Calendar of Events

The Athens Area Council for the Arts is pleased to present “Not Just a Snapshot, photography by Sheila Silvus Chesanow”, on exhibit from June 10 – July 25, 2013, at The Arts Center, 320 North White Street, Athens, Tennessee.

The photographs in this exhibit represent a series of locales in which a lonesome tree, an abandoned building, or a junked car in the back woods may evoke unexpected feelings and thoughts in the viewer. The artist hopes her photographs will cause the viewer to appreciate the beauty found in everyday scenes when one slows down to take a closer look.

The public is invited to meet the artist at an opening reception at The Arts Center, Friday, June 14, 2013 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Following the reception, two duos of local musicians will perform acoustic sets in a coffee-house style concert, “Soft Sounds for a Summer’s Eve.” Featuring Andrew Kimball and Lindsey Nunley of Athens and Ally and Ashley Clark of Decatur , with Adam Klinker on percussion and special guest Emmy McKenzie, the show will include light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $10 in advance or at the door. The concert is sponsored by Hiwassee Builders Supply, Inc.

The Arts Center is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information or directions, call The Arts Center at 423-745-8781, or visit the website at www.athensartscouncil.org.

Clayton Center for the Arts will have free Swing Dancing on the Plaza Monday, June 10 and 24 from 6:30-9:30 PM. Live dance music will be provided by Ensemble Swing Time.

In recent years there has been resurgence of interest in Swing Music and Swing Dance. Ensemble Swing Time allows fans to return to the musical joys and romance that filled the airwaves -- to those ballrooms, nightclubs, college gyms and theaters in which the great bands played. For those who weren't there, they hope to provide a real feeling of the era and its music.

Ensemble Swing Time has been a favorite at the Clayton Center for the Arts, playing to enthusiastic and full crowds in the Summer Music and Cozy Winter Nights Music Series.

Recent works by fiber artist Pat Delashmit and painter Gary Dagnan will be featured during the month of June at the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville.

Pat Delashmit of Maryville has been weaving for more than 25 years and sees endless possibilities with this medium.
Her inspiration comes from East Tennessee’s landscape, a love of the ocean and seashore, and seasonal changes, weather, even the light of day.

Gary Dagnan has been a landscape painter for more than 40 years. He has won numerous awards and his art is represented in many private, corporate and public collections, among them the TVA, Ruby Tuesday and the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga. The body of work to be displayed in this exhibit is a series of recent paintings entitled “Woodlands.”

A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, June 7, with complimentary refreshments and acoustic, folk and blues music on guitar or banjo by Crispy Watkins. Many member artists will be on hand to meet and mingle with visitors.

Member owned and operated by more than 60 professional regional artists, the Art Market Gallery is located at 422 South Gay St., next to the Downtown Grill & Brewery, and a few doors away from Mast General Store. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. The gallery is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 865-525-5265, or visit artmarketgallery.net, or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring over 40 colorful clay paintings by Knoxville artist Regina Renee Turner entitled “Love & Peace: Expressions of the Bible”. To create her clay paintings, Turner drips the paint onto canvas, rarely using any tools in the process. The cracked clay paints lend a feeling of antiquity, and the vibrant colors draw the viewer.

“Love & Peace” by Regina Renee Turner will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, from June 7-28, 2013. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on June 7 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, June 8, 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 featuring selections from the Association for Visual Arts’ Juried Members Exhibition, featuring original art by over 20 professional and emerging artists in the Chattanooga area, including painting, etching, mixed media, sculpture, drawing, photography, and more. The exhibition will be displayed at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 7-28, 2013, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on June 7 from 5:00-9:00 PM with complimentary chocolate fondue provided by The Melting Pot.

For the first time in its organizational history, the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville proudly partners with the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Chattanooga for the purpose of promoting local artists within each community. In January and February of 2013, AVA displayed a selection of work by seventeen Knoxville-area artists in their gallery space at 30 Frazier Avenue on the Tennessee River. In exchange, the Alliance now presents this exhibition of works by AVA members at the Emporium.

