Calendar of Events

Reception: Closing Reception, Friday September 27th, 6-9 pm

The Blackberry Farm Gallery is pleased to present Presence, a show of new work by Kelly Hider. The exhibit includes sixteen manipulated photographs of children playing with rhinestone-covered toys, as well as displays of the altered objects created for the project. The surfaces are embellished with gold paint and glued rhinestones, evoking narratives of childhood innocence, and suggesting the possibility of supernatural and spiritual forces. She has already received local recognition for some of the Presence work, including Best of Show at the Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition in January 2013, and Third Place at the 2013 Dogwood Fine Arts Exhibition.

Hider, a local Knoxville artist and a graduate of UT’s MFA program, is known for using alternative materials to create her mixed-media installations and two-dimensional work, blurring the division between “high” and “low” art. She has made artwork out of wallpaper, cereal, macaroni noodles, and most recently, rhinestones, while maintaining a high level of craft. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of Rochester and at SUNY Brockport in Rochester, NY, The Ewing Gallery and Gallery 1010 in Knoxville, TN, and has participated in group exhibitions at Castell Gallery in Asheville, NC, Cazenovia College in Syracuse, NY, and at Lyon College in Arkansas. She currently teaches at Walters State Community College and Pellissippi State Community College, and is a founding member of the Vacuum Shop Studios in North Knoxville where here studio is currently located. For more information, please contact Kelly Hider at (865) 230-0600 or kellymhider@gmail.com / www.kellyhider.com / http://vacuumshopstudios.wordpress.com.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Tickets are available at the Clayton Center Box Office M-F 10AM-6PM or by phone or online: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com
Website: http://www.claytonartscenter.com/events/view/439

Beginning in September, we'll be partnering with the Square Room to present live jazz every Tuesday evening! To get this great tradition kicked off in grand fashion, we've invited trumpeter Tom Harrell to join the Donald Brown Quartet for a very special event.

Praised by Newsweek for his pure melodic genius, Tom Harrell is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic and creative jazz artists of our time. His last performance in Knoxville was in 1991 in a band led by the then-newest member of the UT Jazz Faculty: pianist Donald Brown. Since that time, Harrell and Brown have worked together on numerous occasions around the world.

The newest member of the UT Jazz Faculty today is saxophonist Greg Tardy. Tardy has also been a frequent collaborator with Harrell over the years at various locations around the globe. However, the three men have not shared the stage together until now. Knoxville greats Rusty Holloway and Keith Brown will round out this all-star line-up for two great shows: Tuesday night and Wednesday Jazz Lunch.

At the Square Room. Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

An annual public participatory art project celebrating work.

This Labor Day morning, September 2, Knoxville residents from neighborhoods throughout the greater Knoxville area will be participating in this free and open art event. LDSP growers will harvest sunflowers from their gardens and bring them to the Krutch Park Extension in downtown Knoxville TN. Each sunflower represents the harvest of individual efforts over the past year while the circle of sunflowers represents the sum of our efforts People will start gathering in the park at 9:00am and we will begin, working together to weave the flowers into a large circular form on a free-standing chain-link substrate. By 1pm the circle will be complete, and the installation will be ready for the week-long schedule of events.

Circle Modern Dance is teaming up with Labor Day Sunflower Project with a dance performance during the installation event on September 2nd, and on First Friday, September 6th from 7:30 -10:00 pm. Circle Modern Dance will be joined by a host of performers organized around the theme of “work.”

The LDSP will come alive at night this year with video projection onto the sunflower installation surface, September 2-8, every evening, starting at dusk.

