Calendar of Events

12 PM via Zoom

Join us Friday, Oct. 28 for “Forest Stand Improvement Practices to Enhance Wildlife Habitat,” a presentation by Craig A. Harper, professor and extension wildlife specialist in the UT Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries.

Many landowners are interested in improving their woods for wildlife, but are not interested in a logging operation. Forest Stand Improvement encompasses a series of practices that may include a chainsaw, hatchet, herbicide, and fire to help landowners reach objectives for both wildlife and aesthetics.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Register Today
https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrdO2hpzspE9fOl4LJnqiPf0dAXpBba7c8

Started in 1933, the UT Science Forum is one of the oldest UT organizations. Its purpose? To share the latest research with the public.
Nearly 90 years later, the Science Forum provies an excellent opportunity for students, UT professors, and the public to learn about research at UT, ORNL, and other local facilities. https://scienceforum.utk.edu/

Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit "Buck" Ewing, the School of Art at the University of Tennessee is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Curated by Ewing Gallery staff members, this exhibition features ephemera and artwork from the Ewing's permanent collection spotlighting important moments and historic individuals in the history of the School of Art.

Join us for a reception on Thursday, November 10 from 5-7pm.

The Ewing Gallery will close November 23 - 27 for the Thanksgiving break.
UT School of Art: 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, https://art.utk.edu/

Halloween Tours! Nightly at 8 PM
Blount Mansion Association invites you to join us for a candlelight tour back in time. Learn the creepy but true ways that inhabitants of Blount Mansion would have commemorated the passing of their loved ones throughout the mansion's history, including the death of its most famous resident. Observe one of the "hair-raising" ways the Victorians remembered their dead, and be sure to spend a while in our gallery of historical family photos including both the living and the recently departed. Our Halloween tours also provide visitors one of the few chances to be inside Blount Mansion after dark to decide for yourself if history is still alive even though all the inhabitants have passed...

Tours will last approximately 30 minutes, and include a walk through the mansion followed by admission to our Victorian death photo gallery in the Craighead Jackson House next door. This tour will not include any jump scares, but will require walking, standing for the length of the tour, and some stairs. Please contact us in advance if you will need any accommodations.

Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-2375, www.blountmansion.org
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From 6:30pm-10:30pm on October 27-29, 2022, Mabry Hazen House will host A Victorian Séance Experience inside the front parlors of the 1858 historic house. For the fifth year, Mabry-Hazen House will exhibit this macabre, yet fascinating cultural moment during their immersive Halloween program. Under the guidance of a “Victorian medium,” the séances will reenact a nineteenth century Spiritualist seance filled with “mysterious and startling wonders.” Joining an “exposer of Spiritualism,” sitters will investigate historic “demonstrations” of mediumship. Relying on primary sources from the nineteenth century, these sessions reenact a Victorian séance and give you an immersive experience to investigate them.

Séances occur every 20 minutes starting at 6:30 pm and ending at 10:30pm. Sitters must select a specific date and time to reserve a seat at the table. Each session is limited to 7 sitters and strongly recommended tickets be purchased in advance, and all sitters must be 10 or older. Tickets are $20 per person and $15 for children (ages 10-16). Sitters should arrive at least 15 minutes before their reservation. Tickets can be purchased at www.mabryhazen.com/seance. Service fees apply for online purchases. Payments with cash or check are available. Call 865-522-8661 to arrange payment.

In addition to the séances, the House of Tarot will return where fortune tellers, astrologers, and tarot card readers will perform their craft for interested parties. Tickets for a fortune reading will be available at the door. “We want people to have a sense of the past and present through this event,” says Patrick Hollis, Executive Director of Mabry-Hazen House, “Spiritualism in the United States didn’t go extinct. It evolved into and merged with other religious denominations and beliefs that alive to this day.” Vendors will also have holiday items available for sale inside the House of Tarot. Halloween-themed silent films will also be shown outdoors on the lawn (weather permitting).

These sessions use the traditional tools of the Victorian séance to educate about the history of Spiritualism. These seances are for educational and entertainment purposes. This is not a demonstration of mediumship or a way to contact the deceased. It is not recommended for the recently bereaved.

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

All of our Fine Art Events are open to the public!

2329 Prosser Road, Knoxville, TN 37914; https://www.bereanchristian.org/copy-of-fine-arts

SELECTIONS FROM ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS’ PERMANENT COLLECTION
OCTOBER 24, 2022 – JANUARY 9, 2023 | SANDRA J. BLAIN GALLERIES

Beginning with its founding in 1912, Arrowmont has always provided fertile grounds for growth. As the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School, Gatlinburg’s community came together to teach one another different handicraft techniques and traditions. This practice of knowledge sharing laid the foundation for the craft school that exists today. Never static, Arrowmont continues to evolve to better facilitate artistic exchange. It first developed its signature summer workshop program in 1945, which opened Arrowmont’s doors to artists and makers who resided outside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and later creating Arrowmont’s Artists-in-Residence Program in 1991. This Artist-in-Residence Program offered early career artists with studio space, facilities, and access to the constantly shifting environment of artists, craftspeople, makers, and enthusiasts that comprises the Arrowmont community. Initially conceptualized around bringing together artists working in distinct craft categories, the Artist-in-Residence Program has recently expanded to promote multi- and interdisciplinary craft regardless of medium, thereby widening the perspectives, experiences, and creative explorations brought to Arrowmont’s campus.

