Calendar of Events

Make plans to join us at Appalachian Arts on Saturday, May 6 to kick off the Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale. Throughout the day (10AM-4PM) there will be live artist demonstrations, live music by Domino Ensemble (12PM-1PM), and Shirley's Boy Country Cooking Food Truck (11AM-2PM).

Beautiful garden-themed artwork by local artists, such as garden markers, garden décor, and nature photography, will also be featured. In addition, the Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale features a variety of donated plants: perennials, annuals, and native varieties – with proceeds directly benefiting the Appalachian Arts. Can’t make it on May 6? The Plant & Garden Art Sale runs from May 6 – May 20. For additional information, call 865-494-9854 or visit appalachianarts.net.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Knoxville Classical Guitar's Spring Fundraiser and our last concert of the season.

Please join us for a beautiful night of music as Knoxville Classical Guitar presents our Spring Fundraiser. You'll hear music performed by local and professional guitarists, students, and The Knoxville Classical Guitar Ensemble!

Can't make the concert? Please consider making a donation!

Where: The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, Knoxville, TN
425 North Cedar Bluff Road, Knoxville, TN 37923

When: Saturday, May 6th at 7:00 PM.
 
Information: 865-686-2067, https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com

Join us for a May Day Festival supporting Legacy Parks’ project, the SoKno Art Trail! Businesses along Sevier Avenue are coming together to support this exciting project by donating proceeds from the event to Legacy Parks. Come enjoy live music, beer, food, a vendor market and more!

Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 2:00pm
https://legacyparks.org/events/

Sat May 6, 11 AM at Appalachian Arts and Crafts Center

A very special show in collaboration with Knoxville's poet laureate Rhea Canon. New music and poetry for a unique offering.

Free and open to the public! For more information visit https://www.dominoensemble.com/copy-of-projects-1

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN

Come fill out your garden this Spring at our Spring Plant Sale May 6! All proceeds from the sale directly benefit the Knoxville Botanical Gardens. Members will have access starting at 9am, with general sales starting at 10am. The sale will last until around 3pm.

We’re excited this year to have stock from several local and regional nurseries, including East Fork Nursery in Sevier County and Hoffman Nursery in North Carolina. We will be featuring three Carex species from Hoffman. We will also feature several natives propagated on site at the Gardens. Other vendors include:

~ Native Plant Rescue Squad
~ Wilson Fine Gardens
~ East Fork Nursery

The event will be held at the Carriage House, 2649 Boyd’s Bridge, where it has been held in years past.
Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave, Knoxville, TN 37914. Hours: Gardens open daily from sunrise to sunset. Information: 865-862-8717, www.knoxgarden.org

(Ages 14+) Enjoy the beauty of spring and learn what natives are blooming on a guided wildflower walk next Saturday, May 6, from 2-3:30 p.m.!

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Visitor Center open daily 10-6; grounds and trails open daily from 8 AM - dusk. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Close out the semester with an opera performance, as VolOpera presents Dido & Aeneas. Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.

May 6, 3:00 p.m.
Room 209
Alumni Memorial Building

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. Venues: Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, 1741 Volunteer Boulevard; James R. Cox Auditorium and Performance Hall 32, Alumni Memorial Building, 1408 Middle Drive. Information: 865-974-8935, https://music.utk.edu/events/

Derby Day Soirée

Ladies and gents don their finest frocks, feathered hats and debonair regalia for an evening of juleps and jockeys at The Tennessean Hotel on Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 5-8 p.m. Guests cheer for their choice thoroughbred during the live broadcast of the Kentucky Derby, enjoy live music, best dressed contests and tastings from sponsor Woodford Reserve, alongside a delectable Derby dinner with Tennessean flair. Tickets include a welcome Mint Julep, dinner featuring favorites from Kentucky Benedictine Smoked Salmon Rolls and Deviled Eggs to Fried Chicken Pimento Cheese Sliders and Oyster Bar. The 21+ event is ticketed for $150 per person. Required reservations are made by visiting https://www.eventbrite.com/e/derby-day-soiree-tickets.

The Tennessean Hotel, 531 Henley St, Knoxville, TN 37902
(865) 232-1800, https://www.thetennesseanhotel.com/

This market will highlight 40 local and regional vendors who specialize in incredible artisan crafts, handmade good, vintage clothing finds and art! Crafty Bastard brewery will be pouring an incredible array of locally crafted beers along with local food trucks serving up delicious food all day.

Local musical acts will fill out the weekend along with lively music played throughout the event.

This event is sure to become a Knoxville staple! May 6th and 7th, 2023 marks the first PRETTY FUN MARKET of the year with another to come in SEPTEMBER!

Event hours are 12pm-6pm with plenty of parking in the neighborhood nearby. This event is FREE to all, ALL AGES and dogs are welcome.
6 Emory Pl., Knoxville TN 37917
https://www.facebook.com/events/231575036116151/

CURATED BY ILANA LILIENTHAL, TALLYA BEN-SIRA & ANAT AHOUVI BARUCH

PRESENTING ARTWORKS BY GILI AVISSAR, GITTIT ALEXANDRA FRIDBERG, MARIA MERFELD, CARL GOMBERT, JOSEPH ASHMAN and OREL BRODT

Opening with a 5:30 PM Gallery Talk - wine and live entertainment.

23 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN

Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm or by Appointment
For sales inquires, please call or email. (865) 200-4401 or lilienthalgallery@gmail.com
IG @lilienthalgallery
www.lilienthalgallery.com

Relay Ridge has an open artist studios + opening gallery reception for solo exhibition of Vincent Drake at our gallery (My 5-june 9th) and we'll be doing printmaking demos in the printshop on Friday. we also have 2 open studios available starting in June with applications due May 15th...we have other events coming up too....

We'll be open 6-9pm Friday May 5
We have a new exhibition in the gallery "Our America" by Vincent Drake @artistvincentdrake
Wildflower Printing demo + sale in printshop!

Check out all the Relay Ridge artists and their studios on Friday featuring:
@eleanoraldrich
@childlike.creative
@gstucchio
@knoxflair
@sarahpeeler
@studioswadman
@ashton_ludden
@elysiaallalong

Drake was chosen for our first local Call for Exhibitions via democratic votes. The first-round was judged by a 10-member panel of 2023 Penland Winter Resident Artists, and from that, the finalist was determined by a panel of the Relay Ridge Studio Artists.
“I’m inspired by the absurdity of modern American society; The irrational ideals we’re convinced to accept, the relentless marketing and propaganda, the tribalism, disgust, perverted romanticism and violence that has become characteristic of us. In my art I’m unconcerned with beauty or idealization. I’m interested in investigating our culture’s influence on our identities and the confusion, panic, and suffering that results. My subjects are people; sometimes we as individuals, sometimes us as a group. They are part mechanical construction, part hallucination; both comical and uncomfortable; suffering, confused, and trapped by their emptiness and proselytized ambitions.”

https://relayridge.org/

May’s Guest Artists, Three Dames from Knoxville present “Summer Hues” at the Plateau Creative Arts Center’s Fun & Wine First Friday Reception, Friday, May 5 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive in Fairfield Glade.

The area’s high school seniors’ artwork will also be on display in the gallery and a special awards ceremony will be held celebrating the winning entries. The public is invited to come to this free event and enjoy a glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage, meet the Three Dames; Linda Blair, Marcia Shelly and Cheryl Massey, high school student honorees and other artists, and view a wonderful variety of artwork. Light refreshments will also be served.

The paintings of the Three Dames and the high school seniors’ artwork will be on display along with the members’ gallery artwork exhibit from May 5 through June 1. The Arts Center is open to the public Monday through Saturday from 9:00-4:00. All artwork in the gallery and in the Endless Possibilities Shop is available for purchase.

https://artguildfairfieldglade.net/