Calendar of Events

With support from the United Way of Greater Knoxville, Pilot Flying J, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, and Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, Volunteer East Tennessee is announcing the date for this year's county-wide day of service, KnoxGives – Friday, November 8, 2019.

Volunteers of all ages, representing corporations, civic clubs, neighborhoods, and individuals are invited to serve with any nonprofit organization with programs in Knox County on Friday, November 8, 2019. The goal for this single day of service is to engage 2,500 volunteers for a total of 10,000 hours. Nonprofit organizations representing a variety of impact areas including youth services, homelessness and food insecurity, animal welfare, environmental, and historic preservation are participating in KnoxGives.

Pilot Flying J, KnoxGives' presenting sponsor, will be deploying more than 350 employee volunteers and they'll be backed by other corporate volunteer teams and teams of public employees from the City of Knoxville and Knox County. Signups for KnoxGives projects will open on Friday, October 11. Volunteers will be able to sign up as individuals or with their own volunteer team.

The community-wide day of service on November 8 kicks off the giving season and will culminate in The Big Give on December 3, Giving Tuesday. The Big Give will be an opportunity for nonprofits to band together and raise funds during the biggest giving day of the year.

"KnoxGives comes at the perfect time," says Alyson Gallaher, Executive Director of Volunteer East Tennessee. "With the extraordinary volunteer spirit in our community, it's pretty clear that Knoxvillians are compassionate people, ready and willing to provide help when needed. KnoxGives is an opportunity to spotlight that compassion and bring the entire community together to celebrate it at the start of the giving season."
More information can be found at volunteeretn.org/knoxgives!

With support from the United Way of Greater Knoxville, Pilot Flying J, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, and Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, Volunteer East Tennessee is announcing the date for this year's county-wide day of service, KnoxGives – Friday, November 8, 2019.

Volunteers of all ages, representing corporations, civic clubs, neighborhoods, and individuals are invited to serve with any nonprofit organization with programs in Knox County on Friday, November 8, 2019. The goal for this single day of service is to engage 2,500 volunteers for a total of 10,000 hours. Nonprofit organizations representing a variety of impact areas including youth services, homelessness and food insecurity, animal welfare, environmental, and historic preservation are participating in KnoxGives.

Pilot Flying J, KnoxGives' presenting sponsor, will be deploying more than 350 employee volunteers and they'll be backed by other corporate volunteer teams and teams of public employees from the City of Knoxville and Knox County. Signups for KnoxGives projects will open on Friday, October 11. Volunteers will be able to sign up as individuals or with their own volunteer team.

The community-wide day of service on November 8 kicks off the giving season and will culminate in The Big Give on December 3, Giving Tuesday. The Big Give will be an opportunity for nonprofits to band together and raise funds during the biggest giving day of the year.

"KnoxGives comes at the perfect time," says Alyson Gallaher, Executive Director of Volunteer East Tennessee. "With the extraordinary volunteer spirit in our community, it's pretty clear that Knoxvillians are compassionate people, ready and willing to provide help when needed. KnoxGives is an opportunity to spotlight that compassion and bring the entire community together to celebrate it at the start of the giving season."
More information can be found at volunteeretn.org/knoxgives!

Opening Reception, Thursday, November 7, 5:30 - 7:30pm in the Ewing Gallery before the Artist in Residence Lecture at 7:30pm in room 109, A+A Building

The Ewing Gallery will be closed November 27 - December 1 for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

The Ewing Gallery is pleased to present AIR Retrospective an exhibition that showcases work from the Ewing Gallery permanent Collection by past UT School of Art Artists in Residence. We will also be exhibiting the AIR of UT Print Portfolio, a 3 portfolio suite of digital prints curated by UT School of Art Alumni, Wade Guyton, Meredyth Sparks, and Josh Smith. The AIR of UT Print Portfolio features work by many past Artists in Residents and alumni of UT. Several sculptural works and drawings by former UT School of Art painting professor, Michael Brakke will also be on display. Brakke, who passed away in 2010 was instrumental recruiting AIRs and developing the UT Artist in Residence program.

The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard
Art and Architecture Building, Knoxville, Tn 37996

Zoo Knoxville is paying it forward November 7-10, 2019, by offering $5 general admission tickets when guests bring a donation for Young-Williams Animal Center, Mission of Hope, the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley or Knox County’s Office on Aging PAWS program.

General zoo admission tickets for ages four and up are $5 each and parking is free November 7-10, 2019, with a donated item for each ticket. To ensure a safe and pleasant experience for guests, a limited number of tickets are available for each day, and advance online purchase is required. Tickets can be purchased online at www.zooknoxville.org.

Items needed are non-perishable food item, hygiene item, new children’s toys, dog or cat food or new pet toys (no rawhide or bones). The donations help local non-profit organizations Mission of Hope, Young-Williams Animal Center, The Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley, and Knox County Office on Aging’s Knox PAWS program stock their pantries.

