Calendar of Events

Art-a-palooza is the Fountain City Art Center’s fabulous fall fundraiser, now in its 10th year!

Inside all three days: great bargains on artwork, pottery, priints, jewelry, decorative items, collector's plates, frames, easels, art supplies, home baked goods!
Saturday, outdoors: Artists' booths, art activities for the whole family, live music all day, food booths, Phil Campbell's stories.

September 18-20: Artists will be on site inside the Center doing demonstrations. Original paintings, easels, frames, art supplies, prints, pottery, jewelry, glassware, and decorative items will be on sale for bargain prices, along with a few small household items, all donated by Center members and area artists! Home-baked goods will be on sale all three days!

Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! We have 7 art activities booths set up for children, hosted by Central High School National Art Honor Society students. Family passes good for all these activities are $10 and individual passes are $5. No charge just to browse inside or out! Several musical groups will be playing on the grounds 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM. We’re thrilled to have Andy LeGrand on guitar and Chris Brock on mandolin, and two-time National Dulcimer Champion, Tim Simek in the line-up. Our food booths will be selling crepes, chili, and hot dogs. Family, fun with art, food, and music: How could you go wrong!

We will be offering $10 Family Passes on Saturday, good for all the children’s art activities booths. Also on Saturday only, local musicians will be playing on the grounds 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM.

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

The UT Knoxville School of Art is pleased to announce that Natalia Jerzak and Sebastian Łubiński will present “Markings,” an exhibition of their prints and other works at Gallery 1010 from September 18-20th, 2015. A reception will be held on Friday September 19th, from 6-9pm.

Jerzak and Łubiński are printmaking students from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and are spending the month of September as guest artists at UT. Their campus residency is part of an exchange that also allows two students from The University of Tennessee to spend time in Wrocław each May. During their residency they work in the School of Art printmaking studios, sharing their experiences with the UT students.

Gallery 1010 is located at 113 S. Gay St. and is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 1-4pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu) or http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/index.html.

2014-2015 Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Season
Opening Night: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

The KSO will open its 79th season with Torke’s Bright Blue Music, followed by Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, which was inspired by the score for a ballet based on the music of Carl Maria von Weber. The concert, conducted by Maestro Lucas Richman, concludes with Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring guest pianist Jon Kimura Parker, a renowned pianist who has performed with orchestras across the world. Mr. Parker has recorded music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin and PDQ Bach for Telarc, Mozart for CBC, and Stravinsky under his own label. He won the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition.

At the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Tickets and information: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

Pellissippi State Community College features the paintings of three area artists in its “Abstractions” exhibit. The event highlights works of John Bissonette, Jennifer Brickey and Heather Hartman, all of whom explore non-objective imagery in various forms. Brickey also is an assistant professor at Pellissippi State.

“The paintings all make use of color, space and structure to convey various ideas,” said Herb Rieth, curator of the exhibit and assistant professor at Pellissippi State. “The paintings are engaging, witty, mysterious and intense without using concrete images.”

This event is curated by Art faculty member Herb Rieth. See a brief write up in the Knoxville Daily Sun:
http://www.knoxvilledailysun.com/entertainment/2014/abstractions-exhibit.html#.VBCBzphJkeR

The exhibit is in the Bagwell Gallery on the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400.

The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents Art Fair KMA 2014 September 14-20 at the museum. Art Fair KMA 2014 encompasses Artscapes, the Guild’s popular annual art sale and gala, as well as a day of family art activities. Festivities begin with a kickoff brunch and sale preview on Sunday, September 14; continue with a gala masked ball and art auction on Friday, September 19; and wrap up with an exciting day of free family art activities on Saturday, September 20. The purpose of Art Fair KMA 2014 is to raise money for museum programs and engage a broad and diverse segment of the community in museum activities.

The kick-off preview brunch on Sunday, September 14, noon-3pm, features a first look at the Artscapes art offerings. Preview brunch reservations are $40 per person.
Items for sale can also be previewed free of charge during regular museum hours Tuesday September 16-Friday September 19.
The gala Artscapes art auction begins on Friday evening September 19 with a reception and silent auction at 6:30, and dinner and live auction at 8:30, with a stellar group of more than 70 carefully selected works by artists of regional and national reputation. This year Artscapes has a masked ball theme. Another new feature is the offering for sale of sculpture specifically designed for outdoor display, as well as painted ceramic plates and bowls painted by local young people and inspired by the KMA collection. Artscapes: A Masked Ball reservations are $150 per person.

Art Fair KMA culminates in a full day of family art activities on Saturday, September 20 10am-6pm. Approximately 50 artists will offer live demonstrations and have work available for sale around the museum grounds. Visitors can enjoy a display of vintage motorcycles organized by Time Warp Room Motorcycle Club, and delicious meals from the food trucks parked around the museum. Family activities will also extend across the street, where the Kids of Fort Kid Committee, a team of volunteers, will be hosting a work day to preserve the much-loved playground and city landmark.

