Calendar of Events

We are so excited and honored to host an exhibit of works by 30 members of the Foothills Craft Guild here at the Fountain City Art Center. Works by our own FCAC membership, Bob Meadows and Jim Gentry, will be featured in the show, too! Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception for the show on Friday, January 11, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM. If you have never been to a Foothills show or sale, you are in for quite a treat! The exhibit will be on display through February 7. Artwork by students from the Karns area schools will also be featured in “Student Exhibits” during this time.

No admission is charged. The Fountain City Art Center is located at 213 Hotel Avenue, next to the Fountain City Park in the old library building. Art Center Hours are: Tu, Th 9-5; W, F 10-5; Sat. 9-1. Contact us at: fcartcenter@knology.net, or 865.357.2787 for more information. Visit us on Facebook or on our website: www.fountaincityartctr.com.

By Yasmina Reza

Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday performances and $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday performances. Theatre Knoxville Downtown has open seating. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to pick up your tickets and claim your seats. TKD reserves the right to seat walk-in patrons during the final 15 minutes prior to showtime. For more information on the show, please call Theatre Knoxville Downtown at (865) 544-1999, e-mail info@theatreknoxville.com, or visit www.theatreknoxville.com.

Knoxville Children’s Theatre will present a live stage version of the grand chase novel Around the World in 80 Days for children and families from January 11 through 26. The play will be performed at Children’s Theatre at 800 Tyson Street in downtown Knoxville.
The time is 1872, decades before the invention of the airplane. A gentleman thief has just robbed the Bank of England, and three days later, Phileas Fogg makes a daring wager: that he can travel around the world and return home to England in 80 days. But Inspector Fixx of Scotland Yard is convinced that Mr. Fogg is the thief, and that the wager is merely a clever means to escape justice. Around the World in 80 Days is full of comic episodes, adventure scenes, wise advice, and good old British ingenuity.

Performances:
Friday 1/11 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/12 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sunday 1/13 at 3 PM
Thursday 1/17 at 7 PM, Friday 1/18 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/19 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sunday 1/20 at 3 PM, Thursday 1/24 at 7 PM, Friday 1/25 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/26 at 1 PM & 5 PM

Tickets: $12 or Any adult & Child entering together = $10 each
Reservations by phone at (865) 599-5284, or by e-mail at tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.com
800 Tyson Street, 300 feet off Broadway, near Old Gray National Cemetery

January 2-27, Art Market Gallery of Knoxville is pleased to present a special 30th Anniversary Exhibit. This exhibit will feature artworks by nine active and inactive artist-members that are among the earliest or original members of the Art Market Gallery.

From its establishment 30 years ago as an adjunct of the former Dulin Gallery of Art, Art Market Gallery has become one of the longest-standing cooperative artist groups in the Southeast and boasts the largest selection of local and regional art and fine craft in Knoxville. The gallery shows and sells only original, one-of-a- kind artworks in a historic space located on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. All of the gallery’s active members are involved in the operation of the gallery.

Art Market Gallery is located a 422 South Gay Street in Knoxville next to the Downtown Grill & Brewery. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm and Sunday 1-5 pm. For more information, call 865-525-5265, visit artmarketgallery.net or join us on facebook: facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery

Monday 1/7
The Newbees
Les Kerr

Tuesday 1/8
Rockwood Ferry
Greg Horne

Wednesday 1/9
Keith Kenny

Thursday 1/10
Sarah Morgan
Christian Cole

Friday 1/11
Wallace Coleman
Sugar Lime Blue

Monday 1/14
Laura Thurston
Secret B-Sides

Thursday 1/17
E.G. Kight

Friday 1/18
If Birds Could Fly
Samantha Harlow & Andrew Leahey

Wednesday 1/23
Jay Clark
Jimmie Davis

12:00 noon at the Knoxville Visitors Center, 301 South Gay Street 37902.
www.wdvx.com/events

Works by Hali Maltsberger on view by appointment at A1 LabArts, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, January 5-18.
Contact Hali Maltsberger,n 865-850-0006 or hlmaltsy@g.mail.com.
www.halimaltsberger.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of hand drawn and hand stamped ink artworks by Carl Gombert entitled “Radiant Geometries”, on display in the Balcony at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville from January 4-25, 2013. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on January 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, January 5, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of woven mixed media works and drawings and paintings by artists Geri Forkner and Elizabeth Porter entitled “Alternate Realities”. Geri Forkner creates alternate realities by collecting various papers, cutting or tearing and then reweaving these papers into themselves, and Liz Porter draws and paints human figures that have electrical components showing our dependency upon technology and external power sources.

The exhibition will be displayed at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from January 4-25, 2012, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on January 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM. The Emporium will be open from 11AM-3PM Saturday January 5 and Monday through Friday 9AM-5PM.

Knoxville Zoo becomes the coolest place in Knoxville to visit during Penguin Discount Days! Now through Feb. 28, 2013, admission to Knoxville Zoo is half-off.
On days when the temperature drops below 40 degrees, some animals will be moved to their indoor enclosures, but even on the coldest days of the year visitors can still see elephants, gorillas, penguins, reptiles, chimpanzees and bears in their indoor viewing areas.
Half-price admission tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket office during regular zoo hours and online at www.knoxvillezoo.org. Discounted admission tickets must be used by Feb. 28, 2013, and cannot be combined with any other promotion, discount, or coupon.
Knoxville Zoo is Knoxville’s largest year-round attraction. Located off exit 392 from Interstate 40, the zoo is open every day except Christmas Day. Currently, the zoo is open daily from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission and ticket sales stop
one-hour before the zoo closes. Next-day admission is free after 3 p.m. For more information, please call 865.637.5331 ext. 300 or visit www.knoxvillezoo.org.

December 7, 2012 - January 18, 2013
The UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present Revealed, an exhibition of paintings by Pat Badt and ceramic sculptures by Paul Briggs. The paintings and sculptures share a similar modesty in size, creating an approachable and intimate relationship between object and viewer. The work is meditative in process. Lines and leaf-forms vary in length, color, orientation, and proximity to the next. It is repetitive, yet unique.

RECEPTION: Friday, December 7, 2012, 5-9pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wed - Fri 11-6PM, Sat 10-3PM

Please join us for the First Friday festivities. All events are free and open to the public.
For additional information on this exhibition, please call the UT Downtown Gallery at 865.673.0802 or visit us online at http://web.utk.edu/~downtown.

"2 X 20" works by Kentucky's finest working folk artists on display November 1 -February 2, 2013 at the Kentucky Folk Art Center 102 West First Street, Morehead, KY 40351,
(606) 783 2204. www.kyfolkart.org

The Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (McGhee Tyson Airport) and the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville are pleased to present “Arts in the Airport: 75 Years of Making Memories in Aviation,” a new exhibition featuring selected artwork from nearly 40 artists in the East Tennessee region. “Arts in the Airport” was developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work in the most visited site in the area. The selected art features contemporary 2- and 3-dimensional artwork and will be exhibited in the secured area behind McGhee Tyson Airport’s security gate checkpoint from October 12, 2012 – April 11, 2013 with an opening reception on Wednesday, November 7, at 5:00 PM.

A gallery of images may be viewed at www.knoxalliance.com/album/airport_fall12.html.

The Arts & Culture Alliance, with assistance from Dorothy Habel, juried the exhibition with final approval by the Airport Authority. Prizes include $1,000 in awards to be announced at the reception on Wednesday, November 7, at 5:00 PM (awards ceremony at 5:00 PM). For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit www.knoxalliance.com.