Calendar of Events

Broadway Studios and Gallery (1127 N. Broadway) is pleased to host artist Marianne Ziegler (Knoxville) with her recent body work entitled "Alley Cat"

Marianne, better known as "Ziggie", frequently photographs the abandoned areas about town and describes the "Alley Cat" series as a journey which reveals vivacity within the decay of the places we pass by every day. The results are an exhilarating look into our back alleys and abandoned spaces which are often thought of as eyesores.

Her work will be shown Feb. 5th through March 1st. in the main gallery.
Opening reception is First Friday Feb. 5th from 5-9pm
Light refreshments will be served and parking is free.

Broadway Studios and Gallery are located at 1127 N. Broadway in Wight Place next to Vinyard Flooring one block from WATE Greystoke Mansion.
Main gallery and gift shop are both open from 11-7 Thursday, Friday, Saturday. All work is for sale ranging from magnets to wall sized masterpieces.
For more info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery@Gmail.com or www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com

Opening reception Friday, February 5, 5-9 PM
Science and Nature - A Selection of Work from 2005 to 2015

Larry Brown is a painter who has taught drawing in the Cooper Union School of Art Since 1991. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington State University and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona.

Larry’s paintings and works on paper are based on concerns with relative relationships between science and nature. His most recent work is defined by a geo-political narrative focused on ecological and geological tensions related to the environment and climate.

The artist will be present at the reception.

Free admission! UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: W-F 11-6, Sat 10-3. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present an inaugural exhibition by The Knoxville Photography Collective, a passionate group of nine photographers who share a love of all things photographic. Together, the members of the Collective have almost 200 years of photography experience that encompasses a wide range of styles and techniques. The photographs in this exhibition cover the gamut from film to digital and B&W to color. Genres represented in the exhibit include travel, street, wedding, portrait, close-up, abstract, and landscape photography. There is only one common theme in this mosaic of work: the love of photography.

The Knoxville Photography Collective held their first gathering at Barley’s in April 2001, and the initial group welcomed photographers working in a dark room and with B&W film. Since then, the Collective has met on a monthly basis to share their work, ideas, and processes. Brian McDaniel leads the Collective. Other members include: David Case, Tony Hazen, Tony Kyle, Robert Minick, Dick Penner, Caitlin Taylor, Owen Weston, and Steve Zigler.

A public reception will take place on Friday, February 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM.

100 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sundays, February 7 & 21, 3:30-6:30 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present its tenth annual National Juried Exhibition of 2016, a new exhibition featuring selected works from 48 artists in the Southeast region. The National Juried Exhibition was developed in 2006 to provide a forum for local artists to compete on a national scale and display their highest quality work. The exhibition encompasses all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists working in a variety of media such as photography, acrylic, pencil, copper, fibers, oil, paper, stoneware, and more and will be displayed in the Balcony gallery of the Emporium Center. Most of the works are for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition.

A public reception will take place on Friday, February 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM with a brief awards ceremony at 6:00 PM in which over $1,000 in cash awards will be announced.

100 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sundays, February 7 & 21, 3:30-6:30 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

Opening reception Fri Feb 5, 5-9 PM

Originally from Argentina, Eugenia Almeida has lived in the states for 30 years and in Knoxville, TN since 1993 when her husband accepted an offer to work at the University of Tennessee. After her children had all grown up and left home, she decided to fully dedicate herself to creating art. While Eugenia attended college in Argentina and had tried her hand at a myriad of professions, from research assistant at the University of Tennessee to finishing buildings after construction, she has always wanted to do something that expressed her artistic capabilities. Once Eugenia tried her hand at creating art, it came very naturally to her. Art is in her blood, as her father Eugenio Wade and mother Patty Wade are both renowned portrait and still life painters. From a young age Eugenia was taught to follow her artistic notions, and over the years has developed her own style. She is a natural painter whose love of color and texture allow her to flourish in her field.

Although modest about her accomplishments, her passion for art is obvious in the quality of her work and the respect she has gained. While she began her work by applying faux-finishes to walls, the majority of her work is now in concrete - a technique she learned 7 years ago while attending the annual IDAL International Decorative Artisan League meeting. If you're thinking about changing the scene in your home, and making it a sanctuary, Eugenia can and will help you. From walls to ceilings, concrete countertops to backsplashes, from flooring to tabletops, or changing from a space that may seem too soulless to one that has energy and life, Eugenia will help you realize the vision for your home. One customer recently said: “Eugenia's style brings everything together to look very natural. It has a nice common thread."

Eugenia Almeida, owner of A New Hue in Knoxville, uses her talents to beautify spaces: homes, businesses and canvases. She is changing the way people view concrete and helping people discover their dream spaces.

HoLa Hora Latina, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 109, Knoxville, TN 37902. Gallery hours: M-F 2-5 PM or by appointment. Information: 865-335-3358, www.holafestival.org

Artist statement: I gather vintage lumber and material from all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee and through an alchemy of essence and object, I combine them to form sculpture, lighting, furniture and decor.

A public reception will take place on Friday, February 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM. Ty Crisp's work will be on display in the Atrium.

