Calendar of Events

Downtown Knoxville First Friday Artwalk at Awaken Coffee!
Feat. Paper Artist & printmaker Stacia from Beastie + Bone (https://linktr.ee/beastieandbone)
And…
Live Music from Melissa Hale!
(https://linktr.ee/MelissaHale)

Come grab some coffee, art and listen to some local tunes Friday May 5th!
Inspired by the ecosystems Stacia encountered in her many moves and trips across the United States, Stacia brings together conservation, paleontology, and memento mori into a celebration of the wild, dark, hopeful, and kind, and seeks to spark curiosity and compassion in those who encounter her work. The illustrations and linocuts assembled into this show were created both in her small studio here in Knoxville, TN, and her previous home in Seattle, WA.

Learn more about Beastie and Bone and Stacia’s ventures into nature and art online at www.beastieandbone.com, or on Instagram, TikTok, Vero, or Lemon8 at @beastieandbone.

Awaken Coffee
125 W Jackson Ave
https://www.facebook.com/events/248404300903197/

Dogwood Arts and the Songbirds Foundation are proud to announce the 2023 Epiphone Guitar Design Contest. The contest is open to all high school and middle school students living in East Tennessee. Several guitar designs created by youth artists will be selected for implementation and exhibition. The art guitars will be displayed at the Dogwood Arts Gallery in Knoxville and at the Songbirds Guitar Museum, a one-of-a-kind guitar museum located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The guitars will be auctioned to benefit Dogwood Arts’ youth art programs & the Songbirds Foundation’s Guitars for Kids initiative.

Winning designers will each receive $50 for art supplies and complimentary tickets to Southern Skies Music Festival (May 20-21, 2023); additional cash prizes will be awarded to select artists at the exhibition reception.

The online auction will be live from April 3 - May 26, 2023
Guitars will be displayed at the Songbirds Guitar Museum (Chattanooga) during the month of April 2023.
Guitars will be displayed in the Dogwood Arts Gallery (Knoxville) during the month of May 2023
An exhibition reception and awards ceremony will take place on Friday, May 5th at the Dogwood Arts Gallery from 5-8PM (Awards at 6PM)
Select guitars will also be on display at the Southern Skies Music Festival (May 20-21, 2023)
Auction will conclude on May 26, 2023

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

A free gathering with the artists will take place on Friday, May 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live music inside the Emporium by Vance Thompson Quartet. 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 https://www.knoxalliance.store.

This new exhibition includes watercolor and oil paintings.

Melancholy’s Epiphany is about infractions, labels, assumptions.
It's about a stand.
It's about her, and all of her almost-epiphanies.
It's about a fragmented chain of her.
It's not about then.
It's not about when.
It's about now.

The golden thread of sheer existence that binds us to one another and with the universe pulls me further onward through this exploration of color, light, trickery and enchantment. I am inspired to create pieces that convey freedom of spirit. I paint about the light that settles in our souls and the idea that there is a natural touchstone for all of us as humans.

Tracye Burnett Sowders (b. 1965) is a prolific painter in various media including watercolor, oils, pen and ink, and alcohol inks. She is also a calligrapher, hand quilter and needleworker, illustrator, portrait artist and pianist. She exhibits regularly throughout Knoxville, Sevierville, Gatlinburg, Nashville, and parts of New England including Manhattan and Staten Island. Her original watercolors, oils and quilts are in private collections all over the United States, Australia, Canada, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, England and New Zealand. She regularly participates in various festivals and exhibitions across the southeast and New England. Locally, her works may be found at Smoky Mountain Art in Gatlinburg, Knoxville Visitors Center, Tea & Treasures, Knoxville Soap Candle and Gifts, Ijams Nature Center, Alice in Appalachia, Mystical Beginnings, and The Holistic Connection in Knoxville.

https://www.facebook.com/Tracye.Sowders
Instagram @tracyeburnettsowdersartist

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Saturdays, May 6 & 13 only, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see https://www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

A free gathering with the artists will take place on Friday, May 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live music inside the Emporium by Vance Thompson Quartet. 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 https://www.knoxalliance.store.

