Calendar of Events

November 4 & 5, the Katharine Slowburn Experience presents "The Garden," a dance theatre tour of a living garden, filled with turns sensual, sorrowful, soft, and strong. Featuring 14 dance numbers, choreographed by Katharine Slowburn, unearthing what it means to grow and bloom in a world that doesn't always nourish its soil.

Saturday, Nov. 4 at 9 PM, and Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 PM, at Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave.

Featuring a cast of modern, jazz, and cabaret dancers: Amelea Faith Everett, Julie Rauen, Pam Skatzes, Katharine Slowburn, Rebekah Wallace, Jennifer Weatherspoon, and Ashley White.

This show is recommended for audiences aged 16 and over. $10 general admission. BYOB for 21 and over with a corking fee of $3/person.

Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-323-2425, www.modernstudio.org

Artsclamation! is an annual fine art sale benefiting the behavioral health services of Peninsula. Join us for this celebration of creativity!

2017 Featured Artist Michael Robison
For the first time in the history of the Artsclamation event, a potter has been chosen as featured artist. Michael Robison makes functional & decorative stoneware with unique surface designs that compliment the form of the piece. His pieces are thrown then hand-carved or slip trailed in pursuit of aesthetic balance.

Congratulations to the following artists who have been selected for Artsclamation! 2017: Hugh Bailey, Marguerite Hogan, Amber Anne Palo, Stephen Brayfield, Jonathan Howe, Laura Parham, Pat Clapsaddle, Inna Knox, Leila Platt, Larry Cole, Lorrie Lane, Janis Proffitt, Rick Eastham, Ron Lewis, Mary Saylor, Lee Edge, Carol Livingston, Vinnie Sutherland, Wendy Ervin, Sharron Mallison, David Swanagin, Gordon Fowler, Kate McCullough, Kristine Taylor, Larry Gabbard, Mike Naney, Jyl Walker, Betsy Heerdt, Charles “Chico” Osten.

At the Lighthouse Knoxville, 6800 Baum Drive, Knoxville, TN. For more information please visit www.peninsulabehavioralhealth.org/artsclamation/

Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD

Students use individual computers to access over 10 billion records including census and voter lists, birth, marriage & death, military, immigration & emigration, newspapers and periodicals, pictures, stories & histories, directories, court, land, wills & family trees. Also reference materials and finding aids. Participants should bring birth dates and birth places of grandparents.

Pre-registration is required and opens October 23. Call (865) 215-8809 to register.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: M-F 9-4, Sa 10-4, Su 1-5. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

The Maryville College Concert Choir will host the Maryville College Invitational Choir Festival on Sat., Nov. 4, 2017 at 6 p.m. in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre. The festival will serve as a benefit for the Officer Moats Foundation, created to honor the life and legacy of fallen Blount County officer Kenny Moats by aiding the community through service and scholarship.

Participants include choirs from Heritage High School, directed by Chris Clift; Maryville High School, directed by Byron Davis; Powell High School, directed by Jim Kennedy; Alcoa City High School, directed by Trent Gilmore; Highlander Chorale, directed by Jill Purvis; Karns High School, directed by Seth Tinsley; Jefferson County High School, directed by Merritt McElroy; Pellissippi State Community College, directed by Meagan Langford; Maryville College Concert Choir, directed by Stacey Wilner; and Off Kilter, directed by Stacey Wilner.

“Our friends in law enforcement risk their lives every day to protect us not just from petty criminals, but from violent offenders of all kinds,” said Stacey Wilner, director of choral activities and senior lecturer in music at Maryville College. “We must thank our local officers for their service and express our gratitude for their bravery. Our officers are essential in helping to keep Americans safe and free.

“Officer Kenny R. Moats gave his life putting someone else’s needs before his own,” Wilner continued. “Our East Tennessee community rallied behind our fallen officer to support his family and honor his legacy. We would like to help the Officer Moats Non-Profit Foundation to give back and thank a community that was compassionate.”

The concert is free and open to the public, but donations for the Officer Moats Foundation are greatly appreciated. Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information/tickets: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

(All ages) Doesn't moonwalking on the Will Skelton Greenway sound like fun? Silly, engaging activities like this await you and your kids at Ijams' Family Scavenger Hunt Saturday, Nov. 4, from 1-3:30 p.m.

