Calendar of Events

Red takes you into the mind of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko and chronicles his two-year struggle to complete the largest and most lucrative commission in the history of modern art – a set of dark red murals for Manhattan’s exclusive Four Seasons restaurant. As Rothko’s young assistant gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the possibility that his crowning achievement as an artist might also be his artistic undoing. Set during the changing cultural landscape of the early 1960s, John Logan’s Tony Award-winning play is a snapshot of a brilliant artist at the height of his fame. Red is hailed as “intense and exciting” by The New York Times.

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel 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

John Logan’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning drama “Red” will paint the Carousel Theatre stage January 31 to February 17, 2013. The production is sponsored by the Clayton Foundation with additional support from the Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Lecture Endowment Fund. It contains mature language, herbal cigarette smoking and will run approximately 1 ½ hour with no intermission.

“Red” runs January 31 – February 17, 2013. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances begin at 2:00 p.m. Ticket prices vary. Discounts apply. For tickets, please call the CBT box office at 865-974-5161 or Tickets Unlimited at 865-656-4444.

January 31, 2013: Chad Curtis -- Chad D. Curtis is an artist and technologist living and working in Philadelphia. Drawing inspiration from both digital technology and homebrew DIY makers, Curtis's work examines the abstraction of materiality in the digital age and the effects of high technology on the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. Curtis has exhibited internationally, including more than fifty solo and group exhibitions in the past ten years. He holds an M.F.A. from Alfred University and is an Associate Professor at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

February 28, 2013: William Lamson
March 14, 2013: Katy Siegel

UT Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture - A+A Bldg. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996.
ph: 865.974.3200 - email: ewing@utk.edu - web: www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

Maryville College presents "An Evening of Opera Scenes"

Students in Maryville College’s J-Term Opera Scenes course will perform scenes from the following operas: “Don Giovanni,” “The Elixir of Love,” “Die Fledermaus,” “The Mikado,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “The Pirates of Penzance” and “The Secret Marriage.”

The evening performance is sold out but the dress rehearsal will be open to the public. The dress rehearsal will take place Thursday, January 31 at 7:00pm.

For more information contact the Clayton Center Box Office at (865) 981-8590.

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center
www.gsmheritagecenter.org or call 865-448-0044

January 30 – February 2 Winter Heritage Festival: http://www.smokymountains.org/do/events_festivals/winter_heritage.aspx
Presentations and programs throughout Townsend and the national park, celebrating the region’s cultural history.

Becoming the Volunteer State, a traveling exhibition of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville will be on display in the East Tennessee History Center from January 28, 2013 through May 19, 2013.

There will be a preview for ETHS members from 2:00-4:00PM, Sunday, January 27, 2013 and a Brown Bag Lecture and Gallery Tour with exhibit curator Myers E. Brown II, at noon at the East Tennessee History Center on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville.
More information online at www.eastTNhistory.org.

Want to learn a new language for the New Year? Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN is offering a beginning and an advance beginner Cherokee language class on the following Mondays, January 28, February 4, 11, & 18, from 6:30 – 9 p.m. The cost of the class is $40 for all four evenings. If you have taken the class before with the museum a discount of $5 will be given. The class will be taught by Shirley Oswalt and Mary Brown who are members of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian.

Anyone interested in taking this class should contact the museum at 423-884-6246 to reserve your space. In case of inclement weather please be sure to call ahead first.

Pellissippi State Community College is currently hosting “Quiet Histories and Futures From the Republic,” a 15-day exhibit by artist Jason Stout, at the Hardin Valley Campus. The event runs through Feb. 6.

Stout’s vivid and political work deals primarily with variations of past, current and future narratives, almost always concerning our identity or history. He is known for his Southern interpretation of American culture.

The exhibit and a closing reception, both of which are free and open to the public, take place in the Bagwell Center Gallery. Regular exhibit hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The closing reception is Feb. 6, 4-6 p.m.

For additional information about the exhibit or “The Arts at Pellissippi State,” call (865) 694-6400 or visit www.pstcc.edu/arts. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Mirror of My Soul: The Ecstasy of the Black Ecclesia
Alan Jones who paints under the pseudonym, “Theophilus”, will exhibit paintings and drawings from the art he has completed over the past 30 plus years.
January 27th through February 21st, 2013.

SOULVISUAL ART EXHIBITION featuring ALAN JONES (THEOPHILUS)XAVIER JONES, SALATHIEL JONES, XCIA JONES, HADASSAH JONES, & ISAAC JONES, SR.
ARTISTS RECEPTION SUNDAY, JAN, 27, 2013, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
KINGSPORT RENAISSANCE CENTER
1200 EAST CENTER STREET, KINGSPORT, TN 37660 PHONE 423.392.8414

Friday, January 25, 6:30-9 p.m.

Judge Harold Wimberly's photography is the product of his travels throughout the U.S. and Europe. His imagery conveys a sense of surrealism through unusual subject matter
coupled with the shimmering effect of the printing process.
Show continues through February 16
Gallery Hours:
Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. & Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The District Gallery & Framery | 5113 Kingston Pike | Knoxville | TN | 37919
(located next to Gourmet's Market) | 865.200.4452 | www.thedistrictgallery.com

12:00 Noon, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 South Gay St. Knoxville, 37902
www.wdvx.com/events

Thursday 1/24
CaroMia Tiller
Ganasita

Friday 1/25
10 String Symphony
Crispy Watkins

Saturday 1/26
Great Day In The Morning

Monday 1/28
Poor Howard Stith
Blackwater Mojo

Tuesday 1/29
Andrew Combs
Lilly Hiatt

Wednesday 1/30
Diali Cissokho &
Kaira Ba
Doug Mains and the City Folks

Thursday 1/31
Kentucky Knife Fight
Humming House

Friday 2/1
Renee WahlThe Wrong-Omar

Saturday 2/2
Angela Perley and the Howling Moons
South Carolina Broadcasters

January 19 - May 12 "Zoom Into Nano" traveling exhibition offers a hands-on, interactive experience on how scientists see and make things that are too small to see. Nanoscale science and engineering is the process through which materials are manipulated on the molecular scale to generate very, very small structures and devices. Exhibit activities include a magnification station, particle progression, shrink a pattern, atom transporter, shaking solids, infinity crystal, carbon nanotubes, stretch a molecule dissolve a crystal and more. AMSE second level

The American Museum of Science and Energy, located at 300 South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge, is open Monday - Saturday from 9 am - 5 pm and Sunday 1 - 5 pm. AMSE admission is Adults $5, Seniors (65+) $4, Students (6 - 17) $3, Children (5 and under) no charge. AMSE members are free.