Info: www.labordaysunflower.com

Works of art by seven Oak Ridge artists depict historical structures, lifestyle and nature through framed prints and oil on canvas featured in the "Oak Ridge in Art" exhibition. One of the iconic images of bygone days captured by these artists is the 1920's arched Solway Bridge over the Clinch River on Hwy. 62 to join Oak Ridge to Knoxville. Built by Knox County and dedicated in 1930, the Solway Bridge was described as a 772 foot long concrete arch bridge with 20 foot roadway with 3 foot sidewalk on right. The beauty of the three arches of the Solway bridge could not compensate for a two-lane roadway only 20 feet in width, which was replaced in the 1970's by a four lane concrete bridge. To commemorate the beauty of the 1920's Solway Bridge, examine Nick Fielder's oil on canvas, Pat McWilliams Hopkins' print, Fred Heddleson's print and his series of prints recording the "Destruction of the Solway Bridge" in various stages dated from April 14, 1970 through April 15, 1979. Several 1940's buildings and activities are interpreted by the Oak Ridge artists in the museum exhibition. The Chapel on the Hill is shown in a print by Helen Guymon and an oil on artist board by Helen Bayless, which was donated to AMSE by Norman R. Miller. Of special interest is the oil on canvas works of Nick Fielder as he interprets "Gallaher Ferry, Oak Ridge, Clinch River 1943" and "Nuclear Day: Oppenheimer at Trinity, April 16, 1945". Irvin Grossman created an Alexander Inn print with its pink azalea landscape and porch spanning the outside of the first floor. Nancy Smith prepared a print of the American Museum of Science and Energy exterior. Helen Guymon developed the Oak Ridge 50th Commemorative Print "Oak Ridge Memories" with multiple images of Oak Ridge's townsite buildings, natural beauty in flora and fauna. AMSE acknowledges the exhibition loan of works by Oak Ridge artists from the collections of Bobbie Martin, Nick Fielder and Fred Heddleson. Available in the museum's Discovery Shop are Heddleson's Solway Bridge print and the Destruction of Solway Bridge print. The Discovery Shop is open Monday through Saturday from 10:30 am - 4:45 pm and Sunday 1:00 - 4:45 pm.

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

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents local artist Mary Ann Aken as the featured artist for September and October. A sampling of her textiles and tapestries is featured in specially designed cases on the second floor of the rotunda in the Farragut Town Hall. A Farragut resident, Aken holds a master of fine arts degree with a career spanning work as a studio commission artist, potter, weaver, textile designer, fashion illustrator, color consultant, art history researcher, watercolorist, iconographer and art educator. Her works can be found in seven countries and 30 states, including three paintings in the University of Tennessee Collection. Aken is a member of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, Tennessee Watercolor Society, East Tennessee Iconographer Guild, Art Market Gallery and Art Group 21. She was the recipient of the first Knoxville Art in Public Places Award. Aken's Town Hall display highlights her original designs in textiles and tapestries. Included are concept fabric designs intended for commercial productions. Three of the tapestries displayed are from the "Cedar Trees of Tennessee" series, portraying the beauty of the state's cedar trees at different lights and times of the year. The weaving on display was done on different types of hand weaving looms and is a reflection of the mid-20th century crafts movement that encouraged artists to revive old forms of many fine crafts.

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 966-7057 or visit www.townoffarragut.org/artsandculture. 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.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, August 30 from 5:30-9 p.m.

The District Gallery is pleased to present a retrospective show for Lisa Kurtz, exhibiting a selection of her work from 1977-2013. The show is presented in honor of the artist’s mother, Mary Angela Guarneschelli Kurtz and will benefit Alzheimer’s Tennessee. Lisa Kurtz has been a functional potter for 36 years. She received a Masters Degree in clay from The University of Louisville and has been an exhibiting member of many professional juried art guilds, boards, galleries and artist associations. Her clay work has been exhibited and collected across the U.S. and internationally. Lisa throws and hand builds her pieces and often combines the two to produce functional pottery. Her textural work emphasizes the malleable qualities of clay, and most of her pieces are altered while still wet to highlight the intrinsic beauty of the clay itself. Lisa mixes her own glazes as opposed to using commercial glazes, which adds a unique depth and quality to the work. According to Lisa, “I am happy to put on this show in honor of my mom, Mary Angela Guarneschelli Kurtz, who has had Alzheimer’s for about seven years now. She was the first person to teach me about self promotion of my art and always my constant supporter in the arts.”

The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 10-4. Information: 865-200-4452, www.TheDistrictGallery.com

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.

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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

People's Choice Exhibit at the Denso Gallery
Reception on September 27, 5-8 PM

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

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).