Calendar of Events

Opening reception January 8, 6 PM. The first 20 attendees will receive a complimentary print! 20% of all sale proceeds will benefit the Sevier County Food Ministry.

Ronda and her family moved to Sevierville from New Jersey. She works in mixed media and her pieces cover many subjects and styles.

Held at Armada Bar, 116 S. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-801-1036 or www.facebook.com/twistedstixartstudio

Recent paintings and drawings of Hannah Harper: www.hmharper.weebly.com. She is a graduate of the School of Art at East Tennessee State University. Her paintings are mostly based on subconscious of the human experience using the split of under and over water as a metaphor.

Opening reception on January 8, 5:00-9:00 PM. Door-front parking is free. All ages are welcome and light refreshments will be served.

Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 Broadway St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Gallery hours: Thu-Sat 11-7, Sun 11-3. Information: (865)556-8676 or www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission are pleased to present the second annual Gallery of Arts Tribute. This juried exhibition, developed to recognize local artists and honor the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be displayed at the Emporium Center. Works included in the exhibition will feature African and African American artists in the Greater Knoxville area as well as works that pertain to the themes of Unity, Community, Love, Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Civil Rights. “The Emporium is delighted to be included in this distinguished and important event,” says Liza Zenni, Executive Director of the Arts & Culture Alliance. “We look forward to seeing the work that will honor Dr. King and his legacy.”

The exhibition will be on display in the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. An opening reception will take place on Friday, January 8, from 6:00-8:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Sunday, January 17, 3:30-6:30 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed Monday, January 18, for the holiday. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

By David Lindsay-Abaire. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation—an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." —Variety

Showtimes & Prices: Thu/Fri/Sat @ 8:00 pm - $15, Sun @ 3:00 pm - $13

At Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 North Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information & tickets: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

A Brown Bag Lecture by Darrin Haas and a WWI Encampment Display by the Tennessee State Parks’ World War I Living History Group
Lecture: 12:00 PM, WWI Encampment: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

FREE | Attendees are encouraged to bring a “brown bag” lunch

In cooperation with Fort Loudoun State Historic Area and the Tennessee Great War Commission, the East Tennessee Historical Society will be commemorating East Tennessee’s contributions to the First World War with a lecture and living history encampment. At noon in the East Tennessee History Center auditorium, National Guard historian Darrin Haas will speak on the 1919 plot by American officers, including Tennessee National Guardsmen, to kidnap the German Kaiser in a quest for justice in the aftermath of World War I. The lecture anchors an all-day encampment in Krutch Park and the History Center, where visitors can interact with members of the Tennessee State Parks’ living history group portraying soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force. Stations will explore topics including soldiers’ daily life, the role of new technology, and famous Tennesseans in the war (including Sergeant Alvin C. York). After the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, many East Tennesseans joined the army and fought in France, helping the Allies defeat the German-led Central Powers. The years of destruction and death led to calls for justice in the streets of the Allied nations and in the ranks of the Allied armies. Feeling this impulse, in late 1918 a group of American officers and enlisted personnel from the 114th Field Artillery Regiment formulated a plan to visit the deposed German Kaiser to ascertain his status. Leaving on New Year’s Day 1919, the group used political and press connections to enter the Netherlands and even infiltrated the castle holding the former monarch, but the Dutch military arrived and forced the group to return to Allied lines. As word of the trip spread, the men found themselves at the center of an investigation by American officials, but American newspapers hailed them as heroes.

Darrin Haas is a Ph.D. student in Public History at Middle Tennessee State University, where he is writing a dissertation on Tennessee's memorialization of World War I. He spent the last 8 years as the Command Historian for the Tennessee Military Department and often writes for National Guard and GX: The Guard Experience magazine. Darrin currently serves as a Military Police Major in the Tennessee Army National Guard and has served tours in Iraq and Kosovo.

On Saturday, January 9, the living history team will be repeating the program at the Fort Loudoun State Historic Area in Vonore from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with a 1:00 p.m. lecture by Darrin Hass. Fort Loudoun shares ties to the historic event, as Elsworth Brown of Chattanooga, one of the American officers involved in the plot, played a large role in research at the Fort Loudoun State Historic Area. While serving as Fort Loudoun Association’s research director and archaeologist from 1953-1957, he conducted excavations at the fort and collected numerous works from archives across the United States and abroad. His contributions to Fort Loudoun State Historic Area paved the way for the reconstructions of the past decades, and allowed the park staff to reconstruct the lives of numerous men who called the Fort home from 1756-1760. For questions please call the park office at 423-884-6217 or email hobart.akin@tn.gov.

The Brown Bag lecture is sponsored by Harriet Z. Albers Memorial and the lecture and corresponding activities are free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at noon at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville. Guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch and enjoy the lecture. Soft drinks will be available. For more information on the lecture, exhibitions, or museum hours, call 865-215-8824 or visit the website at www.EastTNHistory.org.

"First" Friday: Un-False Land by Victoria Buck
Friday, January 8, 2016, 6:00pm - 10:00pm at The Central Collective,
923 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917.

Victoria Buck's latest Polaroid images and sculptures are a meditation on her recent sailing trip around the world's most Northern Island, Svalbard, secured in the Norwegian territory.

A sculpture artist whose work researches ideas about our existence with and relationship to landscape, and our changing perspective of what is the threatened and the threatening. Buck is interested in the constant navigational dance of knowing and trusting our environment, and being at the mercy of it.