Have fun, compete and maybe you'll win a prize! Register online or call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110.
http://ijams.org/events/special-event-family-scavenger-hunt/

More events at http://ijams.org/events/. 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

White Oak Gallery {inside Magpies} Presents the work of Lesley Eaton
Please visit White Oak Gallery inside Magpies TONIGHT November 3 at 846 Central St from 5-8 pm for First Friday and view work from featured artist & illustrator Lesley Eaton. Artwork by gallery manager Beth Meadows will also be on display. Refreshments provided by Magpies Bakery and With Bear Hands. Work will be on display through December.

ABOUT EATON
"My recent collage work incorporates my peppered paper, large sheets of paper that originally provided a surface to catch all of the spills, splatters, and brush strokes as I painted. The result is a collection of beautiful papers filled with vibrant color and energetic texture. Learn more about Eaton at http://pepperedpaper.wordpress.com.

White Oak Gallery, located inside Magpies Bakery, is generously made available by owner Peg Hambright and managed by Knoxville artist Beth Meadows of With Bear Hands. Meadows' artwork is always on display, and a different Knoxville artist is featured every other month. The public is invited to visit the gallery any time during Magpies' business hours and to consider buying artwork and/or cupcakes while there. For more information, visit withbearhands.com/gallery or contact beth@bethmeadows.com.

"Don't get so busy earning your salt that you forget the sugar."

Pioneer House, home of the original Knoxville Girl t-shirt and letterpress printmaking studio and gallery, will throw open the doors Nov. 3 to welcome five local artists. The Knoxville Girls show and sale brings together five fine women with ties to Knoxville and a flair for fiber, ceramics, letterpress printmaking, encaustic painting and mixed media. You'll love them better than biscuits.

Reception for Artists: 5 p.m.-9 p.m., First Friday, Nov. 3

The artists:
Knoxville native Amanda Humphreys occupies her time teaching pottery classes and making functional, whimsical pottery. Her work is inspired by her love of textures and colors borrowed from old, historic buildings, vintage maps and the 80s and 90s in general. She also revels in classic country music.

Peg Hambright is a former graphic designer and illustrator who has neglected her creative side for the past 25 years while nurturing her little bakery, Magpies. In an attempt to find balance in her life, she's found herself transitioning from food into art by making art that is food. It's a start.

A mixed media artist from Knoxville, Cara Pfennigwerth loves to draw, crochet, garden and try just about anything hands-on. Another favorite art form is relief block print. She draws most of her inspiration from the flora and fauna of East Tennessee and creates as a way to preserve and appreciate the beauty of local wildlife.

Laura Baisden runs a custom letterpress shop called Camp Nevernice in the same historical building that is home to Pioneer House. She crafts custom posters and invitations for clients and hand-carves linoleum illustrations. She has a labor of love in the works: writing and illustrating a children's book.

Julie Belcher is the proprietor of Pioneer House. An Appalachian artist, dedicated handmade advocate and restorer of vintage printing presses from way back, she adds bits of her Southern and mountain heritage to all her works. Letterpress monoprints and small encaustic mixed media are among the new works she has created for this show.

Pioneer House of Letterpress & Vintage, 413 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-200-8084, julie@pioneer-house.com, http://www.pioneer-house.com

Recent works by Marie Merritt and Nelson Ziegler will be on display at the Art Market Gallery. An opening reception for the featured artists will begin at 5:30 p.m., Nov 3rd, during Downtown Knoxville’s monthly First Friday Art Walk, with complimentary refreshments.

