Calendar of Events

Bring your kids, lawn chairs, blankets, pets, and friends to enjoy outdoor Knoxville nights, live music, food, fun, and community in Market Square. The City of Knoxville provides these free Concerts on the Square all summer long.

Jazz Tuesdays – Every week at 7 pm
Tuesday, September 6 - MATT COKER'S HAMMOND ORGAN TRIO
Tuesday, September 13 - LARRY VINCENT
Tuesday, September 20 - SHAWN TURNER & PINKY RING
Tuesday, September 27 - JON HAMAR

To stay updated on bands and any cancellations due to weather, visit the City of Knoxville Special Events Facebook page. No Tickets. It's Free! https://www.downtownknoxville.org/featured/concerts/

2022 marks the thirtieth year of the Mabry-Hazen House being open to the public, and we're planning to celebrate!

Join us Friday, September 16, 2022 from 6pm to 9pm for cocktails, heavy hors d'oeuvres from Sister South Fine Foods, live music from the Old City Buskers, and the conclusion of our Silent Auction! Many wonderful Knoxville businesses and artists have donated items and tickets for the auction, which will begin online on September 6: https://www.32auctions.com/mabryhazen30

The Garden Party will be a dressy casual event, and attendees are free to come and go as they please. The historic house museum will be open for self-guided tours. Tickets will each include one voucher for a signature cocktail designed and mixed by a local distillery, with extra drink tickets available for sale.

Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37915. Information: 865-522-8661, www.mabryhazen.com

Head to Mead's Quarry to ride, eat, swim, and enjoy live music with Ijams and Appalachian Mountain Bike Club on the first Tuesday of every month from June through October!

Self-guided single track followed up with Music, Food, and Libations!

Big Fun Tuesdays are from 6-9 pm (music starts around 6:45-7 pm).

Be sure to check the Ijams Calendar of Events for cancelations due to weather.
https://www.ijams.org/big-fun-tuesday

PASS THE MIC: CREATING A STAGE FOR CHANGE

Tickets are on sale now for Las Cafeteras and Making Movies! Join us on Tuesday, September 6 at 7:30pm. This event is part of the Tennessee Theatre’s Pass the Mic: Creating a Stage for Change series that provides a stage for artists to share their art with a broader East Tennessee audience. We will be offering a free community event in addition to the concert.

Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern-day stories of Latino and immigrant lives. Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish, and Spanglish and meld styles, from rock to hip-hop to rancheras. Las Cafeteras use music as a vehicle to build bridges among different cultures and communities, and create a world where many worlds fit.

Las Cafeteras is joined by Making Movies, a band that makes American music with an asterisk: because Making Movies sound encompasses the entirety of the Americas. It is through this broader perspective that Making Movies crunches classic rock into Latin American rhythms African-derived percussion and styles like rumba, merengue, mambo and cumbia in a way that feels oddly familiar, yet delivers the invigorating chills of hearing something singularly special.

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com

Big Fun Tuesdays are Back! Head to Mead's Quarry to ride, eat, swim, and enjoy live music with Ijams and Appalachian Mountain Bike Club on the first Tuesday of every month from June through October!

Big Fun Tuesdays are from 6-9 pm. There will be a local food truck at each event and the Ijams beer garden will be open for food/drink needs. Local musicians will kick off the tunes around 6:45 pm.

This is a FREE event for all ages. Grab your friends and family, and come to the quarry for fresh air and fun!

Sept. 6 Featuring Steph Cabell and TBD
Oct. 4 Coming Soon

https://www.ijams.org/big-fun-tuesday

(Ages 16+) If you're looking for a water adventure, join Ijams for a beautiful morning or evening kayak trip on the Tennessee River and learn about animals, history and geology! These are small-group programs, so save your spot now! https://www.ijams.org/calendar-of-events

Sept. 3
FULL MOON Paddle Sept. 9
Sept. 10

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Tomato Head on Market Square from September 2 - October 2
West Knoxville October 4 - November 7

www.JessicaPayneArt.com

Tomato Head, 12 Market Square (865-637-4067) and 7240 Kingston Pike, Suite 172 (865-584-1075), in Knoxville. https://thetomatohead.com/

A unique exhibition by HoLa Hora Latina member artists celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month - one exhibition, two venues!

Opening Fri Sep 2, 5-9 PM at the Emporium and on view through Thu Sep 8

Then, on display at the Knoxville Museum of Art from Sep 15 - Oct 15. Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tu-Sa 10-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Casa HoLa is located inside the Emporium for the Arts on the bottom floor in Suite 112 at 100 S. Gay St., Knoxville, TN 37902.

