Calendar of Events

Sat Aug 27, 8-11 AM

International Interior Design Association Tennessee is doing our part to save the planet by recycling materials for the purpose of art and preservation! *Expired Materials, Hardware, Solid Surface, Paint Chips, Fabrics-Textiles, Laminate, Wall Coverings, 3form, Paint Decks, Ceiling Tile, Ceramic Tile, Magazines, Flooring, & Wood Samples available for pickup at 320 Nancy Lynn Lane, Suite 9, Knoxville.

https://www.facebook.com/IIDATennesseeChapter/photos/a.335150263270649/5174176962701264/

August 27 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Stanley’s Butterfly Festival will include children’s craft activities, a seminar about butterfly attracting plants, a local stained-glass artist, and a butterfly scavenger hunt and walk of the property! We will also have Milk and Honey creamery set up with ice cream as well as free refreshments. Join us for a fun and educational morning as we learn more about butterflies and how to ensure their survival!

http://www.stanleysgreenhouse.com/events/2022/8/27/on-the-wing-stanleys-sixth-annual-butterfly-
Stanley’s Greenhouse, 3029 Davenport Road, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920

SATURDAY AT 11 AM – 8 PM

First Lutheran's GermanFest is an annual event hosted by First Lutheran Church and School celebrating German culture, food, and music. Funds raised from the event go to support the Lions of First Lutheran School.

Self guided church tours
Organ Konzert by UT Organ Studio

Free for children 12 and under.

1207 N. Broadway
(865) 524-0366 or https://www.facebook.com/FirstLutheranGermanFest

The Bottom offers a living exhibit taking viewers on a tour of the original Bottom neighborhood. This exhibit is Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin’s farewell project, a culmination of research on the Bottom neighborhood conducted over the last two years.

Aug 27, 4:30 PM

The Bottom, 2340 E Magnolia Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917

This living exhibit was developed in collaboration with former residents of The Bottom. It offers a tour via KAT Trolley of their neighborhood, anchored by signs of the “streets and feets” they remember. The exhibit will tour the original Bottom with these elders, whose “feets” traversed the “streets” of the neighborhood decades ago. Participants will listen to their stories, imagine their kinship and affirm their existence.

RSVP at https://www.thebottomknox.com/events-1/streets-feets-a-living-exhibit-of-the-bottom

August 26–December 11, 2022

For the first time in its exhibition history, the McClung Museum is celebrating the deeply rooted traditions and colorful spirit of the Day of the Dead. The Spirit of Día de los Muertos (The Spirit of Day of the Dead) is the museum's first community collaboration exhibit created with guidance from Latino/a/x community members. The exhibition will open to the public on August 26 and be on view through December 11, 2022.

With displays in Spanish and English, The Spirit of Día de los Muertos highlights the rich history of the Mexican celebration that remembers loved ones passed. The exhibition opens with a traditional ofrenda (or altar) installation displaying an array of materials dedicated to deceased friends or family members. Familiar sights include colorful cempazúchitl (marigolds), ofrendas (altars) with food offerings, papel picados (decorative banners), and smartly dressed calaveras (skeletons).

https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/2022/08/03/mcclung-museum-collaborates-with-community-to-present-fall-2022-exhibition-celebrating-day-of-the-dead/

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

501 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902

The Waymakers Collective invites all Appalachian Futurists to attend our inaugural gathering!

Come enjoy a weekend with Appalachian artists, culture workers, organizers, activists, doers, and creatives building a just and equitable Appalachian future! This is the first official gathering of the Waymakers Collective since inception. Our first gathering will be a weekend filled with fellowship, joy, laughter, performances, peer networking, skill-building workshops, art making, film screenings, site visits, and more! Come ready to learn, share, make new connections with artists and art organizations in the region, and be inspired by the people and communities making new ways for life to thrive in the mountains!

Schedule
Friday August 26th, 2022
6:00 – 7:00pm: Welcoming Reception
7:00 – 9:00pm: Dinner Including Performances

Saturday August 27th, 2022
7:00 - 8:00am: Breakfast
8:00am - 3:00pm: Workshops, Films & Art Making
3:30pm - 5:00pm: Site Visits
6:00pm: Community Dinners

Sunday August 28th, 2022
7:00 – 8:00am: Breakfast
8:30 –11:30am: Business Meeting (For Voting Members of the Collective)
11:30am –12:30pm Lunch & Closing
12:30 - 1:30pm: Strategy Circle with Funders (Funders Only)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inaugural-gathering-of-the-waymakers-collective-tickets-373024033927

Second Year MFA Student Exhibition

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

Wednesday, August 24 - Saturday August 27, 2022
Reception, Friday, August 26, 5-8pm

This exhibition welcomes UT School of Art’s incoming MFA class of 2025! We are excited to have these students join our graduate program and look forward to watching them develop during their time at UT.

