Calendar of Events

Dishcrawl, the fun and exciting national dining experience that highlights the tastes of cities across the United States, is expanding to Knoxville this July! Dishcrawl takes food lovers to four different eateries in one night for a tasting extravaganza sure to highlight Knoxville's local chow scene. Totally like a pub crawl-but with food!

Seeking taste testers in Knoxville, Tennessee's Market Square district, dishcrawl will feature four different restaurants within walking distance for a all out night of food festivities. The events give the community a chance to social engage with other foodies in their city, and a taste of what local restaurants have cooking. It is a great opportunity for foodies and restaurant owners alike to gain business and boost exposure possibly with taste seekers that would otherwise not have thought about a certain dining experience.

Participating restaurants are kept secret until the big day, which only builds the excitement. Reservations are $45 per person and can be purchased through www.dishcrawl.com/knoxville.

Helen Ross McNabb Medical Director, Dr. Clif Tennison, to Lead Library's Lunchtime Book Discussion on July 17 featuring Crazy: A father's search through America's mental health madness by Pete Earley.

Crazy is a word we often throw around lightly, just to joke and tease. But when a family member suffers a serious mental illness, the word takes on a different intensity. When writer Pete Earley’s own son broke into a neighbor's house in the throes of a manic episode, he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. Join Dr. Clif Tennison, Chief Clinical Officer, Helen Ross McNabb Center for a discussion of Earley’s book Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness in this month’s Books Sandwiched In, Wednesday, July 17, 12 p.m. in the East Tennessee History Center auditorium, at 601 South Gay Street.

The public is invited to join the conversation on their lunchtime and bring a sandwich along. Copies of the books are available at the Library.

For more information, please call Emily Ellis at (865) 215-8723.

Tuesday, July 16
9:00 am Ijams Gardening Series: Garden Workdays
(All Ages) Join Ijams own green thumb, Peg Beute, as she gets down and dirty in the garden! Despite the summer heat, we'll try to stay cool in the shade as we start seedlings, tend the garden beds, and plant fruits and vegetables in our organic garden. We'll even end the morning with a frosty lemonade and tasty snack to celebrate a job well done! We guarantee you'll have some fun, enjoy the summer sun, and learn more about gardening. This program is FREE, but pre-registration is required. Please call Peg at (865) 577-4717, ext. 114 to register.

Wednesday, July 17
10:00 am & 2:00 pm Ijams Gardening Series: Garden Pests
(Recommended for Adults) What "bugs" you in the garden? Is it slugs? Aphids? Caterpillars? Never fear, Peg is here! Join Ijams gardener extraordinaire, Peg Beute, as she joins you in the fight against beastly backyard bugs! This program is FREE, but pre-registration is required. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Spend a week learning so many exciting facts about our East Tennessee heritage while enjoying games, crafts, hands-on projects and more.

2614 Thorngrove Pike, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: 865-546-0745, www.ramseyhouse.org

This pioneering exhibition will present an underappreciated side to the work of Thornton Dial, Sr. (b. 1928), an artist best known and celebrated for his large scale, multi-media assemblages dealing with a wide range of charged social and political themes. Since the early 1990s, Dial has also produced a rich body of lyrical works on paper, often engaged with themes of gender and human relationships. This exhibition focuses on the very earliest of those drawings, a group of 50 sheets with Dial’s characteristic and broadly coherent iconography of women, fish, birds,
roosters, and tigers, rendered in a variety of media. Organized by the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

THE MUSIC MAN - Mainstage Musical
July 12-28, 2013

Despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef, fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill arrives to con the good people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that will supposed save the town from moral decline. But his plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he runs up against forthright Marian the librarian, whose own bill of sale captures his heart.
July 12, July 13, July 18, July 19, July 20, July 26, July 27 at 8:00PM
July 21, July 28 at 2:00PM

Online ticket sales begin June 24 at http://www.orplayhouse.com/tickets.html.

On First Friday July 5th., “2 Many Pixels” photo gallery is proud to present a collection of photographs by artist and 6 times Ilford Prize winner JACQUES GAUTREAU.

This exhibit explores the full extent of the photographic language, composition, colors, textures, shadows and offers a voyage through the most subtle and genuine emotions.
The photographs are all for sale, gallery archival prints, signed and numbered by the artists.
Hope to see you all for the opening on Friday night, July 5th., 6pm to 9:30pm.
The photos will remain on the walls through the months of July and August.
"2 Many Pixels"130 West Jackson avenue, suite 201, Knoxville, TN 37902
The gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm and after hours or weekends by appointment or chance... at 917 532 4913 or patrice@2manypixelsphoto.com

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents Knoxville artist Bill Cook as the featured artist for July and August. His work is featured in specially designed cases on the second floor of the rotunda in the Farragut Town Hall through Aug. 30.

