Calendar of Events

“Fine Arts Blount” Member Art Exhibit, coordinated by Cindy McDannel on the Art Wall at the Bookmark Café, Art Panels at the Reading Rotunda, two square pedestal cases and two vertical display cases in the Entry Rotunda, through July.

Free and open to the public, the program is at the Blount County Public Library, located at 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville.

Saxophonist and composer Gregory Tardy moved to Knoxville in 2010 to become the University of Tennessee's Professor of Jazz Saxophone. Since becoming an official resident of our fair city, Tardy has made concert appearances across the United States, Russia, several European countries, Israel and Japan, but has yet to present an entire concert of his music here in Knoxville. This special Jazz Lunch performance aims to remedy that situation. Come see for yourself why the New York Times proclaimed Tardy to be "one of the bright hopes...a seeker, absolution and salvation in every solo."

Show will be fully seated, general admission. Boxed lunch is provided by Cafe 4. If you have any dietary restrictions, please let us know in advance at 865-544-4199.

Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

Come to Farragut for the Red, White & Blues, pre-independence day picnic on Wednesday, July 3, from 6:30-10PM on the lawn next to Farragut Press. Free parking at numerous businesses surrounding the venue.

Entertainment by DJ John Rutherford, rising Nashville star Ben Whisler & his band and local youth performers. This year the children's area will feature a zip line. Zip line tickets sold separately for $10 each; all other children's activities included in admission. The event will feature "Minis in Motion Education Station", the Knoxville Zoo's Zoomobile, Ingles watermelon eating contests and other seasonal activities.

$5 per person, $3 for youth under 12, ages 2 and under free. Food, drinks and zip line available at extra cost.

Go to farragutbusiness.com or call 307 2486 for more information.

A native of Blount county, Charles E. Kirkland's Music & Dance series includes paintings, wall sculptures and standing sculpture. Kirkland feels that his art reveals his inner being and uses bold and subtle strokes and colors to get the feel he strives for in his work. This abstract series is unique due to the combination of underpinnings being used, as well as the color and patterns. There is a boldness and energy to the work.

Charles E. Kirkland will be available during the Last Friday Art Walk July 26,2013 from 5pm-8pm

The Denso Art Gallery is open Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and during special events.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Info: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

West Virginia native, Karen Shaw, is Artist of the Month during July at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive (off Peavine). Karen is proficient in colored pencil along with other mediums such as watercolor, printmaking, graphite pencil and jewelry. Shaw has won several art awards over the last few years including one Best of Show, and her work hangs in family and friends’ homes from California to Italy.

Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-F 9AM-4PM; Saturday-Sunday 1-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249; www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

Participants will learn West African Djembe drumming from local West African drum instructor Obayana Ajanaku. Obayana is the West African Drum instructor at Austin-East Magnet School and Vine Middle Magnet School. He has extensive training in the Djembe arts as well as other traditional and modern percussions. Takia Ajanaku will be leading the African dance class. The class will consist of African dance, techniques, and culture. Classes are designed to educate, motivate, and inspire dancers about the positive awareness of African Cultural Dance. Laura Burgamy from The Wing Project will be introducing workshop participants to aerial arts to include silk and lyra. Everyone will have the opportunity to explore these two popular forms of aerial dance.

“We are excited to be offering this unique workshop to the community. You may have the opportunity to take a class from Obay at other venues in Knoxville, but to have African drumming, dance and instruction in silk and lyra all in the same workshop is a great opportunity!” say Lisa Hall McKee, Director of Studio Arts for dancers.

Participants must be at least 8 years of age. No experience necessary. Cost is $150.00 for the three day workshop, July 1, 2 and 3rd from 9 to 1PM. Classes will be divided by age and ability. Contact Studio Arts for dancers at office@studioartsfordancers.net or by calling the office at 865-539-2475.

Support Knoxville's own Hard Knox Rollergirls!

At the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Ave. 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, 8/24, 9/7, 9/21. Whistle blows at 6:00PM.
Tickets for sale at Coliseum box office or Knoxville Tickets. All dates Double Headers!
www.hardknoxrollergirls.com or 865 272 WHIP (9774).

8th Annual Fountain City Art Center Annual Open Show - a spectacular array of area artists’ talents. This exhibit includes pottery, amazing decorative gourds, a handmade book, a leather and fossil sculpture, oils, watercolors, pastels, graphite pencil drawings, fused glass, and many mixed media pieces.

Exhibit Reception - June 28, 6:30-8:00 PM

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; Saturday, 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

At the Museum of East Tennessee History through August 7. The exhibit provided by the Y-12 History Center, has appeared at a number of prominent venues, most recently at the National Archives and Records Administration's Southeast Region branch in Atlanta. The photographs, many by the Manhattan Project official photographer Ed Westcott, give visitors a firsthand look at life in the Secret City, the war effort, the Cold War, and ongoing research and technology.

The exhibition is open and free to the public.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

Art and science are intertwined in Nikon Small World as the photomicrographs showcase the delicate balance between outstanding scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality. "We are proud that this competition is able to demonstrate the true power of scientific imaging and its relevance to both the scientific communities as well as the general public," explains Eric Flem, Communications Manager, Nikon Instruments.

First place winners Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael Taylor of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, partnered to capture the image highlighting their research of the blood brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo, which is believed to be the first-ever image showing the formation for the blood-brain barrier in a live animal. The top five images in Nikon Small World include: the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo; Live newborn lynx spiderlings; Human bone cancer (osteosarcoma) showing actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (yellow) and DNA (blue); Drosophila melanogaster visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina (gold), photoreceptor axons (blue), and brain (green); and Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, Spain.

This year's judges were comprised of top science and media industry experts: Daniel Evanko, Editor, Nature Methods; Martha Harbison, Senior Editor, Popular Science; Dr. Robert D. Goldman, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University and Liza A. Pon, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Director, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource, Columbia University.

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

June 14 Reception 6pm - 8pm

An exhibition juried by Denise Sanabria from Knoxville.

Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-F 9AM-4PM; Saturday-Sunday 1-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249; www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

Abstract Works from the Ewing Gallery Permanent Collection
June 12 - July 12, 2013

Ewing Gallery Summer Hours: closed: Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
open: Tuesday - Friday 1pm - 5pm and by special request

In its brief history, the Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture at The University of Tennessee has strived to acquire works of art and architecture for the educational benefits of our students and faculty and for the enrichment of the Knoxville and East Tennessee communities.

This summer the Ewing Gallery will be organizing a permanent collection exhibition focusing on our abstract art.

Abstract works from the permanent collection will be on display from June 12 - July 12.

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
865.974.3200
www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu