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Monroe Area Council for the Arts Presents The Hiwassee College Performing Arts Series! This is where a preternatural talent becomes a natural woman. It is nothing like what we’ve heard before, from anyone. It is singular and emphatic, harmonious and dissonant. It is the realization of promise, and the affirmation of individuality. It is born of difficulty and indecision, yet it rings with ease, decisiveness, and beauty. This is not bluegrass music, or chamber music, or pop music. This is original music, from a virtuoso who tells the truth and speaks from herself. Alison Krauss, who has won more Grammy awards than any female artist in history, says of Hull, “I think she’s endless. I don’t see any boundaries. Talent like hers is so rare, and I don’t think it stops. It’s round.”

At Hiwassee Performing Arts Center, 225 Hiwassee College Drive, Madisonville, TN. Information/tickets: 423-442-3210, www.monroearts.com

Sunday, March 19 – Organ Recital with Carolyn Craig

St. John's Cathedral
413 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville, TN 37902-2302
(865) 525-7347

Mass in D Minor ("Lord Nelson") by Franz Joseph Haydn. Featuring the Choirs of the Ascension.

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

Tristan Teo, 19, performs on March 19. He was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, where he started piano lessons at age 6. He is both a fourth-year bachelors and first-year masters student in the highly selective Accelerated BM/MM Program at The Juilliard School. In addition to his musical studies, Tristan is a Secondary Piano Teaching Fellow at Juilliard, teaching piano to undergraduate and graduate instrumental students. Under the guidance of composer Philip Lasser, Tristan has composed works for violin-piano duo and chamber orchestra. Most recently, Tristan was awarded the 2015 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at Juilliard and Second Prize at the 2016 Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Since his orchestral debut with the Philharmonia Northwest at age 10, Tristan has performed as soloist with numerous symphony orchestras including Vancouver, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Gulf Coast and Yakima, and he has given recitals in the U.S., Canada, France Germany and Italy. His April concert will include pieces from Ravel, Kapustin, Bach and Liszt.

In the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall in the University of Tennessee’s Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, 1741 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville 37996. Tickets/information: 865-408-8083 or www.youngpianistseries.com

​Expand your horizons and enjoy time with fellow gardeners as we showcase documentary and other films of horticulturally-related themes on select Sunday afternoons. Some may be followed by a Q&A session with a UT expert. Concessions are available to add to the fun!

At 2 pm in the Hollingsworth Auditorium in the Ellington Plant Sciences Building on the UT Ag Campus (for directions http://www.utk.edu/maps/).
Admission is free.

Amazingly up-close footage filmed with specially developed macro lenses brings you the most intimate and most spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony ever filmed. It's not frightening- it's fascinating. See things you never imagined. Hear things only bees hear. Discover new found facts about the strange and complex life of bees in Bees: Tales from the Hive.

UT Gardens, Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-7151, https://ag.tennessee.edu/utg/Pages/Movie-Series.aspx

Join the McClung Museum as Dr. Julie Albright of the University of Tennessee School of Veterinary Medicine lectures on Cat Behavior.

“When a man loves cats, I am a friend and comrade without further introduction.”
– Mark Twain

“Dogs look up to us: cats look down on us.”
– Winston Churchill

“Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you.”
– Mary Bly

These are just a few quotes that reflect the contradictory relationship we humans seem to have with our feline companions. Many people find cats warm and charming, while others have a begrudging respect for the cat’s haughty aloofness, and still others consider cats to be unclean pests or machine-like predators. These wildly differing opinions of the cat in modern societies have roots in our changing relationship over our 10,000-year history together. Throughout the centuries, human views of cats have ranged from objects of worship in Ancient Egyptian times to demonic symbols in Europe during the dark ages, but the cat has survived to become the most popular pet in US households today. Yet, in many ways, the cat remains a mystery to us.

The lecture is part of exhibition-related programming for Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Celebrate World Storytelling Day when as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, on the Spring equinox.

