Calendar of Events

Get ready for 10 fun-filled, action-packed days full of your fair favorites: concerts, rides, food, competitions, and more!

2022 CONCERTS
Saturday, September 10, 2022 Fiddlers' Convention
Sunday, September 11, 2022 Queen Nation
Monday, September 12, 2022 Dylan Scott
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Bret Michaels
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 TBA
Thursday, September 15, 2022 Ryan Hurd
Friday, September 16, 2022 Joan Jett
Sunday, September 18, 2022 Clint Black

**You must also purchase fair admission with your concert tickets to gain entrance to the fair.**

865.215.1471 or https://www.tnvalleyfair.org/

In the Schilling Gallery of Westminster Presbyterian Church from September 7 - October 29, 2022.

Plein air and other paintings

Robert Felker was born in Knoxville and grew up in Nashville. He has a BFA in Media Arts from the School of Visual Arts, NYC where he studied painting and illustration. After several years as a freelance illustrator, he worked in graphic design for more than 25 years while continuing to paint and make collages. His Patron Saints of Rock series started as a labor of love and has evolved into a promising project with some commercial success. He also paints landscapes en plein air and in studio as well as public art, having painted the Cormac McCarthy Firefly Mural on Clinch Avenue, the Bijou Theatre’s 111th Anniversary Commemorative Mural and “East Tennessee Sunrise,” a mural collaboration with R.B. Morris, inspired by the poetry of President Jimmy Carter and located at the Knoxville Habitat for Humanity headquarters.

https://www.robertfelker.com/

Westminister Presbyterian Church, 6500 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: M-R 9-4, Fri 9-12. Information: (865) 584-3957 or www.wpcknox.org

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

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/

Receptions will be Friday, September 2 and Friday, October 7 from 5-9pm at the Gallery.

The 2022 AIR Biennial will showcase of the work of our past 4 Artists in Residence at the University of Tennessee School of Art: Heidi Howard, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Zahar Vaks, and Curtis Talwst Santiago.

The Artist in Residence Program was initiated in 1982. Each semester an invited resident artist teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Painting + Drawing curriculum. The AIR program is highly successful in making a direct connection to the marketplace of ideas that surrounds art centers such as New York City, Chicago, and LA. The Artists in Residence invited to campus represent a spectrum of current sensibilities in painting and 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

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

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.

In this new exhibition, Risa Hricovsky showcases small sculptural installations from her series Strange Stranger.

Risa Hricovsky received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a post-baccalaureate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BFA from Bowling Green State University. Recently, she received a Bailey Opportunity Grant, Current Art Fund Grant, and won First Place in Mixed Media in the Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics (OH). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has attended many prestigious residencies, most notable of which are the Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skælskør, Denmark and SIM in Reykjavik. Iceland. Currently, Hricovsky is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN.

Risa Hricovsky is a post-discipline/installation artist. Her work pushes the boundaries between painting and sculpture and between art, design and craft. The artworks she creates punctuate space through pattern, color, and her use of the multiple. The work juxtaposes similarly colored materials with opposing properties, such as fired porcelain with soft sculpture or paper. In doing so, each material takes on characteristics of the other, giving rise to misperception and subtly introducing tension within the calm of repetition. In her work, the series Strange Stranger is a collection of sculptures made with different materials with varying degrees of likeness. The sculptures all have a familiarity that draws the viewer in but simultaneously reject identification as knowable objects. This ambiguity creates tension within the viewer, who wants the object to be recognizable yet can enjoy the sculpture on a formal and aesthetic level. These sculptures are constructed with materials such as porcelain, thread, repurposed plastics, polymer clay, fabric, foam, paint, glitter and more.

Instagram @Risa.Hricovsky

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

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.

Greg Lach was born in Pittsburgh, PA and his artistic philosophy formed at Canevin High School and classes at Carnegie Mellon and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He learned that all artists should be photographers, and all photographers should be artists, an outlook reflected in his current work. He received his BFA from the University of Dayton, OH after attending the Dayton Art Institute and working for H&H Art Studios. Working as a photographer, he opened his own studio in the late 1970s. Lach continued to paint in watercolor and acrylic, being active in the Dayton Society of Painters & Sculptors as well as Professional Photographers of Southwest Ohio and Professional Photographers of Ohio. He has exhibited in numerous shows, fairs and exhibitions around the country. He lived north of Dayton for over 40 years and now lives in Seymour, TN, where he works on pixel painting watercolor, acrylic portraits, still life, landscapes and Dollywood paintings and commissioned works.

With the coming of the Digital Age, I embraced digital photography and pixel painting: two areas where, combined with the traditional art of watercolor, I’ve created “Pixel Portraits and Landscapes”. This combination of brush strokes and digital manipulation produces a one-of-a-kind image. Where does the brush stroke and photograph begin or end?

www.facebook.com/GregLachArtistPhotographer

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