Calendar of Events

Music starts at 10:00 pm, ball drops at midnight
Bring in 2020 with your friends and family on Market Square!

http://www.knoxvilletn.gov/government/city_departments_offices/special_events/christmas_in_the_city

Celebrate the New Year with Boys Night Out at the Knoxville Crowne Plaza

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 7 PM – 1 AM
Crowne Plaza Knoxville Downtown University
401 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Choose one of our EXCITING Packages!

Deluxe Package
Starting at $339 per couple Guest Room Accommodations * •
• Prime Rib & Seafood Buffet
• Dancing to Boys Night Out with Party Favors
• Champagne Toast at Midnight
• • Continental Breakfast following the Party Complimentary Parking

Dinner & Dance Package
$219 per couple Prime Rib & Seafood Buffet • *
• Dancing to Boys Night Out with Party Favors
• Champagne Toast at Midnight
• • Continental Breakfast following the Party Complimentary Parking

For Reservations Call: (865) 522-2600 or visit crowneknox.com for more info.

All reservations must be guaranteed with an advance deposit or major credit card. Reservations must be made directly through Crowne Plaza Knoxville. No cancellations or refunds will be extended after Monday, December 16, 2019.
*Prices do not include tax. Some restrictions apply.

More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/2547937378625524/

Tuesday, December 31st at Pretentious Beer Co.

Get dressed up, drink great beer, and dance your butts off! If you have never experienced Silent Disco before, this will change your life. Multiple DJs playing all sorts of music through head phones and everyone grooving to their own vibe. This is Born & Raised and Silent Disco Knox's last event of the decade, so we're going to have all kinds of crazy nonsense planned. We're leaving it allllll out on the field.

Starts at 9pm
18+
Tickets are $15 in advance / $20 day of
Music played through headphones
Three different channels
Some kind of ball drop will happen.
Beer with glitter in it.

Pretentious Beer Co., 131 S Central St, Knoxville, TN 37902

Muse Knoxville will once again host a family-friendly Noon Year’s Eve celebration to help bring in the year 2020. This event is presented by East Tennessee Pediatric Dentistry. City of Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon and Tennessee State Senator Becky Massey will lead young party-goers with a noontime countdown complete with a ball drop and dance party.

WHAT: Family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration and noon-time ball drop and dance party

WHEN: December 31, 2019 from 10 AM to 2 PM, *Primetime will be 11:45-12:00 for countdown celebration

WHERE: Muse Knoxville in Chilhowee Park, 516 N. Beaman Street, 37914 *Indoors and Outdoors

Muse Knoxville is a non-profit children’s science museum located in Chilhowee Park and West Town Mall with a mission to inspire and empower all children through transformative learning experiences. We exist to serve East Tennessee by bringing hands-on, inquiry-based programming to children ages 6 months to 10 years old. In fiscal year 2018-2019, Muse Knoxville served 189,345 people. Learn more: www.themuseknoxville.org.

Upcoming sales and events:

12.27 - 12.28.19 50% off Christmas Items
1.7 & 1.8.20 - For the Love of Books Sale

Goodwill Industries-Knoxville: 865-588-8567, http://www.goodwillknoxville.org

Reception Friday, Dec. 20, 6:00 to 7:30 pm. Artists’ talks at 6:30 pm.

Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918. Free and open to the public, Gallery hours: 10 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Thursday and 10 AM – 1 PM, Sunday

Alex Bonner says, "To talk of your own work is to inevitably speak of oneself. What a collection of witches, blood-caked vultures and fruit-eating bats says about me, I'm not entirely sure. Certainly themes of folklore and mythology and animal imagery dominate my work.” Bonner begins with rough scratchings of pen or pencil on paper, which he does not share. After many other attempts, his vision is realized and finalized in ink. Bonner’s began drawing long ago, when his favorite media was a pen, and he has never cast it aside. After taking a class in printmaking at John C. Campbell Folk School, he warmed to the complexity and messiness of that medium. His undergraduate degree is in graphic design, and he is currently a graduate student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee.

