Calendar of Events

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present four new exhibitions at The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from February 4-26, 2022. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, February 4, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features music by violinist Sarah Ringer and guitarist Byron Moffett. 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.

This five-year project documents the eastern third of Tennessee through 36 color photographs. East Tennessee is very different from the rest of the state; it is culturally and geographically part of Appalachia. Here, modern life and the traditions of the early Scottish and Irish settlers often intertwine. Reality and irony are everywhere we look. Children play in the backyard, and there is a castle down the road. Young men portray the East Tennesseans who fought on the beaches of Normandy. A bluegrass band plays the tunes of early ancestors. Evangelicals speak of heaven and hell on street corners. They want to save our souls because the grim reaper is coming and there will be a feast with the beasts. The local chiropractor wants to fix our bodies and advertises this with an enormous spine on display. Angels are everywhere and the Waffle House stands like a beacon on a hill. This is East Tennessee.

Lisa Flanary is a professor of Art at Carson-Newman University where she has taught since 1998. As a fine art photographer, Flanary uses 4x5 and medium format film cameras. She also works with the digital camera. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States. Flanary earned an MFA from East Tennessee State University and a BA in History from Carson-Newman University.

www.lisaellisflanary.com
Instagram: @lflanarycamera

The exhibitions will be 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 and Saturday, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present its 16th annual National Juried Exhibition, a new exhibition featuring selected works from 50 artists throughout the region. A free reception with the artists will take place on Friday, February 4, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features music by violinist Sarah Ringer and guitarist Byron Moffett. 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.

The National Juried Exhibition was developed to provide a forum for artists to compete on a regional scale and display their highest quality work. The exhibition encompasses all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists working in a variety of media such as photography, acrylic, pencil, fibers, oil, paper, and more. Over $1,000 in cash awards will be announced at a brief awards ceremony at 6:00 PM on February 4.

Exhibiting artists include:
+ Gary Anderson of Huntsville, AL
+ Dave Edens of Madison, AL
+ Dawnice Kerchaert of Pontiac, MI
+ Matthew Rentz of Asheville, NC
+ Sheila Chesanow of Athens, TN
+ Adrienne Justine Dye of Gatlinburg, TN
+ Alan Finch of Jacksboro, TN
+ Samantha Steadman and Carla Taylor of Johnson City, TN
+ Stephen Simmerman of Jonesborough, TN
+ Torrance Redford of Kingsport, TN
+ Neranza Noel Blount, Danqi Cai, Michaelanne Collins, Virginia Taylor Derryberry, Jurgen Dopatka, Andrew Godwin, Brian Horais, Jeanne Kidd, Anne Kinggard, David Liles, Marga McBride, Brian R. Melton, Allen Monsarrat, Lisa J. Mullikin, Anders Nienstaedt, Mary O'Neill, Leesa Lynn Osburn, Manya Pirkle, Adam Rowe, William A. Timm and Lyndsey Ullom of Knoxville, TN
+ Judy Kelley Jorden and Marcia M. Shelly Lenoir City, TN
+ Lil Clinard, Ted Richards and Dennis Sabo of Loudon, TN
+ Ed Bates, Michele Croslin and Marianne Woodside of Maryville, TN
+ Mike E. Sandlock of Morristown, TN
+ Elaine Culbert, Yvonne Dalschen and Kelli L. Thompson of Oak Ridge, TN
+ Jane Newman of Ooltewah, TN
+ Charlotte Rollman of Sevierville, TN
+ Sheila Lutringer of Strawberry Plains, TN
+ Lynda Best of Tellico Plains, TN
+ Laurie Szilvagyi of Vonore, TN
+ Wade Schmitz of Houston, TX

About the juror: Tommie Rush, a native of Mobile, Alabama, is a glass artist who lives and maintains a studio, Tomco Inc., in Knoxville, Tennessee. She began her early studies in ceramics which ultimately lead her to working in glass. By 1980, Rush began to share a studio space with renowned artist Richard Jolley, who she married several years later. Through tireless experimentation and the development of custom blended glass mixed in the studio, she has created a unique and identifiable style which has been celebrated in over 75 exhibitions.

The exhibitions will be 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 and Saturday, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

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

Thursdays
February 03, 10, 17, and 24 6:00pm - 8:00pm

This workshop is a great platform for artists to strengthen their core artistic skills and improve their understanding of the human form and meet other artists in the community. The workshop models are usually nude. The model poses vary from 1 minute to 20 minutes in length.

Fee: $10
*Attendees will pay at the door
https://knoxart.org/events/

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

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

The KCG ensembles 2022 resume on Thursdays at 6:30 PM!
At the Fountain City Art Center at 213 Hotel Road, Knoxville, TN 37918.

Participation is open to the public, and all skill levels are welcome. Please get in touch with Andy LeGrand for more information: 865-686-2067 or https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com/

As part of this exhibition we will be having a February First Friday reception from 5-9pm on Friday, February 4th.

In conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies: 100 Years of Comics at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, the UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition showcases the work of eight regional cartoonists.

Charlie Daniel: retired Knoxville News Sentinel cartoonist
Daniel Proctor: Knoxville Freelance editorial cartoonist
Clay Bennett: Chattanooga Free Press editorial cartoonist
Marshall Ramsey: Mississippi Today's editor-at-large, editorial cartoonist, and UT Alum (HCB '91)
Robert Turner: Grainger Today's creative director and editorial cartoonist
Carl Sublett (1919 – 2008) : former UT School of Art Professor of painting and cartoonist for the Bristol Herald-Courier, The Virginia Tennessean, and the Kingsport Press.
Ed Gamble: UT Alum and editorial cartoonist for The Nashville Banner and The Florida Times-Union (UTK postgraduate work 1971-72)
Danny Wilson: Knoxville-based freelance illustrator, editorial cartoonist, and UT Alum (BFA '84)

All UT Downtown Gallery events are free and open to the public. Masking is strongly encouraged.

Open Wednesday - Friday 11am - 6pm and Saturdays from 10am - 3pm. UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown