Calendar of Events

Learn basic bead weaving technique with Linda Farber.
3/10/15: PEYOTE BASICS 101 - Learn the most basic bead weaving stitch (even-count peyote) while at the same time creating a pretty peyote strap bracelet. This class comes as a result of many requests to get back to the BASICS of bead weaving. Peyote is a beautiful stitch that results in a smooth tapestry finish with the feel of fine silk. There will be a project kit fee of $7.00, payable at the time of class.

3/17/15: PEYOTE BASICS 102 - Students will add to their new skill by creating a piece with a pattern. This requires learning to read a peyote chart or graph. However, our instructor has simplified the whole "chart reading" process. We'll be using a pattern to create a guardian angel tapestry pendant during this session. There will be a project kit fee of $12.00 payable to the instructor at the time of the class.

3/24/15 - PEYOTE BASICS 103: We’ll use this 3rd peyote basics session to learn how to decrease, add a tassel, and create a peyote strap to finish up our guardian angel tapestry. We’ll also add the clasp to our Basics 101 peyote strap bracelet. By the time you’ve finished these three sessions you’ll be ready to tackle any even-count peyote project. There will be no additional kit fees.

You are encouraged to take all three classes. However, if you can’t make both the 101 and 102 basics, chose one or the other and finish up your piece at the Basics 103 class on 3/24.

Tuesdays, March 10, 17 & 24
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
$51/Member $68/Non-Member
The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558
931-707-7249, www.artguildfairfieldglade.net.

A student photography exhibit on display through Friday, March 20, at Pellissippi State Community College features the works of second-year students in the college’s art classes.

The photography show is free, and the community is invited. The exhibit is in the Bagwell Center for Media and Art on the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. The event closes with a reception.

The closing reception is 4-6 p.m. Thursday, March 19. Reception attendees will have the chance to meet students whose artwork is featured.

For more information about the photography show, call (865) 694-6400 or visit www.pstcc.edu. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Celebrating Three Generations of Paulk Artists, opening March 6, 6-10 PM

Scott Paulk - Scott is a photorealistic painter and will be exhibiting a brand new body of work at Paulk+Co. Scott hasn't shown in east TN for many years; this is a very, very special showing. Children of all ages will enjoy his incredibly vibrant and unique take on toys and the everyday world around us. The vintage toys he uses as models for his vignettes will also be on display. He told American Art Collector Magazine in October 2010, "I'll hear or think of a phrase, some concept or word and there's the title to my next painting. I always give a title to a painting before I start it. The resulting picture depicts the story of my thoughts on the title. I want the viewer of these works to connect with them on a similar level and join in the process and the journey." http://www.scottpaulk.com/

Justin Paulk - Justin, proprietor of Paulk+Co, is a dynamic fabricator of high performance concrete, stone, metal. His freestyle sculptures will be exhibited. Justin grew up in his Dad's studio and traveled with him across the country as he exhibited. http://www.paulkandco.com/index/

Wiley Paulk - Wiley is a 5 year old prodigy with an impressive arts pedigree. He creates in mixed media. He currently attends First Lutheran Early Childhood Education Center and will be attending Beaumont Magnet Academy for Honors Kindergarten this fall. He has titled his portion of the exhibit, "Wiley's Amazing Picture Show." Wiley, like his father Justin, is growing up immersed in the art world; he has the natural talent that is obviously genetic to these men. Wiley does not currently have a website.

In addition to the fine art available, Paulk+Co will host Knoxville Fashion Week's First Friday Gallery Event, with beautiful models attired in Sarah Brobst Designs originals to complement the vibrant works of the Paulks. Southern Belle Beauty will be providing Make Up & Hair Artistry with an unexpected twist. Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) sponsors the event with savory eats, sweets and pop up poetry for all ages. The exhibit will be up for the months of March + April, by appointment or chance and is free. Appointments can be scheduled by contacting Paulk+Co at info@paulkandco.com. Free, covered parking is available adjacent to Paulk+Co in the City lot under the bridge. Paulk+Co is the last stop on the complimentary Gay Street Trolley Line, they pick up and deliver every 10 minutes.

Paulk+Co, 510 Williams Street, Knoxville, TN 37917, 865.335.3334

Recent works by watercolor painter Lil Clinard of Loudon, and beaded-jewelry artist Jennifer Lindsay of Knoxville will be on display during the month of March at the Art Market Gallery. An opening reception for the featured artists will be held during Downtown Knoxville’s monthly First Friday Art Walk beginning at 5:30 p.m. March 6, with complimentary refreshments and live music performed by The Accidentals.

Both featured artists can relate their current creative expression to beginning in childhood.

As a girl, Lil Clinard spent summers by the sea, and trips to big cities made a lasting impression on her. She loved to paint what she had experienced. After a rewarding career, albeit not in art, it was time to follow her heart full-time. Inspired by workshops with nationally recognized watercolor artists, she has since been honored in regional, state and national competitions. While Clinard experiments with different mediums and her subject matter varies, she is best known for her transparent watercolors of seascapes and cityscapes....back to those memories from her youth. Her paintings are in collections throughout the Southeast.

When she was young, Jennifer Lindsay made jewelry from anything her mother would give her ---from paper to yarn. She found a niche with beads and cord, and her first jewelry sales were simple macramé bracelets. Gradually, however, she realized these were too basic to communicate her vision, inspired as she was by everything from flowers in bloom to stars in the sky. She began to work with many sizes of seed beads, learning, through classes and books by jewelers, various techniques to fashion them into intricate wearable art. Her pieces now also incorporate semiprecious stones and Swarovsky crystals for dazzling accents.

Owned and operated by 62 professional regional artists, the Art Market Gallery, at 422 South Gay St., is a few doors from Mast General Store and next to Downtown Grill & Brewery. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. The gallery is wheelchair accessible, and parking in the abutting garage and on the street is free on weekends and after 6 p.m. weekdays. For more information, call 865-525-5265, or visit artmarketgallery.net, or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

March First Friday at Bliss Home
Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902
Friday, March 6th, 2015 through the end of the month.
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6th, 2015 6pm to 9pm

Facebook: Bliss Home • Stacey Fletcher
Artist's Website: www.staceyfletcher.com

Bliss Home is pleased to present the latest works by Knoxville artist, Stacey Fletcher, for March''s First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, March 6th from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary snacks will be provided and Stacey's art will be featured for the month of March.

Stacey Fletcher received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from The University of Tennessee in 2003, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Valdosta State University in 2000. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in many individual, group, and juried exhibitions. This includes being awarded the honor of participating in the 2005 Pienkow International Artist Workshop in Poland. Stacey has taught for The University of Tennessee since 2000 as a graduate assistant, an assistant professor, as well as through the personal and professional extended education program. She lives, paints, and teaches in Knoxville, TN.

As a cathartic painter, Stacey’s work expresses emotions and frustrations that would otherwise be hard to express verbally. They seem abstract at first glace to the viewer, but have some sense of childhood imagery disguised among the colorful layers. Her work is fresh with vibrant lively colors, with layered metaphors of herself and others contrasted with the chaotic approach of the energetic marks.

Fractured Memories: Living with Violence in México: Prints by Miguel Aragon
Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in México; using processes that are reductive in nature I am exploring what it means to see, live and cope with images of incomprehensible violence. By using metaphors and visual metonymies to tie together process and subject matter I explore the idea of perception, memory and transformation. My work is derived from a need to find meaning in these brutal events that repositions the corpse in our field of vision, reminding us that our physical existence is finite.
http://web.utk.edu/~sphere/Pages/Exhibition_Aragon.html

HoLa Hora Latina, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 112, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-335-3358, www.holafestival.org

The Arts & Culture Alliance proudly announces four unique exhibitions by SGC International. In the main gallery, the 2015-2018 Southern Graphic Council International Member’s Traveling Exhibition features an array of 51 original prints, created by SGC International members from around the world. Juried by artist, distinguished professor, and 2015 SGCI Printmaker Emerita Award Recipient Ruth Weisberg, the work selected for the exhibit will travel though the United States for three years. Artists include Beauvais Lyons and Koichi Yamamoto, School of Art faculty at the University of Tennessee.

Knoxville Collects Yee-Haw will feature letterpress prints from Yee-Haw Industries collected by the people of Knoxville. The exhibition seeks to celebrate the legacy of Yee-Haw Industries and its significance for people living in East Tennessee. Organized by B.J. Alumbaugh, MFA student in Studio Art (printmaking) at the University of Tennessee, the exhibition will include text panels for each print with a short paragraph by the owner about why the work is of significance for them. Works will be on display in the Balcony gallery.