Zoo Knoxville, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. Information: 865-637-5331, www.zooknoxville.org

Special reception for the artists on Wed Nov 20, 5-7 PM - open to the public. Please join us!

The Arts & Culture Alliance presents an exhibit of painting, photography, woodwork, forged metal, jewelry, sculpture, and more by the fourteen visual artists who are recipients of an FY20 Ann and Steve Bailey Opportunity Grant. Artists in the exhibition include: Eleanor Aldrich, Lynda Best, Jurgen Dopatka, Derrick Freeman, Shannon Johnson, Marty McConnaughey, John Phillips, Sarah Pollock, Shawn Poynter, Chris Rohwer, Nancy Rowland-Engle, Derek White, Bryan Wilkerson, and Brandon Woods.

A part of the Arts & Heritage Fund, the Bailey Opportunity Grants provide financial and technical support to individual artists and small, professionally-oriented arts and culture organizations. The grants are designed to spur continued artistic and administrative growth in innovative, entrepreneurial artists and organizations at any stage in their development. These fourteen artists have utilized their collective $42,000+ for local, regional, and national workshops, studio time, technical equipment, and more.

On display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed Wednesday-Friday, November 27-29, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Information: (865) 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

The husband and wife team of Eric and Carrie Tomberlin will have a two-person exhibition of their recent photographs, titled, “Consumed,” at Carson-Newman University. The exhibition will open in the Art Department’s Omega Gallery with a public reception on Nov. 5, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

The Tomberlins are currently on the art department faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Eric is an assistant professor of art, and the head of the photography concentration at UNC-A. Carrie is a lecturer of art, and the gallery director at UNC-A. They both have an extensive record of teaching photography and exhibiting their personal work around America - and internationally.

Carrie Tomberlin earned her bachelor of arts degree from Eckerd College in Florida, and she earned her master of arts degree from Clemson University in South Carolina. She has exhibited her work in places such as Georgia, Texas, California, Tennessee, New York, Idaho, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, as well as in Korea, England, the Republic of Georgia, and China. Her work concerns issues of connection and disconnection, community, accountability and sustainability.

Eric Tomberlin earned his bachelor of arts degree from The Brooks Institute of Photography in California, and he earned his masters from the University of Texas at Austin. He has exhibited his work in places such as California, Utah, New York, Vermont, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and New Jersey, as well as in France, The Czech Republic, England, and the Republic of Georgia. His work often questions both the benefits and consequences of human ingenuity, consumer culture and creativity.

Omega Gallery at Carson-Newman University, Warren Art Building, corner of Branner & S. College Streets, Jefferson City, TN 37760. Gallery hours: M-F 8-4. Information: 865-471-4985, www.cn.edu

We are so pleased to announce our first open call small works show! The Big Tiny Show is a national juried exhibition of over 100 small works by a diverse group of local and regional artists. $1500 in cash awards will be juried by longtime Knoxville artist Joe Parrott. Please join us this First Friday, November 1 from 5-8 p.m. to meet local artists, get a sneak peek at our holiday collection, and enjoy this big show of delightfully tiny art!

Show extended until end of December!

The District Gallery & Framery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919
(865) 200-4452 or www.TheDistrictGallery.com
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10-5:30, Saturday 10-4

COLLECTING HISTORIES
selections from the collection of Floyd Jones and Mary Sabol (C'72)

Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 5-9pm

Collecting Histories spotlights the collection of UT alumni Floyd Jones (Transportation/Logistics '72) and Mary Sabol (Sociology '72). The couple met as undergrads and have been collecting artwork since their days in Knoxville. The exhibition showcases the couple's diverse collecting interests—dolls, Black Americana, Black portraiture, and images of children.

The couple have lived in Chicago since the mid-1970s, and first began collecting dolls—an interest Mary acquired from her mother. Her first doll purchase, as an adult, was in Gatlinburg, TN. Their doll collection sparked interest in collecting art and other historical objects. Floyd became an independent doll appraiser and was an appraiser on PBS's Antiques Roadshow for several seasons.

The UT Downtown Gallery will close Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: W-F 11-6, Sa 10-3. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

By VINEGAR (Ann Trondson and Melissa Yes)
In collaboration with Fenella Kennedy and students from the University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance

Opening Reception: Friday November 1, 2019, 7-10pm

https://vinegarprojects.org
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The pulsing repetitive beat, sweat soaking your carefully selected outfit, the hours that pass without much thought while you repeat the same movements over and over, the exhaustion disappearing when you hear that song that makes you get on the dance floor and keep going because it is just too good to miss. Vinegar wants to go to a place where the ego falls away, where the body reconnects with the mind and the boundaries between us dissolve. Taking inspiration from 1990s midwest rave culture, Vinegar invites you to melt into your surroundings. Let’s dance.

