Calendar of Events

Dogwood Arts partnered with the Songbirds Foundation in Chattanooga to give 19 middle & high school students the chance to design and paint guitars provided by Epiphone. Join us next Friday, September 3rd from 5-8PM for the opening reception of the guitar exhibition. Local singer/songwriter Zack Miles will be joining us for live music during the event. The Dogwood Arts Gallery is located at 123 W Jackson Avenue in the Historic Old City. Masks are required, regardless of vaccination status.

• Reception: Friday, September 3rd from 5-8PM (First Friday)
• Exhibition on Display: September 3 - 24
• Gallery Hours: M-F 10AM-5PM

The guitars will be at Dogwood Arts for the month of September before moving to the Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga, where they will be on display October 1-29th. The online auction will be live September 3rd - October 31st with proceeds benefiting youth art + music programs hosted by Dogwood Arts and the Songbirds Foundation.

https://www.dogwoodarts.com/dogwoodgallery

Appalachian Arts Craft Center is hosting a First Friday Meet the Artist event on September 3, 2021 from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM with light refreshments being served. The featured artist, Robert Cox from Oak Ridge, TN will be at the event along with a collection of his new artwork. Mr. Cox's artwork will be on display from September 3 - September 10, 2021.

This event is free and open to the public.

https://www.facebook.com/events/530328474917599/

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Gallery 1010 presents Chrysalis: a collaborative art exhibition between the earth and Emily McCall Roca Rice
Emily McCall Roca Rice (they/them/theirs)
MFA Candidate 2023 | School of Fine Art | University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Exhibition Hours: Friday Sept 3, 5-7pm (opening night)
Saturday Sept 4, 10am - 1pm
*Free Entry*
IG: @gallery.1010 @ricelikethefood
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This sensation
Alighted
From the crunching bones of palms
And seeping out of fingertips
Coursing and pulsing
Toes spread
Hips sway
Trembling from a touch of atrophy
And gravity
Leaves splay out from the branch
Which bends and curves
An observational analysis of the surrounding world
Time and erosion hold some truth
Time and erosion also obscure it
They are the ancient myth-makers
This is a reflection
It has to do with seeing
And sensing
Remembering and misremembering
Trial and error
Putting disjointed and frayed ends together
Hoping something sparks
There is a placing and sorting occurring
A type of piecing and restoring
Something old to something new
Or something borrowed
Something
Maybe not so blue
But familiar
With its color
Vaguely reminiscent of a plant in the backyard
An herb added to the bread
There’s a sprint
And a type of dizziness that accompanies it
And right before passing out and throwing up
A type of magic happens then
It’s a making and not making,
Remaking and recreating and tearing down,
And passing down and passing over
It’s learning a language but not all of the way
Creating a new tongue from made-up words
Post-post-midrashim
A type of post postscript
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Fragmentation and post-apocalyptic realities motivate their sustainable practice. Investigating what is torn, broken and dead, and then reshaping these materials is their alchemical method for transfiguration and a way to gather all of time together.
These are manifestations of a believed and beloved reality through an exploration of the fascia between relationships, magic, joy and time. A visual praxis is their comprehension of what is remembered, forgotten and misremembered. These transformative objects in space connect moments and individuals through their storytelling.

Masks are required.

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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kelly-ellis-tickets-134433539335

"The Long Road to You", is the latest creation of Nashville couple and duo Kelly&Ellis. It is an up-close and personal musical event of seamlessly interwoven stories and songs from the lives of Multi-Award Winning Artists Casey Kelly and Leslie Ellis. Their compelling story is rooted in Rock-n-Roll, Broadway, and Hit Songwriting and culminates in a Love Story that leaves the listener charmed. They create a Multi-Genre Experience by drawing from their past and present experiences and combining original songs with fresh takes on old favorites. Through their touching, and sometimes hysterically humorous stories, the audience can catch a glimpse of the ups and downs of life in the music business and how the unexpected things in life lead you right to where you belong. From the very first chord, Kelly&Ellis welcome the audience to travel their life’s journey, in an Intimate “Listening Room” Environment - surrounded by candle-lit tables - that makes a large room feel like an Acoustic Coffee House. Their unique story is rooted in Rock-n-Roll, Broadway and songwriting and culminates in a Love Story that leaves the listener charmed.

Fri, September 3, 2021
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT

Make plans to join us for the 2021 Concerts! Reservations must be made in advance for all Sunset Series Concerts. Reservations may be made no more that 30 days in advance by clicking on the links.
https://www.gsmheritagecenter.org/events/concerts/

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, 3/4 mile east of traffic light at the Highway 321 and 73 intersection towards the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-5. Information: 865-448-0044, www.gsmheritagecenter.org

Due to a high chance of bad weather this Friday, Ijams and Central Cinema have rescheduled the screening of Predator, for Friday, Sept. 3. If you have already purchased tickets, Ijams can give you a refund or apply them to the new date. Apologies for the inconvenience, but it's safer for everyone be outside and distanced (plus it's more fun!).

Ijams Nature Center and Central Cinema will welcome back movie lovers to the lawn for the 2021 Movies Under the Stars, presented by Cherokee Distributing Co. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., starting June 4.

Moviegoers are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets to watch a blend of popular comedies, action, fantasy and horror films on the hill in front of the Ijams Visitor Center throughout the summer and early fall.

