Calendar of Events

The Town of Farragut and Farragut Arts Council will sponsor the 2016 Farragut Intermediate Schools Juried Art Show this winter at the Farragut Town Hall. Don't miss this opportunity to marvel at the work of some of Farragut's most talented young artists from Farragut Intermediate School and St. John Neumann Catholic School. Awards will be given for best in show and first, second and third places during a reception on Tuesday, March 1.

Reception: Tuesday, March 1 - 4:30 - 6 p.m.

View the exhibition during regular Town Hall hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
At 11408 Municipal Center Dr, Farragut, TN 37934. Information: 865-966-7057, www.townoffarragut.org

Allison Adams; saxophone and Andrea Lodge; piano
New music for saxophone and piano
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 is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. 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

A panel of community leaders will explore the themes of social justice, racial inequality, human dignity and personal redemption as presented in A Lesson Before Dying with an eye towards the modern realities in Knoxville. Panelists include:

Deputy Chief Nate Allen, Knoxville Police Department
Pastor Daryl Arnold, Overcoming Believers Church
Andre Canty, Highlander Center
Ralph Hutchison, MLK Commission
Reggie Jenkins, UUNIK Academy
Kwabena Miller, Community Outreach
Avice Reid, Sr. Director of Community Relations, City of Knoxville
Mark Stephens, KCPD Community Law Office

At Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office, 1101 Liberty Street - Free and open to the public

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. The Big Read aims to encourage reading for pleasure and enrichment by providing citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book in their communities. The grant for The Big Read 2016 was awarded to Friends of the Knox County Public Library. A full schedule of events can be found at www.knoxlib.org/bigread.

Knox County Public Library: 500 West Church Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-215-8750, www.knoxlib.org

This showcase musical performance features two local high school choirs as special guests.

Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM in room 109, Art + Architecture Building

Bob Newman is an award-winning designer experienced in all areas of corporate communications. Awards he has received include the Mead International Annual Report Competition, the Connecticut Art Directors Club One Show, the New York Art Directors Club, the Type Director's Club, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Society of Publication Designers, the Advertising Club of New York (ANDY), the Society of Typographic Arts (STA), The Los Angeles Art Directors Club, “Gold” awards in Package Design and Television Advertising from the ADDY’s in Knoxville, Tennessee, Communication Arts magazine, Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual, and Print Casebooks, as well as the Creativity Annual. His work has appeared in many design publications including the German arts magazine, Novum Gebrausch Grafik, and the Graphis Packaging Annual.

He has served as a judge for the Seattle Art Directors Club, the Mead International Annual Report Competition, the Print Casebooks, the Creativity and ANDY awards and the New York Art Directors Club.

Bob is a recently retired Professor of Graphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia. He received his MFA, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and his BFA with highest honors, from Pratt Institute. He has taught Graphic Design and Visual Communications there. In addition to Pratt, Bob has guest lectured at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has been an adjunct lecturer at Barry University in North Miami, Florida, teaching Strategic Advertising and an adjunct assistant professor of Graphic Design at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee.

Immediately prior to teaching at SCAD, Newman served as a freelance corporate identity and branding consultant, operating out of Knoxville, Tennessee. Before moving to Knoxville Bob was the owner of Newman Design Associates, Inc. Founded in 1981 the firm operated in New York City and Madison, Connecticut, serving clients in the financial, manufacturing, and publishing industries as well as institutional and philanthropic organizations. Before opening Newman Design, Bob was the Graphics Director of Hill & Knowlton, at the time the world's largest Public Relations firm.

Newman has worked with IBM, SAAB Scania, CitiBank, Houghton Mifflin, Milton Bradley, Morgan Stanley, American Express, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Knoxville Museum of Art, among others.

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

Have you heard the one about the Jewish and Muslim comedians who share the stage in Knoxville, TN? It’s not the set up of a joke. It’s a real evening of laughter, tolerance, peace, and understanding happening on Tuesday, February 23rd. “Standup for Peace” is described as a “disarmingly funny comedy show” that breaks new ground – by finding common ground. Jewish and Muslim comedians Scott Blakeman and Dean Obeidallah have performed together for the past eleven years on college campuses and in a variety of communities. They believe that “if we can laugh together, we can live together.”

“The Knoxville Jewish community is extremely excited to partner with our Muslim neighbors to bring this event to our city,” said Deborah Oleshansky, Executive Director of the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. “We invite people of all backgrounds and faiths to attend the performance and laugh with us.” Nadeem Siddiqi, a member of the Knoxville Muslim community, said “This is an opportunity for our communities to work together and find points of familiarity and intersection. Humor is many times the best way to find common ground in the human experience and demonstrate our ability to build a collaborative community.”

At Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive. Cost: General admission tickets are $7/person ($4/person for Arnstein Jewish Community Center and Muslim Community of Knoxville members). This event is sponsored by: The Muslim Community of Knoxville, The Knoxville Jewish Alliance, University of Tennessee Hillel Jewish Student Union, University of Tennessee Muslim Student Association, and Hillel International. Ticket proceeds will benefit Family Promise of Knoxville, a nonprofit organization that unites with the interfaith community to provide non-emergency housing to families with children who have lost their homes. For more information about Standup for Peace:
http://www.standupforpeace.com/

Contact: Deborah Oleshansky, 865-690-6343 or doleshansky@jewishknoxville.org

History, Food, & Fun! Enhance your time in Historic Downtown with Knoxville’s Award Winning, Original Tour! Enjoy a complete Knoxville experience in just a few hours – enjoy tastings of specially selected dishes from some of Knoxville’s best new and iconic restaurants featuring local, regional, Southern & Appalachian cuisine; add pairings of beer from local and craft breweries, wine flights, craft cocktails, Tennessee whiskey, or even moonshine; hear the history of the city and notable buildings. A must for locals and visitors!

Reservations Required. Purchase Tickets at www.knoxvillefoodtours.com or call 865-201-7270.

An off-Broadway hit comedy-drama by Jack Heifner. The story follows three young girls as they journey from high school in the 1960s to college days and beyond in this sharply sad and funny play. Tickets: 423-586-9260.

Performed at Rose Center, 442 West Second North St., Morristown, TN, 37814. www.rosecenter.org

Athens Community Theatre presents Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! February 18 - 28, 2016 in the Sue E. Trotter Theater at The Arts Center in Athens, TN.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the century, the high–spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand–new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! is directed by recent Steel Magnolias star and ACT veteran director, Melonie Carideo, with music direction by AACA Executive Director Emeritus, Ellen Kimball, and choreography by Pippin choreographer, Angie Hudson .The score is played by a live orchestra led by Ellen Kimball.

Performances are February 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, and 27 at 7:00pm and February 21 and 28 at 2:00pm. Tickets for all performances are $15 for adults, $8 for students. Tickets are available online at athensartscouncil.org, by phone at 423-745-8781, or in person at The Arts Center, 320 N. White St., Athens, Tennessee. For more information, contact The Arts Center at 423-745-8781.
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Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting an interactive installation Working Memory, by Chalet Comellas in the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery. A closing reception will be held Friday, March 11th from 6-8pm. Admission is free and the community is encouraged to attend with their friends and family.

Working Memory is an interactive installation composed of a quilt-like structure made of fabric, ephemera, paintings and sound. The exhibit creates narratives from memories by reinventing materials such as clothing, textiles and found objects. The viewer can shift and change the work to construct new narratives.

Chalet Comellas is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture, fiber art, video and new-media installation. Chalet is an Assistant Art Professor at Florida State University where she received her Master of Fine Arts in 2012. She has performed and exhibited her work in museums, art fairs and galleries including In Light Richmond, hosted by 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA (2014), Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, New York (2013) and Fountain Art Fair in Miami (2012). Chalet has participated in several public art projects in Florida including an outdoor video installation commissioned by the Tampa Museum of Art during Art Basel Miami (2006). For more information, visit her website at www.chaletcomellas.com.

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

Edward S. Albers, Jr. has a unique way of capturing travel memories. Rather than the traditional camera, he travels with paints, a sketchbook, and a folding stool and often skips shopping for a scenic spot and an hour of sketching. Visitors to the Museum of East Tennessee History can vicariously travel the world with Bud Albers through a selection of his most interesting and beautiful paintings, such as Dublin Doorway, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Russia, and Hong Kong Harbor from Victoria. Local pieces include a painting of Bud’s grandfather Andrew J. Albers, seated in his carriage and holding his small son, Edward S. Albers, Sr., who became Bud’s father. In the background is the family’s beautiful home that stood on the corner of Market and Locust, until torn down to make way for the present Medical Arts Building. The painting reproduces the scene from an old photograph. The exhibition, Bud Albers Recollections: Works from Life and Travels, is on view in the Bilo Nelson Auditorium of the East Tennessee History Center.

Albers is a retired businessman, philanthropist, and artist, whose family is deeply rooted in Knoxville and East Tennessee. He has a strong interest in history, and his vision was instrumental in the creation of the Museum of East Tennessee History.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: M-F 9-4, Sa 10-4, Su 1-5. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

Artist: Jeffrey Morton
Reception: Monday, February 8 (3:00pm – 5:00pm)

Exhibition Statement:
If place, according to art critic Lucy Lippard, is the latitudinal and longitudinal map of a persons life, then my art has literally helped me find a home. As a transplant from the Northeast Untied Stages to Southeastern Tennessee, now fifteen years ago, my art has taught me about the significance of being grounded in a place, a specific location. Unique to the American South is the Kudzu plant that thrives in a climate different from its home. In Japan, Kudzu is a decorative plant with a pretty purple flower; however, in its new location, Kudzu is used to fight erosion. At first I thought that this foreign plant doesn’t belong here, and neither do I. But after crawling through the topography of Signal Mountain, TN and navigating the invasive vine, making drawings and paintings from it, I have learned to love the strange plant and the landscape of my adopted home. Simply put, my art argues that geography matters, and even an undesired geography, can shape and mold human life. – Jeffrey Morton

The exhibit is free. Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 10-6:30. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts