Calendar of Events

"The Public Cinema" with Paul Harrill & Darren Hughes. This after-hours series mixes spirits with stimulating discussion. Bring a friend, meet someone new, and experience art in a fresh way.

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

Spend an evening with best-selling author Erik Larson on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Bijou Theatre.

Larson will discuss his latest book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. The Lusitania, one of the great passenger liners of its era, was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Of the 1,960 people on board, only 763 survived; 128 Americans were among the dead.

Tickets are $21 (reserved seating) and go on sale February 8. They may be purchased online or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000. Each ticket holder will receive a paperback copy of Dead Wake.

Larson is also the author of In the Garden of Beasts,Thunderstruck,
The Devil in the White City, and Isaac's Storm. His books have been published in seventeen languages and have collectively sold over 5.5 million copies.

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902.

“A Focus on Fashion”, 15th annual fashion show benefitting the Historic Ramsey House and the first major fundraiser of 2016 will take place on March 22, at Cherokee Country Club. 5138 Lyons View Pike, Knoxville.

Guests may enjoy shopping in the boutique from 10:30 a.m. until noon. A variety of merchandise will be offered from area vendors including clothing and accessories, shoes, jewelry, makeup and accessories for the home. Enjoy a lovely luncheon and fashion show beginning at noon where a selection of fashions will be presented by five area stores. A number of door prizes will be presented at the end of the show. Spending a wonderful day at Cherokee Country Club is a great way to get a head start on Spring. For further information or reservations contact Ramsey House at
865-546-0745.

The cost of the luncheon and fashion show is $50 per person. This event is open to the public, but reservations are required by March 16 and can be made with a check payable and mailed to Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike, Knoxville, TN 37914.

Event Chairperson Charlotte Brown said, “All proceeds from this event ensure that Historic Ramsey House can continue to offer school programs, tours with costumed interpreters and also helps to preserve the legacy of this important historical home.”

March 22, at Cherokee Country Club. 5138 Lyons View Pike, Knoxville.
For further information please call Charlotte Brown, Chairperson at 865-300-6267 or Historic Ramsey House at 865-546-0745.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a professional development seminar for artists and other creative people on Wednesday, March 22, from 12:00-1:00 PM at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville. Join us as we welcome Lisa Gifford Mueller, who will familiarize artists and creatives with hosted shopping cart software that is user-friendly to set up as well as the more advanced self-hosted open source shopping cart software. The focus will be on hosted shopping carts such as Shopify, Bigcommerce, Squarespace and Etsy. Find out which option is right for your creative business and how you can start selling your art or service today. The presentation is $5 for members of the Arts & Culture Alliance and $8 for non-members. Please register in advance via PayPal at http://www.knoxalliance.com/development.html, by phone at 865-523-7543, or by e-mail to sc@knoxalliance.com.

Lisa Gifford Mueller is a fused glass artist, photographer, creative entrepreneur and mentor. Eight years ago, Mueller quit her corporate job and launched ALM Photo, a professional photography business, with her husband. Shortly thereafter she had the opportunity to take over a fledging fused glass business, and armed with a glass cutter and a kiln, taught herself the art of fused glass and brought Sassy Glass Studio to life. Over the years, both businesses have grown dramatically, and Mueller fell in love with helping other artists and creative entrepreneurs realize their dreams of making a successful business of creating and selling their art. She teaches fused glass classes, educates photographers, and mentors creative business owners and artists to give them the spark they need to launch or grow their endeavor. She is also the Captain of the local Etsy Team, Knoxville Creative Hands Street Team. Find out more about her fused glass art at SassyGlassStudio.com; her photography at ALMPHOTO.com; her mentoring for creative folks at PinkSparkCreative.com; and follow her on Twitter at @AllThingsSassy.

Wednesday, March 22, from 12:00-1:00 PM.
The presentation will take place at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Parking is available at metered spots on the Gay Street viaduct or in the parking lot on Jackson Avenue caddy-corner from the Emporium. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com/development.html.
www.knoxalliance.com

Knoxville Area Transit has a new photography exhibit which features 23 of its bus operators along with a little story about them. The images are on display in the Community Room at the Knoxville Station.

301 Church Avenue Knoxville, TN 37915. Viewing hours would be Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Information: bbrill@katbus.com or www.katbus.com

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting works by Nelson Ziegler – Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage “Artist of the Year.” The Pilgrimage is a five-day event, April 19-23, hosted by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The event offers 144 professionally guided walks and presentations held in the Park and Mills Conference Center in Gatlinburg. The exhibit showcases Ziegler's oil paintings depicting landscapes and familiar locations within the Great Smoky Mountains and wood turned vessels. Nelson’s work is on view March 16 – April 24, 2016 in the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery at Arrowmont. The closing reception is Wednesday, April 20th, 5:30 – 7 pm, during the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage. Admission is free and the community is encouraged to attend with their friends and family. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm.

Nelson Ziegler is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston and Northwestern Academy of Watercolor. He has won several awards for painting and woodturning, regionally and nationally including the Gold Medal for watercolor at the American Artists Professional League and Honorable Mention in The Artist’s Magazine annual competition. Nelson’s work has been featured in numerous juried exhibitions in New York including Allied Artists, Salmagundi Club, Knickerbocker Artists, National Arts Club, Hudson Valley Arts Association, Adirondack National Watercolor Exhibition, Faces of America and Academic Artists Association. Other exhibitions include Springfield Arts League, Springfield, MA, Guild of Boston Artists, Copley Society, Boston, MA and North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA. For more information about Nelson and his work, visit www.nelsonzieglerstudio.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

Moby-Dick is arguably the greatest literary masterpiece of 19th century America, and its author, Herman Melville (1819-1891) is one of most imaginative and influential of American storytellers. This March, Knox County Public Library is pleased to partner with UTK’s College of Arts and Sciences, department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature to present "Melville Madness." This discussion is part of UTK’s Melville Festival to be held April 7-8.

Facilitated by Dr. Dawn Coleman in conjunction with UT’s semi-annual AuthorFest series, the public is invited to take part in a guided discussion of Moby-Dick at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on March 15, 22, & 29. Light refreshments will be served.

Narrated by a sailor named Ishmael, the epic tale recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the white whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed his ship and severed his leg at the knee.

Dawn Coleman, the facilitator, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. Author of Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel, she specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and has written and taught extensively on the writings of Herman Melville. She is the book review editor for Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, a contributing scholar for Melville’s Marginalia Online, and a research associate with the Melville Electronic Library. She is also co-organizing the Melville Festival at UT this April. She has read Moby-Dick more times than she can count and is transported each time.

Melville Festival is a university and community celebration of the writing of Herman Melville (1819-1891), one of most imaginative and influential of American storytellers. In fiction from Typee to Moby-Dick to Billy Budd, Melville spoke to humanity's most pressing philosophical, ethical, religious, and social questions.

6:30-8:00PM on March 15, 22, & 29
Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.
http://english.utk.edu/melville/

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents artist Marianne Gansley as the featured artist for March. Located at the Farragut Town Hall, the exhibit highlights jewelry made with a variety of vintage items such as buttons, clock parts, typewriter keys and other vintage pieces.

Gansley began making jewelry 11 years ago after inheriting her French grandmother's button collection. After playing around with these antique pieces, she decided to give them new life by creating wearable art. Her inspiration for these upcycled pieces came from the earth-friendly lifestyle that she has been accustomed to living. Gansley soon found that she could incorporate other vintage objects into different types of jewelry. Gansley's latest work can be viewed on her Facebook page at facebook.com/littlesunshinejewelry.

Each month, the work of an artist or group of artists is featured in specially designed cases on the second floor of the rotunda in the Farragut Town Hall. For more information about this exhibit or to access a Featured Artist of the Month application, please contact Lauren Cox at lcox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057 or visit www.townoffarragut.org/artsandculture.

The Farragut Town Hall is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive directly across from the Farragut Branch Post Office.

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center will hold its Spring Porch Sale starting on Thursday, March 10, and running for about two weeks. The sale features outdated stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work. It’s an excellent time to get great deals! There will also be homemade baked goods for sale.

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center is a nonprofit center that has been fulfilling its mission by promoting traditional artists and crafts in the East Tennessee area for over 40 years. The center is located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris, Tenn., one mile east of I-75 north at Exit 122. For more information, call 865-494-9854, or visit www.appalachianarts.net.

Bliss Home is pleased to present new artwork by Knoxville artist, Lindsey Teague, for April's First Friday! Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, April 1st from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary treats from Wild Love Bakehouse will be provided and Lindsey's art will be featured for the month of April.

Lindsey Teague graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2009. She is a freelance graphic designer with over 7 years of experience in the design field. She has worked with clients on every level from billion dollar corporations to first time small business owners. She volunteers her photography skills, which have been awarded by AIGA, by teaching inner city children photography workshop classes. She gives back to her community and various non-profit organizations by donating art, design work, and photography. She uses her spare time to refine her fine art work which has been showcased in over 12 First Fridays in the Knoxville area and will be presented in the Dogwood Arts Festival this spring.

Lindsey's April exhibit is inspired by what is meaningful in her life such as the people, places, and the history of this scruffy little city by the river. Lindsey's art process begins with taking photographs then she vectors the images down and prints them on wood boards. Along with an interesting texture, the wood carries an organic tone which is representative of the surrounding natural landscape. Each board is stained with an acrylic based paint to add a little vibrancy and contrast.

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

Opening reception on Fri, Mar 4, 6:30-8:00 PM. Free and open to the public.

The Fountain City Art Center is proud to announce that it will be hosting a 'double feature" exhibit throughout the month of March. The general public is welcome to attend the opening reception for "The Knoxville Book Arts Guild and Southern Appalachian Nature Photography." The pairing in this exhibit of exquisite and clever handmade books with high quality professional nature photography has become an early spring tradition at the Art Center, allowing the viewers to enjoy both 3-D works of art as well as 2-D works in one outstanding collection. Most of the books can be purchased from the artists; inquiries about purchasing the framed and matted photos may also be made throughout the exhibit and will be passed on to the photographers. The handmade book exhibit has been organized by FCAC art instructor and board member Bob Meadows and Book Guild member Cheryl Prose. The photography exhibit has been made possible through the efforts of FCAC Board member Dr. Holland Rowe.

Exhibit viewing hours: Tu-Th 9-5; F 10-5; Sat 9-1. Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

Cherry Blossom Wine Glasses - Mar 4th - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Melting Pot - Gatlinburg
**Cookies and Canvas** Easter Bunny - Mar 6th - 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Golden Corral - Sevierville
Yellow Bird - Mar 9th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Quaker Steak and Lube - Sevierville
Belk - Ladies night - March 10th - three mini-classes, an hour each, starting at 6pm for only $10 per painter per class.
Tennessee Theater at Night - Mar 12th - 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Saw Works Brewing Co.
5 Wine Bottles - Mar 14th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - The Orangery
Emerald Island Castle - Mar 15th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Mind Yer P's & Q's
Two Lillies - Mar 16th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Le Noir Restaurant - Lenoir City
A Magical Night - Mar 21st - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Gibby's Dining & Drinks
Easter Lily - Mar 22nd - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Gavino's Pizzeria and Restaurant
Starry Night in Knoxville - Mar 23rd - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Carolina Ale House
Psychedelic Seascape - Mar 24th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Tellico Village Yacht Club - Loudon
Sunset in the Smokies - Mar 29th - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - TGIFriday's - Sevierville
Super Moon - Mar 31st - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Casual Pint - Farragut

Classes are $35 unless otherwise noted. Wine & Canvas: Knoxville, TN, 865-356-9179, http://www.wineandcanvas.com/knoxville-tn.html