Calendar of Events

A group show of Latin American artists' work.

Friday, May 1, 7 PM: Opening reception

The Rose Center, 442 West Second North St., Morristown, TN, 37814. Information: 423-581-4330

Opening Friday, May 1st, from 5pm - 9pm

Chris McAdoo - New Paintings: My most recent series focuses on memory (or the lack thereof) and the significance that we attach to objects and places, particularly when we take them out of their original context. My work is an extension of my own experiences growing up in the south and a comment on my connections that give me a visceral reaction to the past rather than simple nostalgia. While the paintings speak to me in a very particular way, I would much rather suggest a narrative to the viewer than to lay it all on the table. www.chrismcadoo.com

Andrew Saftel - Works on Paper & Selected Works on Panel

Bennett Galleries, 5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. (865) 584-6791 or http://www.bennettgalleries.com/
Hours: Mon.-Thur. 10-6 Fri. & Sat. 10-5:30

Reception: Friday, May 1, 2015 3-5PM in the Ewing Gallery

Initiated by the Ewing’s Director Sam Yates 25 years ago, this exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences; a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, a Master of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Design from the College of Architecture and Design.

Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, chaired by graphic design professor Cary Staples, seven art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year’s exhibition. These students are Samuel Bendriem, Rachel Byrd, Aimee Claire Chico, Alizebeth Patterson, Ericka Ryba, Lauren Sanders, and Brayan Zavala.

The College of Architecture and Design participants were selected by the faculty-at-large, and by outside review teams. The seven projects representing the disciplines of Interior Design, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture were created independently and collaboratively by eleven students. These exhibitors are Kristin Bowman, Emanuel Huber-Feely, Coleen O’ Leary, William Harvell, Emily Johnson, Caroline Sneed, Clay Lezon, Lewis Williams, Zach Mulitauaopele, Clint Wayman, and Jared Wilkins.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

With hilariously witty and heartbreakingly moving moments of adoration, regret and desire, this sweeping musical explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress Desirée Armfeldt, the men who love her, and their jealous wives - all invited for a weekend in the country. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises in Stephen Sondheim’s masterful musical take on Ingmar Bergman's comedy of manners, “Smiles of a Summer Night.”

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

Harriet The Spy has been recognized as a literary classic with a modern sensibility. In 2002, the School Library Association ranked the book 17th in a list of “Top 100 Children’s Novels.” The novel won the Sequoyah Book Award for 1964.

Harriet loves writing and wants to be a spy when she grows up. So what could be more natural for Harriet than keeping a journal? A journal that contains everything she thinks about or observes in all of her friends and family. A journal that is the complete, uncensored truth.

But Harriet will need all her super-spy techniques when the notebook goes missing. What if everything she wrote about her friends is made public? The comic fallout that ensues will delight audiences and teach some valuable lessons.

14 regular performances: May 1 through 17, Thursdays through Sundays.

Knoxville Children's Theatre: 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917, (865) 208-3677, knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

Held at the Tellico Vil-lage Community Church on 130 Chota Center in Loudon, TN. All artists, aspiring artists and art enthusiasts are invited to attend. There are over 175 new 2D and 3D works in a wide variety of mediums. Refreshments and live music are scheduled for the reception on Friday, May 1st from 7-9 pm.

Art Guild of Tellico Village: www.tellicoartguild.org

44th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair, May 1, 2 & 3.
Friday and Saturday 10:00AM-6:00PM and Sunday 10:00AM-5:00PM.
Hands-on kids' activities and live demonstrations.
Free admission and parking.
Nashville's Centennial Park. Free shuttle--park and ride from the HCA lots on Park Plaza, courtesy Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Saturday and Sunday during fair hours.
www.tennesseecraft.org

presented by the East Tennessee Historical Society & the Knox County Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in conjunction with the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event
Downtown Knoxville & Nearby Sites

Knoxville will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. A series of programs and activities will highlight Union, Confederate, and African American perspectives, with a focus on Reconstruction, remembrance, and reconciliation. Visitors are invited to explore Civil War forts, cemeteries, historic homes, museums, special exhibits, and a Civil War Exposition, as well as enjoy living history portrayals, a Blue & Gray Reunion Dinner, a play, music, and vintage base ball games as played during the 1890 reunion.