• August 13: Beetlejuice, Comedy/Fantasy – PG
• August 27: Mad Max Fury Road, Action/Adventure – R
• September 3: Predator, Action/Sci-Fi – R
• September 17: Wizard of Oz, Fantasy/Musical – G
• October 1: The Shining, Horror/Mystery – R

Doors open at 7 p.m. and movies begin at dark. In the event of inclement weather, movies will be shown under a large tent at the Ijams Homesite, which is a short walk from the Visitor Center.

Tasty meals, snacks and beverages will be available for purchase from food trucks and the Ijams beer garden. No coolers or outside alcohol is allowed.

Tickets are $10 per person or $36 for a family four-pack. Space is limited to 250 guests to ensure proper physical distancing. Advance ticket purchases are highly recommended; walk-up tickets may not be available due to limited audience size. Dogs get in free, but must be leashed at all times.

Guests will be asked to wear a mask at check-in and in all common areas, but may remove masks once seated on the lawn.

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

Tri-Star Arts announces the next exhibition at their gallery in the historic Candoro Marble Building. A solo show, Mondegreen, features new work by artist Pete Hoffecker Mejía (Salem, Oregon).

Public receptions will be held on Friday, July 16 from 5:00- 8:00 pm (artist in attendance) and Friday, September 3 from 5:00- 8:00 pm. An in-person artist talk will be held on Friday, July 16 at 3:30 pm.

Pete Hoffecker Mejía states: “This work is engaged with the negotiation of multiform cultural identities. I am expressly concerned with exploring the intersection of contrasting cultural information, hierarchies of representation, and conflation in the expression of otherness.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, of indigenous ancestry, adopted by a multiracial family, and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, I have created a studio practice that serves as a space for mediation of the resulting geographic and cultural estrangement. Cut and reassembled serape blankets, mochila pattern, molas, and other fragments of a whole speak to cultural and geographic discontinuity. Interrogating the themes of European geometric abstraction and Indigenous art forms allows me to create a sculptural narrative of contemporary Latin-American and Indigenous cultural hybridity, with acknowledgment of the postcolonial landscape.

High art and low, the historical and the ahistorical, the found and the fabricated, caricature and the sincere, all collide and collude. In this way, I explore the blurred points of contact resulting from estrangement, while touching on the obstacles in mediating self through distorted representations of the other in mass culture.”

This exhibition will be open to the public, alongside iconic spaces within the Candoro Marble Building, regularly from Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am until 5:00 pm. Social distancing is encouraged.

Tri-Star Arts at Candoro Marble Building, 4450 Candora Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Tue-Sat 11 AM - 5 PM. Information: https://tristararts.org/

(Ages 6+) Up your "cool factor" at the Ijams Night Hike next Friday, Sept. 3, from 7:30-9 p.m. You’ll be outside in cooler temps and get a chance to see some of Ijams' cooler animals. First Friday night hikers frequently hear owls, find deer and see bats fly overhead. What will you see and hear? Learn More and Register: https://www.ijams.org/

At Ijams Nature Center: 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN

The University of Tennessee School of Art is hosting Navajo artist and University of Colorado Professor, Melanie Yazzie, September 20– 24, for a series of activities on campus.

Mapping Home / Collecting Truths: Works by Indigenous and International Artists, an exhibition organized by Yazzie with prints by 35 indigenous and international artists, addressing ideas of homeland and its intersection with the environment, climate, or other influences. https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/2018/10/08/mapping-home-collecting-truths-works-indigenous-and-international-artists

About her work Yazzie writes: “The Navajo Paradigm in which we create the world with our thoughts, grounds and motivates my work as an artist, as a teacher, an Indigenous person who is a member of the Navajo Nation, and asPoster for Mapping Home/Collecting Truth Showcase faculty of the University of Colorado. The key themes and processes central to my work include: outreach to rural communities on the local, national, and global level with Indigenous people, colonization, the idea of homeland, nature, the female archetype, and issues relating to health and safety. My intellectual, creative, classroom, and outreach is rooted in the fact that we learn from one another, through our shared experience in the practice of art-making, an ancient, sustainable way of both being in the world, and a way in which to live together, always in a state of learning. Of principal research interest is our diverse yet shared foundational, theoretical, and philosophical bodies of knowledge that express our connections to our homelands.”

On view in the Printmaking Showcase Gallery on the second floor of the Art and Architecture Building
UT Campus
https://art.utk.edu/melanie-yazzie-public-lecture-and-showcase/

Opening reception Wed Sep 1, 2-4 PM

Jennifer Brickey works in pen, ink, acrylic, paper and more. www.jenniferbrickey.com

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

Artist Leesa Osburn
Medium: Water Based Oils

Bio: I enjoy painting with water based oils on canvas. Often times I rescue a canvas to save it from destruction. My painting subjects include pets & wildlife, landscapes & seascapes, and scenes from our nearby Smoky Mountains. Originally from the West Coast, I have lived in Knoxville with my husband and two dogs since 2019. I have a website which is under construction at https://artisticescape.studio/.

Old City MedSpa, 104 W Summit Hill Dr SW, Knoxville

Galleries are open 10 AM to 6 PM Monday thru Friday

Reception is Friday, September 17th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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

East Tennessee artist Jon Pemberton's three-dimensional works are whimsical, fun and unique! Don't miss the chance to see them in September!

https://www.facebook.com/jon.pemberton.3

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