Join Smoky Mountain Storytellers' celebration on Sunday, March 19, from 2-4, at Tribute Theater, 175 E Wears Valley Rd., Suite #22 Pigeon Forge, TN.
Suggested $5 Donations gratefully accepted.
Contact 865-429-1783, or Cuznjan@juno.com. www.smokymountaintellers.org. or
www.travisjamestribute.com

DIRECTIONS: From Sevierville, on PF Parkway, turn left at Traffic Light# 3, behind THE TRACK, 1 block, in Shops at Pigeon Forge Mall. On corner of E
Wears Valley Rd. & Teaster Lane.

Celebrate the birthday of Anna Atkins, born on March 16, 1799. She was a botanist and a photographer who made one of the first photography books using Cyanotype, a process from the 1800’s that used iron salts and the sun to make a print. We will have free refreshments and a birthday cake. Everyone will make a Cyanotype to take home. A $2 donation is requested to cover the cost of the printmaking supplies.
The Knoxville Community Darkroom, 5117 Homberg Drive, Knoxville, TN. http://www.theknoxvillecommunitydarkroom.org/

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center will hold its Spring Porch Sale starting on Thursday, March 16, and running for about two weeks. The Porch Sale, held each spring features outdated stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Center. It’s an excellent time to get great deals.

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center is a nonprofit center that has been fulfilling its mission by promoting traditional artists and crafts in the East Tennessee area for over 40 years. The center is located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris, Tenn., one mile east of I-75 north at Exit 122. For more information, call 865-494-9854, or visit www.appalachianarts.net.

Beth Meadows’ current studio is a working space, not open to the public; but if you were to find your way there, you would find yourself in a nest of ideas – one lined with images and materials that the artist collects because they draw her attention. In the exhibit now hanging at Tomato Head Market Square, Meadows has assembled a collection of pieces that feature two prominent classes of things that consistently catch her eye: fashion and food packaging.

Many of the images depicted might seem familiar, and that’s because they’re drawn from the pages of fashion magazines. “They’re super models, “ Meadows says, “and the clothing is made out of a collage of food packaging. The idea was to mix this fascination I have with fashion that’s grown over the years with a negative feeling I have about grocery shopping. I don’t love it, grocery shopping, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that I’m trying not to be swayed by how things are packaged – because I don’t want to be marketed to or persuaded to buy things that are packaged beautifully. That’s really hard for an artist like me because I’m aesthetically inclined.”

The works are a mix of collage and drawing that are, in fact, based on photographs of super models; but as the she creates the piece, Meadows creates her own line of clothing for each – one that’s built from the food packaging that she normally resists. Meadows has a broad range of work, in addition to visiting her exhibit at our downtown place, you’ll want to explore the complete range of her portfolio and find out more about her on her website: http://withbearhands.com/.

On display through April 2 at Market Square, then in the Bearden location April 4 - May 1. Tomato Head, 12 Market Square (865-637-4067) and 7240 Kingston Pike, Suite 172 (865-584-1075), in Knoxville. http://thetomatohead.com

The Art Gallery at Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church will present work by Oak Ridge artist Eun-Sook Kim from March 10 through early May. The exhibition will also feature work by the artist’s students: Betsy Smith, Will Doran, Cathleen Cottrell, and Peggy Teague. A gallery opening talk and reception will be hosted at the church on Sunday, March 12, at 12:15 p.m. The public is invited.

Although my primary medium is ceramics, I consider myself a painter first. Through brushwork, I feel harmony with nature. Like a speck in the landscape of a classic Chinese painting, I am infinitely small, yet essential in nature. Interweaving different strands from different cultures and countries, my art reflects the multicolored pattern of my life,” said Kim.

ORUUC is located at 809 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Free and open to the public, Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9 am to 3 pm. and Sunday 9:30 am to 1 pm. For more information call (865)483-6761.

The Tennessee Stage Company is preparing another World Premiere for our 2017 New Play Festival. It is a farce called The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play of the Not-Quite-Dead Sutton McAllister by Florida Playwright Kris Bauske, author of the Christmas Perennial A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas. Directed by Leigh Monet & Tom Parkhill; Stage Managed by Tyler Gregory.

A backstage comedy of relatively deathly dimensions. Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm & Sunday matinees at 3pm.

The show runs at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 317 N. Gay Street, Knoxville. Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com