Calendar of Events

Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2013 6pm to 9pm
Bliss Home is pleased to present Bottle Cap Art by Knoxville artist, Ryan Blair, for November's First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, November 1st, from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary Steamboat Sandwiches will be provided and Ryan's art will be featured for the month of November. Ryan's exhibit Bottle Cap Art is funky and fried southern folk art acrylic paintings on wood depicting vintage neon signage, distressed, and then covered in painted bottle caps. Bottle Cap Art consists of mixed media, like wood, bottle caps and acrylic paints. Ryan's inspiration for Bottle Cap Art comes from vintage neon signs across the United States. Ryan was born and raised in Central Indiana but has spent the last 17 years in the foothills of East Tennessee. Ryan holds a degree in Art Education, with an emphasis in painting, which he uses to teach art in Knoxville's public school system. Website: ryanblairart.com

Where: Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902
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A1LabArts and the Center for the Creative Mind is happy to announce a group exhibition "Layered and Built," which showcases recent work by 3 MFA painting graduates from the University of Tennessee. Their work explores various forms of abstraction informed by sources such as architecture, pattern, geometry, debris, and pop culture. The exhibition and opening reception is November 1st from 6-10 p.m. at the Center for the Creative Mind, 23 Emory Place.
Kate Faulkner and Briena Harmening reside and work in Knoxville. Briena is a member of the Vacuum Shop Studios, and teaches the International Baccalaureate Art program at West High School. Kate Faulkner currently coordinates the Summer Art Academy at the Knoxville Museum of Art and teaches at both Walter State Community College in Morristown, and at Tusculum College, in Greenville, Tennessee. Rachel Clark has taught at Ohio University and co-directed a study abroad program in Hungary. She currently teaches at Ohio University Lancaster and in the Ohio University’s Upward Bound program.

Dates: Opening and Reception on Friday, November 1, from 6-10 PM, at 23 Emory Place, across from the Old Gray Cemetery on Broadway, in Knoxville. Other viewings times can be made by appointment by contacting Briena Harmening at brienarharmening@yahoo.com

865-441-8152, a1labartsPR@gmail.com, a1labarts.org

Meet artists Houston Llew and Lisa Kurtz from 5-9 p.m. First Friday, Nov. 1!

New Spiritiles by Houston Llew
Every Spiritile is handcrafted in Atlanta, Georgia from American made copper,
glass and wood. Finely ground colored glass is handpainted on copper and then
fired by kiln at 1500 degrees.

New Work by Lisa Kurtz
Lisa throws and hand builds functional pottery. Most of her textural pieces are altered while still wet to highlight the intrinsic beauty of the clay itself. Lisa mixes her own glazes, which adds a unique depth and quality to the work.

Philippa Roberts Jewelry Show
Using sterling silver and beautifully cut gemstones, California designer Philippa Roberts creates contemporary necklaces, bracelets, rings, and earrings that can be worn formally or informally, with an appeal to all ages.

Artisan Chocolates are back!
Try our favorite pairings for chocolate and wine:
V Chocolates back by popular demand...And introducing Zoe's Chocolate Co.

Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. & Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The District Gallery & Framery | 5113 Kingston Pike | Knoxville | TN | 37919
(located next to Gourmet's Market) | 865.200.4452 | www.thedistrictgallery.com

The Art of Fashion will feature work by artist Beth Meadows from 2012 & 13. This exhibition will be located at Style of Civilization 133 S Gay St and run Nov 1- Nov 28. Opening and Reception will be held during First Friday, Nov 1 from 5-9pm.
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Altars by Hector Saldivar, Juan Carlos Martin Trejo, and Adriana Caloca. Paper marche sculptures by Hector Saldivar. Masks by Stephen Hicks and Angel Luna. Day of the Dead Costume and Makeup contest. Sugar skull decorating demonstration by Alex Villalpando (taking orders for Sugar skulls through HoLa). New this year -- day of the dead costume and make up contest!

HoLa Hora Latina: 865-335-3358, www.holafestival.org

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of works by clients of Open Arms Care’s Flying Brushes program entitled “Obstacle Luminance”. The exhibition includes paintings and will be displayed in the Balcony of the Emporium Center. A public reception will take place on Friday, November 15, from 5:00-7:00 PM.

Art therapy is often the only way out of a marginalized life in which barriers of intellectual and physical disabilities are compounded by institutional and social stigma; a stigma that further confines already hampered personalities, making them seem beyond connection, almost infantile, vegetative, lost. Inside a limited set of mind/body connections are unlimited possibilities.

One painting will take anywhere from two to eight hours to complete, sometimes spanning numerous days. The result is absolutely breathtaking. This artwork proves that men, women and children whose physical or intellectual spectrum is narrower than most exude their own luminance just the same. Or better.

“Obstacle Luminance”. is on display November 8-26, 2013 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Saturday, 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.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is pleased to present Surface: Selections from Arrowmont's Permanent Collection. The exhibition features 62 works by 61 artists of national reputation, and presents an opportunity to see many spectacular art and craft objects rarely on display to the public. The human need for expressing one's self through the making of images and symbols is evident throughout time and has manifested itself in an array of different forms and a plethora of artistic media. Whether applying paint to canvas, ink to paper, thread to fiber, texture to metal or glaze to clay, the adding, resisting, subtracting or a combination of those approaches to a material is the focus of this exhibition. Inspired by three surface forums (clay, fiber, and metals) taking place at Arrowmont in January 2014, these works from our permanent collection represent the different ways artists handle the surface of their chosen medium and express themselves through the objects they create. All art communicates and it all begins with a mark on a surface.

