Calendar of Events

The Knoxville Community Darkroom recently signed the lease for a new space! We will be located in the Bearden / Homberg area near Jerry's Artarama, Nostalgia, White Fox Beads, Willy's Butcher Shop and more great local businesses. We can't wait to share our new space with all of you!

First Friday at the Darkroom! We have a fun Valentine's themed photo booth and props for you and your honey, your BFF or your (leashed and friendly) dog! We'll have Wonderland Bath and Mountain Moon Jewelry selling handmade, local gifts, and KCD will provide chocolate, cheese and beverages. Please invite your friends and come have fun! We'll be offering great Founder Membership rates with special perks like an invitation to exhibit your work May 6-7th during the Dogwood Arts Festival Art DeTour. We will also have early sign-ups for our World Pinhole Photography Day workshop which will be April 29-30th. Participation in the workshop will allow you to exhibit your pinhole work during the Art DeTour.

The Knoxville Community Darkroom, 315 Mohican Stree, Suite 5, Knoxville, TN 37919. http://www.theknoxvillecommunitydarkroom.org/

It's that time of year again, our annual Soup Dinner Fundraiser is here. Enjoy a soup dinner with dessert and take home an original handmade soup bowl made by one of our talented members or instructors. Bowls on view for selection the week prior to the event and at the event. Carry out is available for those that want to eat at home or treat someone else. Dinner seatings at 5, 6, and 7pm. Seating is limited. Tickets are $30 and on sale now at the Oak Ridge Art Center.

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

February 3 The Ooh Ooh Revue presents The Whole Lotta Love Show with cabaret, song, dance, comedy and burlesque. We are neo vaudeville, we hold true to the elements of old school vaudeville variety shows and add in burlesque, but we break the barriers that history imposed and work for more dynamic representation of men and women with diversity of race, culture, body type, gender, orientation and more. It's a new dawn, a new day, and we're feelin' good!

Doors open at 9:00PM, show at 10:00 PM at Cocoa Moon Market Square, 19 Market Square, Knoxville, TN 37902.
SHOW is 18+ .
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: Sera Sahara & Tainted Tess

$10 in Advance w/ Seat Guarantee or $10 Cash Only at The Door with the possibility of Standing Room Only || VIP is $15 in Advance w/ Extra Luxe Seating (Couch/Comfy Chair and Table) http://www.oohoohrevue.com/

HoLa Hora Latina Cordially invites you to our February First Friday (February 3) 5:00-9:00PM. Exhibits from Hector Saldivar and paintings from Jose Roberto, children's activities and arts and crafts from Irene Hernandez.

In the Emporium, 100 S. Gay Street, 37902. For more information contact: Irene Hernandez at 865 806 7276 or irene-hernandez@msn. com

The Arts Council of Roane County has announced that local author and president of the Roane Writers Group B.J. Gillum will appear at Knoxville Soap Candle & Gifts to greet fans and sign copies of his books. The venue, located at 5201 Kingston Pike Suite 3 in Knoxville specializes in local, handmade and one of a kind items, making it a perfect location for Gillum's works.

Known for his wry humor, colorful characters and plot twists, Gillum’s latest offering is King of the Kudzu: A Rowdy Redneck Romp. It’s a rollicking, laugh-out-loud tale of a rural Alabama family bent on rising from their lives in a rundown shack on the border of a kudzu-covered wilderness. Their shrewd, and some not so shrewd, decisions and schemes have unexpected, and often hilarious results.

February 3rd is also "First Friday" in Knoxville—the city's monthly celebration of the arts. The public is cordially invited to stop in at Knoxville Soap, Candles and Gifts in Bearden to meet Gillum and discover his books on their way downtown.