A Blue & Gray Reunion Dinner will be held on Friday, May 1, with Ron Maxwell, director of the popularly acclaimed films Gettysburg and Gods and General, as the featured speaker. Music and a short history of Knoxville’s 1890 Blue and Gray Reunion will add to the evening’s theme. Tickets are $60 each and must be purchased in advance. To purchase tickets call 865-215-8883 or visit www.eastTNhistory.org/BlueGray.

A "Peace Jubilee" on the evening of May 2 will feature events much like those that took place at the original 1890 reunion. There will be music and excerpts of speeches from the original reunion. A candlelight ceremony will give visitors an opportunity to remember an ancestor who fought in the conflict. Those without an ancestor who fought in the war may adopt an ancestor from a list available at the event. A fireworks finale will commemorate the war’s end.

On Sunday, May 3, cemeteries, historic homes, and fort tours will continue in the afternoon. At 8:45 and 11:00 a.m., First Presbyterian Church will host a "Service of Remembrance, Reunion, and Reconciliation for a Nation Divided." At 2:00 p.m., a "Rededication of the Sultana Monument" will commemorate those who died in the Mississippi River explosion of the steamboat Sultana, on April 27, shortly after the war's end. Many East Tennesseans, just released and on the way home from Cahaba Prison, were among the dead and the survivors from the largest maritime accident in the nation's history.

About the Freedom Jubilee:
Events on May 2 will focus on the 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, with an opening ceremony and color guard, the presentation of records transcriptions to the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, a traveling exhibit, A Glorious March to Freedom, and a lecture by Dr. Frank Smith, executive director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. The day will also include activities in Haley Heritage Square, a visit by Roots actor Ben Vereen, music, and children's activities. Haley Heritage Square is named for Alex Haley, who spent the latter years of his life in Knoxville and nearby Norris.

All events are open to the public, most are free of charge. There is a small suggested donation to cover transportation for the Civil War Knoxville bus tours.

About the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Signature Events:
A series of special programs, focusing on the subject of Reconstruction Tennessee," will be presented by the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, April 30-May 1. A keynote address at the Historic Bijou Theatre, April 30, features the Fisk Jubilee Singers and a lecture by Carolyn E. Janney, Ph.D. A panel discussion on May 1, will include Drs. Todd Groce, Luke Harlow, Bobby L. Lovett, and Tracy McKenzie, with book signings to follow.

"Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee," presented by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, invites those with family artifacts and documents from the Civil War to bring them in for documentation and identification and advice on preservation care. To register to bring in your Civil War artifacts please call 615-253-3470 or email civilwar.tsla@tn.gov. The Commission will also present a teachers workshop and a day of student programs.

All Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event programs are free and open to the public. Registration, however, is required by emailing tn.civilwar150@tn.gov or calling (615) 532-7520.

The Civil War Signature Event is jointly sponsored by the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, Tennessee Historical Society, Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, Knox County Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, East Tennessee Historical Society, and Visit Knoxville. For the full list of Blue & Gray Reunion and Peace Jubilee events and details, please visit www.easttnhistory.org/BlueGray.

Central High School National Art Honor Society exhibition
Reception date TBA.

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

The Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 may have legally ended the Civil War, but it did not end East Tennessee’s bitter internal war. As Union and Confederate veterans returned home, fierce partisanship and settling of old scores often continued. Some Confederates, feeling unwelcome in their own homeland, left the region, many never to return. Yet, as the months and years passed, the vast majority on each side began to work together to mend their differences and to rebuild their war-ravaged lives and communities. The new exhibit Memories of the Blue and Gray: The Civil War in East Tennessee at 150 will explore early attempts at reconciliation and how we as East Tennesseans continue to remember the Civil War 150 years later.