Ruchi Singh - Time Based Arts
Kaitlyn Anderson - Ceramics
Hannah Langer - Ceramics
Francis Akosah - Sculpture
Kyle Cottier - Sculpture
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos - Printmaking
Eliza Frensley - Printmaking
LaKesha Lee - Painting + Drawing

All UT Downtown Gallery events are free and open to the public. Masking is strongly encouraged. UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: W-F 11-6, Sa 10-3. Information: 865-673-0802, https://downtown.utk.edu

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tu 9:30-3:30, W-R 9:30-4:30 or by appointment. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartcenter.com

Come play music with us on August 18th! If you play guitar or ukulele, consider joining the fun! Participation in the KCG ensemble is open to the public, and all skill levels are welcome. The Knoxville Classical Guitar Ensemble will meet weekly at 7 PM at the Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Road, in Knoxville.

For more information, contact Andy LeGrand at info@knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com

Information: 865-686-2067, https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com

From Then to Now will open at 2pm on Wednesday, August 17. The Ewing Gallery will operate under Summer hours (M-F 10am - 5pm) until Wednesday, August 24. Then we will resume full operating hours. (M-F 10am - 5pm, TR 10am - 7:30pm, and Sundays 1-4pm)

FROM THEN TO NOW is a retrospective that includes work from the past twenty plus years as well as present explorations. All these works utilize change as a thematic thread. The most recent work is influenced by frequent travel where rich and varied observations of the natural world are recorded. The oldest works consist of clay sculptures that are weathered, narrative and psychological, while the present work. especially the photographs, looks at the idea of finding beauty in the deciduous, the dying, the changing.

Diane Solomon Kempler was a professor at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia where she taught ceramic sculpture for many years. She has been a practicing artist for over thirty years, has had major exhibitions and received many awards. She has also created public art works in the United States and Bosnia. Her ceramic work focuses on the ideas of transition and transformation in the natural world as well as in humans. She has traveled extensively to such places as Mali, Turkey, Indonesia, Peru, and Nepal. Her travels to Asia, especially Burma and India, allowed her to pursue one of her research interests, observing hand building pottery techniques that exist in rural villages. She was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholar grant to pursue this research in India and created several films from this research. She has participated in ceramic studio residencies in Hungary, France, India, and Denmark where she has spent time developing her ceramic and photography work.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

GEOFFREY A. WOLPERT GALLERY

2022-2023 Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant/Curatorial Intern Kelli Fisher explores the early history of Arrowcraft, an important facet of Gatlinburg’s history and the history of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Building on the knowledge of Arrowmont friend Frances Fox, historian and past apprentice to the Master Weaver for Arrowcraft, she has curated materials from Arrowmont’s collection and archives. Kelli will also be presenting her research at the Tennessee State Museum’s Lunch and Learn program, telling the stories of some notable Appalachian women who worked and shaped Arrowcraft and, in turn, Arrowmont as it exists today.

Opened in 1926, the Arrowcraft Shop continued the project established by the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School of meeting the needs of those who lived in the Smoky Mountains. The shop also allowed Appalachian makers the opportunity to make and sell their crafts for more equitable prices than they could find on their own. Their wares – including handmade baskets, coverlets, and chairs – were incredibly popular, in part due to the revival of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which prized high-quality workmanship.

While Arrowcraft employed diverse craft makers, its main focus was weaving. Partially, this decision had to do with storage – only so many baskets and chairs could be stored in the Arrowcraft shop, while weavings of different sizes and complexities (and varying prices) could be more economically stored. Weaving also allowed for both the designer and the weaver to earn credit, as is seen in the small selection of textiles on view in this gallery. Gatlinburg’s weaving women were highly skilled, and between 1935 and 1945 242 different women wove for Arrowcraft. Within Arrowmont’s permanent collection is a sizeable collection of coverlets, hand towels, window tapestries, aprons, handbags, wallets, purses, coats, and more, collected from the early days of Arrowcraft and lasting until its dissolution in the 1990s. Arrowcraft’s success came from the high quality of the items, as Pi Beta Phi alumnae and tourists for the national park sought to buy from the accomplished women makers.

The success of Arrowcraft’s weaving program encouraged the Pi Beta Phis to expand their craft classes, which in turn led to Arrowmont’s workshops that celebrate craft’s histories, its present, and its many futures. Arrowcraft was instrumental in making both Arrowmont and Gatlinburg the spaces they are today.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, https://www.arrowmont.org