VINEGAR champions artists. VINEGAR is a non-profit organization run for artists by artists in Birmingham, Alabama. Upcoming projects include the launch of Airbnb X Vinegar, an experimental exhibition venue (opening November 7, 2019) and VINEGAR’s first official headquarters, a permanent exhibition space opening winter 2019-2020.

ANN TRONDSON’s artistic practice is based in live performance, video, sound, and drawing. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at Louis B. James Gallery, New York City (2014); College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (2013), and MAK Center of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2012). Her films have been screened at Salon 94 Gallery, New York (2014) and the Palm Springs Art Museum (2010). In 2014, she participated in the Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France. Previous residences include The Guesthaus Residency, Los Angeles (2012), The Vermont Studio Center (2009), and The Banff Centre (2009). She received her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2008 and now lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

MELISSA YES makes objects, installations, video art, and performances. She uses low-brow materials and DIY digital techniques to create moments of physical, cultural, and existential tension. Using destruction as a creative process and vice-versa, Yes tinkers with the production and consumption of American bodies, landscapes, and cultural narratives.

Melissa Yes earned an MFA with an emphasis in sculpture (2017) at the Ohio State University, as well as a BS in biology (2006) and a BFA in fine art (2012) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Yes worked as a studio assistant for artist Ann Hamilton from 2015-17. Yes’s twelve-year career in art, education, and the nonprofit sector has led her back to Birmingham, Alabama, where she is working as an artist, designer, educator, and co-director of VINEGAR.

FENELLA KENNEDY is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Alabama University. Their work deals with the intersection of language, performance, and identity, using large-scale immersive environments to explore topics of gender, social media, and the strange and reptile pre(sent)-history of birds and ballerinas. Kennedy earned their PhD in Dance Studies from the Ohio State University, and maintains the public research blog Headtail Connection. In their fleeting spare time Kennedy teaches and organizes social partner dance events across the United States. Fenella Kennedy is joined for this project by dancers from the University of Alabama: Marcus Bivins, Alexis Odom, Danielle Pope, Abi Shepherd and Jamie Stannard.

C for Courtside, 513 Cooper Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: cforcourtside@gmail.com, www.cforcourtside.com
Follow the gallery on Instagram: @cforcourtside

Awaken Coffee will host artist Sarah Dempsey Friday, November 1 from 6-9 pm

"It’s not a thought process that leads to my art. I think too much and painting is my escape from that. My art seems to be a reflection from what I am feeling, of how I react to all of God’s creation.” - Sarah Dempsey

Join us for inspiring art, refreshments and of course great coffee!

Awaken Coffee is a live music venue, espresso bar, craft beer & wine bar and organic restaurant in the heart of downtown. Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Hours: Mon-Thu 7 AM - 9 PM, Fri 7 AM - 10 PM, Sat 8 AM - 10 PM, Sun 2-8 PM
(865) 951-0427 or https://www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/

First Friday Reception: November 1, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Kate McCullough - Painting
BIO I began painting in watercolor about 17 years ago after a 35 year hiatus from art. Initially my studies at Villa Marie College and SUNY College at Buffalo included general design, art history and oil and acrylic painting. When I returned to painting I decided that watercolor was a medium that I would like to explore. I immediately fell in love with it and I have not looked back. I started with courses with Marcia Goldenstein and Whitney Leland at UT and then moved on to workshops at Arrowmont with Don Lake and Sue Archer, Kanuga with Linda Baker and Don Andrews, Cheap Joe’s with Linda Kemp, three workshops with John Salminen and a couple with Paul Jackson. I presently teach a watercolor class at the Fountain City Art Center. I am the former president of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, a member of the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville, a signature member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society.

Karen Kyte - Clay
I’ve been an artist ever since I held crayons. I decorated everything and made endless mud-pies. I was the busiest, messiest kid on the block.
It was logical and practical of course to study medical technology, that was until I took a painting class. Liver flukes lost their glamor, replaced by my real passion, mud-pies. I graduated with a B.S.F.A. from the University of South Dakota, and continued making art, and still continue. I feel like the guy in “Close Encounters” making the lumps of clay into Devils Tower, not knowing why, just knowing he must. My creations are spontaneous. I see compelling images in a lump of clay. The clay speaks to me, wills itself into a certain form. I am fascinated by shape, color, and movement. For me making art is a way of seeing, being, and thinking. I am grateful that earth formed art previously known as mud-pies replaced microorganisms.

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

November 1st 6-9PM

We are excited to announce Brian Pittman as our featured artist for the month of November! This year, Brian is mixing things up and selling original drawings in sealed envelopes. Each drawing is a surprise until after you purchase. Come join us for the show opening and to meet one of Knoxville's finest artists!

https://www.facebook.com/events/916326785416009/

Rala, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902
HOURS: Mon - Thurs: 10:00am to 8:00pm, Fri - Sat: 10:00am to 9:00pm, Sun: 11:00am to 5:00pm
PH: (865) 525-7888, Instagram: @ShopRala
https://shoprala.com