Calendar of Events

Please make plans to join us in 2014 for another year of celebration and commemoration honoring the life and legacy of the Dream and the Dreamer!

+ January 15, 12:00 PM - Celebration Prayer Service

+ January 16, 8:30 AM - Leadership Educational Symposium, Knoxville Marriott
The Honorable A C Wharton, Jr. Mayor of Memphis, will be the special guest for the annual Leadership Educational Symposium on January 16th. Mayor Wharton has served as Mayor of Memphis since fall of 2009 and also served two terms as Mayor of Shelby County. During the morning Symposium, he will lead a roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as speak on topics relevant to business, education, and mayoral issues.

+ January 16, 12:00 PM - Leadership/Awards Luncheon, Knoxville Marriott
One of the featured events during the celebration is the annual Leadership Awards Luncheon at noon on January 16th and the keynote speaker will be John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center and former President of the American Society of Newspapers Editors. For 43 years, he served as an award-winning journalist for The Tennessean, Nashville’s morning newspaper. He was founding editorial director of USA Today and served in that position for a decade. The trustees of Vanderbilt University created the John Seigenthaler Center and Middle Tennessee State University endowed a chair in his name. He continues to be a strong advocate of First Amendment rights of free expression and will provide a stimulating and moving address.

+ January 17, 5:00-7:00PM - Gallery of Arts Tribute - Opening Reception and Exhibit
At Beck Cultural Exchange Center with artists Ramon Emanuel Stewart II, Jacqueline Holloway, Hawa Ware Johnson, Eddie Lamar Davis, and Alan M. Jones

+ January 17, 7:00 PM - Community Peace Forum - Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Beck Cultural Exchange Center

+ January 18, 8:30AM-2:00PM - Teacher In Service Training

+ January 18, 8:30AM-2:00PM - Youth Symposium, Austin East High School

+ January 18, 1:00PM - Y.W.C.A. Race Against Racism, YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center

+ January 19 - A Night With the Arts Tribute (at Bijou)

+ January 20 - Memorial March Parade (Line up 8:30AM/Step Off 10:00AM)

+ January 20, 11:45 AM - Memorial Tribute Service at Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church
Culminating the commemorative events will be the Memorial Tribute Service at noon on January 20th, the official MLK Holiday and Dr. George McKenna, III will be the featured keynote speaker. Dr. McKenna has been a teacher, superintendent, and administrator as well as educational consultant to numerous school districts and other organizations. Because of his accomplishments, he has received over 400 citations and awards as well as special recognition by President Reagan. In addition to print and TV media coverage, Dr. McKenna is the subject of the CBS television movie, “The George McKenna Story” starring Denzel Washington.

Except for the ticketed Awards Luncheon on January 16th, all of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative celebration events are open to the public without charge. www.mlkKnoxville.org or 865-573-2994

2014 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CELEBRATION OPENS WITH
SPECIAL PRAYER SERVICE FOR THE COMMUNITY

The primary focus of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration is to bring together people in the community from all religions and all faiths. With that as the fundamental goal, the 2014 MLK celebration will open at noon on Wednesday, January 15th with the Interfaith Prayer Service that will involve religious leaders representing a large variety of faiths. The Reverend John Jordan, Pastor of the Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church, will host the event and begin the service with official greetings and welcome.

Other religious leaders who will participate include Reverend Tyler Thompson of the First Christian Church, Ustadh AbdelRahman Murphy of the Muslim Community of Knoxville, Reverend Hoan Dinh of the Divine Mercy Catholic Church, and Brother Brandon Singh of the Sihk Community.

Also participating will be Reverend Chris Buice of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Reverend Rafael Roman of the Hispanic Church of God, Reverend Keith Mayes of Bethel AME Knoxville, Rabbi Alon Ferency of Heska Amuna Synagogue, and Reverend Charles Lomax, Jr. of St. John Baptist Church of Alcoa.

Special music will be provided by Connie Patrick and Aaron Staples.