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

Saturday, September 13 - 3:00
Kerry Madden – “Offsides,” memoir

Thursday, September 18 - 6:00
Amber Roessner – “Inventing Base-ball Heroes,” non-fiction

Friday, September 19 - 6:00
Carol Bradley – “The Last Chain on Billie,” non-fiction

Wednesday, September 24 - Noon
Bookaholics Book Group - “The Good Lord Bird,” fiction

Tuesday, September 30 - 6:00
Perre Coleman Magness –“Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook”

Union Ave Books, 517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902, (865) 951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com

Drawing on the collections of the McClung Museum, the University of Tennessee Library’s Special Collections, as well as private collections, this exhibit explores the fascinating intersection of art and science in the tradition of natural history illustration and features over fifty rare books, prints, and objects.

From 16th century imaginings of fantastical beasts, to the extremely accurate 19th illustrations of plants and animals, the works on view highlight how increasing access to travel, technology, and books, as well as the evolution of the field of science, changed how these artful illustrations were created and interpreted. The curators of the exhibit, Catherine Shteynberg and Christine Dano Johnson, are available for interviews or walkthroughs of the exhibit, and can be contacted directly at: cshteynb@utk.edu, 865-974-6921.

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

Photography exhibit, David Habercom
Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Free and open to the public

Opening reception Sept. 12 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists’ talks at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibit runs Sept. through Oct. 2014

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery: 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918, www.davidhabercom.com

Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and join hundreds of others under the stars for a night of family fun in front of the silver screen.
Every Friday night from September 12 through October 17, Market Square transforms into an outdoor movie theater where folks bring their chairs, blankets and picnic baskets.

September 12 - Shrek (PG, 2001)
September 19 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG-13, 1986)
September 26 - Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG, 1981)
October 3 - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (G, 1971)

October 17 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
October 24 - O Brother, Where Are Thou? (PG-13, 2000)

Knox County Public Library: 500 West Church Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-215-8750, www.knoxlib.org

August: Osage County – Tracy Lett’s dark tragicomedy of an unexpected family reunion caused by the disappearance of the Weston family patriarch is the most awarded show of our century. Featuring both Encore Theatrical favorites and those making their Encore debut, the show is sure to stun audiences while touching both their hearts and their funny bones. Portraying the role of the vitriolic matriarch of the Weston family is Linda High – a veteran of the Washington D.C. professional stage. Joining her are three familiar faces – Kathy Jones-Terry, Susan Christophel and Paige Munroe-Mattocks as the daughters raised by their pill-popping mother and alcoholic father. Also caught in this web of dysfunction are Devon Ressler as Aunt Mattie Fae, Larry Burton as Uncle Charlie, Adrian Thomas as their disappointment of a son Little Charles, Rus Mattocks as Bill, Rick Drybread as Steve, Rebekah Frith as Jean and Taylor Ferrell as Johnna Monevata. Portraying the role of the missing Beverly Weston is Dan Gibson in his stage debut. Director Kate Adams is thrilled to be bringing this piece of American drama to the Encore stage. “Our cast is doing a brilliant job of measuring up to the standard of theater that this show sets. The level of acting talent on this stage blows me away, night after night.”

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m., with an additional Saturday matinee September 20th at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $18.00 for adults, $15.00 for Senior Citizens and $10.00 for Students. The show contains both adult language and mature subject matter and is not suitable for children.

August: Osage County will be presented by Encore at the Judge William H. Inman Humanities Complex Theater located at Walters State Community College. 180 Main Street, Morristown, TN 37814. Info: 423-318-8331, www.etcplays.org

Some very important lessons in life aren't covered in school. Knox County Public Library is pleased to offer programs for teens this fall. Life 101 is a short series focusing on sharing knowledge on important issues for teens and their families. The free workshops will be held on Saturdays at 2:00 at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.
September 20 and again on October 4 - Circuit Training for Teens. Andrew Freeman, from the Lindsay Young YMCA, will be teaching easy circuit training exercises.
In a future workshop Shannon Reynolds from the University of Tennessee Medical Center's "Healthy Living Kitchen" program will be talking about the importance of establishing healthy eating habits and showing teens how to make a quick and healthy snack.
For additional information, please call 215-8700.
All classes are held at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. at 2:00.

Alan Moore will be on view at the downtown Knoxville Tomato Head Restaurant from September 8th thru October 4th. He will then exhibit at the West Knoxville Gallery Tomato Head from October 7th thru November 3rd.

The Moores have recently embarked on their most ambitious exhibit schedule to date. Over 100 pieces of the Moore’s southern-fried folk art will be on display in three states over the next five months. Alan and his daughters Isabella (age 13) and Emma (age 11) have been creating their iconic bottle cap fish for their junk art tour they call “Catch!” – inspired by their two home states of Florida and Colorado. Recently the Moore’s went “paintless” in their folk art bringing all the color to their work through the medium of vintage soda/beer cans and bottle caps. The Moore’s new palette includes over 4000 soda and beer cans to choose from, all dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. Their studio also boasts of having over 60,000 neatly organized bottle caps-vintage and modern, domestic and international. It is not rare for Alan or one of the girls to make a fish with caps and cans from Germany, Russia, Canada, Thailand, S. Korea, the US and several other countries.

Tomato Head: 12 Market Square, Knoxville, 865-637-4067, www.thetomatohead.com