I am more than a decade into developing my representational painting skills. I have honed my methodology for how I develop a painting by breaking it into manageable steps: first, I choose a subject with personal meaning based on my travels or a subject close to home in East Tennessee. The image must be a strong composition and contain a range of tonal values from darks to lights, which I manage by completing an underpainting using only burnt sienna. I then concentrate on colors and brush application, determining whether to make brush strokes apparent. By slowly edging away from my original tendency toward photorealism, some of my new works have a more painterly feel while still retaining detail as a photograph would.

Creating a painting is always an exciting journey, as I am never quite sure whether it will be as successful as I have envisioned it in my mind.

In college, Allen Monsarrat first studied architecture and then graduated with a BFA concentrating in pottery. His first art career was as a studio potter in Friendsville, TN for 25 years, followed by a career in decorative wall finishes, faux painting, cabinetry finishing and the occasional mural project. He began working in pastels in 2018 to counter his tendency towards too much realism.
www.monsarratart.com

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Saturdays, May 6 & 13 only, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see https://www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

A free gathering with the artists will take place on Friday, May 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live music inside the Emporium by Vance Thompson Quartet. 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 https://www.knoxalliance.store.

Lynda Best is an original impressionistic, contemporary artist of nature spirits. She was born in Wichita, Kansas and has lived all over the southern U.S. When she discovered the clear, clean waters of Tennessee, she knew she had to make it her home. She earned a degree in Arts Education from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and later received an Ed.S. in Leadership while working in the public schools. During that time, she also taught art classes for the Tennessee Arts Commission. Throughout her career as an educator, she always used art to reach children. After teaching 36 years, she retired in May 2014, and has used her time to focus on nature, family, gardening, and her art. Her paintings are a form of meditation as she creates calming images.

She also sculpts in stone when inspiration calls to her. She developed her own style for showing the “frozen moment”: when time stops, we’re a witness to nature, and it fills us with a sense of wonder and awe. Our spirit is found and often rediscovered in nature, and it is this spiritual connection that nourishes and inspires her art. Best captures this “moment” with acrylic in a modern impressionistic style, using entrancing outlines and colors to “freeze” the continual, everchanging movement of nature.
www.LyndaBestArtist.com
https://www.facebook.com/LyndaBestArtist

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Saturdays, May 6 & 13 only, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see https://www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

A free gathering with the artists will take place on Friday, May 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live music inside the Emporium by Vance Thompson Quartet. 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 https://www.knoxalliance.store.

This new exhibition, associated with the state-wide Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, features a group of artists offering a variety of responses to the theme "Re-Pair/Re-Connect." This theme can be interpreted broadly to reference ideas such as ongoing post-pandemic renewal of public interaction and community events; interpersonal relationships and communication; individual renewal of creative vision, values, sense of self, and role in society; and relationships with the environment.

The exhibiting artists are members of A1LabArts, a nonprofit, Knoxville-based arts organization founded in 1995.
www.a1labarts.com

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Saturdays, May 6 & 13 only, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see https://www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

A free gathering with the artists will take place on Friday, May 5, from 5:00-9:00 PM and features live music inside the Emporium by Vance Thompson Quartet. 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 https://www.knoxalliance.store.

The inspiration for this exhibition came during early morning walks through dew-covered pastures which provide the spiritual experience of nature. Our friendship developed as we participated in a community of artists called Art Group 21. Since we both live in Lenoir City, we began walking together three times a week which has continued to this day.

On our year-round walks which cover 80 acres of farmland, we watch the seasonal changes in weather conditions and vegetation. There is abundant evidence of wildlife in the fields, woods and along the gravel roads. We pass farm animals, plants and trees, new and deteriorating structures, and regularly used or abandoned farm equipment, elements we express in our artworks.

