Calendar of Events

Pellissippi State Community College marks National Hispanic Heritage Month with celebrations on Sept. 20 and Oct. 12 at the Hardin Valley Campus in West Knoxville.

The Sept. 20 presentation features dance groups performing in the Goins Building College Center. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. It includes the following scheduled performances:
5:15-6 p.m.—Knoxville Argentine Tango Society
6:15-7 p.m.—Academy Ballroom Latin Dance Ensemble
7:15-8:15 p.m.—Pablo Garzon and Serenatta, Romantic Latin Ensemble, of Nashville

On Oct. 12, the Core Ensemble performs its chamber music theatre work “Tres Vidas,” 7-8:30 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center. Chamber music theatre is a format developed by the Core Ensemble that blends theatrical narrative and chamber music performance.

“Tres Vidas” is a celebration of the life, times and work of three significant Latin American women: painter Frida Kahlo of Mexico, peasant activist Ruffina Amaya of El Salvador and poet Alfonsina Storni of Argentina.

This year’s National Hispanic Heritage Month events are sponsored by Pellissippi State’s Access and Diversity Office, Student Life and Recreation, and Liberal Arts Department. The Hardin Valley Campus is located at 10915 Hardin Valley Road. For more information, call (865) 539-7160.

To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action for Pellissippi State, (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Zuzanna Dyrda and Agnieszka Sierzputowska, students from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland will present an exhibition “4765 miles = 7665 kilometers” at Gallery 1010 September 20-22, 2012. Dyrda and Sierzputowska are artists-in-residence in printmaking for the month of September at the UTK School of Art. A reception will be held on Friday September 21 from 5-8pm. Gallery 1010 is located at 113 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4pm. For more information, contact the UTK School of Art at 974-3408.
Website: http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/

The KSO will open the 2012-2013 season with Rachmaninoff’s piano Concerto No. 2 featuring guest artist, Orion Weiss, on the piano. Also included on this program are Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Copland’s El Salon Mexico, and Maestro Richman’s very own Summer Excursions. Under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman.

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

The Bad Plus • Thursday, September 20
The Bad Plus has spent more than a decade breaking down the walls of jazz convention, reaching audiences of all demographic stripes with an uncompromising body of original music, plus some ingenious, genre-jumping covers.

www.knoxbijou.com

The country’s economic situation may be enough to make you want to cry, but those involved in the first presentation of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series at Pellissippi State Community College hope you’ll laugh, or at least snicker, at “Economics: the Musical.”

The musical, the first of its genre in the series, is Sept. 20, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the Hardin Valley Campus. The community is invited to the free event.

Based on the recent financial crisis, the witty script by Tyra Barrett, an associate professor and the program coordinator of the Business Administration degree program, puts an entertaining spin on our current economic woes.

The musical presentation calls upon the talents of faculty and students to poke fun at all aspects of our financial condition—from a spoof of the Julie Andrews classic “My Favorite Things,” sung by a member of “The One Percent” (a reference to America’s wealthiest), to a ukulele concert by Occupy Wall Street “protestors.”

Even “Ben Bernanke” will be there, singing “The Liquidity Trap Song” to the tune of Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds.” The audience will be supplied with a program containing the words to the songs and definitions of economic concepts, so they won’t miss a single innuendo.

Robyn James, violinist and Music adjunct faculty member, assisted Barrett in writing the arrangements for the production. James has collaborated musically with several local musicians, including the popular band The Dirty Guv’nahs. She also writes the arrangements for her own group, The Robyn James Trio.

For details on the economics musical, email Tyra Barrett at tbarrett@pstcc.edu. For more information about the Faculty Lecture Series, call Pellissippi State at (865) 694-6400.

To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action for Pellissippi State, (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

He lived on the roof of a five-story apartment building in Mexico, and his room was so small that it contained little more than a bed, some canvases and his painting tools. It was from there, though, that African-American artist Harold Winslow created more than 1,300 pieces, securing a place in art history as a prolific chronicler of Mexican culture.

A collection of 50 of Winslow’s works will be shown at a special traveling art exhibit hosted by Pellissippi State Community College and the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies. The works have been on tour since August 2011 at selected Kentucky and Tennessee colleges and universities.

Slated for display at Pellissippi State Sept. 19-Oct. 3, “Una Visión de la Mexicanidad”—“Mexicanidad” refers to the Mexican national identity and culture—offers a record of one artist’s experience in two cultures. Winslow, who was born in 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, moved to Mexico in 1940 in the hopes of escaping racism. He remained there until his death in 2001, at the age of 83.

At the Bagwell Center Gallery. Hours: M-F 9-4. Hardin Valley Campus (10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37933). Contact: 865-694-6400, www.pstcc.edu

Held every 4 years since 1992, Arrowmont's Utilitarian Clay Symposia enjoys an international audience in celebrating and demonstrating the limitless interpretations of the utilitarian clay object. The symposium attracts those who are interested in not only the practical concerns with making functional objects, but also in the more theoretical issues related to the field. The Symposium, limited to only 200 attendees, provides an intimate atmosphere for meaningful dialogue, discussion and social activities.

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

This is an exhibition by hispanic artists that live and work in the United States, particularly in the southeast region and the Knoxville area.

This exhibition shows the diversity of the mediums and styles that these contemporary artists produce in their creative practices while questioning what it means to be a contemporary hispanic artist in the United 'States.

Knoxville Museum of Art. Sept. 18-October 18, 2012. Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00AM-5:00PM, Sunday 1:00-5:00PM.

Pencil Pushed: exploring process and boundaries in drawing.
In this exhibition, the word pencil functions simply as a metaphor or symbol for drawing and its activity. The artists selected are known for their drawing or drawing activity as their primary means of expression and have either pushed the material, process, or boundary of conventional drawing. Media included will be video, sculpture, animation, installation, and of course, works on paper. This exhibition is neither a survey nor the definitive grouping of mark-making artists. It is more a conversation about artists who have and continue to explore these regions in drawing. The diversity of the exhibition will favor mid-career artists, but will range from emerging to late.

EXHIBITION DATES
Ewing Gallery: September 17 - October 28, 2012
UT Downtown Gallery: September 19 - October 27, 2012

RECEPTION--September 27, 2012, Ewing Gallery immediately following the lecture
October 5, 2011, UT Downtown Gallery, 5-9pm

LECTURE--September 27, 2012, 7:30pm, room 109 A+A Building
Panel Discussion--September 28, 2012, 12:15pm room 109 A+A Building

GALLERY HOURS
M: 10am - 8pm, T-W: 10am - 5pm, TR: 10am - 5pm and 6:30 - 8:30pm, Sun 1-4PM

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

Reception: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Open Monday - Saturday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

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

Tuesday 9/11
Phil Lee
Lachlan Bryan

Wednesday 9/12
Jessica Campbell and Heather Morgan
Old North State

Thursday 9/
MilkDrive
As Girls Go

Friday 9/14
Jackstraw
Redeye

Saturday 9/15
The Fustics
Old Rusty Mandolin

Monday 9/17
Gail Wade
The Wrong-Omar

Wednesday 9/19
2/3 Goat
Melody Walker

Thursday 9/20
Steve Gulley & Friends
Carpetbag Theatre

Friday 9/21
Granville Automatic
Erisa Rei

Saturday 9/22
LaTresa
Kirsten Thein &
Galia Arad

12:00 Noon. Knoxville Visitors Center, 301 So. Gay St., Knoxville.
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