Calendar of Events

Celebrate with the Knoxville Museum of Art during the winter Family Fun Day. This FREE family event will be packed with art-making, artist demonstrations, face painting, magic shows, gallery tours, and live music. Popular local favorite Kelle Jolly and Dre Hilton will be performing musical hits throughout the day, with additional performances by Circle Modern Dance, and airbrush demonstrations by artist Brandon Donahue. Snacks will be available for purchase. Family Fun Day is 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

Knox Heritage, the City of Knoxville, and many others have worked together to ensure a bright future for this special place. The house, originally built in 1922 for prominent Knoxville artist Lloyd Branson, was declared blighted by the City and featured on the Knox Heritage Fragile Fifteen List of Endangered Historic Places. After 2 1/2 years of hard work, we can officially say the Branson House is SAVED!

Enoch Lloyd Branson (1853–1925) was best known for his portraits of Southern politicians and depictions of early East Tennessee history. One of the most influential figures in Knoxville’s early art circles, Mr. Branson was a mentor to fellow Knoxville artist Catherine Wiley and is credited with discovering twentieth-century portraitist Beauford Delaney. He operated a popular portrait shop with photographer Frank McCrary on Gay Street and is responsible for the development of the neighborhood in which this home is located, serving as the planner and builder for many homes on the street. Originally named Rhode Island Avenue, the street name was changed to Branson Avenue by the City of Knoxville to recognize his cultural contributions.

Learn more at http://knoxheritage.org/homepage/saving-the-lloyd-branson-house-follow-our-progress/.

By Bruce Norris, Directed by Ed White

Irreverently climbing through the looking-glass of Lorraine Hansberry's classic A RAISIN IN THE SUN, Act One takes us inside the house at 406 Clybourne street in 1959, as the anxious white neighborhood is roiled by the sale of the home to a black family. Act Two opens in the same house in 2009, as the now black neighborhood struggles to deal with the next wave of change: a white family seeking to raze the house and build a new one. This excruciatingly funny play digs deep to unearth shared demons, and the uncomfortable fault lines between race, community, and so much more.

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

A group exhibition by Mary-Margaret Lucas, Michael Ericson, Michael Seagraves and Mark Bender.

6-9 PM each night with an opening reception and live performance on Feb 17.

Fluorescent Gallery, 627 N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: https://www.facebook.com/Fluorescent-Gallery-125807454127737/

With featured soloists Brandon Gibson, Dominick White, Michael Rogers, & Maurice Hendricks, who will perform love songs spanning various genres from opera to musical theater to jazz standards, accompanied by a selection of chocolates and wines handpicked and supplied by Holly Hambright of Holly's Corner and Holly's Eventful Dining.

21 and up, ticket price $50 (all inclusive)

At Modern Studio, 109 W. Anderson Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917. https://www.facebook.com/events/359108594460831/?ti=cl
Marble City Opera: 646-217-1580, www.marblecityopera.com

Back to Work – a solo exhibition by sculpture artist Jackson Martin opens with a reception on Friday, February 17, 2017, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. The public is invited. Bring your friends and family and enjoy an evening of art and fellowship.

Back to Work showcases an array of mixed-media sculptures combining wood, steel, fiber and found materials. “My sculptures arise from a need to rescue these abandoned items from obscurity and reconstruct their components into new, engaging combinations,” says Martin. Martin manipulates utilitarian objects and tools to create new meaning, function or lack of function.

Jackson Martin is an artist and educator living in Asheville, North Carolina. Martin is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of North Carolina and recently received the 2017 Visual Artist Fellowship Grant from North Carolina Arts Council. Martin received his MFA at Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his BFA at Middle Tennessee State University. He has exhibited his work at Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Pratt Institute Sculpture Park in Brooklyn, New York. Martin has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, Godsbanen Cultural Center in Aarhus, Denmark and Baggat Art Organization in South Korea.

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

The Farragut Arts Council is sponsoring a juried Open Fine Arts Show February 15 through February 18. The works have been selected and judged by a working artist, and winners will be announced at an artists' reception on Friday, Feb. 17, from 5 - 7 p.m.

The public is invited to attend the show, which will be at Farragut Town Hall. Hours for the show are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday (includes the artist reception) and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The show, which features 78 works by exceptional artists from throughout the region, will present art that is conceptually thoughtful, technically skilled and representative of trends in art.

Farragut Town Hall is located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive across from Farragut Branch Post Office. More information is available on the Town's website at townoffarragut.org/openartshow or by contacting Lauren Cox at lcox@townoffarragut.org or 218-3372.

Pellissippi State Community College will celebrate women with the upcoming play "Love, Loss and What I Wore," by Nora and Delia Ephron. The play, co-produced with DuckEars Theatre Company, will be at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 10-11 and 17-18 and 2 p.m., Feb. 12 and 19.

"This is a simple but powerful play that showcases the stories of five women who recall seminal moments of their lives through the filter of their clothes," said Theatre professor Charles R. Miller. "These monologues showcase the voice of women." The play, directed by faculty member Steven McBride, will star Chevy Anz, Nancy Duckles, Kathy May Tallent, Jessie Holder Toutelotte and Deborah Webb. Additional cast and crew will include Pellissippi State students and faculty. "Love, Loss and What I Wore," based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which features cultural activities for the community -- ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures and the fine arts.
For more information, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call 865-694-6400.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Visit www.pstcc.edu/tickets or purchase tickets at the door. All of the ticket proceeds will benefit the Pellissippi State Foundation's scholarship fund for theatre students. Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

February 10, 11, 17, 18 dinner theatre at 7pm
February 11 & 18 matinee at 2pm

The Cast List, by Knoxville playwright Gayle Greene

Presented by The Theatre Guild, Inc. at VFW Auditorium, 2503 E Andrew Johnson Hwy, Morristown 37814.
http://www.theatreguildinc.org/

Paintings by a father and son hiding during the Holocaust

In 1944, after being in hiding for two years, Eva Schloss’s entire family was betrayed and put on a train to Auschwitz. It was on this train that Eva’s brother Heinz told her he had hidden paintings that he and their father created while in hiding. After Eva and her mother survived the horrors of Auschwitz, they found the paintings under the attic floor with a note that read: “Property of Eric and Hein Geiringer from Amsterdam, who are in hiding and will collect the items after the war.”

We are thrilled to present an exhibition of prints and original paintings by Heinz and Erich on loan from The Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam.

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

Each February, the From Africa to Appalachia Foundation for Education and the Arts (FATA) and Rose Center join together to celebrate Black History Month. For this 29th annual celebration, curator Bob Spirko has developed the exhibit “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” to be featured in the Edith Davis Gallery at Rose Center in Morristown. The exhibit is a tribute to the photography and life of Gregory Manuel Kyle, Jr. (1954-2015) and will feature over two dozen of his photographs and other works. An opening reception and celebration will be held on Sunday, February 5, beginning with the exhibit opening at 2:00 PM and continuing with a program beginning at 3:00 PM. The program will include inspirational music, remarks from FATA Co-President Beverly Lee, and guest speakers including Citizen Tribune publisher Mike Fishman; J.B. Pectol, vice president of communications and marketing at Walters State Community College; and Rev. H Roger Mills, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church of Whitesburg The music will be provided by Yolanda Treece, Rock of Ages Baptist Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Serving as a photographer for the Citizen Tribune and Walters State Community College, Kyle was known throughout the area as he documented news stories, sporting events, celebrations, milestones, campus life, and much more. He was a familiar face to many residents of the Lakeway Region who knew him as a friendly, professional, and talented photographer.

The Rose Center, 442 West Second North St., Morristown, TN, 37814. Hours: M-F 9-5. Information: 423-581-4330, www.rosecenter.org

Free admission. Each reading will include a discussion session afterwards with the cast, director and audience and, when possible, the playwright. Readings:

+ Dracula: Down for the Count by Mary Lynn Dobson - A comic retelling of the Dracula story. Think, “Young Frankenstein” meets Count Dracula.
+ Okra by Bill Raulerson - A comic caper set in backwoods Louisiana with a little magic, a few ghosts, and a very inept police force.
+ The Senator’s Wife by C. Robert Jones - When politics and family collide, they can both end up a little worse for wear.
+ When Blackbirds Sing by Gayle Greene - A lifetime prison sentence on a questionable conviction leaves a woman who was more a victim in her own to right to desperately seek a connection with a daughter she never knew.

Upcoming dates:
February 23: 6:00 pm Okra, Farragut

February 25: noon Okra, Lawson McGee
2:30 Dracula, Lawson McGee

February 26: 1:15 Senator’s Wife, Lawson McGee
3:00 Blackbirds Sing, Lawson McGee

Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com