Calendar of Events

Where: West High School
How Much: Free

A Very Special Arts Festival is a unique event that celebrates the artistic endeavors of Knox County school-aged students having diverse abilities. The event is not a competition, but an event that provides an opportunity for students with disabilities to share their talents, works of art, and accomplishments with an interested audience.

The event includes a wide variety of activities in music, dance, drama, and visual arts. Workshops of “make and take” arts and crafts, demonstrations, exhibits of art work, and performances by individuals with disabilities are all elements of the festival. Students will enjoy numerous local character “walk abouts”, an exhibit from the Knoxville Zoo mobile, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, a DJ, and a variety of other activities. The main purpose of the event is to encourage and stimulate feelings of self-worth and to provide opportunities for students with disabilities to get together and express their creative talents in areas where there are no handicaps… the arts!

Supported by AKIMA women’s Club of Knoxville, Pilot Club of Knoxville, West high School, and West Knoxville Civitan Club, the event is a united effort between the Dogwood Arts Festival, the University of Tennessee Departments of Art and Special Education, and Knox County Schools.

Dogwood Arts Festival: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

April 1 @ 5:30PM
Historic Westwood - 3425 Kingston Pike
All current and former board members are invited. RSVP to mickey@knoxheritage.org

1300 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-523-8008, www.knoxheritage.org

Join your host Paige Travis for Tennessee Shines at its new night and new location! Tennessee Shines brings former frontman of Open Road Bradford Lee Folk and his band the Bluegrass Playboys for some Americana honky-tonkin' on Wednesday April 1. Jack Rentfro returns to read some wickedly, funny East Tennessee poetry and prose. Tickets are $10 at the Boyd's Jig and Reel door. For more information visit wdvx.com.

WDVX, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-544-1029, www.wdvx.com

KAYLEY FARMER SINGS MUSIC FROM HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN ERA

Noon to 1pm at The Square Room

Knoxville's own Kayley Farmer returns to jazz lunch in April with a program highlighting some of the magical songs that Hollywood contributed to the Great American Songbook. You'll recognize hits from films such as Singing in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, An American in Paris, Swing Time, and White Christmas. Her band includes Chad Volkers, guitar; Scott Simmerman, piano, Jay Farmer, bass; Keith Brown, drums. A guaranteed good time!

865-573-3226; http://knoxjazz.org/

Spring is in full bloom at Crescent Bend House and Gardens! Join us for high tea and an afternoon fashion show featuring the colorful floral designs of Lilly Pulitzer provided by Palm Village. Each model’s outfit will be topped off with a spring hat. Our hat selection will provide hats for all occasions: Church, Weddings, Teas, Parties, and Derby Day! There will be a boutique area where items may be purchased.

Come and enjoy the elegant pleasure of partaking in a formal High Tea and take the tour of the house museum and gardens were 25,000 tulips will be in bloom. Special entertainment will also be provided during tea time, please see below for dates and programs. Cost is $22.00 per adult & $15.00 per child. Price also includes the cost of admission to tour the house museum and gardens. For times and to make tea reservations please call Crescent Bend at 865-637-3163. (For groups of 30 or more, additional dates and tea times can be arranged at any time of the year.)

Crescent Bend House & Gardens, 2728 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: 865-637-3163, www.crescentbend.com

New exhibit/sale portraying the beauty of the spring through the eyes of artists, Theresa Shelton, Tom Bluemlein, Jim Gray, Sharon Shaver, and 2015 Dogwood Arts Poster artist Judy Sinclair.

Liz-Beth Fine Art Inc., 7240 Kingston Pike #136, Knoxville, TN 37919
www.liz-beth.com

Kevin Kao, Thomas Wharton, Alexandra Kirtley, Raluca Iancu

Reception, Tuesday March 31 5-7PM in the Ewing Gallery.

In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space.

The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Art and Architecture Building, Knoxville, TN 37996
http://www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu/

Arrowmont invites the public to view A Naturally Picked Stacked Attraction of Glitz, the final exhibition from current Arrowmont Artists-in-Residence. The Exhibition is on display in the Sandra J. Blain Gallery from March 30th – May 9th 2015.

The opening reception is Friday, April 10th from 7-9pm, and is free and open to the public. The community is encouraged to attend with their friends and family.

The exhibit showcases sculpture, video art, installations, and interactive work made by Artist-in-Residence F.E. Toan, Amy Masters, Hunter Creel, Matthew Dercole and Nicholas Stawinski.

This cumulative exhibition features the work made during the artists’ eleven- month residency at Arrowmont, and will include wall-scaling squirrels, 200 candleholders creating an illuminated labyrinth, some bulbous funk, and the world’s largest rag rug. The Arrowmont Artists-in-Residence Program was established in 1991. The program provides early career, self-directed artists time, space and support to experiment and develop a new body of work in a creative supportive community environment.