As a young child growing up in the foothills of East Tennessee, Cook took up wood carving with a pocket knife, creating small carvings from the plentiful cedar wood on the family farm. As a University of Tennessee student, he discovered sculpting in clay, and, in the late 1990s, he began using marble as a sculptural medium. Cook enjoys the physical, mental and spiritual effort required to use marble to create sculpture. He currently resides in Knoxville with his wife and three children.

For more information about this exhibit or to access a Featured Artist of the Month application, please contact Lauren Cox at lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 865-966-7057 or visit www.townoffarragut.org (Departments, Parks & Leisure Services, Arts & Culture). The Farragut Town Hall is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive directly across from the Farragut Branch Post Office.

The gallery at the Plateau Creative Arts Center (PCAC) will feature art in the theme of Celebrating Freedom. The public is invited to the PCAC gallery to view original artwork in the form of oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, colored pencil, photography, mixed media, pottery, sculpture, and jewelry, created by Art Guild members.

In addition to viewing this fine art work, visitors also learn about the many art classes available during the month, and depending on the day and time, may view a class in session, or watch the open painting, beading, or figure drawing sessions that take place in the studio. The gallery is also the perfect place to shop for a reasonably priced gift of art.

The PCAC is open Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Located at 451 Lakeview Drive (off Peavine), the gallery is handicapped accessible. The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade is a not-for-profit organization and an equal opportunity provider. For more information call 931-707-7249. www.artguildfairfieldglade.net.

The University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery is excited to present Print Resonance, a portfolio of 50 prints by students and faculty members from five international universities. This portfolio has been exhibited at the other schools and is now being displayed for the first time in the United States here at the Downtown Gallery.
Fifty graduate students and faculty members at five universities: the University of Alberta, Canada; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium; Silpakorn University, Thailand and Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan created prints specifically for this project. The participating artists made their prints on the same size paper, allowing the viewer to focus on the image, rather than the scale of the work. The audience is encouraged to consider the artistic expression from each university and to find commonality across geographic and cultural borders, as the printmakers share ideas about their own interests, lives, and values.

The works were created using various print techniques, which include inkjet, etching, drypoint, chine-colle, lithography, woodcut, intaglio and blind printing. This portfolio is a limited edition of 10 copies, two for each of the five universities, with the goal of further development of printmaking education around the globe.

Print Resonance will be on display at the UT Downtown Gallery from July 5 -27, 2013.

The opening reception is on July 5 from 5:00- 9:00pm. The artists representing the University of Tennessee in this exhibition will be present.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Recent works by jeweler Jennifer Lindsay and photographer Dennis Sabo will be featured during the month of July at the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville.

Jennifer Lindsay, who resides in Knoxville, fashions one-of-a-kind jewelry using various beading techniques that employ imported seed pearls and semi-precious stones, as well as Swarovsky crystals for dazzling accents. “I get my inspiration from everywhere – architecture, gardens, historical customs,” she says. Ms Lindsay’s creative expression and a penchant for intricate construction are the result of a background blend that ranges from membership in the Embroiderers’ Guild of America to her career as a mechanical engineer at Alcoa.

Dennis Sabo, a Loudon resident, is an internationally honored photographer specializing in contemporary abstract, landscape, and seascape photography. His award-winning work has appeared in various publications, television, the Internet and institutions, among them NOVA, PBS, Shedd Aquarium-Chicago, Hilton Hotels and Blue Planet. A frequent lecturer and workshop instructor, Sabo has refined the fine-art photograph into an interpretive collage of color and texture. The title for this exhibition is “Leafing Impressions,” an expressionistic view of the grandeur of forests and trees.

A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, July 5, with complimentary refreshments and jazz, soul, world and fusion music by Marquis McGee on saxophone. Many member artists will be on hand to meet and mingle with visitors.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

Bliss Home is pleased to present Knoxville artist, Beth Meadows, for July's First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, July 5th from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary Steamboat Sandwiches will be provided and Beth's art will be featured the whole month of July. Beth Meadows graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BFA in Studio Art in 2007. She has lived and worked in Knoxville since then and currently manages The Salvage Room for the non-profit Knox Heritage, receiving and selling historic building materials. She is also the Director, as well as an artist, at 17th Street Studios, a work space for thirteen artists near downtown Knoxville. Beth's July exhibit will feature work inspired by a subscription to Vogue her sister gave her a few summers ago. Most pieces began by tearing out pages from these magazines- photographs of scenes, models, and clothing.

Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902
Artist website: http://www.withbearhands.com/