Calendar of Events

A Cades Cove Heritage Tours Exclusive!
Join Kim Delozier SEARCHING FOR BEARS IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, Saturday August 6, 13 & 20, 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm.
Advance reservations required
$60 per person
Call Don Alexander at 865-448-8838 today.

Kim Delozier, Retired Wildlife Ranger, will lead you on a guided tour into the GSMNP in search of bears. While there is no guarantee you will see bears, this may be your best chance to see bears in the wild. This is a once in a lifetime experience to learn all about bears in our national park and perhaps see them in their natural habitat.

Also, BEAR IN THE BACK SEAT, VOLUMES 1 & 11,
Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger by Kim Delozier and Carolyn Jourdan will be available in the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Museum store for purchase, $17.95 each.

For more information call Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center 865-448-0044.

JON PEMBERTON shares his fun and funky take on pop art! "The pieces that I have created
for this show are a throwback to my 'artistic beginning'."

Reception on August 5th, 6-10pm

RALA, 323 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com/

Broadway Studios And Gallery will host artist Renee Such. Suich calls East Tennessee her home and creates mixed media art, including collage, inspired by nature, history, and energy surrounds us all. This show is entitled "Connections" and uses vintage photographs of people unrelated to her, animals and other elements and combine them to express how our lives are interconnected with everything and everyone around us...past and present and possibly future.

The exhibit opens from 5-9pm on "First Friday" August 5.

Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 Broadway St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Hours: Thurs-Sat, 11-7. Information: 865-556-8676, www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com

"This 'un, one more, then the briar patch" offers tableaus of Disney's Song of the South's main characters: Uncle Remus, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Possum, Br'er Fox, Tar Baby, Br'er Bear, and Br'er Buzzard. Culminates in a 20-minute orchestral work on August 19 at 9 PM.

Striped Light, 107 Bearden Place/900 N Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Hours: Wed-Fri, 11-6; Sat, 1-5. Info: 865-200-8541, info@stripedlight.com, www.stripedlight.com

Featuring recent works by watercolor artist Kate McCullough and glass artist Johnny Glass. An opening reception for the featured artists will begin at 5:30 p.m. on August 5 with complimentary refreshments and music performed by Patrick Mulligan.

KATE MCCULLOUGH – ‘ROUND KNOXVILLE - Kate first studied art at Villa Maria College and SUNY in Buffalo, NY before switching to Interior Design which was her career until 2008. The fine art bug struck again in 2002 when she decided to pick up a brush again. Watercolor was her first choice and she has not looked back since. Kate took courses at the University of Tennessee and then workshops with John Salminen, Sue Archer, Linda Kemp, Linda Baker, Paul Jackson, Don Lake, Don Andrews and Keiko Tanabe. This exhibit will feature scenes from around Knoxville, mostly from the downtown area. My focus is to present these locations as either a place one may not often notice or familiar scenes presented just a little differently. www.katemcculloughwaterart.com

JOHNNY GLASS AND The “Occhi” Windows - Although Johnny Glass is a Knoxville native he began his glass career and training in Los Angeles, CA, where he was first introduced to glass at Santa Monica College. In 2010 Johnny started Glass by Glass LLC on the west coast which grew quickly from a hobby to Johnny’s full time job. In 2013, Johnny decided to expand his market and returned to Knoxville, Tennessee to open Glass by Glass’ east coast mobile hotshop and to finish his education. He spent 3 years at Tennessee Technological University's, Appalachian Center for Crafts, studying under world famous glassblower and teacher, Curtis Brock. He just recently graduated from TTU with honors and a BFA in Glass. Glass by Glass, has made it their mission to bring a new awareness and social practice to the art of glass blowing. Johnny has designed and constructed all of his own studio equipment to be completely mobile. Glass by Glass’s live 2016 glassblowing demonstrations can be seen at many art museums and over 10 craft festivals, in five different states. Johnny’s website is: www.GlassbyGlass.com

Who, What, Where Show Revisited
In celebration of East Tennessee History and in cooperation with the East Tennessee History Center, The Art Market will revisit our "Who, What, Where" show and contest. All artwork must have something to do with either a familiar person of East Tennessee (Who), a Familiar east Tennessee item (What), or a familiar place or landmark in East Tennessee.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Th & Sa 11-6, Fri 11-9, Su 1-6. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net or www.Facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery

Artist Lela E. Buis presents “Whimsical Creatures,” an exhibit of painting and photography, at Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, August 1, 2016 - October 31, 2016.
Meet and greet with the artist August 19 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

The artist finds that animals have an unusual attraction. They capture her with their colors, their expressions, their activity. Ordinary animals like chickens and cows are a tradition in East Tennessee, especially for anyone who has grown up on a farm, or had grandparents with a farm. This exhibit brings together paintings and photographs from around the area, featuring some of these whimsical creatures and the beautiful countryside of the East Tennessee farm country.

Lela E. Buis was born in Middlesboro, Kentucky, grew up in Tazewell, Tennessee, and lived in Central Florida for a long time. She worked at Kennedy Space Center for about 15 years, and currently lives in Knoxville. She has been drawing and painting since she was a child, and has sold photos and illustrations to a number of books and magazines. In 2015 she had a photograph featured in the Florida State Poets Association Anthology.

