Calendar of Events

Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception for artist Julie L. Rabun Friday, August 6 from 6-8 pm. Julie is a Professor of Art at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, TN. She grew up in Knoxville where she attended Bearden High School. Since 2002 she has taught full time in the Carson-Newman University Art Department, coordinates the Emphasis in Graphic Design, and Chairs the department. She also works as a freelance graphic designer and enjoys fine art photography, watercolor, and drawing.

"My artistic process integrates typographic expression within fine artworks. I start with watercolor paper upon which I affix newspaper and/or old book pages. Using this substrate, I apply mixed media to depict a landscape that I have personally visited and photographed. The final image results in areas where letters, words, and printed material are visible."
-Julie L. Rabun

Please join us for some amazing art, light refreshments, and of course great coffee!

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

The collective of artists at West Fifth is pleased to bring you “Field Trip!”

Opening reception will be August 6th from 5-9 at @red.gallery.knox but the show will run through the month of August. See you so soon!

Red Gallery, 132 W. Jackson Avenue
https://www.instagram.com/westfifthstudios/

Opening reception Friday August 6th, 5-8. Show will be up the month of August.
https://www.facebook.com/tracye.sowders

214 Magnolia, 214 W. Magnolia Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Friday 5-8, Saturday 12-4, and by appointment, via IG button, during the week: https://www.instagram.com/214magnolia/. 865-337-7106 or https://www.214magnolia.com/

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from August 6-27, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, August 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live, contemporary music by classically trained musicians who regularly perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Nief Norf ensemble. 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.

Debbie Meritsky and Marc Rotman will present a selection of handmade jewelry, mixed media collages, and stained glass all utilizing reimagined, repurposed, and recycled components.

As is our passion, we integrate repurposed items in many of the pieces we create. The selected pieces that we will exhibit will encompass these types of elements to compliment some of the more mainstream "ingredients" in our work. For example, you will find everything from slumped wine bottles, computer parts, and vintage typewriter parts to electrical components, antique buttons, and various "found" items.

www.masterrepurposers.com
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Instagram: masterrepurposers
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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 August 6-27, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, August 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live, contemporary music by classically trained musicians who regularly perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Nief Norf ensemble. 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.

A. D. lives in Knoxville and is a Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) bus driver. He studied art intensely in high school and continued taking classes at Roane State Community College. A. D. aims to tell a story with his art, and the recent work he will display features many subjects such as climate change, human trafficking, Harlem Renaissance culture, political and social issues, racism & classism, and more.

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 August 6-27, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, August 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live, contemporary music by classically trained musicians who regularly perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Nief Norf ensemble. 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.

Donna Headrick Moore is a photographer and educator from Blaine, Tennessee. She works with pinhole cameras and historic/alternative photographic processes. Her work has been shown in Knoxville and the surrounding areas, as well as across the United States. She is the Co-Director of the Big Camera, a traveling darkroom and Camera Obscura.

I consider myself a memory collector more than a photographer. Memories of my past, people and places, memories of faded dreams, memories of flowers, birds and the sun as it crosses the sky. It takes time to gather them up. When I make a photograph, it feels like a meditation, being in the moment, counting the time for each exposure in seconds, and minutes; sometimes waiting days and months.

The beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the beginning of 2020 was a time of uncertainty and fear. Our governor issued a two-week ‘safer at home’ order at the end of March that ended up lasting much longer. No one really knew what to expect… normal life just stopped. Inspired by the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson, I began to make postcard-size lumen prints with feathers every day. Sometimes I made only one, and sometimes several – thinking of those who had passed and those who were suffering. It became my daily meditation, and I never stopped at all. It had become such a ritual that it was difficult to think of ending the project. But, after getting my vaccine in March 2021, I knew it was time. We have all come a long way in a year - more than 600,000 people have died and many more still suffer from the virus. It is not over, but we are all in a more hopeful place.

www.donnaheadrickmoore.com
Instagram: HopeFeathers2020

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 August 6-27, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, August 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live, contemporary music by classically trained musicians who regularly perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Nief Norf ensemble. 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.

HERDCORE, part photo series and part “Party PPE” fashion line, is both a blithe diversion from and somber look towards the lasting cultural effects of a global pandemic in the age of connectivity. This collaboration between Central Collective co-founders Dale Mackey and Shawn Poynter vacillates between whimsical, unsettling, hopeful and cynical, echoing the range of emotions collectively experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition features portraits taken throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, embellished masks and face shields, and reflections gathered from the Knoxville community.