Marie Merritt shares her experience from hiking all the trails in the Great Smoky Mountains through her art. Interpreting the scenic vistas, babbling streams, lovely flora, and majestic animals she has encountered in her signature style of oil painting, she strives to give the viewer the feeling of awe that she has enjoyed. She develops a quality of depth and dimension in her paintings that is sensitive and expressive by using traditional time honored techniques of multiple layers of oil paints and glazes. Marie, a native of East Tennessee, has received numerous awards, designations and recognitions with her art, including Certified Decorative Artist and Teacher of Decorative Arts. Her original works hang in private and corporate collections throughout the region and her art has been featured on book covers and in magazines. She is represented by the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville, TN and her work can be seen at www.mariemerritt.com

Nelson Ziegler, of Sevierville, Tennessee in the Smoky Mountains, is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston and Northwestern Academy of Watercolor. He has won many awards for both his painting and woodturning, both regionally and nationally. Among them, Gold Medal for watercolor at the American Artists Professional League, Honorable Mention-The Artist’s Magazine annual competition. He was chosen the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage artist of the year in 2016. He has participated in numerous juried exhibitions in New York including Allied Artists, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, Knickerbocker Artists, National Arts Club, Hudson Valley Arts Association, as well as Adirondack National Watercolor Exhibition, Faces of America (a national watercolor portrait show), Academic Artists Association, Springfield Arts League, Springfield, MA, Guild of Boston Artists, Copley Society, Boston, MA, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA, Tennessee Watercolor Society and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. A member of the National Watercolor Society, New England Watercolor Society, The Oil Painters of America and the Northshore Art Association and the American Association of Woodturners. Nelson’s works are in many private and corporate collections throughout the country. www.nelsonzieglerstudio.com

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Th & Sa 11-6, Fri 11-9, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

The District Gallery is pleased to present Joe Parrott: Recent Works, opening Friday, November 3 from 5-8PM.

Sunny sidewalks, a shifting forest shadow, the daylight as it recedes into evening. Scenes of passerby, the twilit facade of a building- what could have gone unnoticed can be transformed by renewed attention to light and shadow, and what was one happenstance begins to feel like home. Recent Works gives a chance to revel in the present moment, caught in sparkling reflections and deep shadows, and offered to us through the attentive eyes of a longtime Knoxville native.

Please join us Friday, November 3 from 5-8 PM for an opening reception and to meet the artist. The show will be on display through November 25.

The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: M-F 10-5:30, Sa 10-4. Information: 865-200-4452, www.TheDistrictGallery.com

Hosted by Rala: Regional and Local Artisans

We are excited to announce our featured artists for the month of November! Please join us for a show opening with work by local artists, Cynthia Markert and Brian Scott Pittman

Opening reception November 3rd 6-9pm

Rala, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com/

This November, Broadway Studios and Gallery proudly presents one of Knoxville’s royalty of the arts, Eric Sublett. Eric Sublett will show a variety of work made during several decades in a show that is entitled: Portrayals.

As a child, Eric was the self-proclaimed mascot of the University of Tennessee Art Department where he helped his father Carl with his duties as a professor. Eric was unofficially mentored by his father by sitting with him after he had finished his paper route as his father sketched architectural structures around the area. Being given Carte Blanche to anything in his father’s studio, it turned out that Eric would become quite a talent in his own right. With connections made through Knoxville’s underground artistic culture, he witnessed the birth of fine art in Knoxville on the heels of the 1982 World’s Fair. It was at that moment that the “Scruffy Little City” could put a flag in the ground and declare that yes, like other cities, artists are here as well. With his good friend RB Morris, Eric helped contribute to this newfound celebration of the music and arts where he and his friends began to have art exhibits with parties in abandoned buildings in the Old City before there was an “Old City.” From there he opened a gallery in what would known as the Artist Colony, which was a group of Victorian houses across the street from the Candy Factory and the now Knoxville Museum of Art. With amazing stories, this colorful figure will present and eclectic grouping of artwork from over the decades.

The work will contain drawings, paintings, photography. There will also be time for old friends to come visit and for new friends to be made in a tiny re-celebration of birth of the arts in the town we all love. All are invited to participate: artists, enthusiasts, and the curious alike.

Opening is First Friday, November 3rd, in which the doors will open at 5pm.

This exhibit is free to the public. Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 Broadway St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Hours: Thurs-Sat, 10-6 (and whenever the open light is on throughout the week). Information: 865-556-8676, www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

Mixed media sculpture and paintings by Marga McBride (ceramic sculpture and paintings) and Jay McBride (new works in wood)

Reception Fri Nov 3, 5-7 PM

Bennett Galleries, 5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919
(865) 584-6791 | www.bennettgalleries.com