Approximate Exactitude: The Diagram and the Book will feature a selection of original artist books by fourteen artists in the display case. The books in this show celebrate, occasionally spoof, and often times elevate the significance of the diagram as an element of the book. The exhibition is curated by Sarah Smith, the Special Instructor/Manager of the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

Prints by UTK Faculty will present selected prints by University of Tennessee, School of Art faculty members Koichi Yamamoto, Althea Murphy Price, and Beauvais Lyons on the North Wall of the gallery. The three participating artists in this exhibit are also hosts of the 2015 Southern Graphics Council International Conference held March 18-21 in Knoxville.

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville from March 6-29, 2015. A public reception will take place on Friday, March 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM. The First Friday reception also features a Jazz Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends from 7:00-9:00 PM in the Black Box Theatre.

Gallery hours for the SGC International exhibitions are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Additional special hours are posted at www.theemporiumcenter.com/visit.html. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

The A1LabArts Gallery will open A Show of Hands, an exhibition of prints and photographs curated by Adam Finkelston and James Meara, on Friday, March 6 from 6 – 10 p.m.

A Show of Hands exhibition is a part of the Southern Graphics Council International SPHERE conference and will be open at The Center for Creative Minds through March 28. Finkelston and Meara, co-editors of The Hand Magazine, will be in attendance at the exhibition’s reception on Thursday, March 19 from 6 – 9 p.m. at The Center for Creative Minds.

Since April 2013, The Hand Magazine has published hundreds of images from some of the most interesting contemporary artists working in reproduction­based media. The Hand is dedicated to the promotion of hand­made images that utilize techniques invented for and generally thought of as being mechanical in nature. In addition to exploring this paradox, The Hand seeks to unite the photographic and print communities and give a new audience to established practitioners of these arts. The Hand reaches out to established and emerging artists alike, in an effort to recognize the history of hand­made reproduction as well as the future.

A1LabArts @ the Center for Creative Minds, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: www.a1labarts.org

Opening Reception: Friday March 6, 5-9PM
Ruth Weisberg’s artwork is notable for her commitment to both extending the history of art, and its continued relevance to the human experience today. Her themes are often ambitious ones, including cultural identity, love, mortality, history and community. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, with her recent exhibitions including “Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image” at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, and “Ruth Weisberg: Unfurled” at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. In total, she has presented over 80 one-person exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally.
Weisberg’s work is in the collections of major museums, including the Getty Center; Norton Simon Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Jewish Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard University; Biblioteca Nazionale d'Italia (Rome); and Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
Ruth Weisberg is 2015 recipient of the SGC International Printmaker Emeritus Award

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM, Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Tennessee Stage Company Presents its 18th Annual NEW PLAY FESTIVAL & World Premiere Production of Scott Strahan’s I AM THE WAY

I Am The Way, a World Premiere play by Scott Strahan presented as the featured production in the 18th annual New Play Festival, produced by the Tennessee Stage Company.
Theatre Knoxville Downtown 319 N. Gay Street
March 6 – 22
Thursday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm
Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm

Tickets are on sale now. General Admission is $ 15.00

I AM THE WAY By Scott Strahan

McRae Allen hates his job, so he finds a new one. He becomes an Internet evangelist and watches the cash, and death threats, come rolling in. I Am The Way runs March 6 – 22, Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 3:00 pm, at Theatre Knoxville Downtown

Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

An attempt to connect artists with available studio spaces close to downtown. 13 UT students and graduates will be showing their paintings, sculpture, prints and installations in the 12 studio spaces available at Wright Place in their show Casual Friday.

1127 N. Broadway, Wright Place
March 6th-13th, 2015

First Friday Opening Reception:
March 6th
6 -10 pm

One unlikely gallery space.
Thirteen artists.
Abundant wood paneling and refreshments.
A free-wheeling art spectacular of installation, painting, sculpture, etc.

Curated by Marta Lee

Featuring:
Devin Balara, Rachel Byrd, Aimee Chico, Amanda Carrell, Bailey Davenport, Josh Gibson, Dan Hood, Marta Lee, Meg McGregor, Corinna Ray, Josh Shorey, Kenzie Wells, Anna Wehrwein.

For more information about the show contact Marta Lee: martafsylee@gmail.com
For more information about Wright Place studio space contact Jessica Gregory: paintsoul@yahoo.com

Ijams Hallway Gallery Presents: The Artwork of Broadway Studio and Gallery Artists

This month's Hallway Gallery shows off the amazing collaboration of the artists of Broadway Studio and Gallery. Bright, colorful, and diverse- you won't want to miss out on seeing the first group showing of these talented artists.

More events at http://ijams.org/events/. 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