Calendar of Events

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Pellissippi State Community College: Works by Marcia Goldenstein

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  • August 28, 2013 — September 19, 2013
  • Reception Sept. 19, 4-7PM, M-F 10AM-6:30PM

Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event

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.

Knoxville's Original Investigative based Ghost Tour

  • August 26, 2013 — November 16, 2013

Category: Festivals, special events and Kids, family

Haunted Knoxville Ghost Tours, Knoxville's most exciting LATE NIGHT ADVENTURE... Let our Certified Paranormal Investigator's guide you or your Group through Historic Knoxville teaching you the Cities History and help you, "BE THE INVESTIGATOR". We offer both Public and Private Tours through the middle of November. Our Private Tours cater to Corporations/Businesses creating an educational and Team-Building environment. Find out why Knoxville is, "The City where the Spirits never Sleep". Every Tuesday-Saturday.
Event booking page: http://www.hauntedknoxville.eventbrite.com
Company Site: http://www.knoxghost.com / 865-377-9677

Arrowmont: "All Things Considered" Exhibit

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Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event

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

Fountain City Art Center: The Magnificent Seven

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Category: Festivals, special events

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

Clayton Center for the Arts: Tennessee Artists Association Exhibition

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Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event

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

Hard Knox Rollergirls: Home Season Schedule

  • June 29, 2013 — September 21, 2013
  • 6:00PM

Category: Festivals, special events and Kids, family

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).

American Museum of Science & Energy: Nikon Small World

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  • June 14, 2013 — September 15, 2013
  • Mon.-Sat. 9AM-5PM, Sun. 1-5PM

Category: Kids, family and Science, nature

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

East Tennessee Historical Society: Of Sword and Pen

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Category: Exhibitions, visual art, History, heritage and Literature, spoken word, writing

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

Farragut Folklife Museum: Discovering the Civil War Exhibition

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Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Free event and History, heritage

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

Marble Springs: "Shopping at the Farm" Farmers Market

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Category: Festivals, special events and Free event

Marble Springs State Historic Site is proud to present the 3nd Season of ‘Shopping at the Farm’ – the Marble Springs Farmer’s Market for our South Knoxville community. The market will be held Thursdays beginning on May 9 & continuing weekly to November. All vendors will be selling fresh, locally-produced products including sauces, seasonal produce, herbs, perennial plants and more!

Marble Springs: 1220 West Gov. John Sevier Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920. Information: 865-573-5508, www.marblesprings.net

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