Calendar of Events

2021 Summer Showcase Exhibition: Prints by UT Knoxville Undergraduate & Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff

Each summer for the past few years the Printmaking Program in the UTK School of Art presents an exhibition of recent prints by undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. The works represent a wide variety of methods and approaches, including intaglios, relief prints, lithographs, and screenprints, reflecting a diversity of ideas and approaches. The MFA Program in Printmaking at UTK is ranked #3 among public universities nationally by US News and World Report.

The Art and Architecture building is accessible to the public through the summer weekdays from 8am-5pm. Individuals who are not vaccinated for COVID-19 are asked to wear a mask.

Printmaking Showcase Gallery
Art & Architecture Building, second floor
1715 Volunteer Blvd.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

https://art.utk.edu/printmaking-showcase-gallery-summer2021/

Tennessee Artists Association is having a group show at the Schilling Gallery in Westminster Presbyterian Church. Please call the church office for more information and hours available.

Westminister Presbyterian Church, 6500 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: M-R 9-4. Info: (865) 584-3957 or www.wpcknox.org

Monday, May 3, 2021 at 12:00pm

Historic Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville

A FREE event presented by LHP Capital, LLC. Brown bag lunches consisting of a sandwich, chips, and a dessert may be purchased in the lobby for $5.00 while supplies last. Soft drinks, bottled water, popcorn, and candy will also be available for purchase.

https://www.tennesseetheatre.com

Justice Knox Invitation - May 3 - 7-8:30 pm
Seating/Zoom opens at 6 PM
LIMITED IN PERSON AT WORLD’S FAIR PARK AMPHITHEATER (ADVANCE TICKET NEEDED]
Simultaneous Broadcast via Zoom (https://www.facebook.com/justiceknoxville)

Mission: To use our congregations’ people power to influence community leaders to confront our city’s injustices

Join over 1,000 Knoxville neighbors from 20+ congregations to demand justice

ISSUES - Affordable Housing, Education, Mental Health Care & Public Transportation

PARKING HTTPS://WWW.WORLDSFAIRPARK.ORG/WORLDS-FAIR-PARK/
Our goal is to have over 1000 people attend to show our community leaders that we are serious about getting their commitment to support our solutions to these problems.

UPDATE 4/29/21: CORRECT AUDITION DATE IS MONDAY MAY 3 (previously published as May 18)

Knoxville Children’s Theatre (KCT) will accept video audition submissions on Monday, May 3 for our upcoming production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr., based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the 1989 Disney film.

KCT Intern Elijah Payne will direct the production, Deena Seal and Paul Jones will serve as Musical Directors, and Donya Walker will choreograph.

The auditions are being held via video submission. Detailed instructions for submission format, etc. will be included with audition confirmation.

There are at least 20 available roles, including excellent roles for both boys and girls. The minimum age to audition is 9 years old, and the maximum age is 18.

There are four to five roles for actors making their KCT debuts.

Rehearsals will begin on Sunday, May 16 and continue through Thursday, July 8. Rehearsals are held Sunday through Thursday evenings. Actors should expect to attend most rehearsals. No rehearsal will be held May 28-31 in observance of Labor Day or July 3 & 4 in observance of Independence Day. Tech rehearsals on July 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, are mandatory.

A virtual (via Zoom) parent orientation will be held on Thursday, May 13 at 6:00 PM.
Actors must also be available for all 16 regular performances: July 9 - 25

To request an audition submission time slot, please use the online audition request form found at: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com/register-for-an-audition/. No calls for slot assignments, please.

Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-208-3677, www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

(All Ages) Help the Greater Knoxville Area win this year’s City Nature Challenge! From April 30-May 3, Knox and 10 other counties will join together to compete against cities all over the world to see which can see the most wildlife! Documenting nature helps scientists, government, land managers and citizens understand what lives where, how this changes over time and what we all can do to protect wildlife. The challenge, which is done through the free iNaturalist app, is hosted locally by Zoo Knoxville and Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network. Learn More: https://www.zooknoxville.org/experience/monarch-tagging

Portraits were the “social media posts” of the American colonial and antebellum periods. Today, social media allows users to not only visually document and share life’s moments but also curate how others see themselves. Early Tennessee portraits afforded the sitter the same duality. “They are,” as one art historian puts it, “the rhetoric–not the record–of self-representation.” As viewers two centuries removed, how are we to understand early portraiture in East Tennessee? Is it history, fiction, or perhaps a bit of both? This exhibition of works by Samuel M. Shaver, East Tennessee’s first native-born artist, provides interesting examples for discussion.

About Samuel M. Shaver (1816-1878)
Samuel Moore Shaver was the youngest or next to youngest child born to David and Catherine Barringer Shaver on Reedy Creek (near present-day Kingsport) in 1816. Little is known about his formative years. He may have studied at Jefferson Academy in Blountville; a Leonidas Shaver is listed as a teacher there, and his older brother David, Jr., operated a tavern nearby. In 1833, William Harrison Scarborough (1812-1871), a traveling portrait painter from Middle Tennessee, visited Sullivan County. What impact did Scarborough’s stay have on 17-year-old Shaver? Did he watch Scarborough paint the portraits of his neighbors? Or did he simply benefit by imitating the works Scarborough left behind? Whether by native talent, with formal instruction, or both, Shaver possessed the skill set to begin producing competently done portraits by the late 1830s.

Shaver: An Artist of Rare Merit traces the artist's maturation through the 19 portraits held by the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library. The exhibition is organized on the occasion of three recent Shaver acquisitions, making the East Tennessee History Center the largest repository of the artist's works.

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

For the past twelve years, the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (McGhee Tyson Airport) have partnered to present a biannual exhibition entitled “Arts in the Airport”. This juried exhibition was developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work in the most visited site in the area. The selected art features contemporary 2- and 3-dimensional artwork and will be displayed through October 18, 2021. View works at https://www.knoxalliance.store/product-category/airport-24/.

Exhibiting artists include: Gabrielle Barnhart, Lynda Best, Meredith Boatman, Orel Brodt, Jan Burleson, Nancy S. Campbell, Tina Curry, Barbara Enloe, Casey Field, Brian Horais, David Johnson, Judy Kelley Jorden, Anne Kinggard, Judy Lavoie, Peggy Kretchmar Leland, Ilana Lilienthal, Bill Long, Ling Lu, Siobhan McAuley, Steven McQuilkin, Brian Melton, Amalia Fotini Mermingas, Allen Monsarrat, Chico Osten, Amber Patty, Carrie Pendergrass, Mera Ragsdale, Ted Richards, Adam Rowe, Mary Ruden, Pamela Salyer, Gayla D. Seale, Renee C. Suich, W. James Taylor, Marilyn Avery Turner, Gena Tussey, Rick Whitehead, Carl Whitten, Marcy Wielfaert, Anne Wilkerson, and Marianne Woodside.

We’ve opened our new Clayton Family Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Campus.

We Dare You to Enter! The new, state-of-the-art Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Campus is ready for you! Come explore 12,000 square feet of rare, venomous, beautiful and mysterious snakes, tortoises, frogs, and Cuban crocs. You might see Joe the sloth overhead, too!

The ARC is our commitment to animal conservation, where we will protect 85 species—38 of which are endangered. We can’t wait for you to experience this and help our mission of saving animals from extinction.

Tickets: https://store.zooknoxville.org/WebStore/Shop/ViewItems.aspx

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

Monday, April 12, noon: Music Monday featuring the Pellissippi State Bluegrass Ensemble

Monday, April 19, noon: Music Monday featuring the Pellissippi State Jazz Band

Monday, April 26, noon: Music Monday featuring the Bluegrass Ensemble

Monday, May 3, noon: Music Monday featuring the Variations Choir

Monday, May 10, noon: Music Monday honoring spring 2021 graduates
http://www.pstcc.edu/arts/

To view these and all performances, visit the Music Ensemble Performances YouTube playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjQH0RGp31LmggoUNg21QgrX4wvgdJwEA

HOURS: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAYS, ​10 A.M. TO 2 P.M.

All local handmade handcrafted goods from local artisans! The goods include wood products, knitted and crocheted items, handmade musical instruments, purses and totes, jewelry, rag rugs, painted signs and original works of art, etc. We have converted the former Postmasters Office to become our Shop.

Postmark LaFollette is a collaborative creative place making project to establish and maintain and Arts, Culture and History Center within an historic structure in order to strengthen social and economic opportunities for the public through the arts: https://postmarklafollette.weebly.com/

Our Postmark LaFollette, Homemade ArtShine Arts & Crafts Co-Op is in our Center at 119 S. Tennessee Avenue, LaFollette, TN. https://www.facebook.com/PostmarkLaFollette

We are excited to announce Pippin Long as our featured artist for the month of April! All paintings are one of a kind originals, and prints of the works will be available as well. Please join us for the show opening and to meet Pippin from 6 to 8pm.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we will be limiting our capacity to 6 customers at a time and requiring masks covering the nose and mouth be worn inside at all times. Thank you for helping us stay safe!

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/6d76QZ0lu
Artwork: https://shoprala.com/collections/pippin-long

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