The exhibition will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, from June 7-28, 2013. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on June 7 from 5:00-9:00 PM. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, June 8, 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.

Also on display in the Emporium during the same time frame:
"Love & Peace: Expressions of the Bible" by Regina Turner
Quilts by Kit Hoefer
Functional and sculptural works in clay by Gray Bearden
Selections from "Presence" by Kelly Hider

The Tennessee Valley Players is proudly presenting the Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical, "South Pacific" this June. Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he’s fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe’s life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.

Performances are June 7-23 - Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM.
www.tennesseevalleyplayers.org

Pivotal Moments in Civil War East Tennessee. View rare, important documents and artifacts, recounting pivotal moments in East Tennessee Civil War history, on loan from private and public collections, including Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee State Museum, Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library and Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection.

Wednesday, July 24, 12 Noon. Brown Bag Lecture: "That Vile Serpent, Brownlow! That Vain Historian Ramsey!" a dramatic reading by David Madden, author of Civil War novel Sharpshooter.

Wednesday, August 7, 12 Noon. Brown Bag Lecture:"Old Tennessee is a Good a Country as We Want", Black Southerners in the Union Army, 1863-1866, Paul Coker, Ph.D., lecturer, University of Tennessee.

Sunday, August 11, 2:00 PM, Film and Discussion: "Steven Spielberg, Historian? Emancipating Lincoln" a screening of Lincoln (2012) with comments by William E. Hardy, Ph.D., adjunct professor, Lincoln Memorial University.

601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m. www.eastTNhistory.org
865-215-8830

With guide commentary for U.S. citizens (10 years and up) with photo identification. This Public Bus Tour, which highlights the history of Oak Ridge and the history of science and technology at Y-12, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and K-25 Site, is offered Monday - Friday, once a day, except government holidays July 4 & 5. Bus Tour registration begins at 9 am, when AMSE opens. AMSE admission includes the DOE Facilities Public Bus Tour, when visitors complete the Registration Sheet upon entering AMSE. Bus Tour begins loading at 11:45 am, bus departs at 12 noon and returns to AMSE at 3 pm. Seating is limited. Some restrictions apply. Off-the-bus stops include the Y-12 New Hope Center; Bethel Valley Church and Graphite Reactor, both at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the K-25 Overlook. Tour also includes a drive by of the Spallation Neutron Source facility at ORNL.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

At the Goldie Mayfield Gallery at the E.G. Fisher Library, Athens, TN 37303

Awards will be presented at a reception for family and friends of the artists as well as interested community members on Sunday, June 2 at 2:30 PM in the Community Room of the E.G. Fisher Library in Athens.

The exhibition includes works by artists within a 75-mile radius of Athens; media may include painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, or pastel. The juror for this year's exhibit is Elaine Davis.

For more information: 423-333-5388

The District Gallery presents:
Ebb and Flow: New Work by Nancy Lloyd-Hooker and Cal Breed

May 31 - June 29, 2013
Opening: Friday, May 31, 5:30-8 p.m.

The District Gallery is pleased to present Ebb and Flow: New Work by Nancy Lloyd-Hooker and Cal Breed. This exhibit brings together the work of two artists, both greatly influenced by the landscape around them. Oil painter Nancy Lloyd-Hooker and glass artist Cal Breed constantly visit the past in their works, evolve them into something new and experimental, and revisit the past again. It is this ebb and flow--in the ideas behind the works and in the creative process itself--that drives the aesthetic vision of these artists.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 31 from 5:30-8 p.m. The show continues through June 29.
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
865.200.4452 | www.thedistrictgallery.com

Blue Star Museum admission program to AMSE begins Memorial Day, May 30, 2013 through Labor Day, September 2, 2013. Free AMSE Admission available to active-duty military ID holder and five immediate family members. Active duty military include Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, active duty National Guard and active duty Reserve members. Must show active duty military ID for free admission.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

Original paintings, sculptures, and graphics by artists from the world over celebrate the timeless appeal of birds through fresh, artistic interpretations.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 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