Calendar of Events

On Sunday, November 16, 2:00PM, Dr. Don Byerly, Professor Emeritus in the UTK Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will deliver an illustrated talk "The Last Billion Years: A Geologic History of Tennessee" and will sign his new book of the same title. What is now Tennessee has evolved in many ways since the formation of its earliest rock record over a billion years ago. Once part of the supercontinent Rodinia, and then later part of another supercontinent, Pangea, Tennessee's real estate was ultimately shoved into its present place on the North American supercontinent between 300 and 250 million years ago by plate tectonics. Since then the landscape has slowly evolved to its present form.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
1327 Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-3200
Phone: 865-974-2144, www.mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Who: The combined choirs of Carson-Newman University’s Music Department and the Knoxville Choral Society

What: More than 200 singers, accompanied by a professional orchestra will present “Music by Dan Forrest”, including his “Requiem for the Living” on Sunday, November 16th at 7:00 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville. Prior to the concert there will be a ‘composer and conductor chat’ (6:15 p.m.) Admission is free to the public through the sponsorship of the Ball Institute at Carson-Newman University.

Where: Tennessee Theatre, downtown Knoxville

Tickets: This concert is FREE to the public

For more information, please visit www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org

Chamber Orchestra and Contemporary Music Ensemble
Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Alumni Memorial Building located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. (The James R. Cox Auditorium is located in the Alumni Memorial Building.) The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus.
*For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Parents and youth, ages 10 to 18, who are interested in international travel, cultural education and global friendship opportunities are invited to attend information and activity sessions at our upcoming Fun Days

Sunday, November 16, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
at the Central United Methodist Church at 201 East Third Avenue, 37917 and
Sunday, November 23, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
at the Central United Methodist Church at 201 East Third Avenue, 37917

CISV is a global organization dedicated to educating and inspiring for peace through building inter-cultural friendship, cooperation and understanding. Since 1965, the Smoky Mountain chapter of CISV has given hundreds of East Tennesseans the opportunity to experience the excitement and enrichment of cultural diversity. This year we sent 30 delegates to educational programs in Austria, Norway, Algeria, British Columbia, Sweden, Brazil and France. For 2015, we have programs available in France, Italy, Norway, Rio de Janeiro, Germany, the Philippines and Austria.

For more information, visit our web site at www.smokymtncisv.org or call 865-475-5775. CISV is a non-profit, independent, non-political, volunteer organization with over 60 chapters worldwide. CISV was founded in 1951 on the belief that peace is possible through friendship - and that the real difference can be made by starting with children.

The Best way to read Shakespeare’s plays is out loud – and with friends! The Tennessee Stage Company and Shakespeare On The Square invite you to read Shakespeare’s plays with us – out loud! Now reading quarterly, our next reading date is Sunday, November 16 when we will gather at the Lawson McGhee Library to read one of the four plays known as “Romances” - Cymbeline. Rarely performed and little known this kind of reading is a great introduction to a lesser known but beautiful play.

IT’S FREE AND FUN! Readings are at the Lawson McGee Library on Sunday afternoons. Readings are free and open to the public. Hearing these plays read aloud offers much more insight into the depths of Shakespeare’s work. We will meet at 2:00 pm. There will be chairs set up and whoever wants to read out loud can choose one. There will be additional seating for anyone who wants to read along silently. Copies of the play will be available but please bring your own if possible.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME. We welcome all voices, all dialects. We read the plays for the joy of reading them and to hear and discover more about the plays, especially plays that have not yet been performed by Shakespeare On The Square. Maybe one of these is the one we should perform next! Info: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

Featuring new selections on loan from a private collection and Selections from the Permanent Collection. Featuring International Artists including Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Salvador Dali and many others. And in the Foyer Gallery, New Nativities by Local Artists and Mary - Mortal and Divine - Manifests the Feminine.

Opening Reception: Monday Evening, November 17, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM
The event is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and family!

Oak Ridge Art Center * 201 Badger Avenue * Oak Ridge, (865) 482-1441 or http://www.oakridgeartcenter.org/

We invite the public to visit the Sandra J. Blain Galleries to see an exhibit draped in history, color, and texture. Whether used for utilitarian or decorative purposes textiles have been a part of the human experience since the dawn of civilization. They can provide warmth and comfort, illustrate social status, adorn and insulate living and other physical spaces, or be used for the carrying and storage of items. Textiles are still imperative for all of these reasons yet they have also become regarded as an art form. Through the hands of artists textile techniques have been used in innovative and conceptual ways. Arrowmont has conducted workshops in an array of textile and fiber topics since its beginning in the late 1960s, and throughout the years has amassed a variety of works from past instructors, studio assistants, and resident artists in myriad techniques for its permanent collection.