Facebook @HoLaHoraLatina
Instagram @HoLaHoraLatina
Twitter @CasaHoLa
865-335-3358 or casahola@holafestival.org

A fundraiser for the outreach initiatives of KCM. Featuring an auction of original art on skateboards from: Ashley Addair, Joshua Bienko, Bryan Baker, Pity Cat, Preston Farrow, Lynne Ghenov, Rubens Ghenov, Michael Giles, Marcia Goldenstein, Kellen Hatanaka, R. Michael Hendrix, Kelly Hider, Jim Houser, Risa Hricovsky, Jake Ingram, Carri Jobe, John Kilduff, Ariel Lee, Macrame Momma, Vanessa Mayoraz, Rebecca Norton, Amos Oaks, Cal Oaks, Brian Pittman, Peter Riesing, Aaron Rose, Andrew Saftel, Sarah Shebaro, Paul Sherry, Joshua Shorey, Tony Sobota, Jered Sprecher, Sean Starwars, Jeffrey Vallance, George Wilson, Paris Woodhull. With historical skateboard archives from: Jay Cabler, Jacob Dohm, Cal Oaks, Patrick McInerney, Emmanuel Perez, Ryan Wilburn. Virtual bidding starts Fri Sep 2 at midnight, and live viewing, final bids, film screening, and live performance from Matt Nelson happens Fri Oct 7, 6-10 PM at 107 Bearden Place, Knoxville, TN 37917. Bids close at 10 PM on Fri Oct 7. To register: https://urban-explorer-knoxville.myshopify.com

First Friday Reception: September 2nd, 5:30 – 9:00 pm

Ed Lewis, Wood
After moving to Tennessee, Ed was able to have a woodworking shop and decided to try woodturning. He discovered he had a natural ability in using a lathe. After making the usual bowls, vases, and platters, he started experimenting with segmented pieces, especially “dizzy” bowls. He enjoys the process of making unique patterns that people will be proud to display. Ed volunteers at the Wears Valley Ranch where he teaches woodturning to students ranging in age from 10 to 17. He was accepted to be part of the 20th Master Woodworker’s Show in Knoxville, hosted by the East Tennessee Woodworker’s Guild, where two of his pieces were on display.

Carole Stoiber, Painting
Carole Stoiber is a two-dimensional artist who expresses herself in watercolors, oils, and acrylic paints. Her two-dimensional works are presently on display and for sale at the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville. To express three-dimensional ideas, Carole works in clay. When living in Harrisonburg, VA, Carole began painting original watercolor portraits of homes on commission. She called her business, “A Different Kind of House Painting”. Patrons marvel at her talent to create beautiful images with skillful techniques, vibrant colors, and imaginative designs that provoke emotions and memories with familiar, yet unique visions. Carole received a Fine Arts Degree with a Ceramic Concentration from Barton College (Wilson, NC; http://www.bartoncollege.org). Carole continues to learn and create every day in all watercolor and oil painting and ceramics. Carole taught art to children for over twenty years. She lives and works in Tennessee and her philosophy to stay young is to create something every day. http://www.carolestoiberart.com

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

Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception for artist Reem Arnouk, on Sept. 2 from 6-8 pm.

Born and raised in Syria, Art has been a huge influence in her life. Reem moved to America in 2013. She believes art to be a worldwide language and a way for human beings to communicate. “This art show theme reflects the different body shapes of women; perfect and beautiful. I believe what God said that we are beautifully and wonderfully made. In fact, God is the potter, we are the clay and the work of His hand. We are not called to be perfect, but to be beautiful. We are to accept, love, and support each other," she says.

Please join us for some amazing art, light refreshments, and of course great coffee!

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Open daily. Information: 865-951-0427, www.instagram.com/awaken_coffee or www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from September 2 – October 1, 2022. A reception with the artists will take place on Friday, September 2, from 5:00-9:00 PM. 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.

Things Pile Up…all things visible and invisible. The pandemic year was extraordinary in its spectrum of ruptures: the human spirit struggled under the weight of death and burgeoning cultural and systemic fractures. During the haunting disruption and isolation of the year, I found good use for the many magazines that had long piled up in our home spaces. My work is both deconstructive and reconstructive—here, of torn society. I have used cut and torn images from those accumulated magazines, now history pieces in themselves, in collage as exploratory process, gleaning slivers of culture and halted experience, borrowing color, content and shape, sometimes including direct art historical references, to create pilings of redesigned matter, things stacking up, collaborations of opposites, painting sturdiness in the face of great constraint. I paint arrangements of those fragments, creating lively, precarious balances of chaos and order, unifying fragility and stability. The color is enlivened, vibrant, sometimes jazzy, intended to be transformative.

Jan Burleson fulfilled a wish for formal art education after 30 years of professional life as a clinical social worker, both in public mental health and private practice. She completed her BFA in Painting and Drawing at UT-Chattanooga in 2016, and at present works primarily with oil and collage. She received a 2019 Bailey Opportunity Grant and was selected for Chattanooga’s Association for Visual Arts’s 2015 FRESH Young and Emerging Artists Exhibit. Her work has been exhibited regionally in the National Juried Exhibition, Dogwood Arts’s Regional Fine Art exhibitions, McGhee Tyson’s Arts in the Airport, Chattanooga’s Association for Visual Arts, Positive-Negative 27, 32, and 37 at East Tennessee State University’s Slocumb Gallery, in CHA-Art-Space at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, and at the Arts Center in Athens.

www.janburleson.com
Instagram @jan_burleson_

Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Hours: M-F 9-5 and Sat 10-1. Info: 865-523-7543, www.knoxalliance.com