Calendar of Events

Thursday, August 29
10:00 am FAMILY PROGRAM: Little Tykes Hike
(Ages 6 and under) Bring your little ones out to explore, dig, run and play. We'll celebrate a summer fling as we explore the world of flowers, birds, and other fun things! This program is FREE, but pre-registration is required. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

Saturday, August 31
1:00 pm FAMILY PROGRAM: Fairy Tea Party
(Recommended for ages 3-10) Come discover the magic of nature with our Fairy Tea Party. Fairies will decorate toadstool cupcakes, make their own forest trail mix, and even plant a fairy teacup garden. The fee for this program is $20 per fairy. Spaces are limited! Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

2:00 pm Ijams Creature Feature
(All Ages) Have you met all the animals that call the Ijams Visitor Center home? If not, be sure to stop by every Saturday for a chance to get nose-to-beak with some of our resident furred and feathered ambassadors. This program is FREE, but donations to support animal care are welcome.

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

Many people have never heard live opera, and even fewer have had that opportunity to hear it for free. But that is exactly the possibility that presents itself at the library. The finale for this year’s Hot Summer Nights’ concert series will be a performance by two opera singers from the Knoxville Opera Company. This concert, like the others in this series, will provide entertainment that is fun and friendly for the whole family.

Knoxville Opera Company: Brian Salesky, Executive Director and Conductor, will accompany two opera performers, one of whom will be Maria Natale (pictured) who will sing excerpts from this coming season’s operas. Natale and a male tenor will preview three operas from this upcoming 2013-14 season: “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, and sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For further information about library programs or services, call the library at 982-0981 or visit the Web site at www.blountlibrary.org.

Come meet adventurer and filmmaker, Dominic Gill, author of "Take A Seat". At the age of 25, Gill cycled from Alaska to Argentina, 18,449 miles on a tandem bicycle traveling SOLO so he could invite random companions along the route to “take a seat” and experience the journey with him. The documentary of his unique travel adventure won a Special Jury Prize at Banff Mountain Film Festival in 2009 and has since been shown in 400 cities nationwide.

Admission is free. Food and beverages will be available. The event benefits Legacy Parks Foundation - contributions are welcomed.
At the Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center, 900 Volunteer Landing Lane, Knoxville, TN 37915. Info: www.OutdoorKnoxville.com, 865-525-2585

East Tennessee PBS and the Knoxville Film Festival host a FREE screening of the documentary "Side by Side: The Science, Art & Impact of Digital Cinema" on Thursday, August 29, at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. The event serves as a kick-off party for the Knoxville Film Festival to be held September 19-22. www.knoxvillefilmfestival.com for more details about the Festival.

About the film: For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie - with film. Movies were shot, edited and projected using photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to challenge photochemical filmmaking. SIDE BY SIDE, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves, takes an in-depth look at this revolution. Through interviews with directors, cinematographers, film students, producers, technologists, editors and exhibitors, SIDE BY SIDE examines all aspects of filmmaking - from capture to edit, visual effects to color correction, distribution to archive. At this moment when digital and photochemical filmmaking coexist, SIDE BY SIDE explores what has been gained, what is lost, and what the future might bring.

Hosted by East Tennessee PBS at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8.

Concert on the Terrace- Johanna Divine with Subtle Clutch
Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, doors open at 5:30.

Concert on the Terrace with Johanna Divine and Subtle Clutch.
tickets $15 for KBGA members, $20 for non-members, children 12 and under are free.
For tickets visit www.knoxgarden.org or 865 862 8717.

Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum
2743 Wimpole Ave
Knoxville, TN 37914

Pellissippi State Community College hosts the paintings and mixed media pieces of local artist and educator Marcia Goldenstein in “Everything In Between” Aug. 28-Sept. 19 on the Hardin Valley Campus.

“Everything In Between” opens Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the gallery of the Bagwell Center for Media and Art and closes with a reception that takes place 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19. Normal gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

The Goldenstein show features mixed media and oil paintings that put a new twist on familiar images. The exhibit will include a series of more traditional landscapes, dominated by the sky and painted with oil on linen, as well as a new series of mixed media paintings, featuring acrylic and colored pencils, on paper maps.

Goldenstein earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska in 1973. She has been at UT since 1976. A few of her more recent exhibits include showings in “Art in the Airport” at McGhee Tyson Airport in 2012 and 2013 and in “Artscapes” at the Knoxville Museum of Art in 2011 and 2010.

The closing reception Sept. 19 will be a good opportunity for visitors and students to ask questions of Goldenstein.

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.

Join us for an Artists Reception Friday August 30 from 5:00pm until 9:00pm. Light refreshments will be served
The UT Downtown Gallery will host an short exhibition (4 days) of the incoming class of 2016 graduate students. The exhibition includes, printmaking, painting, drawings, sculpture, video, and installations. These sixteen artists have chosen UTK School of Art as their home for the next three years to complete their Masters studies. The exhibition highlights their current work and their artistic accomplishments prior to arriving at UT. Artists included in the exhibition are; Tatiana Potts-Printmaking, Kelsey Stephenson-Printmaking, Ed Miller- Ceramics, B.J. Alumbaugh-Printmaking, Karl Schwiesow-Sculpture, Katherine Farley-Transmedia Design, Shannon Herron-Transmedia Design, Kent McQuilkin- Transmedia Design, Keely Snook- Printmaking, Jade Hoyer- Printmaking, Takuya Maeda- Drawing & Painting, Martin Lang- Transmedia Design, Carlos Cantalapiedra Vaquero- Transmedia Design, Peter Cotroneo- Drawing & Painting, Allan J. Masterson- Ceramics, and Natalie Petrosky- Painting.

