Calendar of Events

Ijams Nature Center hallway gallery featuring local painter/mixed media artist Kerri Martin through June 30.

The Ijams show features primarily landscapes, flora, and fauna of the region with a few portraits.

Instagram: @kerrimartin747
https://kerrilmartin.weebly.com/

Kerri Martin Bio
I have lived in Knoxville for over 25 years. I originally came here to put my PhD in special education to work at East TN State University while my husband joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee. I later became a program manager at UT, raised a family, got a private pilot's license, and became certified in sailing and SCUBA- while enjoying the beauty of East Tennessee. Meanwhile, the desire to "make art" was always there and has recently demanded attention. For this first show, I wanted to highlight some of the beauty I have seen in our region and to share a few portraits by way of introduction to my work. I hope visitors will enjoy these untutored efforts, understanding that for me the quest is not necessarily to be a fine artist as much as it is to be a person who has a fine time with art.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920
https://www.ijams.org

First Friday Reception: June 4, 5:30-9 PM

June Featured Artists

Sandy Hoeft, Painter
I am always amazed by the beauty of the flowers here in Tennessee. When we moved here 5 years ago from Alaska, we inherited a yard that is so well planned and landscaped that we almost always have something blooming. Each flower is unique in it's shape and color. I love capturing the vibrant, bold colors, the delicate soft colors and the different shapes of the petals. Each bloom has its own personality. My hope is to share the joy I get from these beautiful flowers through my paintings.

Julie Boisseau-Craig, Glass Artist
Artist Julie Fawn Boisseau-Craig works in porcelain and glass primarily but utilizes metals and wood as necessary to create her sculptural installations. Julie also makes many functional works and wearable art in pottery and glass at Wild Pony Studio, her studio located in Rockford, Tennessee. Hot shop glass work is created at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, North Carolina. She has taught art at Western Carolina University, Southwestern Community College and Occonoluftee Institute for Cultural Art. She has shown nationally and participated in many workshops and demonstrations. Her work responds to the pieces and parts that make up our lives. Julie observes the contradictions of our world and how those components come together to create memories. In her work she strives to combine components to bring out personal memories and feelings in her audience. Julie received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in December of 2012.

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, www.Facebook.com/ArtMarketGallery

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 PM. All visitors to the Emporium are required to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing guidelines. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by visiting in person or the online shop at www.knoxalliance.store.

Lynne Marinelli Ghenov: Evocation of Collections of Recollections on the North Wall

In this new exhibition, Lynne Marinelli Ghenov will display various drawings created from 2019 - 2021.

I am interested in the infinite possibilities of elements, signs, and forms aligned within an existing structure's finiteness. The gridded constitution of the ledger and lined paper and the grounded presence of a permanent image from the pages of a book are akin to that of an actual interior space. For years, I worked three-dimensionally in specific locations, almost as if I were drawing in the area, designating forms and material throughout. However, through graphite, colored pencil, marker, and pen, I have recreated the given framework and the allocation of objects and patterns two-dimensionally. Works on paper have evolved to incorporate collage, various rubbings, tracings, stencils, and more. There may be vintage paper or not, but always contained in them are pattern, images or signs of memory, and a logic of a child's make-believe game.

Lynne Marinelli Ghenov was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in Knoxville. She holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art in Sculpture. Presently she primarily makes drawings on paper. In 2017, Ghenov co-founded and co-directed the artist-run space C For Courtside in Knoxville. She has nationally shown in various group and solo shows, including University City Arts League and Artspace Liberti in Philadelphia (PA); Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles (CA); Proto Gallery, Hoboken (NJ); Fluorescent Gallery and A1LabArts, Knoxville (TN); and Crosstown Arts in Memphis (TN). She is currently the associate at Loghaven Artist Residency in Knoxville.

www.lynneghenov.com
www.instagram.com/Lynnestant
https://www.facebook.com/lynne.ghenov

The exhibitions are on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 PM. All visitors to the Emporium are required to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing guidelines. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by visiting in person or the online shop at www.knoxalliance.store.

