Calendar of Events

The Art of the Creche II: Folk Art Nativities from Around the World
Featuring new selections on loan from a private collection.

Also showing - Selections from the Permanent Collection
Featuring International Artists including Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Salvador Dali and many others.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 7 to 9 PM
Gallery Talk: 6:30 PM
The event is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and family!

Oak Ridge Art Center * 201 Badger Avenue * Oak Ridge
(865) 482-1441

The New York Times says that ELF is “SPLASHY, PEPPY, SUGAR-SPRINKLED HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT!” ELF is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas. This modern day Christmas classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner ELF on Saturday, November 16 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 17 at 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.

The Broadway at the Tennessee series has continued to flourish each year by bringing premier titles to Knoxville -- and the 2013-2014 season is no exception. This season consists of Disney classics, Tony Award® winning favorites and breathtaking, contemporary pieces.

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com.

November 16, 2013
Farragut Folklife Museum
Civil War Lecture #2 (TBA)

11408 Municipal Center Drive
Farragut, TN 37934
865-966-7057

Ed Snodderly – an established singer-songwriter of Southern music, whose lyrics are inscribed on the walls of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – is leading a songwriter’s workshop at The Arts Center in Athens, TN on Saturday, November 16 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The workshop is not a performance or a lecture – it focuses on participants and their craft. Interested musicians and songwriters are invited to sign up for the workshop. The early bird registration fee for those who register before November 1 is $35 for the three-hour workshop.

Songwriters of all genres and levels of experience are invited to attend this interactive, collaborative workshop. Lyricists and composers are welcome and it is not required that you do both. Participants should bring original songs and new ideas and come equipped with writing tools (pen, pencil, favorite paper or notebook). Participants should also expect to play and sing, but should not shy away from attending if they do neither. The workshop will involve large and small group activities.

To register for the workshop, call The Arts Center at 423-745-8781 or drop in at 320 North White Street Athens, TN. More information on this and all other AACA programs is available online at www.athensartscouncil.org.

Ottawa Valley Fiddler
Canadian fiddler, step dancer and singer-songwriter April Verch recently released her ninth album, Bright Like Gold. The April Verch Band—rounded out by bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffin, is an energetic, virtuosic, tradition-celebrating outfit that’s not soon forgotten when they depart the stage. The grand finale involves Verch fiddling and step dancing—and often executing two entirely different intricate rhythmic patterns—at once.

Tickets, if available, will be for sale at the door for $14.

The Laurel Theater is located on the corner of 16th and Laurel Avenue in the historic Fort Sanders neighborhood of Knoxville near the UT campus. For additional information, call (865) 522-5851, e-mail concerts@jubileearts.org, or visit www.jubileearts.org.

The Pope Benedict XVI Schola proudly presents a concert in honor of its namesake, the music-loving Pope Benedict XVI, on Saturday, November 16, at 2:30 p.m. at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville. There is no charge for the program, but donations will be gratefully accepted to support the group's music budget, which is entirely self-funded, as well as Holy Ghost Church. The schola’s repertory for the concert includes several works by Benedict’s favorite composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sopranos Danitza Fisher and Maria Rist will perform Mozart’s Alleluia and, in conjunction with the schola, his three-movement Benedictus sit Deus. The concert will also feature works in Latin and English by Renaissance masters such as Palestrina, Sheppard, Hassler, and Clemens non Papa as well as works by Vivaldi, Duruflé, and contemporary composer Louise Wyman. Organist Charles Walden, music director of Holy Ghost Church, will also perform.

The church is located at 1041 N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Schola members come from churches throughout Knoxville, and the group’s director is Mary C. Weaver. The Pope Benedict XVI Schola rehearses on Thursday evenings at Holy Ghost and welcomes singers ages 18 and up. For more information, call 865-437-8620 or e-mail mary@b16schola.org.

Date(s) - November 16, 2013
9:00 am
(Ages 12 and up) At Ijams Nature Center, we think birds are cool! During this program, Stephen Lyn will take you into the world of the winter birds that live in East Tennessee during the winter months. After a discussion about the adaptations that allow birds to survive in the cold, we’ll warm up and perfect our own feeding strategies a hearty pancake breakfast. The fee for this program is $8 for members and $12 for non-members. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

Saturday Night's Alright (for Swingin')! Be there, or be, you know, less than well rounded. Back again for their 5th "Swingin' Saturday" show at The Relix, The Streamliners Swing Orchestra is a fabulous 17-member band that plays the much loved songs of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Louis Prima, Glenn Miller, Louis Jordan, and more. Led by trumpeter/vocalist Mike "Catfish" Spirko, The Streamliners also features the lovely and talented vocalist Kayley Burton Farmer.

Swingbooty will start the show and get your tail feathers shakin’. Led by Christian Lange on violin, this 6-member group draws its biggest influences from 1930 jazz greats like Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli as well as ska legends like Prince Buster and The Skatalites.

