Calendar of Events

An art teacher at one of the Cumberland County Schools was trying to instruct one of her students when he boldly asked "Are you really an artist?" The art teacher replied, "Yes, I am." The student said "Well, I have never seen any of YOUR work." That was the inspiration for inviting the Cumberland County public school Visual Art Teachers to have their own exhibit at the Shanks Center for the Arts, Crossville Tennessee, which is entitled "Artists in their own right." The months of September and October 2013 were scheduled because during those months, every 4th grader in Cumberland County (over 600 students!) makes a school field trip to Downtown Crossville. One of the places they visit is inside the Shanks Center for the Arts.

The public is invited to a First Thursday Reception, Thursday September 5, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Musical entertainment will be provided from 5:00 - 6:00 by North Cumberland Elementary School music teacher, Becky Bull. Ms Bull is the director of COCCO Children of Crossville Chamber Orchestra. The three front galleries will have been changed to an entirely new set of original works by local and regional artists. The Gift Shop also has new items. The First Thursday receptions are a time to mingle with artists, authors, musicians, and guests.

Shanks Center for the Arts, 140 North Main Street, Crossville, TN 38555. Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM. Information: 931-787-1936, www.shankscenter.org

INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS ACADEMY PRESENTS WEST AFRICAN DANCE TECHNIQUE CLASS WITH TAKIA!
African Dance Technique class will consists of African dance styles, techniques, songs, and culture. Classes are designed to educate, motivate, and inspire you about the positive awareness of African Cultural Dance and Percussion as a Whole. Class will consist of a mild warm-up of stretching, cardiovascular endurance, and developing footwork/body mechanics.

EVERY THURSDAY
CLASSES WILL BE HELD AT: MY PLACE Performing Arts, 734 Hall of Fame Drive, Knoxville, TN 37917
ADULT CLASS: Cost: $5 per person
Info: Takia Faniyi, 865-384-3181, ifaa2012@gmail.com

by Michael Frayn, directed by Greg Leaming
“This dizzy, well-known romp is a festival of delirium.” The New York Times
This popular farce follows the onstage and offstage antics of a hapless English theatre troupe stumbling from the first dress rehearsal to the disastrous closing night of their production, “Nothing On.” Missed cues, broken backstage romances…and a very slippery plate of sardines all come together to create a comedy that gets everyone caught in the act!

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

The UT Knoxville School of Art is pleased to announce that Ewa Głowacka and Alicja Masiukiewicz, two printmaking students from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland will spend the month of September as guest artists at the University. Their campus residency is part of an exchange that also allows two students from UTK to spend time in Wroclaw each May. Głowacka and Masiukiewicz and present an exhibition of their art and work in the School of Art Printmaking studios during their residency.

Their exhibition will take place at Gallery 1010, 113 S. Gay St. from September 5-7 with a (First Friday) reception on Friday September 6th, from 6-9 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu).

The UT Knoxville School of Art is pleased to announce that Ewa Głowacka and Alicja Masiukiewicz, two printmaking students from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland will spend the month of September as guest artists at the University. Their campus residency is part of an exchange that also allows two students from UTK to spend time in Wroclaw each May. Głowacka and Masiukiewicz and present an exhibition of their art and work in the School of Art Printmaking studios during their residency.

Their exhibition will take place at Gallery 1010, 113 S. Gay St. from September 5-7 with a (First Friday) reception on Friday September 6th, from 6-9 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu).

Author Pamela Schoenewaldt will officially launch her new book "Swimming in the Moon" at the September meeting of the Knoxville Writers Guild. The event, which will be open to the public, is at the Laurel Theater, at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street in Fort Sanders. A $2 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible. Additional parking is available at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave.

Schoenewaldt's book explores early 20th century themes including immigration, workers' struggle for justice and treatment of the mentally ill at that time. She said after the success of her first book, "When We Were Strangers," HarperCollins was interested in either a sequel or another exploration of the immigrant journey. "I had in mind the mysterious, enchanting image of the Palazzo Donn'Anna... I was also interested in themes of daughters caring for mothers and workers struggle of the early 20th century," she added. "Vaudeville just came to me as an intriguing setting; I'd lived near Cleveland. Once I had these pieces, I began developing characters and a plot and then researching the elements." The publisher, Harper Collins, is sharing the first chapter of "Swimming in the Moon" on Schoenewaldt's facebook page,." At the launch event, Schoenewaldt will discuss her process of turning historical research into historical fiction. She will also compare her experiences of writing her first book without an agent or an editor to those of her latest work, which included steady collaboration with an agent and an editor under deadline. She plans to read excerpts from the book and from her first work, "When We Were Strangers." Copies of both books will be available for purchase at the meeting. A short Q&A session will follow the reading. Additional information about Schoenewaldt and her books can be found at www.pamelaschoenewaldt.com.

The Knoxville Writers Guild exists to facilitate a broad and inclusive community for area writers, provide a forum for information, support and sharing among writers, help members improve and market their writing skills and promote writing and creativity. Additional information about the Knoxville Writers' Guild can be found at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.

The Athens Area Council for the Arts is pleased to present “Climbing the Great Spiral, Poems and Prayers of Hope and Healing”, by Ellen Zahorec, to be on exhibit from September 4 – October 25, 2013, at The Arts Center, 320 North White Street, Athens, Tennessee.

Ellen Zahorec is a mixed media artist, currently residing in Chattanooga, TN. For much of the past decade, her work has focused on religious symbolism, working in acrylic, marker, colored pencil, and crayon to create the brilliantly colored detailing inherent in her art.

The public is invited to meet the artist at an opening reception at The Arts Center, Friday, September 13, 2013 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

The Arts Center is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information or directions, call The Arts Center at 423-745-8781, or visit our website at www.athensartscouncil.org.

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

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