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NOTE: Contains strong language not suitable for children.
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit?

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

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

Two popular workshop leaders will conduct con-current writing workshops during "January Jump-start XIV" at the Best Western Morristown Conference Center in Morristown, TN, at exit 8 off I-81. J.T. Ellison will be leading the fiction workshop. Jane Hicks will lead the poetry workshop. The event is sponsored by Tennessee Mountain Writers. It will open with an informal social hour on Friday evening; workshop sessions will run from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 8:30-11:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Participation in January Jump-start XIV will be limited to 20 registrants per workshop. Deadline for registering is January 3. Coffee and tea before the morning sessions and lunch on Saturday is included in the registration fee of $125. Attendees should mention TMW for a special rate when calling Best Western Conference Center (423-587-2400) for reservations.

For a registration form or additional information on either workshop, see the Tennessee Mountain Writers website, www.tmwi.org, or contact Sue Richardson Orr at theorrs@usit.net.
Tennessee Mountain Writers is a non-profit, non-political organi-zation that promotes Tennessee literary arts and supports the work of Tennessee writers. Its goal is to provide opportunities for people interested in the craft of writing to become better writers.

Iris DeMent says of that elusive inspirational spark, “I didn’t know when or if I’d make another record. I gave up on trying to steer it or force it and decided to just make myself available in my heart and mind as much as I could and leave the rest up to fate.” Sixteen years after the last collection of DeMent songs, that time has come.

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Richard Smith was born in Beckenham, Kent, England in 1971. One day, at the age of five, Richard was watching his father fingerpick “Down South Blues” (an Atkins-Travis recording) on his guitar. The boy begged his dad to show him how to play it, and finally he did. Despite the fact that Richard is left-handed and his dad’s right-handed guitar was not designed for tiny hands, by the end of that day, Richard learned and played both the chords and the melody. Within no time, the toddler outstripped his dad’s six-string prowess and it was clear to all who saw or heard him play that Richard was one of those rare phenomena -- a child prodigy.
Tickets $13 in Advance and $15 at the Door
The Palace Theater is located at 113 West Broadway, Maryville. TN. www.palacetheater.com.
For advance tickets 865-983-3330 with Visa or MC or from Murlin’s Music World 429 West Broadway, Maryville

The Ewing Gallery is pleased to present the 2014 Artist in Residence Biennial. The 4 exhibiting artists are:
Patricia Treib, Fall 2012
Michael Berryhill, Spring 2013
EJ Hauser, Fall 2013
Jaya Howey, Spring 2014

The Artist in Residence Biennial will be on display in the Ewing Gallery from January 9 - February 6, 2014. Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, January 9 from 7-9PM in the Ewing Gallery.

Although the resident artists present slide lectures during their stays, it is access to their works of art that is highly anticipated and valued by both the students and the faculty. Therefore, the Ewing Gallery has sponsored group exhibitions of these artists since the inception of the Artist in Residence Program in 1982. Currently held every two years, this exhibition provides a continuing dialogue between artist-teacher and student. The AIR Biennial also offers our general university and regional community an opportunity to experience a provocative and often challenging exhibition of contemporary art.

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
1715 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996
865.974.3200
www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

An old time calling, square dance, and music weekend party
Callers: Michael Ismerio, Bobby Fulcher, Phil Jamison, and more
Bands: The Hellgrammites and the Corn Potato String Band
Weekend Pass: $40 is the "early bird" price until December 12, after which it will be $50 - at www.KnoxTIX.com or 865-523-7521

Calling and dancing workshops all day Friday and Saturday
Evening Dances open to the public: $5-10 at the door, 7pm all three nights

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 more information see http://jubileearts.org/dtbstn/ or email dtbstn@gmail.com

Leapin’ Lizards! The world’s best-loved musical returns in time-honored form. Directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro, this production of ANNIE will be a brand new incarnation of the iconic original. Featuring book and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, ANNIE includes such unforgettable songs as “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow.”

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

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

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

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 Arts & Culture Alliance proudly presents “Dragonflies of the World: an International Exhibition,” featuring painting, mixed media, and sculpture by 21 artists from the United States, Europe, and Central America. Dragonfly Arts Dimensions, an art agency in Gatlinburg, organized the exhibition to showcase diverse cultures and artwork from around the world. Exhibiting artists include: Jose Alanzo, Dennis Berrios, Deborah Cain, Rafael Casco, Eva Castillo, Dennis Cerrato, Ocean Starr Cline, Juan Pablo Delgato, Delia Flores, Leonel Flores, Delmer Meija, Adonay Navarro, Freddy Olger, Rene Oviedo, Hendry Rivera, Ruben Salagado, Hector Salvidar, Omar Sanchez, Ivan Soto, Orlando Roque, Allan Rosembelth, Fernando Venegas, and Tito Venegas. The exhibition will be on display in the main gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville from January 3 – February 1, 2014, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on January 3 from 5:00-9:00 PM with chocolate fondue provided by the Melting Pot of Knoxville. Artists who will be present at the opening include Rafael Casco, Ocean Starr Cline, Delia Flores, Hector Salvidar, and Ivan Soto. The First Friday reception also features a flamenco dance performance by Pasión Flamenco from 6:00-6:45 PM and a Jazz Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends from 7:00-9:00 PM, both in the Black Box Theatre.

Many of the artists will travel to the US and East Tennessee to participate in a variety of activities related to the exhibition programming, including two public panel discussions: one will take place at the University of Tennessee’s Black Cultural Center (sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity), and another will take place at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville (sponsored by HoLa Hora Latina and the Arts & Culture Alliance). Dates and times for the panel discussion will be announced shortly. Many of the artists are traveling from Honduras to visit East Tennessee for a cultural exchange.

“Dragonflies of the World: an International Exhibition” will be on display January 3 – February 1, 2014. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed Monday, January 20, for the holiday. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.