Calendar of Events

Opening reception Friday, January 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artist’s talk at 6:30 p.m.

Don’t let any earthly calamity knock your dreamer and your hoping machine. -- Woody Guthrie
When I was a kid I would ride my bike around the neighborhood. My red Dyno bike was my first vehicle and my first way of exploring the world. I could ride as far as I wanted, as long as I could find my way home. At that age, everything was important, everything had something to offer. I would revisit places over and over again. I had nothing to do except look. Everything I encountered had nothing else to do except transform into something else. I still remember specific cracks in the sidewalk, street curbs, and creek beds. I am interested in this kind of familiarity with the world, the kind of unintended familiarity that happens by default. My studio process involves a balance between seeing and making. I revisit a place until it unfolds in a new way or gains new meanings. A telephone pole shadow becomes a totem, zip, or a slit. Woodgrain begins to have eyes. A cinderblock wall, reinforced with steel bolts, starts to become sundials, buttons, or nipples.

David Anthony Harman is a native of Dallas, Texas. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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

Presented by Tennova Healthcare, East Tennessee PBS's original series Up Close, hosted by Stephanie Aldrich, returns for a second season featuring interviews with Knoxville physicians, performers and significant citizens and visitors. Up Close airs Sundays at 11:30 a.m. beginning January 5. The season begins with an interview with Trisha Gene Brady and Cruz Contreras of Knoxville-based Americana band The Black Lillies. The interview was held in the lobby of the historic Tennessee Theatre on March 23, 2012, just hours before the band performed the CD release show for their third CD, Runaway Freeway Blues. Additional guests during the season include an interview with medical specialists, civil rights leader Reverend Harold Middlebrook, a profile of coffee roasters in Maryville, and national touring group Celtic Thunder.

Episode guide
January 5 - The Black Lillies
January 12 - Dr. Dewey McWhirter, sleep expert
January 19 - Vienna Coffee Company
January 26 - Dr. Michael Fields, OBGYN
February 2 - Rev. Harold Middlebrook, part 1
February 9 - Rev. Harold Middlebrook, part 2
February 16 - Dr. Steedman Sarbah, gastroenterologist
February 23 - Celtic Thunder

For more information: 865.595.0220 or www.easttennesseepbs.org

Works by Kay Murphy and Lois Crabtree Armstrong
Opening reception January 5, 2-4pm

Rose Center, 442 W Second North Street, Morristown, TN | 423-581-4330, www.RoseCenter.org
open daily 9-5

On the first Sunday of each month, the American Museum of Science and Energy will open its doors to Knox County students for $0.01*. Tour AMSE’s permanent exhibit galleries; The Story of Oak Ridge, Exploration Station, The World of the Atom,Y-12 and National Defense, Earth Energy Resources, and The Flattop, explore its temporary exhibits, experience the hair raising demonstration Atoms & Atom Smashers, and more. *All children ages 5-15 must be accompanied by a paying adult (age 18 and older) in a ratio not to exceed three children per one adult. Proof of Knox County residency (driver's license) will be required for each adult accompanying children ages 5-15. Contact: Glenda Bingham, 865-576-3200. 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 | www.amse.org

On January 5th, Circle will be hosting our 2nd annual open house. This is a great opportunity to meet our teachers and experience all the variety that Circle offers. We invite anyone to join our circle and take class, from those who have just discovered their love for dance to the experienced dancer, Circle has something for everyone! The class will include modern technique and improvisation and will be taught by: Amanda Merris, Angela Hill, Callie Minnich, Darby O'Connor, Laura Burgamy, Mary Alford, Nate Barrett, and Sarah Whitaker. This is a great time to purchase annual class passes for the year too! Best of all the open house is FREE!

Circle Modern Dance 2nd Annual Open House

Jan. 5, 2014

1pm Doors Open
2-4:30pm Class

Emporium Annex Studio, 100 S. Gay Street (see our website for directions if you have never danced with us before)

This is a great opportunity to meet our teachers and experience all the variety that Circle offers. We invite anyone to join our circle and take class, from those who have just discovered their love for dance to the experienced dancer, Circle has something for everyone! The class will include modern technique and improvisation and will be taught by: Amanda Merris, Angela Hill, Callie Minnich, Darby O'Connor, Laura Burgamy, Mary Alford, Nate Barrett, and Sarah Whitaker. This is a great time to purchase annual class passes for the year too! Best of all the open house is FREE!

1pm Doors Open
2-4:30pm Class

Emporium Annex Studio, 100 S. Gay Street (see our website for directions if you have never danced with us before). Info: 865-524-7615, www.circlemoderndance.com

Recent works by Garry Taylor of Knoxville, a painter in both watercolor and oils, and Lisa Kurtz of Knoxville, a clay artist, will be featured in January at the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville.

Lisa has been a functional potter for 36 years. After getting her Master's Degree in clay (MA) at The University of Louisville, she set up her first studio in the eclectic, artsy, Highlands neighborhood in Louisville, Ky. and named her business Highland Pottery. She has been an exhibiting member of many professional juried guilds, boards, galleries and artist associations. Her clay work has been exhibited and collected across the U.S. and is also in private collections internationally. Lisa throws and handbuilds her pieces and often combines the two methods to produce her colorful functional pottery. Her work is often very textured to emphasize the malleable qualities of clay. Most of her pieces are altered while still wet to highlight the intrinsic beauty of the clay itself. Lisa mixes up her own glazes, which adds a unique depth and quality to the work. As an artist and a maker of "handmade" objects, she strives for that human connection with the user/collector of her pottery. For more information about Lisa's work visit her website: www.LisaKurtzHighlandPottery.com

Artistic expression, whatever form it takes, is a necessity in Garry’s life for it feeds his spirit and nourishes his soul. He relishes the process of imagination assuming physical form. He studied art and dance at LSU, graduating with a BS in 1980. Upon graduation he moved to New Orleans and began an apprenticeship in a stained glass studio. That became his primary media until he moved to Knoxville in 1987. At that time he put his art aside for a while, concentrating on being a counselor in the Alcohol and Drug Recovery program at UTMCK. He did this for almost ten years, and then started experiencing a real need to return to his art. He did so, again concentrating in stained glass but beginning to explore pastels (a media not taught at LSU while he was there) which he had experimented with after graduation. He is drawn to landscape painting, both plein aire and using photographs he has taken as references. And as an extension of that, flowers are a favorite subject matter. The two painters that have most influenced the way he approaches a painting are Georgia O’Keefe and Claude Monet. He has been absent from the Art Market gallery for the past 7 years to focus on being a stay at home parent for his now 8 year old twins, Julie and Billy. His art also took a hiatus during this period. Recently he began painting again, working with oil and watercolor, both of which he hadn’t worked with since he was in college. His new work is made up of expressions in these media. He continues to be drawn to landscapes, especially scenes that have paths, roads, or water reflections in them.

A First Friday opening reception for the exhibit is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, January 3, with complimentary refreshments and live music by cellist Leigh Sooter.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

Born in Miami of a Cuban Flamenco dancer, Tom McDaniel is a self-taught photographer. Growing up, art was everywhere: in the statuary-populated gardens of his home, in the huge surrealistic mural in his bedroom and in the lush, ever-present colors of the tropics. First drawn to nature photography, Tom used an old German fixed-lens camera and light meter. One can see elements of his early work in his clear preference for discovering and highlighting the common, often overlooked beauty that surrounds us.

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

The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade invites you to view the new works on display starting January 3, 2014. Come and view high quality art presented in watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastels, colored pencil, photography, mixed media, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, and fabric. While your enjoy the new art display you can check out the schedule of classes to be offered, enroll in one you will enjoy, or purchase a gift of fine art from the gallery.
The PCAC is handicapped accessible and open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Website: www.artguildfairfieldglade.net.

Bliss Home is pleased to present photographer, Phil Savage, for January's First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, January 3rd, from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary Steamboat Sandwiches will be provided and Phil's art will be featured for the month of January. Phil Savage was born in Mexico City and is a world-traveler, which has helped him hone his ability to "turn the ordinary into the extraordinary". Phil loves to explore the endless possibilities that photography has to offer, by embracing black and white panoramic photos with hand-tinted touches. Phil's First Friday exhibit, aims to challenge viewers to rediscover the beauty and complexities that can be found all around Knoxville.

Where: Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902
Info: marketing@shopinbliss.com, shopinbliss.com, 865.329.8868

Zoo admission is half-price. Details TBA!

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. Information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee - Ongoing/Hayworth Gallery
This permanent installation, housed in one of the two large top-floor galleries, traces the development of fine art and craft in the region and the surrounding area over the past century. It tells the largely unknown story of the area’s rich artistic history and its connections to the larger currents of American art. Featured works are drawn from the KMA collection along with selected works on loan from several regional museums and private collections.

Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond - Ongoing/Faires Stokely Gallery
This exhibition showcases the exciting range of contemporary works by a stellar slate of more than 30 international artists and East Tennessee luminaries. The selection is grouped in thought-provoking juxtapositions that call attention to new directions in art and new approaches to the artistic process, and help viewers discover meaningful connections between featured works.

Thorne Miniature Rooms - Ongoing/Great Hall
Thorne Rooms are among America’s most well-known miniature diorama groups. The Thorne Rooms were developed in the 1930s and 40s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne of Chicago, who collected miniature furniture and accessories and used them to create dioramas built to a scale of one inch to one foot.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org