Barb Rybolt Johnson graduated with a teaching degree in Art Education from Indiana State University. In 2013, after years of teaching, she gave time to creating art, beginning with acrylic painting. Since then, she has been an active member of the Arts & Culture Alliance and Art Group 21. Her paintings have received awards in exhibitions at the Emporium, McGhee Tyson Airport, Oak Ridge Art Center, and the Plateau Creative Arts Center in Fairfield Glade.

Susan B. Miller received her BFA from the University of Tennessee in drawing. She has painted in watercolor since 2010. She is a signature member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society and Art Group 21, and she has received awards in local and national competitions.

The exhibitions will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. The Emporium is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Saturdays, May 6 & 13 only, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. For more information, please see https://www.knoxalliance.com or call (865) 523-7543.

Opens Fri May 5, 5-9 PM
Cinco de Mayo celebration featuring Leonardo Romero, Manuel Carreon, and La Familia Mejia.

HoLa Hora Latina, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 112, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-335-3358, www.holahoralatina.org

Written by Sandy Rustin
Additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price
Original music composed by Michael Holland
Adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn

Six mysterious guests assemble at a remote mansion for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. A race to find the killer ensues as the body count stacks up. WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT! Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic board game.

PG-13 AUDIENCES

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, https://www.orplayhouse.com/

The Tennessee Stage Company opens it’s thirty-third season with a new program: Knoxville Shakespeare “On The Hill”. In collaboration with the Mabry-Hazen House Historic Home we will present the History play Richard II. One of Shakespeare’s most beautifully written plays it tells the story of the dethroning of King Richard II by Henry Bolingbroke, who would become King Henry IV. The play will be presented on the grounds of the historic house museum. Evelyn Hazen, the last of the Mabry-Hazen family to live in the house was very fond of Shakespeare’s works and Richard II was her favorite play. Attendees are encourages to bring lawn chairs, picnic blankets and other ways to enjoy this open air show. Refreshments and light concessions will be available for purchase. General admission is $15 per person, and $50 for a group of four tickets. Special pricing is available for people who live in zip codes 37915 and 37916. For this special pricing, visit Mabry-Hazen House or the ticket box with proof of residence. For general admission tickets, visit Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knoxville-shakespeare-on-the-hill-richard-ii-tickets-530693958917

May 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14
7:30 pm nightly outdoors at the Mabry-Hazen House Historic Hoe
2:00 pm 0n Sundays

“Richard II” is the haunting story of usurpation of the throne of England by Henry Bolingbroke – soon to be Henry IV – from Richard II. What is the divine right of King’s and when does it end? When is power usurped and when is it gathered up and wielded properly? And who is to say which King is the true and proper King? “let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of king’s”.

Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37915. Information: 865-522-8661 or www.mabryhazen.com
Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, https://tennesseestage.com/, https://www.facebook.com/TNStageCo

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. No Tickets. It's Free!

Jazz Tuesdays – Every week 7-9 PM

May 2 - Greg Tardy Quartet
May 9 - Tahj Walsh Quintet
May 16 - Vance Thompson Quartet
May 23 - Jack Roben Trio
May 30 - Sam Adams Quartet
June 6 - Margherita Fava Quartet
June 13 - Mark Boling Trio Life
June 20 - Taber Gable Quartet
June 27 - Ken Brown Quintet

To stay updated on bands and any cancellations due to weather, visit the City of Knoxville Special Events Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CityofKnoxvilleSpecialEvents.

https://www.downtownknoxville.org/featured/concerts/

Paintings by Barbara Thomas and Glass Art by Cathie Fitzjohn

In Westminster Presbyterian Church's Schilling Gallery
6500 Northshore Dr.
(865-584-3957)
www.wpcknox.org
Hours: Monday thru Thursday, 9 AM to 4 PM, Friday 9 AM to noon