S.K. Simmerman: Mug Shots: A Motley Crew of Miscreants in the display case

During the summer of 2020 I became fascinated with a treasure trove of images I discovered on a public domain photograph site. Most of the photographs were from Newcastle, England around the turn of the 20th century. Not only were the rough portraits intriguing — ranging from young and old, male and female — their descriptions of crimes committed were equally compelling. As I began preliminary sketches from these visual archives, I could not help but ponder on whatever became of these wayward souls. Later, I expanded my research to other digital troves, unearthing several mug shots from Leavenworth, Kansas and a few other federal prisons. The stories these individuals could tell...some tortured in mind, others genuinely penitent...captured my thoughts and reminded me that we all have redemption stories and human failings.

S.K. (Stephen) Simmerman follows in the tradition of Andy Warhol, who did a series of screen prints of New York criminals’ mugshots, which he viewed at the Whitney Museum of American Art on his last trip to Manhattan before the pandemic. Artists he counts as inspiration are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Stuart Davis, and Jacob Lawrence. He admires how James Rosenquist and Jasper Johns parlayed elements of commercial art into their paintings and sculpture. Simmerman completed an MFA in graphic design at the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2002 and has taught art for over eighteen years. His work is primarily mixed media: an alchemy of acrylic, watercolor, oil pastel, and ink often layered with “found” or hand-rendered type. Exploring the pairings of hand-drawn faces and intertextuality, he enjoys discovering many routes towards visual storytelling.

https://ssimmerman.myportfolio.com
https://www.instagram.com/simmanbydesign/
https://cicadacreative.wordpress.com/

The exhibitions are on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 PM. All visitors to the Emporium are required to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing guidelines. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by visiting in person or the online shop at www.knoxalliance.store.

Kara Lockmiller: Pop Music in the Atrium

I am a chromesthete which means I see a vast array of real colors in my mind when I listen to music. I like to think of it as my own personal light show. My goal for each portrait is to let you glimpse music and musicians the way I do. There is a kinship between color and music – both can say what words cannot.

Kara Lockmiller paints in shadowed hues using the grisaille technique. After sketching out a musician in a grayscale underpainting, she adds opaque and translucent acrylic colors according to what she sees when listening to their music. A Knoxville resident since birth, she began painting for others in 2017 as an outlet to share the mesmerizing colors she saw. A journalist and graphic artist for more than a decade, she retains a great understanding of design principles as they relate to color. All of her works are original acrylic portraits on canvas. Upcoming exhibitions in 2021 include Bliss, Barrelhouse Gypsy Circus, and Wild Side Salon.

www.KLockmillerArt.com
www.Etsy.com/Shop/KlockmillerArt

The exhibitions are on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 PM. All visitors to the Emporium are required to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing guidelines. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by visiting in person or the online shop at www.knoxalliance.store.

Dogwood Arts: Regional Art Exhibition in the upper gallery

Dogwood Arts is thrilled to announce the return of their Regional Art Exhibition, the first in-person art exhibition the organization has hosted since March 2020. The Regional Art Exhibition showcases fine art of all styles and genres from progressive and emerging artists within a seven-state radius. Althea Murphy-Price, Associate Professor of Printmaking with the University of Tennessee School of Art, will jury the exhibition and award cash prizes totaling $2,000 at the opening reception on June 4. The 2021 exhibition features artworks completed in the last two years by artists 18 years of age and older.

Dogwood Arts has a 65-year history of arts advocacy, environmental stewardship, and economic impact in East Tennessee. With the financial support of corporate sponsors, grant funding, local government investment, and private donors, they produce 20 year-round events and programs that help make Knoxville a great place to live, work and play.

www.dogwoodarts.com

The exhibitions are on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 PM. All visitors to the Emporium are required to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing guidelines. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by visiting in person or the online shop at www.knoxalliance.store.

On The Road In Tennessee by Jacques Gautreau in the lower gallery

In this new exhibition of color photographs, Jacques Gautreau displays his ongoing project illustrating his exploration of the cultural landscape of Tennessee: a recurrent road trip radiating from the place I live, taking me to uncertain destinations within the state lines.

Since childhood, Jacques Gautreau has followed his instinct to get away and explore. When he was still in his teens, he inherited his grandfather’s Solex motorcycle, left his home in a Loire Valley village near Angers, France, and took off for Spain. Shortly thereafter, he bought his first camera; whether at home or in the countryside, he roamed on foot and recorded the depth and poignance of scenes other people viewed as ordinary. His travels took him to places as disparate as Ecuador and Hong Kong, and the drive to keep moving eventually landed him in Knoxville, Tennessee, around a pivotal time in its history. Downtown Knoxville was “changing fast,” he told the Metro Pulse a few years later in a story about his work, and he was there most mornings, walking through its streets and alleyways as desolate, industrial ruins were being transformed into something clean and prosperous. That change was incidental to something more interesting to his eye: the light, the lines, the textures of remnants left behind. He has since expanded his territory to venture out to the parts of Tennessee that people drive past without noticing. There is intimacy, empathy and humor in his embrace of this part of America that he now calls his home.

Jacques Gautreau began his career in photography as a teenager growing up near Angers, France. He has made photographs in locations on six continents, from Mexico to Mauritius to Tasmania. His career in medical imaging technology brought him from Paris to Knoxville in 2004. He has published his work in several anthologies, including Knoxville, Green by Nature (2013). He has shown his work in several exhibitions since his 2006 Knoxville premiere at the Emporium. Gautreau became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and lives in Knoxville with his wife, Julie Gautreau.

http://jacquesgautreau.com

The exhibitions are on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The play will be performed Thursdays at 7 PM, Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 1 PM and 5 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM.

Knoxville Children’s Theatre, in partnership with the Clayton Foundation will present a live production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” The play is based on the book by Roald Dahl and dramatized by Richard R. George.

Masks are required inside the theatre. Ionopure air sanitizers are used throughout the theatre.

Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket in his Wonka Chocolate Bar, sending him and his Grandpa with four other children on an adventurous tour of Willy Wonka’s renowned chocolate factory. One by one, the other children on the tour break the rules, but if Charlie survives the journey, he may find an even greater reward. Recommended for audiences of all ages.

The play is performed by twenty talented young actors from ages 10 to 17. Willy Wonka will be played by KCT veteran Eric Magee and Charlie will be played by Lucien Crane, who is making his debut with this production.

The show is directed by guest director and University of Tennessee Theatre professor, Terry Silver-Alford. The play is designed by young student designers from ages 10 to 17.

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

Details TBA

Gallery 1010, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 114, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Reception Fri 5-7 PM, Sat 10 AM – 1 PM, or by appointment. Information: https://gallery1010.utk.edu/

Muse Knoxville will host Way Late Play Dates, an event for adults 21 and up, on Thursday nights in June from 5-9pm. Tickets to each Way Late Play Date are $20, and include the visitor’s first beverage. Each event will have a food truck, drinks, and a theme with matching activities. This week will be a Game Night theme, complete with Dulce’s Cafe food truck, and board games. Next week’s theme is Cards & Cocktails, featuring trivia from Challenge Entertainment, and the third week will be centered around SINGO, also from Challenge Entertainment.

“Way Late Play Dates are a really fun way for us to engage with members of the community that don’t usually get to interact with us,” said Kelly Styles, Events Coordinator at Muse Knoxville. “They were so popular with young professionals a few years ago, we just knew we had to bring them back.” The organization has previously hosted Way Late Play Dates with themes such as Marvel vs. DC, Love Sense, and Science of Beer.

The event is restarting as a part of the organization’s new summer event, Muse Pop. Muse Pop is an outdoor museum experience hosted right outside of Muse Knoxville throughout the month of June. Families can play with a variety of hands-on activities, brand-new exhibits, and daily-changing events throughout the month of June.

Tickets are available for advance purchase and at the door. For more information on Way Late Play Dates or Muse Pop guests can visit www.themuseknoxville.org/muse-pop.

The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman Street, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: 865-594-1494, www.themuseknoxville.org

Start date: June 2, 2021
End date: August 4, 2021

Zoo Knoxville offers a variety of day camps throughout the year. Camp activities include animal interactions, games, crafts, fun activities, excursions through the zoo and trips behind-the-scenes to learn how we care for zoo animals. Click below for more information about each camp.

Zoo Knoxville is following CDC guidelines for daycares and following the guidance of Knox County Health Department. These measures include increased hand washing/sanitizing throughout the day and increased cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces. Classrooms will be disinfected daily and camps will be kept separate from each other. All camp staff and campers will be screened for symptoms of COVID-19 each day before being allowed to attend camp.

Summer Zoo Camp Summer fun at the zoo for kids ages 4-13! The new 2021 summer schedule is here! Registration opens for passholders on February 1st.

https://www.zooknoxville.org/experience/zoo-camp

Mon-Fri 9 AM – 3 PM

"Blessed Are the Meek" and other observations from a pandemic year

Reception June 4, 5-7 PM

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-951-0427 or https://www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/