This very special noon service will produce a true spirit of interfaith worship and is open to the public without charge. Lunch will be available following the service, also without charge. The program will be contained to under an hour to allow people to attend and have something to eat during their lunch hour.

The service is at the Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church at 1723 Washington Pike in Knoxville. For complete details of this event and all other programs arranged by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission, please go to www.MLKKnoxville.org.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to host a monthly series featuring artists demonstrating their work and discussing their inspirations and processes. The series, entitled “Time Well Spent: Inspiration at Lunch”, is free and open to the public, and guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch. The next presentation in the series features artist Kelly Hider, who will focus the discussion on her latest body of work, Presence, exhibited in September 2013 at the Blackberry Farm Gallery at the Clayton Arts Center in Maryville. Presence includes manipulated photographs of children playing with rhinestone-covered toys as well as displays of the altered objects created for the project. The surfaces are embellished with gold paint and glued rhinestones, evoking narratives of childhood innocence and suggesting the possibility of supernatural and spiritual forces. Hider will discuss other projects leading up to Presence and some of her artistic influences. The presentation will take place at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Parking is available at metered spots on the Gay Street viaduct or in the parking lot on Jackson Avenue caddy-corner from the Emporium.

Knoxville artist Kelly Hider is known for using alternative materials to create her mixed-media installations and two-dimensional work, blurring the division between “high” and “low” art. She has made artwork out of wallpaper, cereal, macaroni noodles, and most recently, rhinestones, while maintaining a high level of craft. Hider was raised in Rochester, NY. While she began her artistic career focused on painting and drawing, she steadily gravitated toward working with photography, mixed media, and installation. Kelly Hider received her BFA from SUNY Brockport in 2007, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee in 2011. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of Rochester and at SUNY Brockport in Rochester, NY, The Ewing Gallery and Gallery 1010 in Knoxville, TN, and the Blackberry Farm Gallery at the Clayton Arts Center in Maryville, TN. Hider has recently participated in group exhibitions at Castell Gallery in Asheville, NC, Cazenovia College in Syracuse, NY, and at Lyon College in Arkansas, as well as an artist residency at MadOnArts in Puygaillard-de-Quercy, France. She currently teaches photography at Walters State Community College, and art history courses at Pellissippi State Community College. For more information on Kelly Hider, visit www.kellyhider.com.

Upcoming presentations in the “Time Well Spent” series:
Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 PM: Emily Schoen - Mixed media and sculpture
Wednesday, April 16, 12:00 PM: David Harman - Painting
Wednesday, May 14, 12:00 PM: Evelyn Bryant - Sculpture

For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

At the East Tennessee History Center

Mike Strange discusses The System
College football has never been more popular, but behind this glittering success are darker truths. Join Mike Strange, sports reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel, for a discussion of The System: The glory and scandal of big-time college football

Information: 865-215-8750, www.knoxlib.org

January 11, 2014 PEG’S KITCHEN: Breakfast is Served
January 11, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 11, 2014 THE URBAN WILDERNESS: South Loop Piece-by-Piece
January 11, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 11, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 11, 2014 FAMILY WILDLIFE SERIES: Owl Prowl
January 16, 2014 IJAMS SOCIAL SERIES: Happy Hour Full Moon Hike
January 18, 2014 PUBLIC PROGRAM: Wagging Walk
January 18, 2014 PEG’S KITCHEN: Breakfast is Served
January 18, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 18, 2014 Nature Writing and Journaling Workshop
January 18, 2014 IJAMS GARDENING SERIES: Winter Gardening and Tools
January 18, 2014 SCOUT BADGE WORKSHOP: Geology
January 18, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 18, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 25, 2014 PEG’S KITCHEN: Breakfast is Served
January 25, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 25, 2014 IJAMS GARDENING SERIES: Seed Swap
January 25, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 25, 2014 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
January 31, 2014 IJAMS SOCIAL SERIES: Last Friday Single Mingle

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

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

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.

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.