Billie J. ("BJ") Gillum was born in a tiny log cabin in the wooded hills of northeastern Kentucky in 1938. His family eventually moved to Ohio, where he joined the Western Electric Company right after high school. He married his high school sweetheart, and three sons and thirty-five years later, he retired and moved to a home on the shore of Watts Bar Lake in east Tennessee. Since 2004, he has written four novels and two projects are now underway. More information: (865) 354-8658 or bjgillum@comcast.net

Yarn will be joining host Nelson Gullett for First Friday Live on February 3rd. The show will be held at Barley's Knoxville since our Knoxville Visitor Center location is being remodeled. Meet us there at 7pm or listen live on the radio.

Info: 865-544-1029, http://www.wdvx.com

The Tennessee Stage Company NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: World Premier Production of Found Objects by Marilynn Barner Anselmi. Does the truth always set us free? When a mother and daughter attempt to deal with the accidental death of their son/brother, the truth may keep them from healing.

Thursday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm and Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm.

The show runs at the Historic Southern Railway Station, 300 W Depot Ave. Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com; on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/381801198822452/

I am pleased to announce my one man show at Maryville College. My large scale contemporary artwork will be on display for the month of February. There will be a reception held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, February 2nd at the Denso Gallery at the Clayton Center for the Arts located at:
502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, Tn. 37804

With featured artist Synthia Clark throughout the month!

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

By John Patrick Shanley.

From the Tony and Academy Award winning playwright of “Doubt” and Moonstruck.”

Filled with beautiful language and set in the rural hills of Ireland, this romantic comedy reminds us that – early or late – love always arrives on time. Farmers Anthony and Rosemary are clueless when it comes to love. To find it, they will have to overcome a land feud, family rivalries, and their own fears about romance.

Pay What You Wish Preview night on February 1

Clarence Brown Mainstage, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Recent works by pipe maker Ron Smith and artist Carl Gombert will be on display. An opening reception for the featured artists will begin at 5:30 p.m., January 6, during Downtown Knoxville’s monthly First Friday Art Walk, with complimentary refreshments, and music performed by Carl Gombert.

Ohio native Carl Gombert started taking painting lessons at the age of 14 with money he earned delivering newspapers. He completed a BFA in Drawing from the University of Akron and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University. “I love pattern. I love decoration, and I love sparkle. These hand stamped works rely on radial structure to explore complexity and pattern arising from the application of simple rules.” He has exhibited widely and his work is in numerous museum, collegiate, and corporate collections. Since 1993 has taught painting, drawing and art history at Maryville College in Tennessee.

Ron Smith's fascination with pipes began with the hours he spent at the Iwan Ries Pipe Shop in Chicago, a regular stop following his frequent visits to the Art Institute only a block away. Following retirement he received formal training under American Pipe Maker, Tim West in 2014 and at the 2014 International Pipe Makers' Seminar in Chicago under the guidance of such masters as Lee von Erck, Rex Poggenpohl, Mike Butera and Jeff Gracik. His freehand pipes are hand shaped, each one a unique creation. Although a fan of the Danish freeform style, he often adopts more classical shapes in his productions and in most pieces attempts to bring out the grain of the briar to bring out the material's natural and often hidden features. His pipes and pens are forms of functional art.

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

The Knoxville Museum of Art announces a new contemporary exhibition, Outside In, by Jered Sprecher. Sprecher lives in Knoxville and is a professor with the University of Tennessee’s School of Art. He enjoys a growing national reputation as one of the leading representative of a generation of contemporary painters dedicated to the exploration and revitalization of abstraction. He describes himself as a “hunter and gatherer,” pulling his imagery from such disparate sources as wallpaper, graffiti, architecture, cut gemstones, and x-rays.

Preview reception: January 26, 5:30-7:30 PM

Outside In reflects the dynamic range of Sprecher’s recent practice in terms of format, scale, imagery, and process. It also includes several new works configured in a provocatively informal manner designed to reference a space that is central to human domestic life since the dawn of time: the living room. The Study (2013), for instance, depicts an abstracted frontal view of a fireplace entrance defined in broad horizontal strokes in an icy palette that presents the original image in a strange new light. The painting reflects the artist’s examination of parallels between ancient domestic traditions in which the fireplace was a mesmerizing light environment that in contemporary life has been replaced by the ubiquitous digital screen.

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