Matthew Dercole received his MFA in ceramics with minors in metalsmithing and drawing from the University of Iowa. Dercole has participated in previous artist residencies at the Lux Center for the Arts and at Lillstreet Art Center. Dercole’s emotional and sometimes disturbing sculptures incorporate illustrational and narrative qualities, reflecting the viewers’ own psychological complexities.

Amy Master’s tactile work utilizes fiber-based sculpture, installation, and performance to investigate memory and storytelling. Her “rugs” at once become zoomorphic, biological, and nostalgic. Masters received her MFA in Fibers from Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, and has also completed residencies at the Wassaic Art Project and at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.

Hunter Creel received his BFA in metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville in 2012, and has also completed at residency at Craft Alliance in St. Louis, MO. Creel creates futuristic hollow-ware forms which become individual characters, suggesting personality and disposition through subtle gestures.

Nicholas Stawinski is an artist, furniture designer, and fourth-generation upholsterer. He earned his MFA from the University of Wisconson-Madison in 2014, and was featured in the July, 2012 issue of American Craft magazine. His totemic, upholstered forms pay homage to his families trade, as well as contort in unfamiliar and playful ways, subverting their traditional function.

F.E. Toan works with fiber and traditional metalsmithing techniques to create seductive structures and systems that both restrict and facilitate touch. Toan received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, and helped found and manage the Mule Barn Craft Studio in Richmond, VA.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

March 30-April 17
This exhibit incorporates a cross-section of media: drawings, paintings, watercolors, sculptures, ceramics, blacksmithing, as well as 2D and 3D designs, all by Pellissippi State’s Art students.
Bagwell Center for Media and Art
Pellissippi State Community College
10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville 37933
www.pstcc.edu/arts

This year’s Design Week has a myriad of wonderful events. From student-focused events, to hands-on workshopping in letterpress, we have an array of activities for one and all. Here’s a brief break down of events:

Monday, March 30: Film Screening
On opening night, we will be showing the documentary Finding Vivian Maier. If the weather is nice, we’ll be showing it outside.
At Ijams Nature Center
Doors open at 6:30PM
Cost: $5
Savory and Sweet Food Truck will be in attendance!

Tuesday, March 31: Letterpress Workshop at Striped Light
For Design Week 2015, AIGA Knoxville is happy to announce a partnership with Striped Light! They will be holding a specially themed class, targeted to our members. Learn to set a small composition using wood and metal type while exploring what generates your creative spark. Each participant in this action-packed class will leave with their own portfolio consisting of pieces from every participant in the workshop. There are limited spaces, so sign up quick!
At Striped Light with Bryan Baker (formerly of Yee-Haw Letterpress)
Morning Session: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (REGISTER)
Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM (REGISTER)
AIGA member cost: $50 | non-member cost: $65
Limited availability!

Wednesday, April 1: Panel Discussion night
We’ll be back at Ijams Nature Center on Wednesday evening. Tonight’s event will be a panel discussion night. Our three topics, of which we will have professionals and experts in the subsequent fields, are: UI v UX / App Development v Mobile Web; Hand Illustrating In A Digital World; Project Management and Process Improvement. Each panel will last approximately 30 minutes, with a 10 minute break in between.
At Ijams Nature Center
Cost: $5
Doors open: 6:30 PM
Program start: 7:30 PM

Thursday, April 2: Creative Spark powered by PechaKucha
Again, at Ijams Nature Center (and outside if the weather permits), we’ll be channeling the PechaKucha format with a grouping of eight speakers. Set to speak are Jack Neely, Beth Meadows, Anna Marie Rogers, Jessie Williams, Carl Gombert, Kirk Eddlemon, and the architecture firm Smee + Busby.
At Ijams Nature Center
Cost: $5
Doors open: 6:30 PM
Program start: 7:30 PM
Poutine Mobile Food Truck will be in attendance!

Friday, April 3: Design Week 2015: Budding Creativity – An Art Benefit
We’re going out with a bang! We have partnered with AAF (AdFed) Knoxville, and will be holding a First Friday exhibit at Paulk + Co. This is a benefit to raise money for a school’s underprivileged art program, and the Sam Littleton scholarship. We will have both student and professional art. The student art ranges from little children, all the way up through college-aged kids. The professional’s art will be a silent auction. We will show the art in a gallery format at Paulk & Co. We’ll then sell the pieces, and 100% of the money will go to the school and scholarship. Any overhead for that evening will be covered be AIGA, AAF, and our sponsors.
At Paulk & Co.
Cost: Free! But please feel free to donate to the cause and purchase art!
Doors open: 5:00 PM
For more information, visit knoxvillebuddingcreativity.com

https://knoxville.aiga.org/

Opening Reception March 27, 6:30-8:00 PM - everyone welcome!
We will be starting Fountain City Art Center’s New Year off in style with a magnificent display of watercolor paintings from the Knoxville Watercolor Society members.

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

2015 Spring Juried Art Exhibition
Show of top 20 works: March 27 - April 21, 2015
Reception and Awards: March 27th, 2015 @ 5:30 pm

Save the date! Details TBA.

www.fineartsblount.org