Victoria Buck is a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, and a recent-ish MFA graduate, from The University of Tennessee 3D program. Her work has been shown across the United States, in California, Nevada, Colorado and Illinois, and recently taken her to The North Pole, participating in The Arctic Circle Residency program Summer 2015.

www.victoriabuck.com
The Central Collective
923 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917
www.thecentralcollective.com
865/ 236-1590

Loads of drama, fun and excitement will be awaiting you at the Cresthill Cinema Club in 2016 – with an emphasis on life’s seamier side for the year’s first screening, which will be taking place on Friday, January 8 at 7:30 PM (see attached program).

This New Year’s program will be paying homage to mean, evil and all-around despicable women. Our feature: Flesh and Fury (1952), starring Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling and Mona Freeman. A blistering boxing exposé, Flesh and Fury presents the alluring Sterling at her rottenest; she plays a heartless, gold-digging tramp who exploits rising, deaf-mute prizefighter Curtis for all he’s worth. The naïve Tony’s so-called romance with Jan turns into an explosive triangle – once lovely therapist for the deaf Freeman enters the picture. An adults-only CCC presentation, Flesh and Fury delivers shock after shock with its brutal story of raw emotions and female savagery, penetratingly told against the colorful yet violent boxing world.

Violence will also be evidencing itself in “Man Killer,” the opening segment of our January wicked-woman tribute. A December 1961 episode of ABC-TV’s iconic crime series, The Untouchables, “Man Killer” stars sultry Ruth Roman in one of her deadliest roles: the conniving Georgiana Drake, manager of a cab company that works as a front for a major Chicago heroin-trafficking operation. Coming to the Windy City’s rescue is that incorruptible Treasury Department agent, Elliot Ness. Robert Stack is Ness, and he’s supported by fellow Untouchables regulars Bruce Gordon, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade, Abel Fernandez and Steve London.

Our location: The spacious clubhouse of the Windover Apartments. The journey there will take you to Cheshire Drive (off Kingston Pike, near the Olive Garden); going down Cheshire, turn right at the Windover Apartments sign, then go to the third parking lot on your right, next to the pool. There, the building that houses the clubhouse and offices of the Windover will be just a few steps away! Info: CresthillCinema@aol.com

On the second Friday of each month at 7:30 PM, The Improv*ables do a free, improv comedy show at Time Warp Tea Room. Donations accepted!

1209 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Info: karlalanhess@gmail.com
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Emily's paintings and sketches will be on display in the Hallway Gallery for the entire month of January. To see more of her work go to: https://www.facebook.com/emilytaylorpaintings

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

Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, February 5th, from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary treats from Wild Love Bakehouse will be provided and Starr's art will be featured for the month of February.

Ocean Starr Cline was born in San Francisco and raised in Alabama on an 11 acre farm. She moved to Knoxville almost 10 years ago after finishing her BA and MA in English Literature at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. After arriving in Knoxville, she immediately began showing and selling her work on Gay Street as well as Gatlinburg, in addition to her nationwide internet based sales. Cline is a self taught full-time artist. She has been painting for over 20 years. Her inspirations come directly from her experience living on a farm in the country and her education in English Literature. Many of her paintings are heavily textured, which causes them to change through the day as the light passes through a room. Cline's January exhibit focuses on ideas of identity and the mix between the faces we would show to the world and the ones we hide even from ourselves. https://www.etsy.com/shop/OceanStarr

Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-329-8868, www.shopinbliss.com

Recent works by painter Lil Clinard and fiber artist Julia Malia will be on display at the Art Market Gallery. An opening reception for the featured artists will be held on January 8.

Lil Clinard has enjoyed drawing and painting ever since she can remember. She has been fortunate to live in and travel to many beautiful places and take photographs as references she paints. She particularly loves to recall these enjoyable places and times as she paints. Through reading, taking workshops from renowned artists, observing fellow artists and painting every chance she gets, she has been able to acquire sufficient skill to portray the world around her.

Julia Malia is a fiber, jewelry, and stained glass craftswoman as well as a watercolorist and musician. As a fiber artist specializing in wearable art, she uses a variety of fibers and techniques. The styles of her original designs are usually either classical or folk-style in nature, drawing inspiration from historic or ancient themes. For instance, she often bases garment designs on her family’s Irish and Scottish roots by using ancient Celtic shapes and symbols. She also favors Japanese kimono garment shapes. Rich textures and colors are central to her life and her work, and she utilizes techniques that combine and enhance color variegation.

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

The Arts & Culture Alliance proudly presents its 2015 Members Show, the largest annual exhibition of local artists in the Greater Knoxville area. The fresh mix of two- and three-dimensional works created within the last two years encompasses a wide variety of media such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, photography, fine craft, sculpture, ceramics, fiber, and more from regional artists who are all individual members of the Arts & Culture Alliance, which serves and supports a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions. Membership is open to all, and information may be found at www.knoxalliance.com/join.html. Most of the works in the 2015 Members Show are for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition as holiday gifts.

The exhibition will be on display throughout the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville from December 4, 2015 – January 29, 2016. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on December 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM.

Gallery hours for the 2015 Members Show are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Sundays, December 6 & 20 and January 3 & 17, 3:30-6:30 PM. Additional special hours are posted at www.theemporiumcenter.com/visit.html. Please note, the Emporium will be closed December 24 – January 1 for the holidays. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.