Calendar of Events

In the Imagination Gallery at Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, 461 West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tues-Fri: 9am - 5pm, Sat: 10am - 4pm, Sun: 1- 4pm

Opening reception: Sept 5, 2-4 PM

Phone: 865-482-1074, www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org

Opening Reception Saturday September 5th, 5:00-8:00 PM.

Envision Art Gallery and artist owner Kay List presents the Tennessee Art Association (www.tnartists.org) artist members and their wonderfully diverse subject matters, mediums and styles. Over 20 artists are participating in this reception/exhibition. Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments and live music. Along with the original works of art, choose from the selection of framed and unframed archival quality prints as well as artist note cards.

Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Avenue (Corner of Sutherland Ave. and Carr St.), Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Tue-Thu 10-5, Fri-Sat 10-6. Information: 865-438-4154, www.kaylistart.com

The Hispanic Outreach Leadership Association of the Lakeway Area (H.O.L.A.) invites the community to its First Annual Morristown Latino Food Festival on September 5, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Rose Center.

The Morristown Latino Food Festival will feature food from various Latin American countries as well as games, music, and other surprises.
The Latino Community has steadily grown into an important part of the Lakeway Area’s cultural, economic, and social character. H.O.L.A. Lakeway hopes that the Morristown Latino Food Festival will become a treasured institution in the region that showcases the important and unique cultural, economic, and social contributions that the Hispanic & Latino families of the Lakeway Area make in our community and create an opportunity for the community as a whole to come together and celebrate the Lakeway Area’s rich and diverse culture. We also hope to make a lasting contribution to the local economy by attracting nearby residents to visit, eat, and shop here.

First Annual Morristown Latino Food Festival on September 5, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Rose Center, 442 W 2nd N St, Morristown, TN 37814.
https://www.facebook.com/HOLALakeway
holalatinfoodfest@gmail.com.

First Friday opening, Friday, September 4, from 5:00-8:00PM.

Please join us this fall as we celebrate oour 40th year in business and next year's 20th anniversary in the old Capri Cinema Building. Bennett Galleries features art, design, framing, furniture and jewelry.

5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919, telephone 865 584 6791 or www.bennettgalleries.com.

Rala is excited to welcome back local artist extraordinaire, Bran Rogers. A true renaissance man, he does everything from puppeteering to painting! His new body of work is about tortured poet, Edgar Allen Poe. As a unique twist, each illustration uses red wine and dirt from one of the houses Poe lived in.

Our second featured artist is Asheville based painter, Julie Armbruster. We're always enchanted by the fantastic worlds and characters she creates! "My most recent work delves further into the imaginative world of the individual characters and their personal struggle to understand their unique potential. Often realized as human-animal hybrids, they attempt to make sense of the reality they are presented with. The characters evolve and shift seeking some sort of resolution, but they are often faced with difficulty."

RALA, 323 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. https://www.facebook.com/ShopRala

Join us as our hardworking staff members step out from behind the scenes and exhibit what they work on when they're not at work. Media and subject matter were not stipulated at the outset of this exhibition. The pieces on display, therefore, represent an honest 'work sample' from a talented segment of the UT community serving the School of Art and College of Architecture and Design whose artistic skills might otherwise remain unrecognized outside of their duties as staff members.

Devin Balara – Metal Shop Tech + Sculpture/Installation / Mike C. Berry – UT Downtown Gallery Manager + Painting / Eric Cagley – Ewing Gallery Staff + Painting / Debbie Copper – School of Art Staff + Quilting / Heather Eades– Media Pool + Painting / Jeremy Hammond– Wood Shop Manager + Sculpture / Tally Locke – Fab Lab Manager + Sculpture / Sarah McFalls – Ewing Gallery Staff + Multi-media installation / Hannah Shimabukuro –Printmaking Tech + Installation/photography / Jason Tyler -School of Art Media Tech + Photography

Opening Reception Friday, September 4, 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Free admission! UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: W-F 12-5, Sat 10-3. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Judy Clark Turner is an artist who has always loved the tactile, 3-D feel of clay. Visitors to the Art Guild at Fairfield Glade are attracted to her beautiful pottery creations including functional and decorative serving, salad, and soup bowls, coffee mugs, plates, sugar and creamers, honey pot containers, soap dispensers, and more. Judy also creates larger, uniquely decorative pieces that reflect her artistic talent and technical skill.

Judy’s artwork will be on exhibit throughout the month of September at the Plateau Creative Art Center (PCAC), 451 Lakeview Drive, in Fairfield Glade. The PCAC is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Judy will be the Featured Artist at a Fun and Wine Friday reception on September 4, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at PCAC. The public is invited to attend this free event, where they can join Art Guild members, view the gallery display including Judy’s artwork, and enjoy a glass of wine or other non-alcoholic beverage.

Art Guild at Fairfield Glade at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-Sa 9AM-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249, www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

A unique exhibition by HoLa Hora Latina member artists celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Opening and artist reception: Fri Sep 4, 5-9 PM. Artists: Cesar Betanco, Angel Blanco, Rafael Casco, Maria Clark, June Crowe, Susana Esrequis, Daniela Esrequis, Delia Flores, Astrid Galindo, Michael Giles, William Holbert, Angel Luna, Nicole Perez-Camoirano, Dina Ruta, Hector Saldivar, Michelle Simpson-Jardines, Graciela Snyder, Ivan Soto, Rosalina Tipton, and Loren Velazquez.