Show starts at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Admission: $15 – general; $12 – KSDA/KMA/SMBS members;
Early Bird Special - $9 (first 16 in the door)
Night Owl Special - $7 (after 9:30 pm.)

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Mary W. Thompson will be teaching a reed basket class
Kits will include natural splits, dyed splints and rims for $35 and an additional $15.00 for the class.
Bring scissors, sharp pocket knife, a water bowl and your lunch.
For more information contact the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum at 423-884-6246.

Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, 576 HWY 360, Vonore, TN 37885. www.sequoyahmuseum.org

The Ewing Gallery will host a collage workshop in conjunction with Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center and Richard Meier: Selected Collage Works in the Art and Architecture Building on the UT Campus. Knoxville Artist, Jean Hess, will teach the workshop.

Workshop will be held in Art and Architecture Building on the UT Campus. There will be a $20 registration fee for the workshop.Space is limited. Register Early! A workshop confirmation letter will be sent to you via email upon receipt of your registration. Attendees will be asked to bring a bag lunch, magazine and paper collage material, and scissors / Exacto knife. Beverages and all other workshop materials will be provided for you. The workshop will begin at 9am in room 113 of the Art and Architecture building with a lecture. Jean Hess, artist and educator, will lead the participants through an overview of different collage media and techniques, with an emphasis on the importance of paint and layered pigments and clear resins in the collage process. Explore line, shape, color and composition. Hess will give a concise overview of the artist’s process creating small-scale collage paintings. Each attendee will complete a finished work of art.
Jean Hess’ Biography: Studies in cultural anthropology [U. New Mexico, BA, MA] as well as in art [Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Maryland]. Hess creates obscure and playful collage paintings, combining natural materials and recycled ephemera to reference dream, memory and nostalgia. Some influences are: A Swiss grandfather’s silk fabric design studies, done in Zurich at the turn of the Twentieth Century, along with that same grandfather’s collection of native American archeological treasures and literature; a grandmother’s work as a dressmaker and seamstress; another grandfather’s education and work in the mountains and mines of Appalachia; family ties to the coal mining regions of Pennsylvania. She uses multiple layers of resin with ink, graphite and pigment to suggest fleeting experiences, refracted light and rich atmosphere. Pressed plants and tree bark from her garden, mica and copper from Appalachian mines, hand-written ephemera such as old diaries, letters, school notebooks, and the graffiti children leave in old text books, as well as old wallpaper and books from various “excavated” sources all combine to create rich visual fields. Hess has participated in several solo and group exhibitions. Hess' work can be found in collections at Huntsville Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Art, Science and History, and many others. She has also written reviews for Art Papers for the past 18 years.

To register, please e-mail ewing@utk.edu

UT Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture - A+A Bldg. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996.
ph: 865.974.3200 - email: ewing@utk.edu - web: www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

The University of Tennessee Master of Fine Art candidates will host an open house to share their artwork with the community of Knoxville and surrounding regions. Join us for a night of food, refreshments, and new works completed by current graduate students. Media includes but is not limited to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Come experience new work, engage with artists, and explore the Art & Architecture building. We hope you will join us and become better acquainted with our MFA program. In addition UT Letterpress will be open and Print club will host a sale from 5-9pm.

Where: School of Art, Art & Architecture Bldg., 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville TN 37996
Rooms: 103B, 105, 327, 425, 441, 443, 109, 103, sculpture tray (2nd floor), first floor atrium.

Participants: Tamra Hunt, April Bachtel, Eric Cagley, Peter Cotroneo, David Harman, Jonathan Lisenby, Takuya Maeda, Andrew Merriss, Natalie Petrosky, Thomas Wharton, Brandon Alumbaugh, James Boychuk-Hunter, Raluca Iancu, Daniel Ogletree, Tatiana Potts, Jen Scheuer, Kevin Varney, Victoria Buck, Kevin Kao, Allan Masterson, Edward Miller, Carlos Cantalapiedra Vaquero, Katherine Farley, Martin Lang, Hannah Skoonberg, Justin Clay, Cierra Reppert, Jade Hoyer, Shannon Herron, Keely Snook, Kelsey Stephenson, Frank Mcquilkin

The Foothills Craft Guild will present their 47th annual Fine Craft Show on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, November 17, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the historic Jacob Building in Knoxville’s Chilhowee Park. A Fine Craft Show has been designated by the Southeast Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event for November 2013! Imagine being surrounded by over 140 booths of fabulous fine crafts made according to very specific standards for quality workmanship, all representing the Tennessee region. What a great time to shop for unique gifts and support your local fine craft artisans! There will also be daily educational craft demonstrations, a Make It & Take It booth for all ages, and an Authors’ Corner with notable authors Dr. Bill Bass, Bill Landry, Sam Venable, and Jim Johnson autographing their books. Admission is adults $8, seniors $7 (65+), and children 13 and under free, www.foothillscraftguild.org.