100 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sundays, February 7 & 21, 3:30-6:30 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

Debbie has spent a lifetime in the dance profession. After earning her MA in Dance from American University in Washington, DC, she then embarked on 38 years of teaching, choreographing and performing; starting with Meredith College, then Penn State University and their student companies. She created several dance companies: both Firehouse Dance Company (an Improv company) and The Elderberries (a company of senior citizens) in Ithaca, NY, and Beaumont Dance Works (a company of 9-11year old boys and girls) in Knoxville, TN. She created the dance program at Beaumont Magnet Academy, wrote the Tennessee State Dance Curriculum Standards for K-5, and has taught dance to generations of children at Beaumont for 21 years. Since her retirement in 2014, she continues to dance, choreograph and teach with adults here at the Emporium on a more relaxed schedule, which has given her time to play more intently with a therapeutic hobby (pottery) that she has dabbled in for almost as long as she has been dancing!

This brings us to why we are here and the next chapter in Debbie’s life: Her first introduction to making pots was in 1978 with John Givinnes, who was teaching pottery at Meredith College, where she was Assistant Professor of Dance. John graciously allowed her to come and play with clay and helped advise her in setting up her own studio, even sharing glaze recipes. Unfortunately, from 1988- 2008 all of Debbie’s supplies and kiln were crated up and stored away. Time was spent on raising two children and teaching dance. In 2008, a major home renovation and addition gave rise to a pottery studio! Finally all supplies and the kiln were freed from their bondage and she eagerly retaught herself how to throw pots with a little help from Google. Presently, Debbie makes pottery daily as she searches for her unique voice in clay. She’s intrigued with the process of blending her passion for dance composition with her passion for clay composition. To her, pottery is an extension of the dance. The dancer informs the potter and the potter informs the dancer, culminating in a lovely duet!

A public reception will take place on Friday, February 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM. Her work will be featured in the display case.

100 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sundays, February 7 & 21, 3:30-6:30 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

"Fictitious Additions" is a two-person exhibit by Jason Bige Burnett and Nick DeFord featuring mixed media and sculptural work that is dramatically embellished and evocatively domestic.

The Central Collective, 923 N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-236-1590, info@thecentralcollective.com, www.thecentralcollective.com

Emily Schleiner along with A1LabArts is hosting an art exhibition exploring the concepts of 'truth', 'knowledge' and how these concepts are affected by conditions that change over time. This is an exhibition of artists who are highlighting paradigms in which truth and knowledge is discovered. Some artist contemplate contemporary technologies, such as Liat Berdugo & Emily Martinez's artwork, which parodies online purveyors of 'how-to' information in today's online environment of non-stop advertisements. Richard Munaba videos show lonely and humorous re-enactments of Missed Connections based on letters from the website 'craigslist.org'. The exhibit also includes works by Jennifer Gradecki & Derek Curry, who have created an interactive artwork that replicates techniques that intelligence agencies use to collect data.

Annamaria Gundlach and Neranza Noel Blount, on the other hand, have crafted mixed media objects on the topic of environmental awareness in an era of disposable plastics and water contamination. Joyce Gralak's mixed media piece uses 1950s caricatures to highlight changes in public awareness of nuclear weapons. Robert Thompson comments on the public's awareness of health and safety in industrialized food production with 'truthful' warning labels. Swiss artist Sarawut Chutiwongpeti explores social values in mega polices in his mashup of flight launches, bridging generations with explosive imagery. One intricate piece by Shelley Mangold even wrestles with the mysterious conditions of pre-historic cave people as they painted and carved long ago. Artists of Past and Future Conditions, each in their own way have created artwork that highlights 'now' by focusing on the conditions of the past, present, or future.

Curator Bio: Emily Schleiner is a local Knoxville artist and web developer who's interest in patterns and people brings her work into a zone of symbolic imagery, interactive installations, video sculptures, and short-films. Born in Davis, California, she completed her MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College in New York, embracing ensemble-style collaborations with artists from multiple disciplines and partaking in the emergent creative process of group art-making. For more information on the exhibit, call (718) 683-8654 or visit www.a1labarts.org.

A1LabArts @ the Center for Creative Minds, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN 37917.

Fort Sanders native RB Morris returns to his "pulpit" at the Laurel Theater with Knoxville players Greg Horne and Daniel Kimbro. RB Morris is a poet and songwriter, solo performer and band leader, and a sometimes playwright and actor from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has published books of poetry including Early Fires (Iris Press), Keeping The Bees Employed, and The Mockingbird Poems (Rich Mountain Bound), and music albums including Spies Lies and Burning Eyes and his most recent solo project Rich Mountain Bound. He wrote and acted in The Man Who Lives Here Is Looney, a one-man play taken from the life and work of James Agee, and was instrumental in founding a park dedicated to Agee in Knoxville. Morris served as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at The University of Tennessee from 2004-2008, and was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He currently lives in Knoxville with his wife and daughter.

At Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information/tickets: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org.

Fat Friday Mardi Gras with Roux Du Bayoux

Alive After Five is a unique live music series that takes place in the smoke-free, casually elegant setting of the Ann and Steve Bailey Hall in the Knoxville Museum of Art. There is a live band on stage, seating at tables, two cash bars, food from area restaurants, free freshly popped popcorn, and free parking. Audience members can enjoy listening to music, dancing, and browsing the museum’s art galleries. Admission is $10 for general and $5 for museum members and college students with ID. Ages 17 and under are admitted free. Info: 865-934-2039.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Local and regional potters create functional works-of-art (bowls) that are filled with delicious soups or chilis at this fundraiser for the Art Center. Your "Souper" meal includes soup of your choice, homemade bread, decadent dessert & coffee or tea. You'll take home a beautiful soup bowl!

Three seatings: 5 pm, 6 pm, and 7 pm. Tickets are $30 each.

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tu-F 9-5, Sa-M 1-4. Information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org