Calendar of Events
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Ewing Gallery: MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event
JOIN US For a reception on Friday, April 6 from 6-9PM
The second group of MFA Thesis Exhibitions will take place in the Ewing Gallery from April 2 - 8, 2018. In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space. Exhibiting students are:
Austin Pratt - "Some Openings"
Christian Vargas - "Tianguis"
Tom Wixo - "Coward of the County"
Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu
UT Campus Events Board: Culture Week 2018
Category: Festivals, special events and Music
The Campus Events Board is proud to present Culture Week 2018! We would love for you to join us for a week full of fun events to celebrate the appreciation of diversity in cultures. Below is our list of events, with corresponding Facebook event pages link for more information about each event:
Monday, April 2nd – Drag Trivia Night in the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium @ 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/419386648511922/
Tuesday, April 3rd – Film Showing – Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People in HSS 123 @ 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/599654890368708/
Wednesday, April 4th – Mandy Harvey “Singing Without Sound” Concert at The Mill and Mine @ 7pm doors open @ 6pm
*Shuttle transportation to and from the Mill and Mine will be provided for students starting at 5:30pm in the AMB S9 lot
https://www.facebook.com/events/213110829427429/
Thursday, April 5th – MFLL Talent Show in Cox Auditorium @ 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1393181970828212
Friday, April 6th – 865 Night Market with the Asian American Association – HSS Plaza @ 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/2094094130812836/
Dogwood Arts: Art In Public Places
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event
Dogwood Arts Art In Public Places - Temporary Sculpture Exhibition
Art in Public Places is a large-scale outdoor sculpture program showcased throughout Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and Alcoa, Tennessee. The annual rotating installation is one of many Dogwood Arts programs focused on providing access to the arts for everyone, promoting awareness of the strong visual arts community thriving in our region, and creating a vibrant and inspiring environment for residents and visitors to experience. Over the past eleven years, Dogwood Arts has curated and installed over 220 works of art, and the Art In Public Places program has gained national recognition as a platform for world-class artists. This year’s ambitious collection of sculptures created by artists from across the nation has been selected by Director of the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Justin Rabideau.
Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com
Clarence Brown Theatre: Dream of the Burning Boy
Category: Theatre
By: David West Read
"…eloquent, affecting…moving." The New York Times
Since the death of his favorite student, Larry Morrow, a fifty-something high school teacher, has been falling asleep at his desk and dreaming. The student’s sister and his friends find little solace in schoolwork. And the school’s guidance counselor keeps hanging inspirational slogans on the walls to help everyone “process their emotions.” A bittersweet story of finding the way and strength to move on. This production contains mature language and themes.
Lab Theatre, 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
Pellissippi State Community College: Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event
This annual juried exhibition features student paintings, drawings, sculptures, metalworkings and ceramics.
Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 10-6:30. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts
Tai Chi Classes with Karl Hess
Category: Festivals, special events
Meeting every Sunday from 11 AM - noon at Adair Park, 1807 Adair Drive, Knoxville, TN 37918, near the Gazebo and Playground.
Meeting every Wednesday from 6-7 PM at Good People, 4026 Chapman Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37920.
Beginning April 7, meeting on Saturdays from 11 AM - noon at Olde Mechanicsville Park on Arthur St. near the Firehouse and the Lotus Light Center.
Requested donation of $10 for each class, $17 for two classes/week, or $22 for 3 classes/week.
Information: Karl Hess, karlalanhess@gmail.com
McClung Museum: Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Free event, History, heritage and Science, nature
Pick Your Poison examines how mind-altering drugs have been used throughout the history of America.
Featuring over forty medicines, advertisements, historic and popular culture documents and books, video footage, and paraphernalia, the exhibition explores why some drugs remain socially acceptable, while others are outlawed because of their toxic, and intoxicating, characteristics.
These classifications have shifted at different times in history because of social and historical factors, and will continue to change. The exhibition explores some of the factors that have shaped the changing definition of some of our most potent drugs––alcohol, tobacco, opium, cocaine, and marijuana––from medical miracle to social menace.