The Arts & Fine Crafts Center is located in North Knoxville at 1127B Broadway Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. The organization is affiliated with the City of Knoxville Parks and Recreation. Please phone 865-523-1401 for more information on the gallery and arts classes.

Featuring the History of the Fourth & Gill Neighborhood Center!

The Gallery reception and potluck dinner will start at 6:00 on Sunday, August 28th, the presentation starts at 7:00. The program will include a collection of speakers dating back through the forty-year history of the Neighborhood Center as a progressive community space with speakers from the Community Center’s more recent history as the Birdhouse.

Bird Feeder Gallery at The Birdhouse, 800 N. Fourth Ave. Please check the Birdhouse website for open hours to view the exhibition: https://birdhouseknoxville.com/events-calendar/

FCAC will host their first ever all-FCAC Photography Competition, open to all photographers. Juried by Barry Seaton and Clay Thurston with $1,000 to be awarded.

Opening reception on Friday, July 29, 6:30-8:00 PM. Free and open to the public.

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

By Mark Dunn; directed by Tiffany Tallent. Best described as "Several Horton Foote characters in search of an exit from a Sam Shepard play."

The action of this "Texas tragicomedy" whirls around one disastrous Memorial Day weekend at the Beckle cabin in the Texas hill country. Aubrey, his four daughters, and Great Aunt Tammy gather there for the first time since Mrs. Beckle's death. Nothing goes right. Aunt Tammy is trapped in the bathroom. Daughter Cesca arrives bearing scars from a new round with her abusive husband. Her sister Pidge, on sudden leave from the group home for the emotionally disturbed where she lives, shows up in Cesca's car with Cesca's chloroformed husband locked in the trunk.

The Beckles must pull together or the family will self- destruct. When all is said and done, it is the Beckle family's most alienated member who proves to be the one most invested in her family's happiness.

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

The Tennessee Stage Company presents its 26th Anniversary summer Shakespeare Festival, featuring the comedy Merry Wives of Windsor and the tragedy King Lear, alternating Thursday to Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM on the Market Square Stage. Shakespeare on the Square annually features two of the magnificent plays of Williams Shakespeare, comedies, tragedies and histories, rotated nightly outdoors on Market Square in the heart of downtown Knoxville. A blanket or a lawn chair is all you need to view these performances. While we perform with no admission charge for general seating, we do appreciate your donations – we pass a basket nightly and we suggest a $10 donation per person. Special VIP seating is available on the Square for $15. The indoor matinees (Sunday, July 24 & 31, 2:00 PM) at the Scruffy City Hall are $10. One additional performance on July 25 at 6:30 PM takes place at the Blount County Public Library.

Merry Wives of Windsor Features one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most unique characters, the dissolute knight Sir John Falstaff. This play was purportedly written at the command of Queen Elizabeth who demanded that Shakespeare write a play showing “Falstaff in love!” In what may be the original sitcom, Falstaff attempts to court two women at the same time behind their husbands backs, but the fat knight is no match for our fiery heroines who give him his comeuppance. “Let us everyone go home, and laugh this sport o’re by a country fire.”
July 14, 16, 22, 24, 28, 30, Aug. 5, 7, 11, 13 - 7:00 pm nightly outdoors on Market Square

King Lear of Britain, aging and weary from his years of rule decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters and lay down the burden of governing. But when his youngest daughter, Cordelia, does not show the obsequiousness he sought he grows furious and turns his back on her, dividing her portion between his two older daughters, Regan and Goneril. He only slowly realizes - and too late - these two daughters were not sincere in their protestations of undying adoration and that love is found in actions, not in words. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
July 15, 17, 21, 23, 29, 31, Aug. 4, 6, 12, 14 - 7:00 pm nightly outdoors on Market Square

King Lear is directed by Julianna Sanderson and Merry Wives of Windsor is directed by Jennifer Alldredge and Tom Parkhill.

Shakespeare on the Square productions are performed on a rough replica of the new Globe Theatre in London (a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s original theater). The plays are presented in the timeless style of Elizabethan theatrical presentations. The Tennessee Stage Company encourages our audiences to spend an evening on the Square: do a little shopping, have a nice dinner, see the play and maybe stop by a pub afterward. All of this and more is available on Market Square nightly. So come early and see the Square! Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

"Home" - a Mixed Media Exhibition by Regional Artists and Selections from the Permanent Collection
Featuring International Artists including Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Salvador Dali and many others.

Artists Reception: Friday Evening, July 8 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, 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

Rala is proud to present an exhibition by Knoxville artist extraordinaire, Mike C. Berry! "Postcards From Knoxville" is an exhibition of small "postcard size" scenes depicting some of Knoxville's iconic landmarks, all created in Mike Berry's expressive and colorful style. Mike Berry is a local Knoxville painter whose work consists of vibrant scenes of downtown Knoxville. He is the gallery manager of University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery and an active member of the Art & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville.

Please join us for a First Friday Reception, June 3 from 5 - 9 pm

RALA, 323 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com/