Calendar of Events

Join Vance Thompson (director of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra) and friends every First and Third Sunday from 4pm to 6pm for a Jazz Jam session at the Black Box in the Emporium Center: November 3 & 17, December 1 & 15, January 5 & 19, February 2 & 16, March 2 & 16, April 6, and May 4 & 18.

Bring your axe and play, or just listen and enjoy. Free admission. Special thanks to the Arts and Culture Alliance, the Tennessee Arts Commission, Arts Build Communities and the Joy of Music School!

At the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

Live! On Air and In Your Living Room: 60 Years of East Tennessee Television
Relive the Golden Age of television in East Tennessee through rare footage and original artifacts.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

Nov. 2 - Dec. 6 at Tomato Head Market Square
Dec.7 - Jan. 4 be at Tomato Head Gallery/Kingston Pike location

Sally Ham Govan draws figures and dogs and creates digital illustrations of city scenes. She has a BFA in studio art (drawing and graphic design) from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in illustration from the University of Hartford. She designs and edits publications and websites for Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. Previously she worked as an art director at Whittle Communications and a graphic designer at the Knoxville News Sentinel. Her website is sallygovan.com.

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

What is the meaning of peace? In this special exhibit, sixteen East Tennessee artists present their interpretations through photography, watercolor, oil, pencil and fabric art. The artists’ entry fees were donated to the East Tennessee chapter of Veterans for Peace, a global organization of military veterans working to end war and violent conflict. The chapter’s projects include supporting anti-bullying in our schools and educating our community on peaceful alternatives to violence.

Reception: Fri, Nov 2, 6:00-7:30 PM
Artist Q&A at 6:30 PM

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM; Friday 9AM-4:30PM; Sunday 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org

In the Small Hall Gallery at Magpies and Glowing Body, 846 N Central St Knoxville, TN 37917

All work will be under $100 and partial proceeds benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. It is a multi-artist show.

Information: jenniferbrickey@hotmail.com

A special art exhibit during the month of November will be displayed at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive (off Peavine) , Fairfield Glade. The Art Guild will pay a Memorial Tribute to artist, Larry Harrington, who passed away in August.

Larry was an excellent artist and his graphite and charcoal drawings were exquisite - elegant and beautiful in their simplicity and execution. He was always ready to help anyone with any problem. Everything he did was with a big smile. Larry was, also, an Episcopalian Monk. What an interesting person he was.

In conjunction with this exhibit, a reception for the public will be at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, home of the Art Guild, beginning November 3 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm . Larry’s art work will be on display and for sale along with many other items through the month of November.

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
marketing@shopinbliss.com | shopinbliss.com | 865.329.8868

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.
www.withbearhands.com

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

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