The exhibition will feature more than 125 artifacts from the collections of ETHS, Gerald and Sandra Augustus, Drs. Anthony and Jill Hodges, and others, highlighting reconstruction, reunions, the Sultana disaster, cemeteries and monuments, commemorative art, educational institutions, collecting of artifacts and memorabilia, and state and local preservation efforts. Clothing varying from period gowns to a Ku Klux Klan uniform to a Confederate reunion frock coat will be on display, alongside a brush believed carried by a soldier who survived the explosion and sinking of the Sultana, a piece of furniture made by the former slave Lewis Buckner, and the diaries of Ellen Renshaw House. Featured Civil War Reunion memorabilia will range from 1881 to 2013 with the 150th anniversary of the battle of Fort Sanders. The “Looking Back” Civil War artifact documentation program of the Tennessee State Library and Archives will be represented with an odd-shaped shoe, fashioned by the Union for a Confederate soldier from Grainger County who lost half his foot in the Battle of Franklin. In addition to artifacts, the exhibition will include a video of Civil War collectors Gerald and Sandra Augustus and a slide show highlighting East Tennessee’s Civil War cemeteries and monuments.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Blue & Gray Reunion and Freedom Jubilee to be held in Knoxville, April 30-May 3, 2015. Four days of special programming highlighting Knoxville and the region’s Civil War history begins with the state's Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event with lectures by nationally recognized speakers, a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Civil War artifact documentation by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, student and teacher programs, a Blue & Gray Dinner, and more. Weekend activities include music, vintage baseball games, bus tours to historic homes, forts, and cemeteries, living history, heritage groups, exhibits, a service of remembrance, a Peace Jubilee, fireworks, and more. For more information on the programs of the Blue & Gray Reunion and Freedom Jubilee, please visit www.eastTNhistory.org/BlueGray.

The Museum of East Tennessee History is open 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday; and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Sunday. Museum Admission is $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for seniors, and FREE for children under 16. Each Sunday admission is FREE to all and ETHS members always receive FREE admission. The Museum is located in the East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37901. For more information about booking the exhibition, scheduling a school tour, or visiting the museum, call (865) 215-8824, email eths@eastTNhistory.org, or visit www.easttnhistory.org.

The Town of Farragut and Farragut Arts Council will sponsor the 2015 Farragut Intermediate School Art Show beginning in April at the Farragut Town Hall. Don't miss this opportunity to marvel at the work of some of Farragut's most talented young artists. Awards will be given for best in show and first, second and third places during the reception.

View during regular Town Hall hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Reception: Tuesday, May 5 - 4:30 - 6 p.m.

Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Dr, Farragut, TN 37934. Information: 865-966-7057, www.townoffarragut.org

The District Gallery & Framery is pleased to present Automata: Art Cars by Clark Stewart, opening April 24. Stewart, a retired professor, taught drawing and painting at the University of Tennessee for 42 years. His work, which is largely figurative, has been shown in over 200 exhibitions worldwide and is included in many private, corporate and museum collections.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 24, 5-9 p.m. - Meet the artist, and, if you own a classic car, we invite you to drive it to the opening reception for a fun evening with fellow gear heads!

As a teenager in Orange County, California, Stewart restored an MG-TC to concours level and progressed through an Alpha Romeo, Porsche, MG, Jaguar and more. An avowed motoring enthusiast, he is now involved in various vintage motorcycles—Nortons, a Benelli, and a classic BMW. Stewart’s “Automata” project is an attempt to bring his passions of art-making, modeling and machinery together. “Automata” are sculptures of imaginary, somewhat fantastic cars that are loosely based on exotic cars of the ’30s deco period. Most are around 15 inches long and made of wood, metal, and materials not associated with cars, such as velvet. They have no provision for passengers and are conceived as pure machines, their qualities uncompromised by human occupancy. The series concept is that they are imaginary maquettes for full-scale vehicles that would cruise urban areas controlled by sensors and computer programs—like drones for the viewing pleasure of passing onlookers.

The exhibit features over 20 of Stewart’s art cars and motorcycles. Also included in the show are displays that were custom-built by The Framery for these sculptures.

The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 10-4. Information: 865-200-4452, www.TheDistrictGallery.com