Medha Karandikar brings to her work the colors and sensibilities of her home country, India. Some of her work is in a folk-art style from Western India that is a happy depiction of the daily life of simple folk. She has adapted that style to include unusual subjects and colors. Drawing is her strong suit, and the use of vivid colors is the hallmark of her paintings. Collage is a medium that Karandikar has explored extensively, and she says that her best work has always started with an absent-minded doodle. Karandikar is a self-taught artist working in multiple media and styles. Her work has been featured in several galleries in and around Knoxville as well as for ten years at James-Ben Gallery and Art Center in Greenville, TN. For more information, go to www.medhaonline.com

In this season full of holidays, family and remembrance, our collection serves to connect our current Art Center family and those who worked to sustain and preserve our program in the past. Among them are artists, collectors, and family and friends of both. Selections from the Permanent Collection will represent individuals who created, those who collected, and those who contributed to our ability to share the amazing variety and diversity of art with our regional community. Each group represents many memories—funny, fond, and maybe a few not-so-fond—of the individuals who helped make the Art Center a community asset and keep it viable for us to enjoy today.

We are assembling a group work that represents all three of these groups of people—artists, collectors and contributors. Many of the artists represented have been or were members of the Art Center, or have been associated with our program. Others have been, or were, instructors at the Art Center and/or have shown with us in their careers.

We will have a wealth of wonderful pieces to represent the collectors in our midst. Lovingly collected by members and individuals from around the region the pieces were later donated to the Art Center to leave a lasting impact on the cultural tenor of our region. Work included in this group are both regional and international in scope. Sharing these works with our visitors and their delight in viewing work of this caliber in our area is very special. This promises to be a delightful walk down memory lane with some of our favorite people and their memories.

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tu-F 9-5, Sa-M 1-4. Information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org

Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Gallery hours: M-R 8:30-5, Fri 8:30-4, Saturdays call ahead. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception for Austin Bradford Friday, Dec. 6 from 6-9 pm.

Austin's passion is photography and he specializing in landscapes and portraits.

Please join us for some amazing photos, light 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/

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, December 6 from 5-8 p.m. Meet the artist, explore the gallery’s holiday collections, and enjoy seasonal fare. The show will be on display through January 4.

A moment of quiet can make all the difference. Amidst the hustle and bustle of the season, we invite you to join us in taking a moment to pause and appreciate the quiet moments in Joe Parrott: Across the Valley. Through an unparalleled depth of experience, Parrott’s richly painted landscapes render our common understanding of light and darkness, high points and low valleys.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10-5:30, Saturday 10-4

The District Gallery & Framery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919
(865) 200-4452 or www.TheDistrictGallery.com

Reception on Friday at 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dogwood Arts, 123 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

December First Friday at Dogwood Arts will feature work by Chrysalis, a group of nine local female artisans working in sculpture, painting, woodwork, stone carving, and more! Participating artists include: Kathy Slocum, Lisa Ruttan Wolff, Gay Morton, Sheila Rauen, Linda Peterson, Nan Jacobsohn, Barb Bewernitz, and Pat Culbertson.

The exhibition will be on display in the Dogwood Arts Gallery (123 W Jackson Ave) from Friday, December 6 - Friday, January 3rd. An opening reception will be held on Friday, December 6th from 4:30-8:30PM. (Gallery Closed: December 23rd-27th and January 1st)

Gallery Hours: M-F / 9AM-5PM

CHRYSALIS: Chrysalis is a group of nine women craft-artisans and artists. They first got together in 2006 to exchange creative energies and offer support to each others artistic endeavors. Their name derived from the fact that they had all been dedicated artists and had all experienced interruptions to their flow of creating. In finding each other, they found their work and energy to create reemerging, new ideas blossoming, and a support that also enveloped their personal lives. In 14 years they have lost sisters and found sisters. Some have changed mediums, learned new creative processes to add to their work, or expanded into additional avenues of creating, growing not only as artists but as strong women and steadfast friends. It's a unique group, whose work when gathered together, inspires not only each other, but those that come to see it.
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PostModern Spirits, 205 West Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

PostModern Spirits will welcome Kara Lockmiller’s musician portraits on First Friday, December 6, and all month long. To view Kara’s artist portfolio visit www.KLockmillerArt.com.

For PostModern craft distilling doesn’t mean small or hand-made; it means challenging the traditions and staleness of mainstream spirits. Craft distilling is about using flavors and colors from real ingredients and botanicals that were grown and not “born” in a laboratory. It’s about putting your own unique mark in the spirits world that is filled with copycats.
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