"This selection of textiles from Arrowmont's permanent collection hints at the scope of work in all craft media preserved at Arrowmont. Visitors will enjoy this exhibition for its historical significance and for the beauty of the works," said Executive Director, Bill May. On display is a selection that illustrate textile arts’ journey over the last several decades. Weaving, tapestry, embroidery, dying, felting, printing, sewing, quilting, knotting, macramé, and basketry techniques are represented. While many of these works push the boundaries of what textiles are they all pay homage to the past while paving the way for an even more inventive future.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts enriches lives by developing aesthetic appreciation and fostering self-expression with hands-on experiences in a variety of media, classes, conferences and seminars. On the leading edge of arts education, Arrowmont utilizes contemporary and fine arts techniques to build upon traditional arts and crafts.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738
The Gallery is open Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Tours are available by reservation, and can be arranged by calling 865-436-5860.
www.arrowmont.org

I'd like to invite you to come out to my fall Kiln Opening sale! This is the second firing of my newly remodeled wood fired kiln and I've filled it with a huge selection of pots and many new designs of animal sculptures, plus old favorites like crows and rabbits. I'll start unloading the kiln at 10 a.m. on Saturday. You never know what surprises you will see coming out! Bring all your friends for a fun day out and get some early holiday shopping done - handcrafted pottery makes a great gift.

Kiln opening dates:
Saturday, November 15th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, November 16th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

My studio and kiln are located at 6319 Tazewell Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

Follow me on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/peterrosepottery; Website: http://peterroseceramics.com

Opening reception Nov. 14 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists’ talks at 6:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public

Karin Lubart presents “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Classical Portraiture” - Since the 1700’s artists have copied masterpieces in the galleries of the Louvre. Karin’s opportunity to participate in this time-honored tradition enormously enriched her training as an artist. To recreate a masterpiece brings one very close to the Master. She says that standing only three feet from the masterpiece, studying and recreating it was truly a gift. Working from life or photographs, Karin’s straightforward, sensitive style of painting emphasizes her ability to recreate her subject’s persona on canvas. Karin Kretschmann Lubart received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, majoring in Communication Arts. She continued to enrich her academic foundation at the Art Students League of New York, studying with John Howard Sanden, Nelson Shanks and Jack Faragasso. With over 25 years of experience as a professional illustrator, Karin has worked for many major corporations, publishers and advertising agencies. Her passion for portrait art was born out of her career as an illustrator. Karin nurtured her passion by joining the copyist program of the Louvre and Musee D’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She currently resides in Maryville, thankful and blessed to be continuing her portrait art.

Diana Dee Sarker - she hopes her artwork kindles empathy for abused, neglected or unnecessarily killed animals. Many of the portrayed animals are horses that either have been rescued or work in some line of service. The people in the paintings are the folks who have taken in these animals or who train them for service. For example: the painting of the farmer Willis and his donkey George. Willis volunteers for the National Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Organization and has many donkeys on his farm that he cares for while they wait to be adopted. George was found almost starved to death. Willis took him home and nourished him back to health. During her 34 years as a physician with a busy medical practice, Diana Dee found time to paint portraits and landscapes of the people and places she encountered doing volunteer medicine in third world countries. She wanted to share these wonderful experiences with her patients back home. This was her beginning in a life of art. She remained a self-taught artist until 2005, when she decided to obtain an art education. This began by studying oil painting at Woodstock School of Art with Hongnian Zhang, and figure oil painting with Nelson Shanks, Anthony Ryder, and Warren Chang. Also, she trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She received her MFA in figure painting at the Academy of Art University in 2014. While at AAU, she continued to study pastel landscape painting with Gil Dellinger, Susan Olgilvie, and Clark Mitchell. The Art Market Gallery and the Arts and Culture Alliance in Knoxville, TN and the Olde Concord Gallery in Concord, TN represent her pastels, oil paintings and watercolors. www.DianaDeeArt.com

Where: Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery
2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

Fountain City Art Center will present a show of photographs by Embry DuBose entitled "Men at Work". Opening Reception November 14, 6:30-8:00 PM - everyone welcome! The public is invited; no admission is charged.

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; 2nd and 3rd Saturdays, 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

Pellissippi State Community College hosts the world debut of “Server Alley,” a comedy/drama by playwright Alex Gherardi, in November.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 15, 21, and 22 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 16 and 23. The event takes place in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

The play has a unique setup, in that audience members are seated on the stage near the actors. Seating is limited. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at www.pstcc.edu/tickets.

The never-before-seen play examines the lives of an oft-seen but barely noticed group: the people who serve our food. “The story focuses on young people at a time of their lives when they are deciding what they want and who they want to be,” said Charles R. Miller, Theatre program coordinator and a professor of Liberal Arts. “The characters in this play ask themselves if their lives are really what they wish them to be, or if they want to take the chance on something that might be better.”

Alex Gherardi is executive director of CNY Shakespeare in Central New York and is an adjunct faculty member at Pellissippi State. A graduate of Rutgers University, he is now living in Knoxville. “We are so honored to show the world premiere of a play he wrote while in Knoxville,” said Miller. “Alex is hugely talented not only as a playwright but as a composer and an actor himself.”

“Server Alley” is one of the events that make up Pellissippi State’s arts series, The Arts at Pellissippi State. The series brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures, and the fine arts. This year, the series commemorates Pellissippi State’s 40th anniversary. For more information about The Arts at Pellissippi State, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman is a powerful and thought provoking dramatic comedy set in a mental institution. It starts with the arrival of a charming rogue who arranges to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than a prison. He takes over the yard and leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce hard-liner, and is punished for his offenses. His final correction leaves him in a state he and the other inmates couldn’t imagine. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. Will be presented at the Clayton Center for the Arts. Details TBA.

Foothills Community Players: P.O. Box 5645, Maryville, TN 37802, 865-712-6428, http://www.foothillscommunityplayers.com/