Calendar of Events

Please join us for the show opening on Feb 4 from 6 to 8pm.

We are excited to have Paris Woodhull as our featured artist for the months of February and March! Her show The Paris Party features large figurative paintings, in her unique and recognizable style. All paintings are one of a kind originals, and would make for very special Valentine's gifts!

Paris Woodhull is a born and raised Knoxvillian, and received her BFA in 2D art with a concentration in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She loves bold color, pattern, pop culture, portraiture, fashion, and is fueled by copious amounts of coffee.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we prefer that masks be worn inside the store. Thank you for helping us stay safe!
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/9Uvc3VeYR

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

Leesa is a fairly recent transplant from the West Coast to Knoxville. Her painting medium is water based oils. You can see her work at ArtisticEscape.studio. Knoxville is becoming home to her family, which included two rescued dogs. Leesa is also learning to paint in the Plein Air Style when time and weather permits.

Hours: M-F 730:am to 8:pm, Sat 8am to8pm, Sun 1:pm to 6pm.

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

The Art Market Gallery is now open for business after having some much-needed renovations and painting done in early January. Please come and see our new look as well as our Featured Artist Wall displaying art with a Valentine theme. We will be open on First Friday, February 4, from 5:30 - 9 PM, as well as our regular business hours, Tuesday thru Saturday 11AM - 6PM and Sunday, 1-6PM. Also, check out our online store at artmarketgallery.net.

First Friday Reception: February 4, 5:30 – 9:00 pm

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

Opening Friday, February 4, 5-9 PM

Jennifer Bowden
Medium: Mixed medium with Collage

Jennifer Bowden is a native Knoxvillian. She currently works for Knox County Public Schools, as an occupational therapist. In the summer she works as an Assistant Director for MFAC (Multicultural Fine Art Camp for children ages 6 – 14. A Geneva Galleries Inc. summer arts program @ Overcoming Believers Church / Knoxville Tennessee).

Jennifer showed an interest in archeology, natural science and art as a young person. She was fascinated by National Geographic magazine pictures of her uncle's and had a small art studio in a closet behind the garage that her older brother had abandoned and there she drew and painted fashion models and trees for fun and solitude. Jennifer was one of the last private students of Ruth Brice-Cobbs, a local well-known black artist, poet, educator and her neighbor.

Jennifer's art education is extensive; it includes a BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a MFA from New York University in New York City. Jennifer spent 10 years in New York City where she worked as an assistant to A.I.R. Gallery artist Maude Boltz. She received an artist-in-residency with Cinque Gallery, NYC where she met with Romare Bearden to discuss her work and was mentored by Ernest Kichlow (both men were founding members of Cinque Gallery). Jennifer worked for several years as an electrician/light-board operator on Off-Off Broadway shows and with Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Jennifer exhibited extensively with "Where We At, Black Women Artist," Cinque Gallery Group Shows and various open shows. After several years in Tucson, Arizona and Austin, Texas and then earning a MOT degree from Texas Women's University in Houston, Texas, Jennifer returned to Knoxville to raise a family and help care for family members.

Jennifer has exhibited her work recently at the Following Venues:
Emporium Arts Center, Knoxville Arts & Cultural Alliance city and county mayor's art showcase, A-1 Gallery, Oak Ridge Art Center, a 3-woman exhibit at the Burlington branch of Knox County Public Libraries and a one-woman show at Perk City Coffee Shop. Her most memorable artistic endeavor was participation in the Black Lives Matters street mural planned by the "Black coffee justice" organization in front of Austin-East High School with the east Knoxville community and others.

Jennifer appreciates the opportunity to share her work with you during Black History Month at the Emporium Arts Center, 100 South Gay Street, suite 102 – Geneva Galleries Inc. Knoxville, Tennessee. Hours by appointment throughout February: tip_taylor@hotmail.com

Catch our board member's group show this upcoming first Friday across the street at @mightymudstudio ! We're also welcoming Houston from @downsandtowns to show a few prints as well! We'll have a collection of different photographs featured between darkroom prints and some alternative process works as well!

27 Jennings Ave
Knoxville, TN 37917
865-595-1900
www.mightymud.com

Tues-Fri: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Sat: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Additional Open Studios Thursdays 6-9

The Knoxville Community Darkroom, 126 Jennings Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. www.theknoxvillecommunitydarkroom.org

Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM

by Norm Foster
Directed by Windie Wilson

Office Hours is a full-length comedy by Norm Foster. Six separate stories are unfolding in six separate offices on one Friday afternoon. In true Norm Foster style, it makes us laugh at our humanity, cleverly linking a TV news producer, a pair of Canadian movie producers, a rather unsavoury agent, an entertainment lawyer, a horse track owner. and a psychiatrist. This highly acclaimed theatrical comedy is a madcap race towards quitting time. Particularly suitable for schools.

