Calendar of Events

UT Contemporary Music Ensemble
Monday, April 6, 2015 at 8:00 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

The Blount Mansion Association is pleased to present the first annual History Suppers Events for 2015. These events will feature historians and authors speaking about topics related to Blount Mansion and Knoxville’s history. Supper is included at these events and a cash bar will be available.

James R. Knight. John Bell Hood and the Civil War in Tennessee. Location: The Grill at Highland’s Row, 4705 Old Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. History Press, Inc. reviews the content of Knight’s Hood’sTennessee Campaign by saying of the battles: “The Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy’s last significant offensive operation of the Civil War. General John Bell Hood of the ConfederateArmy of Tennessee attempted to capture Nashville, the final realistic chance for a battlefield victory against the Northern juggernaut. Hood’s former West Point instructor, Major General George Henry Thomas, led the Union force, fighting those who doubted him in his own army as well as Hood’s Confederates. Through the bloody, horrific battles at Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and a freezing retreat to the Tennessee River, Hood ultimately failed. Civil War historian James R. Knight chronicles the Confederacy’s last real hope at victory and its bitter disappointment.” Cost is $65 per person.

Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-2375, www.blountmansion.org

Teens! Please join us from 1:30-3:30 p.m at the Burlington Branch Library on April 18 for our 6th Annual Shakesfest, a celebration of William Shakespeare's birthday and legacy. We will have games, crafts, (and snacks, of course!) and an interactive presentation from the prestigious Tennessee Stage Company. No registration required. This event is for teens only.

www.knoxlib.org

Knox County Public Library | 500 West Church Avenue | Knoxville | TN | 37902

April 04, 2015 IJAMS BIRDING SERIES: Birding & Breakfast
April 04, 2015 PEG'S KITCHEN: Breakfast is Served
April 04, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 04, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Nature Center
April 04, 2015 URBAN WILDERNESS: Hike the South Loop
April 04, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 05, 2015 VISITOR CENTER CLOSED
April 11, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 11, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Nature Center
April 11, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 11, 2015 SPECIAL EVENT: 26th annual River Rescue
April 18, 2015 PUBLIC PROGRAM: Wagging Walk
April 18, 2015 SPECIAL EVENT: Spring Plant Festival
April 18, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 18, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Nature Center
April 18, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 25, 2015 PEG'S KITCHEN: Breakfast is Served
April 25, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature
April 25, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Nature Center
April 25, 2015 ANIMAL PROGRAM: Ijams Creature Feature

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

Where: Downtown Knoxville and McGhee Tyson Airport
When: April 4, 2014-March 20, 2015
How Much: Free

Art comes in all shapes and sizes. We invite you to experience some of the larger variety with Art in Public Places, an annual event featuring large-scale outdoor sculptures in Knoxville’s downtown public spaces and also at McGhee Tyson Airport. These larger scale pieces are thought provoking and awe-inspiring.

By displaying these works outdoors, we celebrate not only the art of sculpture but Knoxville’s natural beauty during this year-round outdoor exhibition.

The exhibition presently on view, an interesting and inspirational collection of works by sculptors from across the nation, was selected and awarded by noted sculptor Kenneth M. Thompson. Kenneth holds a Master of Liberal Studies in Sculpture from the University of Toledo and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Siena Heights College, in Adrian, MI. While many of his sculptures are in Ohio and Michigan, Thompson’s work can be seen in other states. He has done 41 pieces of public sculpture across the country. Ken has been making sculpture for over thirty years out of his car-dealership-turned-studio in Blissfield, Michigan. From this facility he operates Flatlanders Sculpture Supply and Art Galleries as well as Midwest Sculpture Initiative, which provides exhibitions that feature outdoor sculpture. Fourteen shows are planned for next year, he says. He also serves or has served on numerous arts-oriented boards.

The Art in Public Places Knoxville program, the 2015-2016 year being its 9th is a featured presentation of Dogwood Arts in partnership with the City of Knoxville Public Art Committee. The 2014-2015 Art in Public Places Knoxville Co-Chairs are Bart Watkins and Jason Brown.

