Calendar of Events

Townsend Visitor Center will exhibit "Art of Native Plants" to honor the centennial of the National Park Service. The exhibit will run 8/16/2016-08/28/2016 and will feature botanical illustration, sculpture, quilts and more. The exhibit will highlight plants used for medicinal value, ones used for food, tools and dyes and plants which are endangered species.

Townsend Visitor Center, 7606 E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, TN. www.smokymountains.org.

The new face of singer-songwriter pop Jacob Whitesides returns home to Knoxville this August!

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Cades Cove Heritage Tours is offering, for a limited time, a Walker Sisters Quilt Exhibit & Tour.

On 9 am, Tuesday, August 16 Cades Cove Heritage Tours will offer a
Walker Sisters Quilt Exhibit & Tour featuring The Walker Sisters Quilt Exhibit
and an exclusive presentation about The Walker Sisters of Little Greenbrier
by Robin Goddard.

The Walker Sisters grew to fame when they steadfastly refused to leave their family's homestead as the Parks Commission was working to purchase land that would later become the great Smoky Mountains national park. The sisters persevered and obtained rights to a lifetime lease of their home-place.

The six quilts on display at the Great Smoky Mountains heritage Center show the resourcefulness of mountain families. Constructed of fabric that was often made by the Walker Sisters themselves, the quilts are made from patters handed down through the generations. We have shown quilts as our permanent collections, but none as important to the history of the region as those of the Walker Sisters.

Our guests will enjoy a 50 minute presentation by Robin Goddard who had the privilege of spending time with the walker Sisters at their home-place. Robin will share her extensive knowledge about the Walker Sisters exclusively for our tours.

Robin will be a keynote speaker and workshop presenter ("Happy 100th Birthday, National Parks!") at the Delta Kappa Gamma International Honorary Teacher Society Convention to be held at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville this July.

Call 865-448-8838, Limited Seating Available, $20 per person. Tours depart at 9 am from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend, TN

Cades Cove Heritage Tours, Cades Cove Heritage Tours, PO Box 268, 123 Cromwell Drive, Townsend, TN 37882

Cost: $75 for six-course small plate dinner - BYOB

Lost Creek Farm will once again join forces with The Central Collective for a late summer six-course event bringing culinary traditions and innovations from north central West Virginia to Knoxville. With the summer growing and foraging seasons well underway on their 160 acre farm, Chef Mike Costello and Amy Dawson will present a special menu featuring wild harvested herbs and mushrooms, pastured meats, house made rustic breads and seasonal produce from small farms in West Virginia and the Tennessee Valley.

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

HoLa Hora Latina will once again present its CINE HoLa film series from March through December, each third Tuesday of the month!

Movie: "The Twelve Chairs" - a beautifully-restored masterwork from revolutionary Cuba, depicts the hilarious aspects of a hunt for treasures confiscated by the authorities. Based on a Russian folk tale, this classical also preceded a remake by Mel Brooks in 1970.

Come and enjoy a night at the movies like you have never experienced and FREE of charge.

Bar and Restaurant open - Movie starts at 7 pm. Free to attend. At Cocoa Moon Fusion Grill, 19 Market Square, Knoxville. Information: 865-335-3358, www.holafestival.org

Get out and see some live music!
Open Chord Music, 8502 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: (865) 281-5874 or http://www.openchordmusic.com/live-music-venue

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting works by ceramic artist and longtime Arrowmont staff visionary Bill Griffith. This exhibit is in conjunction with Arrowmont’s Utilitarian Clay VII: Celebrate the Object National Symposium (September 21-24, 2016), a gathering of leading practitioners in the field which Bill initiated in 1992.

The Bill Griffith Recollective showcases ceramic work produced during his 27-year tenure as the Assistant Director and Program Director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Among his many contributions to the school, he established the Artists-in-Residence Program in 1991, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. As an outgrowth of the Residency Program, he also established ArtReach – an annual program that has provided hands-on art instruction to more than 25,000 Sevier County students. Bill currently serves as Arrowmont’s Outreach and Partnership Liaison.

Bill received a BS in Art Education from Indiana State University and an MA in Art Education/Ceramics from Miami University, Ohio. He participated in the initial International Workshop for Ceramic Art in Tokoname, Japan and is a recipient of an Individual Artists Fellowship awarded by the Tennessee Arts Commission. Bill’s functional and sculptural works have been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications. He has work in private and public collections including Tennessee State Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, City of Orlando, Florida Permanent Collection, San Angelo Museum of Art, Texas, Tokoname Japan Cultural Museum and Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China. For more information, visit his website at www.billgriffithclay.com.

In the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. 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

New Paintings by Michael Giles

O’Brien Art Gallery, Roane State Community College, O’Brien Building, 276 Patton Lane, Harriman, TN 37748. Information: www.roanestate.edu/art/gallery

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting over 200 utilitarian ceramic works by 93 leading artists in the ceramics field. This exhibition is in conjunction with Arrowmont’s Utilitarian Clay VII: Celebrate the Object National Symposium – September 21-24, 2016. The Utilitarian Clay VII Symposium Presenters Exhibition features 32 works by 16 international and national ceramic artists whose work represents some of the most diverse utilitarian work being made today.

The Past Presenters Exhibition features 58 former Utilitarian Clay Symposium presenters from 1992-2012. The exhibition is on view August 15 – September 25, 2016 in the Drown Gallery.

Admission is free and open to the public. 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

There's A Lobsta' See Here! By Land or by Sea, a lively collection of painted paper collage by Lesley Eaton, will be on view at our Market Square location until September 4th. Lesley curates, cuts, arranges and glues colorful papers to shape her happy collages, like this crusty crustacean. Her most recent collection incorporates peppered paper - large sheets of paper that at one time provided a surface to catch all of her spills and splatters. https://pepperedpaper.wordpress.com/

The Tomato Head, 12 Market Square, Knoxville, TN 37902. Phone: (865) 637-4067, www.thetomatohead.com

Orange Poppies - Tue, 8/23/2016, 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Uncorked
Knoxville Nights - Fri, 8/26/2016, 7:00 - 10:00 PM - Quaker Steak and Lube - Sevierville

Wine & Canvas: Knoxville, TN, 865-356-9179, http://www.wineandcanvas.com/knoxville-tn.html

Assemblage artist Linda Williams McCune, graduate of the University of Tennessee, is an artist with a long and impressive resume, and her recent work will be on display at Rose Center in Morristown through the month of August, with an artist reception on Friday, August 19 at 6:30pm as part of the Rose Center’s Groovy, Far Out, Awesome 40th Birthday Disco Party.

McCune received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and her M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina at Columbia.
McCune abandoned early success as an abstract painter to explore mixed-media sculpture. Her assemblage work is usually connected to place and family.

This exhibit is a “homecoming” for the artist. Mrs. McCune was one of the original founding members of the Rose Center. She helped create the Mountain Makins Festival, which was recently named the Best Festival in the Southeast. Admission to the Rose Center is free. Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9am to 5pm. Some evenings offer extended hours until 7pm. Rose Center is located at 442 W. Second North Street in Morristown. Please call the Rose Center office at 423-581-4330 for details. More information on the artist is available at her website: www.lindawilliamsmccune.com