The works in this exhibition highlight Arrowmont’s two distinct but interconnected goals: the promotion of individual artistic exploration and the development of community through collective, creative expression. For over a century, artists have converged in this specific place to practice, to make, to experiment, to play. Relatedly, the works on display range from donated workshop demonstrations and projects to works from professional artists who have connections to Arrowmont—past instructors, students, and staff. Arrowmont’s campus has proven to be the epicenter of a specific development of artistic exchange. Arrowmont is site-specific, a historic and cultural landmark nestled in the wooded hillside; Arrowmont is also conceptual, shaped by individual experiences and the legacies of its storied past. Diverse communities have shaped Arrowmont as Arrowmont—as site, as concept—has, in turn, shaped communities. Together, across time and medium, Arrowmont has carved its own body of principles, rules, standards, and norms, crafting past negotiations that continue in the present and will last into the future.

Curated by Kelli Fisher, the 2022-23 Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant/Curatorial Fellow.

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

OCTOBER 24 – DECEMBER 16, 2022 | GEOFFREY A. WOLPERT GALLERY

Whether gentle or destructive, wind has the power to create change. Windsocks, whirligigs, and weathervanes were once vital sources of information, measuring wind direction and speed. Now these formerly functional objects accumulate in antique malls and roadside souvenir shops, their utility relinquished for kitsch and nostalgic value. While these adornments are steeped in history and collective meaning, they are also outward expressions of an individual’s relationship to our past. Domestic scenes, normally relegated to interior spaces, are translated through weatherproof materials like steel and wood and projected outwards into public viewing spaces. The front yard becomes a gallery where the nuances of regional and personal identity are expressed through layers of symbols.

In Prevailing Winds, Kaleena Stasiak continues her exploration into the performative reproduction of formerly functional objects as a method for interpreting history and re-envisioning the future. In a moment of disillusionment with institutional knowledge, by hearkening back to human rituals of survival, these weather predictors point to the cyclical nature of time, and offer hope for the future. For Stasiak, making becomes an act of historical role playing as she invokes the generations of makers who came before her, and translates these objects for a contemporary art context.

Kaleena Stasiak is an interdisciplinary artist who uses an assortment of haptic media to explore collective mythmaking, and its relevance to the present day. Digging through a lexicon of symbols and imagery evoking American colonial times, folk art, and quilts, she reframes the dominant ideologies surrounding early history and domestic labor. Her graphic cyphers denote the power and breadth of traditional women’s work, functional handicraft, and the impulse to create. Decoration and ornamentation become expressions of desire, signifiers of identity, and autobiographical documentation of lives omitted from text-based historical narratives and artistic discourse. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Stasiak holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design and an MFA in Printmaking & Book Arts from the University of Georgia. Recent shows include Tournament of Lies at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, Ancient Art Objects at Whitespace in Atlanta, GA, and Identity Measures at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, LA. In 2017 Stasiak founded the South East Women Wrestlers, a performance troupe based in Athens, GA, that uses the spectacle of wrestling to reframe stereotypes and representations of femininity. She currently teaches Printmaking & Foundations at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.

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

A solo exhibition of works in a variety of media by Mark Wade of Houston, TX

Opening reception and celebration of the renovated and renamed gallery: Mon Oct 24, 3-5 PM

The Michael Alvis Art Gallery (formerly known as the Omega Gallery) at Carson-Newman University, Warren Art Building, corner of Branner & Ken Sparks Way, Jefferson City, TN 37760. Gallery hours: M-F 8-4. Information: 865-471-4985, www.cn.edu

Sheri Fleck Rieth and Tom Lee: Swansong, an exhibition of prints and sculpture

Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 9-5. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Hallo-Week Is Coming Oct. 24-29!

(All ages) Enjoy a week of fun-filled, family-friendly fall programs during Hallo-week at Ijams Oct. 24-29! Have a hoot at an owl prowl, go underground on a cave trip and more!

https://www.ijams.org/hallo-week-at-ijams

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920

We are excited to announce our first Guest Artist Show featuring Knoxville based artist Suzanne Jack. We offered a guest artist show to two winners selected from the annual TN Artist Association Annual Show. In addition to our award, one of her pieces earned "Best in Show"! Her art is worth seeing (and owning)!

Please join us for the Show Opening Thursday, Oct. 20 from 5 - 7pm.

Pivot Point Gallery, 15 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-248-0050, www.pivotpointgallery.com

Four millennials discover who they really are when catapulted into whimsical chaos by a strange, other-worldly spec of light. An energetic, alternative rom-com adventure! For mature audiences.

Hannah Benitez’ “Adaptive Radiation” will run in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre. For tickets: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/plays/adaptive-radiation/

Information on theatre safety protocols are available here: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/faq/

Behind the Scenes Sunday will take place following the October 23rd matinee. A Talk Back will take place Sunday, October 30th following the matinee. The Open Captioned performance is Sunday, October 6th at 2:00 pm.

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information/tickets: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com