Calendar of Events

Every spring the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine students organize an OPEN HOUSE for the community. The students have chosen "THE SECRET LIFE OF VETS" as the 2019 OPEN HOUSE theme. This year's event will be held Saturday, April 6, 2019, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on the UT agricultural campus at 2407 River Drive, Knoxville. OPEN HOUSE is a family-friendly event and a great educational opportunity to learn how veterinarians protect both animal and human health through vocation and volunteerism.

SPECIAL EVENTS THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
Canine Parade of Breeds, It's all about dogs!
Equine Parade of Breeds, doesn't everybody love horses?
Farm Animal Breeds, learn why it's important to take care of cows, goats, pigs and much more.
​Nutrition for both small and large animals, why certain foods are better for some animals and not others.

Demonstrations of all kinds:
FARRIER demonstration, because horses wear shoes too!
Small Animal Rehabiitation
and so much more!

Come to the TEDDY BEAR CLINIC! Don't forget to bring your favorite stuffed animal. If they have a hurt that needs to be fixed download and fill out the TBC- My Stuffed Animal Hurts HERE . Bring it along and our TBC Vets will patch them up!

CHECK OUT THE TOUR MAP and SCHEDULE OF EVENTS page! When you visit this year you may notice that improvements are under construction at the College of Veterinary Medicine. If you have any question please ask one of the students working TRAFFIC (they will be in a bright orange Open House 2019 shirt) to assist you on your self-guided tour. If you want to share information with others consider downloading the OH2019 FLYER and send either by print or email.

organizations.https://vetmed.tennessee.edu/specialevents/Pages/Open-House.aspx

Hosted by School of Hard Knox
828 Tulip Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

7:30 pm Beginner Swing Dance Lesson
8 pm - Midnight Social Dance featuring the Rhythm Serenaders Orchestra

The annual swing music and dance festival, the School of Hard Knox, is returning this month to Knoxville, TN! Hard Knox is a weekend long celebration of vintage vernacular swing jazz. Participants travel from across America to our Scruffy little city to be a part of this recreation of music and dance. Evening dances are all open to the public and welcome to both seasoned dancers and first time beginners. We're very excited to welcome back Michael Gamble to Hard Knox, one of the best swing bandleaders in the world based just over the mountains in Asheville, NC. We'll host the sextet on Friday evening, while Saturday will feature vintage big band tunes from the Rhythm Serenaders Orchestra!

Passes for the entire event can be purchased online, at the Friday evening dance of the event, or at the door before classes on Saturday morning.
Find out more info about the weekend: https://hardknoxlindyrox.com/schedule.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/174764253454638/

With the Rhythm Serenaders Orchestra, Gamble takes the core principles of his small group leading (adherence to medium tempos, four-on-the-floor time feel, historically accurate transcriptions, a healthy respect for dynamics, and deep love of riffs) into a 13pc big band. This group will, in part, serve as a vehicle for the Heritage Sounds transcription project, so you can expect to hear generous helpings of Chick Webb and Jimmie Lunceford's music -- but also repertoire featured exclusively by this group, honoring some of the hardest swinging, but lesser known vintage orchestras such as the bands of Teddy Powell, Edgar Hayes, Al Cooper, Boots and his Buddies, and more. Bandleader Michael Gamble's nearly 20 years in the swing scene informs every aspect of the band's repertoire and taste. https://www.facebook.com/events/586386631836315

The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade presents the Spring Show: “A Breath of Fresh Art!”

This is a People’s Choice Art Show, where the winning entries are chosen by the viewers. Please join the members of the Art Guild for the show’s opening reception scheduled for Friday, April 5, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., at the Plateau Creative Arts Center (PCAC), located at 451 Lakeview Drive in Fairfield Glade.

A special added attraction at the reception will be performances by the Plateau Women’s Chorus. This talented choral group will delight the art show gazers with selections from their upcoming concert, “Through the Rainbow: From Bach to Bebop!”

In addition to casting ballots at the show’s reception, visitors can enjoy the Spring Show and cast a vote for their favorite Spring Show submissions at any time during the show’s run from April 5th through May 1st. Artwork at the Spring Show includes watercolor, acrylic, and oil paintings, as well as photography, jewelry, pottery, woodwork, and other three-dimensional artwork. The Peoples’ Choice Awards will be presented at the First Friday Reception on May 3rd.
The handicapped accessible PCAC gallery hours are 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For additional information about the Art Guild at Fairfield Glade, call the PCAC at 931-707-7249 or visit www.artguildfairfieldglade.net.

Nelson Ziegler is the Art Market Gallery's featured artist for April - exhibiting both 2D work, (watercolors), and 3D - wood turning.
Please join us for the opening of this exciting exhibit on the First Friday Reception, April 5th, 5:30 - 9 p.m., at the Art Market Gallery.

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.

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

Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception on April 5th featuring local photographer Elle Colquitt beginning at 6 pm. Colquitt is fascinated with reflections and their odd juxtapositions and layered imagery, suggesting that nothing is ever what it appears to be. In her photography series, Reflecting on Knoxville, she challenges the viewer to look closely for hidden components that lie just beneath the surface. Stop by for great art and great coffee!

Opening Fri Apr 5, 6-9 PM

Regular business hours are: M-Th 7am-9pm, F 7am-10pm, Sat. 8am-10pm, Sun 1:30pm-8pm

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902
https://www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/

THE DOLLY ART SHOW IS FINALLY HERE!
Come by Rala on Friday, April 5th, from 6PM-9PM for the show opening. Contest awards will be announced at 7 PM. The show will feature original paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other visual handmade art centered around Dolly, her spirit, and her legacy in Tennessee. If you can't make it on Friday, no worries. The show will be up through the rest of the month.

Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com. Instagram: @ShopRala

BAD WATER presents Catherine Richards: A THOUSAND FUTURES.

In A THOUSAND FUTURES, shape is the vocabulary that builds into a writing system. Uninhibitedly pulling from a multitude of cultural strata in a study of how meaning and language is formed, Richards assembles a new linguistic structure by placing these references on the same hierarchical plane. The viewer is presented with a language that can be seen and felt, but does not seek to be linearly read or understood. Free from narrative, the gallery becomes an interpretive space, where meaning is perceived in the cultivated charge of each shape, in the moment of fracture from their cultural referent, rather than their particular legibility. Language is broken down and reconstructed, flattened and stretched, remaining fluid and free from the designation of time. The circle is a sun, but also an opening in a tantric painting, a roundabout in an urban city, a aerial view of a column in a plan. A tear drop turned horizontally becomes a mouth from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or an Eye of Providence from Christian iconography. Through change in scale, repetition, proximity and grouping, the shapes act conversationally, speechifying each other, allowing for meaning to emerge in their private chatter.

Animated by intuitive arrangement, design and play intertwine in material and spatial relationships. Constructed utilizing digital fabrication, the wood forms are sealed with a vibrant yellow vinyl, recalling the aesthetics of product display, accessory, adornment. Like a hoop earring hooked on an earlobe, a large fan fastens between two vertical structures; circles nestle into the corners of two beams; a small arch is hugged by a weighty vertical plank. Embedded into the walls of the gallery, the bright shapes adapt, becoming playful patterns woven in a fabric. The space becomes a tapestry.

Catherine Richards (Cleveland, OH) received a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) at The University of Cincinnati. Recent exhibitions and performances include Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) and 21c Museum Hotel (Cincinnati, OH). Her work expands the understanding of architecture at multiple scales —including discrete objects, jewelry, textile, sculpture, video and installations. Richards’ work has been featured on freize.com and in ArtPrize.

BAD WATER is an artist-run gallery set in a once vacant backyard structure located in Knoxville, Tennessee | behind 320 E. Churchwell Ave. Hours: opening receptions & by appointment. writetobadwater@gmail.com, @bad__water, https://badwater.gallery/

Opening April First Friday, April 5, 2019 at 5 PM – 9 PM

Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7:30pm for an Artist Lecture
Art + Architecture Building room 109, UT Campus

Tommy Kha is a photographer based between Brooklyn, NY, and his hometown, Memphis, TN. He is a recipient of the En Foco Photography Fellowship, the Jessie and Dolph Smith Emeritus Award, and a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward emerging photographer, as well as a former artist-in-residence at Center for Photography at Woodstock, Light Work, Fountainhead, and Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York. In December 2015, Kha published his first monograph, A Real Imitation, through Aint-Bad.

He was the cover of Vice Magazine’s 2017 Photography Issue. He occasionally performs, writes, and appears in some films, including Laurie Simmons’ feature, My Art. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University.

See more work by Tommy Kha: http://tommykha.com

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Knox County Schools Visual Arts Department in partnership with Broadway Studios and Gallery presents an art exhibition from Knox County Elementary Schools, "Every Child is an Artisit."

Reception, April 5, 2019, 5:00-9:00PM at Broadway Studios and Gallery.

Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 Broadway St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Hours: Fri-Sat, 10-6, by appointment, or when the "open" sign is illuminated. Information: 865-556-8676, www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com

Culture Hair Studio will be featuring the works of Kelly M. Hider
www.kellyhider.com

Reception Fri Apr 5, 6-9 PM

115 S Gay St, downtown Knoxville. Open M-F 10-7 and Sat 10-5. https://www.culturehairstudioknox.com/ or (865) 622-7677

Opening reception April 5
Second reception April 27, 3-5 PM coinciding with Dogwood Arts

Time to celebrate with new Spring themed art & new Spring themed cocktails ~ swing by the tasting room for local painter Carole Quin’s exhibit “Spring in Appalachia” & grab a cocktail from our NEW Spring menu! Support #localart #drinklocal

205 West Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
(865) 437-3190 or https://www.facebook.com/postmodernspirits/

By Lewis Black
Directed by Windie Wilson

Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8:00 pm and Sunday @ 3:00 pm
Tickets: $15

First show in our NEW location at 800 S. Central Street! When it comes to something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue, few brides expect the something old to be an uninvited ex-lover ... It's Courtney's wedding day, and her mom, Delia, is making sure that everything is perfect. The groom is perfect, the dress is perfect, and the decorations (assuming they arrive) will be perfect. Then, like in any good farce, the doorbell rings. And all hell breaks loose. So much for perfect.

Cast
Doc Coleman: Craig Smith
Delia Coleman: Mary Sue Greiner
P.B.: Carys Mullinax
Melanie: Summer Awad
Courtney: Rebecca Gomez
Ryan: Dennis Hart
Harper: Matt Lyscas

"There's more than a touch of Neil Simon in the morose Mr. Black."
—NY Times

"If you think of Lewis Black solely as a curmudgeonly comedian whose default setting is a state of apoplexy at the imbecility of his fellow man, you might be surprised by ONE SLIGHT HITCH. It's not unexpected that HITCH should abound in snappy wisecracks and keen social observation. Those, after all, are hallmarks of Black's stand-up act and his appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But what is that we detect on Black's sleeve at the end of his play? Is that his … heart?"
—Boston Globe

"If sustained laughter is the best measure of a comedy, ONE SLIGHT HITCH makes the grade."
—Asbury Park Press

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