Calendar of Events

UTK School of Art, MFA Class of 1993 Exhibition
First Friday Opening Reception August 2, 5 - 9pm
Closing Reception, August 23, 5 -- 9pm

This exhibition features the work of 14 MFA artists from the UTK School of Art Class of 1993. Artist's will be displaying work that is current or important in their journey in fine arts over the last 20 years. The UT MFA program attracts students from different regions of the United States as exemplified in this exhibition, which include artists from Mississippi, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Artists included in the exhibition;
Scott Palmer -- Ceramics
Annette Bongers - Ceramics
Melody Reeves -- Printmaking
Rob Tarbell -- Painting
Eric Fracassi -- Sculpture
David Deitrick -- Graphic Design
Eric Smith -- Graphic Design
Joel House -- Sculpture
Melanie McLaughlin -- Graphic Design
Kris Rehring Jones -- Graphic Design
Debi Henry Danielson -- Painting
Brad Cantrell -- Ceramics
Laurie Robichaux -- Ceramics
Earl Watson -- Graphic Design

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

This is the twelfth season for this popular concert series with all performances sponsored by the Blount County Friends of the Library. Concerts for this annual series, made possible through funding by Friends of the Library, will be presented on Thursday nights in August. All concerts take place in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Thursday, August 1, 7 p.m., “Bean and Bailey.” This comedy-music duo is on a mission as they tour across the country to bring good, clean humor back to the streets of America. Bradley Bean and Jackson Bailey met at Carson-Newman College and now, they and their families still live in East Tennessee. So welcome them home as they perform in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Thursday, August 8, 7 p.m., “Ben Bolt.” Classical guitarist, Ben Bolt, travels internationally to perform and teach Master Classes (Paris, Brazil, Uruguay, North America), and he has won honors in each of these countries, including induction into Delta Omicron as a National Patron (a title he shares with Walt Disney, Luciano Pavarotti and Shinichi Suzuki). He is a knight of the Ducal Order of the Cross of Burgundy, and he was awarded the coveted medal, Premio al Mérito, at the National Library of Montevideo. He presently lives in Maryville while caring for his elderly father. He will perform in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Thursday, August 15, 7 p.m., “The Twangtown Paramours.” Mike Lewis and Mary Beth Zamer, a husband and wife team who live in Nashville and perform internationally have a new album, "The Promise of Friday Night," that was # 2 on the July Folk DJ Chart. In November, 2012, John Platt of WFUV in New York City and Lilli Kuzma of WDCB in Chicago included their album on their top 10 lists for 2012. In May, they won Wildflower's Michael Terry People's Choice award in Richardson, TX. They are currently writing songs for upcoming films for Major Studio Partners in NYC, who has financed films such as Superman II and The Devil Wears Prada. In 2012, they opened for Joe Ely, Claire Lynch, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Kim and Reggie Harris. They will perform in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Thursday, August 22, 7 p.m., “Hugh Livingston.” Local organist, Hugh Livingston, will perform a concert on a box organ. For two years, he was the house organist at Knoxville’s Tennessee Theater where he played “The Mighty Wurlitzer” theater pipe organ between Saturday night movie features—at the same time he played trumpet with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra! He is a Blount County Tennessee native and a graduate of Alcoa High School and Maryville College. He was for three years the band and choir director at Alcoa High and has worked in the music ministry of many area churches. He will perform in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Thursday, August 29, 7 p.m., “Knoxville Opera Company.” Brian Salesky, Executive Director and Conductor, will accompany two opera performers who will sing excerpts from this coming season’s operas: “The Tales of Hoffman” (a poet in his world of fantasy and demons pursues four mesmerizing women), “The Elixir of Love” (a romantic comedy), and “Norma” (a triangle of forbidden love). They will perform in the Reading Rotunda of the library.

Free and open to the public, the programs are hosted by the Blount County Public Library, located at 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville. For further information about library programs or services, call the library at 982-0981 or visit the Web site at www.blountlibrary.org.

RECEPTION - Friday, August 23, 5:30 - 7:30pm in the Ewing Gallery

From laser cut aluminum to furniture design and photography taken abroad, Thirty Two is an exhibition of work by faculty of the College of Architecture and Design. The collection, named for the number of participants, demonstrates the creative energy and rich ideas of a faculty, whose dedication to the college's three disciplines -- architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design -- inspires their professions and the students they teach. The legacies of the college and its programs are a reflection of the research and creative pursuits of its instructors. Since the last faculty exhibit six years ago, the culture of the College of Architecture and Design has evolved. It is more interdisciplinary than ever. The addition of the Landscape Architecture Program in 2008, appointment of new leadership, and employment of diverse faculty to the ever-growing Architecture and Interior Design programs, reflect the college's long-standing mission to create an environment of inquiry, collaboration, exploration, and learning. Thirty Two documents this vibrant culture. It provides a source of inspiration to students to stretch their thinking, investigate their passions, and pursue their own creative work.

GALLERY HOURS - M-F: 12-5PM
Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

Tennessee Educational Enrichment

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

Honoring the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Campbell Station, the exhibit will feature a variety of items related to the battle, fought Nov. 16, 1863 on the land surrounding the Farragut Town Hall, as well as an encampment scene on the vignette in the Doris Woods Owens Gallery. The exhibit will include items from the personal collections of local community members Gerald Augustus, Folklife Museum Committee Member Jack Haines, Jerry Keyes, Folklife Museum Committee Chair Lou LaMarche and Jack Lane. Items on display will include Civil War guns; a tree stump from the Frank Russell House containing a bullet from the battle; the first edition of William Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator newspaper originally published during the Civil War; and an original letter from Seventeenth Michigan Infantry soldier V.W. Bruce to Nancy Galbraith who cared for him when he was wounded in the battle.

The Farragut Folklife Museum is committed to preserving the heritage of its East Tennessee community and features a remarkable collection of artifacts from the area, including an extensive collection of the personal belongings of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first Admiral of the U.S. Navy and hero of the Civil War.

Farragut Folklife Museum, 11408 Municipal Center Drive, Farragut, TN 37934. Hours: M-F 10AM-4:30PM and by appointment. Free. 865-966-7057

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