Dale Mackey is a mixed media artist whose work has appeared in juried exhibitions by The Visionary Arts Collective and Create Magazine. She curates The Central Collective gallery in North Knoxville and has served on the City of Knoxville's Makers Council and the City of Knoxville's Business Advisory Council, and she co-chaired the Dogwood Arts Regional Art Exhibition in 2014. She is also the owner of Dale's Fried Pies, the hand pie business she started in 2012, and co-founder of The Central Collective, a mixed-use creative space she co-founded in 2015.

Shawn Poynter is a commercial and editorial photographer specializing in reportage, portraiture, and travel photography. His work has appeared in national publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vox and The Washington Post. Locally, Poynter has exhibited work with Dogwood Arts, the Emporium, and Fluorescent Gallery. His studio is based in North Knoxville's Central Collective, which he co-founded in 2015.

www.dalemackey.com/projects/herdcore

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 August 6-27, 2021. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, August 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live, contemporary music by classically trained musicians who regularly perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Nief Norf ensemble. 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.

A devoted watercolorist for over 40 years and a great lover of people and portraiture, Kate Aubrey began drawing while sprawled on the living room floor at age six. Since then, she has graduated to easels, studying with such notable artists as Charles Reid, John Salminen, Stephen Quiller, Ted Nuttall, Don Andrews, Jeannie McGuire, and Lian Quan Zhen. Life has taken her to six states across the USA. She is a past Vice President of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, as well as a member of the Arts & Culture Alliance and the Oak Ridge Art Center. Farther afield, she is a member of the National Watercolor Society with signature memberships in the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of Alabama, and the Tennessee Watercolor Society. She is also a Master Artist at the Cape Cod Art Center in Massachusetts. Her work has earned many awards in multiple national and international exhibitions and has appeared in “Watercolor Artist Magazine”, “American Art Collector Magazine”, Artist’s Magazine’s “The Best of Watercolor” (Splash 21 and Splash 22), and the “American Watercolor Weekly” e-zine. When she is not teaching, she and her very large standard poodle can be found in her studio concentrating on her figure and floral paintings with a dash of still life or apples thrown in.

Watercolor is my first and foremost choice of media precisely because it doesn’t just do what it’s told. There is a certain mischief in it. Every time I put brush to paper, I discover something new—whether I intend to or not. New isn’t enough, though; neither is How. I am at a point where I want more. I want the truth -- about me, about life, about being human. The act of painting allows me to explore those truths more clearly than I can in any other way.

www.kateaubrey.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.

Closing reception Aug 27, 5-9 PM

One day every week during the exhibition, the artist will be present working in the gallery.

Blackberry Farm Gallery at Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville College: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

At the Denso Gallery at Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville College: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

Join us on First Friday for the opening reception of an exhibition featuring work by Knoxville-based illustrator Esther Sitver. The Dogwood Arts Gallery is located at 123 W Jackson Avenue in the Historic Old City.

Reception: Friday, August 6th from 5-8PM
Exhibition on Display: August 6 - 27
Gallery Hours: M-F 10AM-5PM

Esther Sitver is a Knoxville, TN-based illustrator who merges vintage aesthetics with contemporary progressive ideas. She draws great inspiration from Charles Dana Gibson, mid-century lifestyle illustrators, and Molly Crabapple. Sitver’s love for traditional pen and ink drawing pulls together her specialties: portraiture/figure drawing, editorial illustration, pattern design, plein air painting, and hand-lettering. Recently, she won 2nd place in the Dolly Show at Rala. Sitver also works at Pioneer House Letterpress as an Internet Marketing Assistant and for Danielle Art Matters as a Graphic Artist. In her free time, she loves hiking, gardening, cooking, and rollerskating. A graduate of Ringling College of Art + Design’s Illustration BFA Class of 2020, she is looking for work opportunities.

https://www.facebook.com/events/dogwood-arts/first-friday-ft-esther-sitver/247926750475604/

Ame Houston is a painter/maker from East Tennessee. Come see her art throughout August in the Ijams Hallway Gallery. Visit Instagram to see more of her fun, fabulous work!
https://www.instagram.com/junedogart/

2915 Island Home Ave., Knoxville, TN 37920. 865-577-4717 or www.ijams.org