ages 8 to 11.
Thursdays, 4:30PM to 5:30 PM. Mar. 29 – May 3.

ACTING (LEVEL 1): “Audition Workshop”
For ages 8 to 11.
Saturdays, 9:00 to 10:00 AM. Mar. 31 – May 5.

For ages 12 to 17.
Saturdays, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM. Mar. 31 – May 5.

ACTING (LEVEL 2): “Musical Theatre”
For ages 9 to 15.
Mondays, 4:30 to 5:30 PM. Mar. 26 – Apr. 30

ACTING (LEVEL 2): “Intermediate Acting”
For ages 8 to 11.
Fridays, 4:30 to 5:30 PM. Mar. 30 – May 4.

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

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

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.

An exhibit featuring the paintings of Nathaniel Galka and Marianne Woodside will be on display at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919.
March 4, 2012 through May 5, 2012
Opening reception Friday, March 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists' talks at 6:30 p.m.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM; Friday 9AM-4:30PM; Sunday 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.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

Bobbie Crews has an exhibit of her work as the “2012 Dogwood Arts Resident Artist” in the Dogwood Arts offices at 602 S. Gay St. The show is on display from now through the 25th of May, Monday through Friday 8:30 – 5:00. Artist’s reception will be on Friday March 9th from 5 – 7 pm.

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.

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.