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
Heather Hartman: Interior at Tennessee Wesleyan
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event
GALLERY HOURS Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM in THE MURIEL S. MAYFIELD GALLERY IN REECE HALL TN Wesleyan Campus, 216 North Jackson Street
Heather Hartman is not a native Tennesseean, but when her family moved to Tennessee, she was deeply impacted by the atmosphere, weather, and constantly changing skies in her new home. Hartman lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee where she is a member of the Vacuum Shop Studios Artist Collaborative. Hartman is an Adjunct Instructor of Art at Carson-Newman University and Walters State Community College.Her work has been featured in various solo and group shows throughout the country, as well as several publications.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts: Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Artist-of-the-Year
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event
Closing Reception: April 25, 5:30-7pm
In the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org
Dragon Lights Festival
Category: Festivals, special events, History, heritage and Kids, family
Dragon Lights, Knoxville’s first-ever Chinese lantern festival, will take place at Chilhowee Park and Exposition Center and will be open every night from 5:30pm until 10:00pm.
Featuring over 40 larger-than-life lantern displays, Dragon Lights is the largest Chinese lantern festival in the Eastern Unites States. Thousands of sculptural and light components make this event a true visual treat. Dozens of Chinese artisans travel the world to keep this century-old tradition alive, and they will be constructing the displays on site at Chilhowee as the festival draws near. Dragon Lights also will feature performances by Chinese acrobats and Chinese folk art demonstrations, as well as children's activities.
Don't miss this unique experience. Tickets ($16 per adult, or $10 for children) are on sale now. Call Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 or stop by the Civic Coliseum Box Office. (Group tickets for 15 or more are only available at the Coliseum Box Office, 865-215-8999.) http://www.chilhoweepark.org/dragon-lights-festival/
Fountain City Art Center: Southern Appalachian Nature Photography and the Knoxville Book Arts Guild
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event
"The Knoxville Book Arts Guild: and The Southern Appalachian Nature Photography"
Also showing: Watercolors by the students of Mary Baumgartner
Reception for both: March 16, 2018, 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Free and open to the public.
Exhibit viewing hours: Hours: Tu & Th 9-6, F 10-1, 3rd-4th Sa 9-1. Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartcenter.com
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts: Artist-in-Residence Exhibit: Alternative Bodies
Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event
Please join us for the reception on Saturday, April 7th in the Blain Gallery for light refreshments.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts announces Alternative Bodies, a group exhibition showcasing new work by the 2017-2018 Arrowmont Artists-in-Residence: Xia Zhang, Paige Ward, Elyse-Krista Mische, Emily Culver, and Max Adrian. In vulnerable ways, these artists touch on a variety of topics related to the body such as queerness, sexuality, faith, race, and death. These artists are playful and inventive with their processes in order to start conversations that may otherwise be difficult to digest.
Works such as those by Zhang, Culver, and Adrian focus on matters of flesh and bone: what it means to touch bodies, to express ourselves through our bodies and the objects we interact with, to be celebrated, stigmatized, or separated because of our bodies. Tactility is a key element for these works which span a breadth of materials like faux-fur, orange peels, and rubber. Works by Mische and Ward, on the other hand, consider spiritual existences in pursuit of greater understanding of our mortality and what lies in wait beyond the body. Objects like concrete pillows and monumental papier-mâché vessels reference the body through its absence. Metaphors for faith and self-preservation speak to multiple possibilities of seeking and finding comfort.
Collectively, all five artists encourage the viewer to contemplate other perspectives and expressions of humanness at a time when the world feels more divided than unified. Alternative Bodies aspires to a level of empathy and compassion for the hopes, hardships, and successes we all have within our physical forms.
The Artists-in-Residence Program is an 11-month program which provides early career, self-directed artists time, space and support to experiment and develop a new body of work in a creative community environment. Each year, five artists of different media are selected for the eleven-month program, which begins mid-June and continues through late May of the following year. Participants receive exhibition opportunities, teaching experience, professional development and a private studio.
In the Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org