To purchase a sculpture, please call [865] 637.4561.

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

Tracey Crocker, co-owner and artist extraordinaire of Wine and Canvas Knoxville is proud to announce her first "1st Friday" show in Knoxville. Her pieces will be on exhibit at Uncorked on Market Square starting Friday April 3rd throughout the end of the month! Uncorked in Market Square, 18 Market Square, Knoxville. Info: (865) 521-0600

Recent works by Marilyn Avery Turner and Gray Bearden, both of Knoxville, will be on display during the month of April 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. April 3, with complimentary refreshments and live music performed by Living Room Roots. In addition, works for the gallery’s annual Silent Auction, the cooperative’s only fundraiser, will be on exhibit through March 29 and ready to bid on.

Marilyn Avery Turner received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her mediums at the time were painting and collage, but since then she has concentrated on printmaking, specifically monoprinting and screen printing, and taught art for more than 20 years in a variety of settings. The New York City native has been associated with the Art Market Gallery since its inception in 1982 but has also exhibited her work in solo and group shows and in juried exhibitions throughout the United States. Her works have received awards in many of those exhibitions and are in numerous private collections. This show features the monoprint and chine-colle, a special printmaking technique using images she prints as collage elements.

Gray Bearden is a ceramic artist who creates two distinct bodies of work: functional tabletop ware and sculptural wall pieces. Though they serve different purposes, the two bodies of work share the same distinct features of pattern texture and detail. all of her work is hand-built by manipulating flat slabs of white stoneware clay into various forms, texturing where appropriate with found and created objects. Color is achieved through use of multiple glaze and underglaze techniques. Gray turned to ceramics after a lengthy corporate career, honing her skills at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and college-level art classes. A member of Foothills Craft Guild and Terra Madre, she has exhibited widely during the last 13 years.

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., on Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday; and 1 to 5 p.m., on 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.

Where: Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902

When: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 through the end of the month.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 6pm to 9pm

Admission: Free

Artist's Website: www.staceyfletcher.com

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to Stacey Fletcher's March First Friday, Bliss Home is pleased to extend Stacey's March exhibit to April for First Friday!

Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, April 3rd from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary baked goodies from Old City Java will be provided and Stacey's art will be featured for the month of April.

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.

Opening: Friday, April 3 from 5:00-9:00pm
Awards Presentation: 8:00pm

The Dogwood Arts Regional Fine Art Exhibition returns to showcase work from leading progressive and emerging artists in our region. The exhibition will encompass fine art of all styles and genres from artists, with selections made by renowned juror, Mark Scala, the founding chief curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN.

Mark Scala oversees the curatorial and registrarial management of exhibitions from all time periods, both nationally and internationally. Scala’s most renowned exhibitions have focused on the representation of the body through contemporary art. These have included Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination (2012), an international survey that dives into the symbolism of the hybrid body as proposed by sources ranging from folklore and science fiction to recent advancements in genetic engineering, prosthetics, and other aspects of anatomical and psychological adaptation.

Where: Emporium Center for Arts and Culture [100 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902]
Times: Monday- Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dogwood Arts: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

Gerdau, Dogwood Arts and the UT Sculpture Program have teamed to present “The Art of Recycling,” an exhibition of 12 sculptures by UT students inspired by and made of scrap metal provided by Gerdau. The event will be April 3-19 at the Knoxville Convention Center. It is free and open to the public.

The attached evite JPG is for the unveiling, which will be Friday, April 3, at 10 a.m.

Gerdau, Dogwood Arts and the UT Sculpture Program have teamed to present “The Art of Recycling,” an exhibition of 12 sculptures by UT students inspired by and made of scrap metal provided by Gerdau. The event will be April 3-19 at the Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley Street. It is free and open to the public.

An exhibition of works by Knox County art educators

UT Downtown Gallery
106 S. Gay St., Knoxville, TN 37902

Dates:
April 3-17, 2015
Wednesdays - Fridays, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.