"We chose these particular pieces because of their exploration and manipulation of extremely varied surfaces, and their diversity of materials and content,” says Stefanie Gerber Darr, Arrowmont Gallery Manager. “Curating, conserving and exhibiting Arrowmont’s fantastic—and constantly growing—permanent collection is one of the truly great things the school provides for this region. We are always pleased by these opportunities to share it, and to invite our neighbors and visitors to be enriched by it here with us.”

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

Recent works by Dennis Sabo Photography will be on display at the Tomato Head Restaurant-Market Square in downtown Knoxville from October 5 - November 1 and at the Tomato Head-Bearden location from November 3-December 7. His art exhibit entitled "Leafing Impressions" is an impressionistic and expressionistic viewpoint of the autumn grandeur that Mother Nature has provided to us.

Sabo says, "I challenge myself to capture common subjects that are often overlooked and then refine the photograph into an interpretive collage of color, motion, and textures. With a global community very much focused on environmental impact and fragile ecosystems, my artwork captures natural images and color with a perspective people easily miss." Dennis Sabo is an internationally award winning photographer specializing in contemporary fine art abstract, and scenic photography. His fine art prints interweave his creative compositional expressions and vivid colors into nature’s greater scheme of things. Dennis has refined the photograph into an interpretive collage of colors, and texture. His artwork and photography has appeared in a variety of books and magazines that include Canon, NOVA, PBS, Living Southern Style, Hilton Hotels, NBC, Ocean Conservancy, Shedd Aquarium-Chicago, and Blue Planet. His fine art has been included in gallery exhibitions at the Blowing Rocks Preserve-Hobe Sound, FL., Arts in the Airport Spring 2011/13 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, the National Juried 2012/13 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, Emporium Gallery- Knoxville, TN, Red Line Gallery-Farragut, TN, the Dogwood Regional Fine Art 2012 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, Bliss Home Designs 2013, and ongoing at "The Art Market Gallery", Knoxville, Tennessee. www.dsabophoto.com

Tomato Head - 12 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902 | (865) 637-4067
Tomato Head - Bearden - 7240 Kingston Pike, Suite 172 | 865-584-1072

A new exhibition of colorful landscapes in watercolor and acrylic, nature images, and abstract Rain Paintings. Many images are available as notecards.
Opening Reception Friday November 1, 5:30 to 8:00.

Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, 1127 Broadway Suite B, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-523-1401, www.cityofknoxville.org/recreation/arts

Blount Mansion will host an exhibit opening from 5:30-7:30pm entitled Furniture on the Frontier, a showing of the Blount Mansion’s finest collection pieces on display at the Blount Mansion Visitors Center. Admission is free with light appetizers and a special gift for our members. Blount Mansion is currently closed to the public for a historic restoration and preservation project; the Visitors Center remains open Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-5 with the exception of Game Days in Volunteer country. This exhibit, Furniture on the Frontier, will be on display for the duration of the closure and is always free to the public, with a suggested donation! Come and see some of William Blount’s most valuable possessions and a wonderful example of the splendor of the Blount’s during the founding of Knoxville. Blount Mansion is the home of William Blount, Tennessee’s only signer of the United States Constitution, as well as where the Tennessee State Constitution was drafted and signed. It will be an opportunity for all Knoxville citizens to learn about their vital historical importance in the founding of our government. Blount Mansion is Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark given by the National Park Service and is the oldest house museum in Knox County. It is owned and operated by the Blount Mansion Association, Inc., a nonprofit, educational organization.

Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-2375, www.blountmansion.org

"The Science Maze" where visitors get lost in science facts as they discover interesting tidbits of science fields from astronomy to zoology. AMSE Second Level.

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

Pueblo pottery of the Southwest is one of the most beautiful and enduring artistic traditions in all of Native North America. It is a tradition rich with history—not only as an expression of cultural identity, but also to serve as a reflection of the relationship between Pueblo peoples and the influences from outside their own community. Today, there are about twenty pueblos with a total population in excess of 50,000. It is a practice flexible enough to adapt as necessary over time, while still adhering to established social norms.

Pottery-making in the American Southwest is a tradition that first emerged about two thousand years ago. Historically, it was a functional art form, passed from generation to generation over the span of centuries by people living in permanent villages known as pueblos. The pottery of each pueblo was unique and distinguished by a variety of characteristics, such as the individual clay source and shape of the vessels and designs, or lack thereof, painted onto the surface. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, these traditions were well established; and as more and more people began to travel and move to the Southwest, pottery production was quickly transformed from a functional art form (used primarily within Pueblo communities) to a highly marketable cultural expression.

Curated by Bill Mercer, this exhibition consists of seventy-four Pueblo Indian pottery vessels and supporting materials, dating from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twenties centuries, illustrating the remarkable variety of pottery created during that very dynamic time of transformation. Some of the vessels in the exhibition are very conservative and adhere to the traditional style of a particular pueblo, while others incorporate innovations specifically designed for the retail market.

It is also during this time period that certain individuals, such as Nampeyo from Hopi and Maria Martinez from San Ildefonso, became recognized for the quality of their work. The exhibition includes outstanding examples of their work as well.

Through this exhibition, drawn exclusively from the rich collections of the Kansas City Museum and Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, visitors will be introduced to the various styles of Pueblo pottery, as well as an understanding of the narrative behind its continued development.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu