Calendar of Events

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents watercolor artist Joe Trout as the featured artist for May and June. Located at the Farragut Town Hall, the exhibit highlights Trout's paintings of nature and wildlife. An East Tennessee native and Lenoir City resident, Trout has been creating watercolor paintings for more than 40 years. His work masterfully depicts the incredible beauty of the area's landscapes - specifically the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - including its abundant wildflowers, lush greenery, gentle streams and tumbling waterfalls. Many of his watercolors are also inspired by the quiet beaches and low country of South Carolina and North Carolina's Outer Banks. Trout has participated in numerous one-man art shows, and his work is housed in collectors' homes in several states and countries.

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.

A Celebration of the New Welcome Center! Join us for an exhibition of work by three artists with unique views of the same subject!

David Denton - Virtual Reality
Norman Magden - Video
Margaret Scanlan - Painting

Opening Reception, May 12, 6-8 p.m.

At KBGA Welcome Center, 2817 Boyd’s Bridge Pike, Knoxville, TN 37914. Hours: Gardens open daily from dawn to dusk. Information: 865-862-8717, www.knoxgarden.org

An exhibition of three artists and their unique views of the same subject in celebration of the new Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum Welcome Center:
David Denton, Virtual Reality
Norman Magden, Video
Margaret Scanlan, Painting

Opening reception May 12, 6-8 PM

Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave, Knoxville, TN 37914. Hours: Gardens open daily from dawn to dusk. Information: 865-862-8717, www.knoxgarden.org

The International Biscuit Festival celebrates that most perfect of foods – the biscuit. The festival draws over 20,000 biscuit lovers to downtown Knoxville each year and was selected the #1 Food Festival in the U.S by Livability.com. The event has been featured in Southern Living, Garden and Gun, the New Yorker, the New York Post, as well as on CNN.

Festival goers can sample Biscuit creations at the Biscuit Boulevard tasting area, cheer on competitors in the Biscuit Baking Contest, shop at the Biscuit Bazaar, or vie for the pageant title of Miss or Mr. Biscuit. Biscuit Art and Biscuit Songwriting round out the fun that makes this event one of the most unique destinations in the country.

Who doesn't love a BISCUIT?!

Thursday, May 12 - Southern Food Writing Conference
Friday, May 13 - Southern Food Writing Conference Biscuit Bash
Saturday, May 14 - 9am Biscuit Bazaar and Biscuit Boulevard open
10am Biscuit Baking Contest
2pm Miss and Mr. Biscuit Pageant

In Downtown Knoxville | Knoxville, TN 37902. Details and complete schedule: www.biscuitfest.com

Part of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2015-2016 Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series, which marks the KSO’s 80th season.

The KSO’s 80th season concludes with Resident Conductor James Fellenbaum conducting the orchestra in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, followed by the Tennessee premiere of a newly commissioned work by Christopher Theofandis. The KSO has joined the New Music for America consortium of American orchestras in commissioning this work. The program concludes with highlights from Wagner’s The Ring.

Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30 PM at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Tickets and information: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

Save the Date for PechaKucha Volume 19!
Get excited! The PKN staff has been hard at work planning our Spring event. We are pleased to announce that Volume 19 will be held on May 12th at the Bijou Theatre! Mark your calendars!

We look forward to seeing you in May at the Bijou!, 803 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN.
Your friends at PechaKucha Night Knoxville. www.pechakucha.org/cities/knoxville

UTK Graphic Design Class of 2016 Senior Show.

Thursday, May 12, 6:00-9:00PM.
The Standard Knoxville
416 W. Jackson Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902
art.utk.edu/graphic_design

Elementary and middle school students from Knox County, Anderson County, Hamblen County, Oak Ridge City and Clinton City schools are invited to participate in the 2016 Sack Pack Donation Drive during the week of May 9-13. Bring a grocery bag full of unneeded clothes, toys or other gently used items to school to donate to Goodwill.

Thanks to WBIR, McDonald's, the American Museum of Science and Energy, Dollywood, Keep Anderson County Beautiful and Keep Hamblen-Morristown Beautiful for their support of the Sack Packs.

Goodwill Industries: 865-588-8567, http://www.gwiktn.org/upcoming-events/2016sackpack

Also featuring Selections from the Permanent Collection - featuring International Artists including Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Salvador Dali and many others.
And in the Foyer Gallery - A Summer Thing: Summer Class Instructors

Artists Reception: Friday Evening, May 13, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM with Gallery Talk at 5:30 PM
The event is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and family!

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

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center will hold its annual Plant Sale starting Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and running for about 2 weeks during shop hours.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

FULL STOP is an elaborate, room-sized installation fabricated entirely of cardboard and ink by New York-based painter Tom Burckhardt. It takes the form of a mythical modern artist’s studio, complete with hundreds of lifelike tools, paint brushes, and other supplies, each painstakingly constructed of cardboard, the details rendered in ink with great attention to the smallest details. Organized by the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. Presenting sponsor for FULL STOP: Tom Burckhardt is McCarty, Holsaple, McCarty Architects and Interior Designers.

The public is invited to an exhibition preview reception on Thursday, May 5, 5:30-7:30pm, preceded by a gallery talk by Full Stop artist Tom Burckhardt at 4:30pm. Free and open to the public.

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

Contemporary Focus 2016 is part of a series of exhibitions organized by the KMA that spotlights significant but under-recognized artists living and working in East Tennessee. John Douglas Powers, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville School of Art, is this year’s featured artist. His larger-than-life motorized machine-like sculptures and video projections combine cinema, engineering, computation, music, and physical space, drawing from areas as diverse as natural history, architecture, and the history of technology.

The public is invited to an exhibition preview reception on Thursday, May 5, 5:30-7:30pm. Contemporary Focus 2016 artist John Douglas Powers will give a talk at the museum on Wednesday, June 15, 5:30-7pm. These events are free and open to the public.

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