Reviews
“A witty script. the laughter was almost continuous. A night of live theatre that will be long remembered. “
– The Country Chronicle

“When it comes to writing funny lines, Foster’s up there with the best. “
– Telegraph Journal

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 800 S. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information & tickets: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by John Sipes

February 2 – 20 | CBT MainStage

“A Broadway smash hit and spectacular, atypical mystery.”

Christopher, an extraordinary young man, discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s dog. Determined to find the killer, he embarks on his first-ever excursion, carefully following the evidence wherever it leads him. His detective work takes the young hero on an exciting journey brimming with adventure and discovery that ultimately transforms his world.

Single tickets on sale January 11. https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/2021-2022-season/

The Dream Deferred
A print portfolio inspired by a poem by Langston Hughes

Printmaking Showcase Gallery
Art and Architecture Building, 2nd Floor Gallery outside of Room 241
1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/the_dream_deferred_exhibition#.YhO7XujMLct

The first TAA exhibition of 2022 and the kickoff for our 50th Anniversary is the exhibition at the
Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. The theme is “Celebrating 50 Years of Art”.
https://tnartists.org/

The show runs from February 1 thru February 27, 2022.
Reception is from 6:00-8:00 PM on Friday, February 25.

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

Art Guild at Fairfield Glade: February Classes & Happenings
Tue Feb 1, 10-12: Wire-Wrapped Heart Pendant & Bead Necklace with Susan Smathers, $30
Tue Feb 8, 15, 22, 1-4: Paint Some Snow with Debbie Toney, $120
Tue Feb 15, 9:30: Monthly Members Meeting
Tue Feb 15, 12-2: Artist Peer Review and Discussion Group, with Jack Retterer, $20
Wed Feb 16, 1-4: Chain Maille Jewelry: “Irish Twist Bracelet” with George Gallant, $75
Wed Feb 23, 12-2: Life Drawing, with Dena Whitener, $5
Located at 451 Lakeview Drive in Fairfield Glade (off Peavine Road). 931-707-7249 or www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Drawn from the exceptional and diverse collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan, playful, and subtly subversive characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The exhibition highlights the work of fifteen artists of Asian heritage who draw on a rich array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse “Asias” in a modern global context.

Organized by the Palmer Museum of Art in conjunction with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, the exhibition is divided into three thematic sections. “Exuberant Forms” features work that has the potential to reshape conventional views of abstract art—its composition, palette, materiality as well as its cultural implications, expanding and complicating the canonical narrative of abstraction. “Moving Stories” brings together powerful prints and mixed-media works that reflect on the experiences of migration, both within Asia and beyond. The artists in this section map their own diasporic trajectories, literally and metaphorically, and the art compels the viewer to move and to respond to the shifting socio-political realities of time and place. “Asias Reinvented” highlights two- and three-dimensional works that transform styles and techniques of traditional Asian arts in alignment with the vibes of the contemporary and the cosmopolitan. Combined, the works in Global Asias suggest the plurality and fluidity of “Asia” as cultural construct and creative practice. The exhibition is guest curated by Chang Tan, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Penn State.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-5pm, Sunday 1-5 pm, closed Mondays. Information: 865-525-6101, https://knoxart.org/

Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, UT Campus

The Ewing Gallery at the Art and Architecture Building is hosting, A Serious Look at the Funnies: 100 Years of Comics beginning January 24 through February 28, 2022. The exhibit examines 100 years of comics and comic history in America. Showcasing political cartoons, underground comics, graphic novels, and daily strips, this exhibition borrows from the collection of Denis Kitchen, cartoonist, publisher, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and from the University of Tennessee Special Collections.

These examples span 100+ years of comic history with the earliest work dating from 1906 and the most recent work dating from 2019. Noted artists from Denis Kitchen’s collection are Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Peter Poplaski, Trina Robbins, Al Capp, Will Eisner, Richard “Grass” Green, and Ernie Bushmiller. Additional artists include Stacey Robinson, John Jennings, Brad Kahlhamer, Paolo Rivera, and Joseph Delaney as well as artists whose work is being shown at the other two galleries.

The Ewing Gallery is located at 1715 Volunteer Boulevard on the UT Campus. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, 10 a.m.-7:30pm Wednesday and Thursday, and 1-4pm on Sundays There is no admission charge. Visit the gallery’s web site (https://ewing-gallery.utk.edu/) or on Facebook for more information. The gallery can be reached directly at 865-974-3200.