Exhibit Sept 9-20 at Kramer Education Center, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Drive (closed Sundays - see www.knoxart.org).

UT Exhibit Opening Mon Sep 14 at Frieson Black Cultural Center, 1800 Melrose Avenue on UT campus.

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

Visit Knoxville will present the 28th edition of Boomsday on Sunday, September 6 at Volunteer Landing along the Tennessee River. Boomsday 2015 will wrap up a Labor Day weekend featuring the following events, all FREE to the public:

Friday, September 4--2015 Knoxville Powerboat Classic on Volunteer Landing, Tennessee River, 10:30am-noon testing / 1:00-5:00pm races

Tennessee Soccer vs Navy
UT's Regal Soccer Stadium
Frdiay, September 4, 7:00pm

Saturday, September 5
2015 National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Knoxville Memorial Stair Climb
Sunsphere at World's Fair Park, 9:00am

2015 Knoxville Powerboat Classic
Volunteer Landing, Tennessee River
Saturday, September 5, 11:00am-noon testing / 1:00-5:00pm races

Sunday, September 6
Tennessee Soccer vs Murray State
UT's Regal Soccer Stadium
6:30pm

AND, Sunday September 6, Boomsday 2015
Volunteer Landing, Neyland Drive
Festivities including family-friendly entertainment and food vendors begin at 3pm. Live Music on the Q100.3 Main Stage is presented by Xfinity and Ingles. Artists to be announced. Fireworks begin at 9:30pm with music provided by Star 102.1. WTNZ powered by WBIR Channel 10 will air the event live on TV.

For more information visit Boomsday.org.

JOIN US September 4 and 5, 2015
Ever wonder what it would be like to stay overnight at the highest elevation lodge in the Eastern United States? How about doing so with a guided hike up one of Mt. Le Conte’s most scenic trails? Join Discover Life in America for all this and more on our annual Biodiversity Hike to Mt. Le Conte, September 4 and 5, 2015.

The trip begins with a guided hike up Alum Cave Bluff Trail with an experienced guide providing natural history, local human history, biodiversity lessons and much more along the way. We’ll be having a picnic lunch on the way up, an evening sunset program about the ATBI at Clifftops, and a chance to meet some new friends while learning a thing or two. You’ll be presented with handmade note cards from DLIA, and lodging with dinner and breakfast. All this for the price of $275 per person – and you will be supporting both DLIA and the Smokies ATBI program.

September 4 and 5.
Reserve your reservation now while spots are still open! For reservations or more information, e-mail Todd at todd@dlia.org or call (865) 430-4757. The lodge will house two guests to a bed, so bring or friend or share a bed with another program participant
www.dlia.org

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., Sept. 4. There will be complimentary refreshments along with jazz performed by Kelvin Walters.

Most of Gary Dagnan’s oil paintings are of the mountains, hills, lakes and structures of the East Tennessee area. He is inspired by the changing light and colors that come from distinctly different seasons of the South, explaining that he is more interested in the aesthetics of a scene than with documenting a specific place: “I want my paintings to express the emotional and spiritual connection that I have with nature,” he says. With his work in more than 400 private and public collections, the Jasper, TN, native has had 18 solo shows, and his works have been in many national, state and regional art shows throughout the United States. Larry Gabbard enjoys fast-firing techniques that create a rich variety of textures and colors on bisque clay. "I find the unexpected marks made when clay, heat, and smoke interact to be among the most intriguing and challenging of finishes to perfect and reproduce," he says. While most of his elegant pottery is wheel thrown, he seeks out alternative methods, among them raku, horse hair, saggar, obvara, and pit firing. The Cincinnati, OH, transplant began his pottery career after moving to Kingston in 1999. He attends workshops of well known potters as well as classes at renowned educational institutions to learn more and refine his skills.

Owned and operated by more than 60 professional regional artists, the Art Market Gallery is a few doors away from Mast General store and next to Downtown Grill & Brewery. Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Th & Sa 11-6, Fri 11-9, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

Arrowmont invites the public to view Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts, Surface Design Association's 1st International Juried Members’ Exhibition in the Sandra J. Blain Gallery. The exhibit showcases 67 artists, spanning a wide range of textile media, subject matter and presentations. Selected artists are from the US, Canada, Hungary, Iceland, France, Germany, Norway and the UK. A reception will be held Thursday, October 8th from 5-8pm. Admission is free and the community is encouraged to attend with their friends and family.

Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts’ juror is Namita Gupta Wiggers, curator-at-large and Director of Critical Craft Forum. For a comprehensive print catalog, Wiggers selected 108 works from 91 artists that provide meaningful answers to the question: What do textiles/fibers and their associated processes offer artists that cannot be achieved in other media? The catalog includes full and detailed images, artist statements, and essays addressing the context and evolution of contemporary textile arts. Essay authors include curator Namita Gupta Wiggers, Arrowmont Program Director and fiber artist Nick DeFord, SDA Journal Editor Marci Rae McDade and indigo dye master Rowland Ricketts. Surface Design Association (SDA) is a non-profit textile arts organization founded in 1977. SDA promotes international awareness and appreciation of fiber, textiles & new materials. Members include artists, designers, educators, students, curators, gallery owners and textile enthusiasts from around the world. New members are invited to join at www.surfacedesign.org.

Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm and Saturdays 10am - 4pm.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org