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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

At Next Level Brewing Company, 700 North Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917

Knoxville songwriters, musicians, and singers--come play a song! Come try out your new songs and creative works-in-progress, connect with other Knoxville creatives, and enjoy a tasty brew from Next Level Brewing.

Signups start at 6pm. Open mic from 7-9pm. 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 1, Mar 15, Apr 5, Apr 19, May 3, May 17, Jun 7

Hosted by Travis Tench of Tinca Tinca: https://linktr.ee/TincaTinca

As a bonus, anyone who performs has a chance to win the "lottery tip jar," at the end of the night!
https://www.facebook.com/events/491771298963920/

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

With Alan M. Jones (Theophilus) and Xavier Maurice Jones

In the Blackberry Farm Gallery, hours M-F 10-5

Reception Fri Feb 25, 6-8 PM
Masks are required in all galleries

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

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/

All media - including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, drawings, sculpture in any medium, jewelry, collage, printmaking, photography and digital media—will be included!

Reception will be from 6:30pm - 8:00pm (masks required) and cash awards will be announced on Friday, January 28th at at 7:00pm.

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Thursday from 9:30am - 4pm. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartcenter.com

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.

RE-IMAGINING MLK JR. AVENUE - COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE CHARRETTE IS LOOKING FOR TEAMS TO JOIN IN

Our Community Collaborative Charrette is back and this time focusing on a piece of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in East Knoxville.

It will begin on January 24th and run through February 24th, but you must contact us if interested by Friday, January 21st. Local architecture firms are encouraged to participate, though you don't have to be an architect to form a team.

https://communitydc.org/2022-community-collaborative-charrette-starts-january-24th/

East Tennessee Community Design Center, 1300 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-525-9945, www.communitydc.org

Shane Pickett: Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land That I Have Travelled)
January 14 - May 7, 2022

During his lifetime, Shane Pickett (1957–2010) was acclaimed as one of Western Australia’s most significant contemporary Aboriginal artists.

Featuring 29 works from the most radical and significant phase of his career, Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land that I Have Traveled) is the first major exhibition of Pickett’s work in the US. Pickett’s paintings capture the transformations of the country near Perth in the south-west of Australia in ever-changing and innovative ways. Over the course of his three-decade career, Pickett developed a new visual language to represent the cornerstones of the culture of his Nyoongar people: the pathways of ancestors, traditional healing practices and places, and especially the six seasons used by the Nyoongar to divide the year.

Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land that I Have Traveled) shows the developments in the last decade of Pickett’s career, as his work transformed from figurative landscape painting into a ground breaking and expressive form of gestural abstraction. It was during this period that Pickett achieved his greatest acclaim, with his works being exhibited across Australia and acquired by major institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. The 29 works in the exhibition present a snapshot of these experiments, as Pickett explores the complex connections between the earth, creation, and spirituality that are united in the Aboriginal concept of “Dreaming.”

Pickett described his paintings as ‘windows into the Dreaming’, and the strength of his culture is delivered through his work with breathtaking lyrical intensity. His paintings show the persistence and adaptability of Aboriginal ways of seeing the country in the face of colonisation. Shane Pickett’s Nyoongar name, Meeyakba, or ‘soft light of the moon,’ captures the spirit of an artist who set a beacon for those who follow him. One of the great innovators of Australian landscape painting, he is remembered as one of the pre-eminent Aboriginal Australian artists of his time.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-2144