Calendar of Events

The gallery at the Plateau Creative Arts Center (PCAC) will feature art in the theme of Beyond Repair. The public is invited to the PCAC gallery to view original artwork in the form of oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, colored pencil, photography, mixed media, pottery, sculpture, and jewelry, created by Art Guild members.

Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-F 9AM-4PM; Saturday-Sunday 1-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249; www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present the Annual All Media Show, a new exhibition featuring watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastel, pencil, ink painting, drawing, and more from the current membership of the Knoxville Watercolor Society in celebration of its 50th Anniversary. The exhibition will be displayed in the Emporium Center from September 6-27, 2013. A public reception will take place on Friday, September 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM with music provided by Pistol Creek Catch of the Day and chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot. The First Friday reception also features a Jazz Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson (director of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra) and Friends in the Black Box Theatre from 7:00-9:00 PM.

The reception on Friday, September 6, is free and open to the public. The Annual All Media Show is on display September 6-27, 2013 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, September 7, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit our Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present “Dream Big”, a new exhibition featuring nearly 40 abstract oil paintings by Knoxville artist Brandan Cox. While Cox has painted for many years, she has always remained private about her artwork. “I chose the title ‘Dream Big’ because it has been a personal dream of mine to have my work displayed and to open up this part of myself to others,” says Brandan Cox. “Dream Big” celebrates the first time Cox’s work has been on public display. The exhibition will be displayed in the Balcony of the Emporium Center from September 6-27, 2013. A public reception will take place on Friday, September 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM with music provided by Pistol Creek Catch of the Day and chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot. The First Friday reception also features a Jazz Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson (director of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra) and Friends in the Black Box Theatre from 7:00-9:00 PM.

The reception on Friday, September 6, is free and open to the public. “Dream Big” is on display September 6-27, 2013 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, September 7, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit our Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.

by Bruce Graham

Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday performances and $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday performances. If available, tickets will be sold at the door.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown has open seating. Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to pick up your tickets and claim your seats. TKD reserves the right to seat walk-in patrons during the final 15 minutes prior to show time.

Tickets: 865-523-7521; www.KnoxTIX.com. Information: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

The 94th annual Tennessee Valley Fair is one of the state’s largest multi-day events attracting nearly 140,000 people each year. Known for its innovative exhibits, livestock shows, concert series, action sports, exciting rides and a variety of unique fun foods, the Tennessee Valley Fair offers tremendous family entertainment!

In celebration of our 94th year, Fairgoers can enter the Fairgrounds on Friday, September 6 for only $1.00! Discount begins at 3:00 p.m. and ends promptly at 4:34 p.m.

Headline Entertainment Line-up:
Friday, September 6 - Loverboy - Reserved Seat = $15.00
Saturday, September 7 - Fairest of the Fair Pageant - Reserved Seat = $5.00. Ticket sales benefit East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Sunday, September 8 - Chase Rice - Reserved Seat = $5.00. Ticket sales benefit The Love Kitchen
Monday, September 9 - Greg Bates - Reserved Seat = $5.00
Tuesday, September 10 - Charlie Daniels - Reserved Seat = $20.00
Wednesday, September 11 - Casey James - Reserved Seat = $10.00
Thursday, September 12 - Lee Brice - Reserved Seat = $18.00
Friday, September 13 - Young MC & Tone Loc - Reserved Seat = $10.00
Saturday, September 14 - Southern Drawl Band - Reserved Seat = FREE
Sunday, September 15 - Randy Houser - Reserved Seat = $10.00. Tickets sales benefit HonorAir Knoxville

Tennessee Valley Fair: 865-215-1471, www.tnvalleyfair.org

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 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

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.

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