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

Bring your musical instruments and singing voices to Pellissippi State Community College. Community-wide auditions get under way the end of this month for “The Robber Bridegroom,” Broadway’s hit bluegrass musical. Auditions are open to everyone. They take place in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on Pellissippi State’s Hardin Valley Campus. “The Robber Bridegroom” will be presented “Doyle style,” with actors playing instruments and singing throughout. For auditions, performers should bring their own instruments, if possible, to accompany their vocal tryouts. The play is told in “story theatre” fashion—in a style that lies somewhere between storytelling and an acted-out play. Nine principal actors will appear on a unit set, thus providing extreme flexibility in staging and production and allowing each actor his or her moment to shine. The musical includes a score by composer Robert Waldman to be played by a small onstage band. Rehearsals are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7-10:30 p.m., as well as occasional Wednesday evenings.

“The Robber Bridegroom” is a rousing, bawdy Southern fairy tale set in 18th-century Mississippi. The play tells the story of Rosamund, the only daughter of the richest planter in the county, and her courting by rascally robber Jamie Lockhart. Affairs go awry by way of an unconventional case of double-mistaken identity, compounded by the machinations of an evil stepmother intent on Rosamund’s demise, a pea-brained henchman and a hostile talking head in a trunk. The play includes one of the first genuine bluegrass scores ever heard in a Broadway musical, giving this unusual tale a distinctive sound reminiscent of the Natchez Trace Band. “The Robber Bridegroom” book and lyrics are by Alfred Uhry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Driving Miss Daisy.” The story is based on a 1942 novella of the same name by Eudora Welty. Pellissippi State presents “The Royal Bridegroom” at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 1-2 and 8-9. Additional performances are set for 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 3 and 10. For more information, call (865) 694-6400.

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Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and The National Basketry Organization (NBO) are pleased to present All Things Considered VII, a biennial juried and invitational exhibition. The show is comprised of 44 baskets—14 included by invitation and 30 included by jury. The show features benchmarks in excellence in traditional and sculptural basketry that demonstrate superior technique, and original concept and design. This traveling exhibition is comprised of baskets of the highest caliber, craftsmanship and technical ability, which speaks to intricacy of expression, intimacy of design, visual excitement and communication that highlight tradition and stretch the imaginations of the viewer to new insights of the scope basketry in the 21st century.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Linda Allen, Sally Anaya, Dona Anderson, Pamela Becker, Lanny Bergner, Danielle Bodine, Lauren Bristol, Clay Burnette, Ann Coddington Rast, Donna Crispin, Sharon Dugan, David Dusina, Kathey Ervin, Sue Fedenia, George Fitzpartick, John Garrett, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Jennifer Heller Zurick, Lissa Hunter, Christine Joy, JoAnn Kelly Catsos, Nancy Koenigsberg, Katherine Lewis, Jennifer Liston Dykema, Kari Lonning, Dorothy McGuinness, Nathalie Meibach, Marilyn Moore, Kathryn Rousso, Ann Coddington-Rast, Lois Russell, Amanda Salm, , Josh Simpson, Nadine Spier, Jo Stealey, Polly Adams Sutton, Elizabeth Whyte Schulze, Matt Tommey, Don Weeke, Peggy Wiedeman, Peggie Wilcox, and Nanette Wood.

As a complement to the cutting edge basketry on exhibit in All Things Considered VII, Arrowmont will display a variety of historic baskets from the school’s permanent collection. Many nearly 100 years old, these baskets are examples of those produced by the cottage industry that helped support mountain families around the time Pi Beta Phi Settlement School—which has evolved to become Arrowmont—was first founded in Gatlinburg.

Open Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Please call for Holiday and Weekend hours. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

A show with works by former Knox County art instructors: Charles “Chico” Osten, Suzanne Jack, Sue W. Lane, Christine Harness, Judy Jorden, Rikki Taylor, and Owen Weston. Rikki specializes in some of the best decorative pottery anywhere in the United States. The rest of the magnificent seven will be showing works in oils, watercolors, mixed media, and in Owen’s case, stunning nature photography.

Simultaneously showing at the Art Center will be transparent watercolors by the art students of Mary Baumgartner’s Wonderful World of Watercolor and handmade books by the students of Bob Meadows.

Exhibit Reception - August 16, 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

The Art Market Gallery will present a special memorial exhibition in celebration of East Tennessee’s history and in conjunction with the East Tennessee History Center’s History Fair on August 17. This show will display several works by Patricia Sprouls, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 90. One of the first members of the Art Market, she was well known in the Knoxville area for creating complex but delicate watercolor and pen-and-ink paintings illustrating local historic buildings replete with people of that time period.

Patricia Sprouls was born in The Bronx, NY, moving for health reasons to the Isle of Capri with her mother and sister as a young child. She spoke four languages: English, Spanish at home and German and Italian while in Italy. She remained fluent in Italian into her later years. A lifelong fine-art career began under her mother’s tutelage. She was awarded "Best Foreign Art Student" in all of Italy, winning a full four-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Trapped there during World War II, and surviving their apartment’s bombing in an air raid shelter, Patricia and her family never gave up hope and were able to return to the United States in 1947. She married in 1948, raised a family in New Jersey, and continued her art career. She exhibited in New York City, and in New Jersey, where she was president of the state chapter of the American Artists Professional League, a board member of that national organization, and a past instructor at the Ridgewood Art Institute of New Jersey, considered one of the nation’s best community art associations. Also serving on the board of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York City, Patricia Sprouls was one of the first women to become a member of the exclusive and prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York City, the nation’s oldest art club. She exhibited in many national shows and had several solo shows in the metropolitan area. Moving with her husband Joe to Tennessee and settling in Norris in 1987, she continued painting with local art groups and, five years after its establishment for the 1982 World’s Fair, was juried into The Art Market Gallery, where her work was shown for more than 20 years.

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