Calendar of Events

Synergy: East Tennessee Art Educator Exhibition is an exhibition designed to promote the work of East Tennessee’s finest teaching artists. K-12 art teachers and current art interns/student teachers from public schools, private schools and academies are invited to apply. This exciting exhibit will be held in the Blackberry Farm gallery at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, TN.

March 6, 2017: Opening Exhibit Reception, 5pm -9pm at the Clayton Center for the Arts
March 6 – 24, 2017: Exhibit Open Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

The Student Art Exhibition was developed to provide a forum for student artists to display their work and compete for awards. The juried art that is selected for exhibition will feature both traditional and non-traditional work and will be exhibited at the Clayton Center for the Arts in the Denso Gallery, 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804-5907.

March 6, 2017: Opening Exhibit Reception, 5pm -9pm at the Clayton Center for the Arts
Exhibit Open Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

Monday, March 6, 7:30 PM
Organ Recital, Katelyn Emerson
2016 Winner of the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance
Co-sponsored by the Knoxville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Free event.

Church of the Ascension is located at 800 S. Northshore Drive, between Kingston Pike and Lyons View Drive. Telephone: 865-588-0589.

2016 Winner of the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. Co-sponsored by the Knoxville chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Church of the Ascension, 800 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: 865-588-0589, www.knoxvilleascension.org

Before Jimmy Eat World entered the studio to record their ninth full-length album, Integrity Blues [RCA], the members of the multiplatinum Mesa, AZ rock band did something they’ve never done in over two decades. “We took a little break,” smiles lead singer and guitarist Jim Adkins. After a successful 10th anniversary tour revisiting Futures, the musicians briefly went their separate ways at the end of 2014. Adkins released a series of 7” & embarked on his first worldwide solo tour, Lind released an EP and toured with his wife in The Wretched Desert, Linton took up boxing, and Burch opened up Cask Werks Distillery in Arizona. When the band reconvened in November 2015, they teamed up with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen [Paramore, M83] and began sifting through ideas.

The Mill & Mine, 227 W. Depot Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Tickets/information: http://themillandmine.com/

Enjoy Mighty Wurlitzer organ performances by Dr. Bill Snyder and Ensemble Swing Time, a 16 piece big band from Knoxville that specializes in classic big band swing and features original arrangements made famous by Glenn Miller, Harry James, the Dorsey Brothers and other great bands from the Swing Era. Brown bag lunches consisting of a sandwich, chips, and a dessert may be purchased in the lobby for $5.00 while supplies last. Soft drinks, bottled water, popcorn, and candy will also be available for purchase. This is a free event!

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Ensemble concert; featuring Steve Reich’s "Drumming" for percussion, voice, and piccolo - in Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, and the Alumni Memorial Building is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. *For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Novelist Maggie Shipstead will read on Monday, March 6th, on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus as part of the Writers in the Library reading series. The mission of Writers in the Library is to "showcase the work of novelists, poets, and other literary craftsmen." Some of the best voices on the literary scene today are invited to read.

The reading at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library is free and open to the public; all are encouraged to attend.

Maggie Shipstead is the author of two novels: Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements, which was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

During the Spring 2017 semester, Shipstead is serving as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee.

Writers in the Library is sponsored by the UT Libraries and the Creative Writing Program in association with the John C. Hodges Better English Fund.

Visit http://library.utk.edu/writers for a complete schedule of Writers in the Library readings for the 2016-2017 academic year.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Wanda Sobieski will present “The Legacy and Challenge of Suffrage” on Monday, March 6, at 7 p.m., at the Blount County Public Library. Sobieski, an attorney with Sobieski, Messer & Elledge, PLLC, and Coordinator of the Suffrage Coalition, a special project of the East Tennessee Foundation, contends that “understanding the bitter struggle helps [women] not only appreciate the right to vote, but also inspires us to repay our foremothers by dedicating ourselves to push forward the reforms necessary to make our political system a more perfect union.” Sobieski says her “slide show documents the 72-year battle for ‘Woman Suffrage’ using authentic images and words from both sides of the ‘controversy’.”

Sobieski’s interest grew out of her activism in support of passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Surprised by the controversy surrounding the movement and motivated by a colleague’s observation of the parallels between the ERA efforts and the suffrage movement, Sobieski’s research led to the formation of the Suffrage Coalition to recognize Tennessee leaders and promote preservation of suffrage history. The Coalition, in turn, was responsible for erecting the Tennessee Woman Suffrage memorial on Knoxville’s Market Square, digitizing records now available for world-wide research in the McClung Collection at the East Tennessee History Center (ETHC) in Knoxville, locating and preserving suffrage memorabilia, and designing the “Burn Memorial,” honoring Febb Burn, and her son, Harry Burn, Sr., Tennessee legislator best known for casting the “aye” vote in 1920 that ratified the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The memorial is proposed for the grounds of the ETHC.
The public is invited to join in this celebration of suffrage.

Open to the public. Blount County Public Library, 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville, TN. Information: 865-982-0981, www.blountlibrary.org

On Exhibition: Paintings by Shirley Wittman, Lauren Lazarus and Blown Glass by Johnny Glass

Westminister Presbyterian Church, 6500 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: M-F 9-4. Info: (865) 584-3957 or www.wpcknox.org

Artist’s Reception: Monday, March 20th 4PM to 8PM

At Burlington Library 4614 Asheville Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: alan.jones@tys.org

A public reception will take place on Friday, March 3, from 5:00-9:00 PM to which the public is invited to meet the artists and view the artwork. The First Friday reception also features music and dance by Pasion Flamenca from 6:00-6:30 PM and live music by Swing Serenade from 7:00-9:00 PM. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be available.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of mixed media works by 27 members of the Depot Artists Association in Abingdon, Virginia. For the fourth year, the Arts & Culture Alliance is proud to partner with another community-based art gallery in the Southeast for the purpose of promoting local artists within each community. The Arts Depot will host a simultaneous display of work by 42 Knoxville-area artists in their gallery space at 314 Depot Square in Abingdon during the month of March.

The works chosen to travel to Knoxville were juried by Steven Reeves during the Depot’s 27th Annual Holiday Members Exhibition this past December. Reeves is the Executive Director of the Kingsport Art Guild established in 1949, a non-profit that promotes advocacy, education, and exhibitions. Reeves has a studio at the Arts Depot and holds his BFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Members selected to represent the Arts Depot are Jeana Chapman, Sheryl Daniels, J. C. Dean, Jackie Dolpp, Judith Fitzgerald, John David Ford, Nancy Garretson, Jody Houston, Greg Howser, Carl Jessee, Sr., Elizabeth John-Morison, Nancy Johnson, Carina Karlsson, Larry Knott, Michele Marlowe, Lisa May, Rita Montrosse, Helen Morgan, Adelaide Moss, Cecelia Pippin, Fallon Ray, Sara Reece, Steven Reeves, Frank Renault, Joyce Samuel, Josiah Stam, and Michaela Stam. The Association operates the Arts Depot in the historic Depot Square area of downtown Abingdon. The Association is supported in part by grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Tourism Corp. For more information about the Arts Depot, call (276) 628-9091 or visit www.abingdonartsdepot.org.

On display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit the Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.