Calendar of Events

Tiny Stage Comedy Show is back May 13 for an evening of live music and stand-up comedy on the Ijams Visitor Center back patio as part of the Ijams Sunset Series! Tickets are $10 at the door. (Ages 18+)

May 13, 8:00-9:30 PM

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

Returns for Spring Fun!
Saturday, May 13, 2023
12:00 - 5:00 PM ET

Vestal Arts and Heritage Association will host the return of Vestival, an annual arts and music festival held on the historic Candoro Marble Company grounds. Vestival provides a diverse cultural and artistic event to the general public with a particular emphasis placed on serving the citizens of the Vestal community. Vestal was once a vibrant industrial community when the Vestal Lumber Company and the Candoro Marble Works were major industrial organizations.

Vestival will showcase Knoxville's local artists, food vendors and crafters as well as local performers. The 2023 mainstage music lineup includes local musicians Tim Woody, All Signs Point North, Pistol Creek Catch of the Day, Zach Russell and headliner, the Tennessee Sheiks. In addition to the main stage, local talent will be spread out across the Vestival grounds. Folks can sit and jam with local bluegrass musician and University of Tennessee student, Baker Northern at the “Picker’s Tent” for an hour of pickin’. Dragonfly Aerial Arts is returning with circus art performances on the grounds in the late afternoon.

Our children’s section will feature the Friends of the Library reading tent. Children and their families are invited to sit in the shade and listen to a story read once every hour! Admission to Vestival is a suggested $5 donation. Parking information and updates will be announced on the Vestival Facebook page, including shuttle schedule and more.
THIS IS A RAIN OR SHINE EVENT.

Mainstage Talent Schedule
12:00 pm - Tim Woody
1:00 pm - All Signs Point North
2:00 pm - Pistol Creek Catch of the Day
3:00 pm - Zach Russell
4:00 pm - Tennessee Sheiks (HEADLINER)

For more information on Vestival, please visit: https://www.candoromarble.org/vestival or contact: candoromarble@gmail.com

Sat May 13, 2-6 PM
311 South Weisgarber Rd Suite F (left side)

Works for sale, both old and new!
Emily Taylor: 865-250-3540 or ebtaylorhulse @ gmail.com
Owen Weston: ohweston @ earthlink.net

Celebrate Maifest withSchulz Bräu Brewing!

We have a great line up of events for the three-day festival, May 12th through May 14, don't miss it! Expect a farmer's market, spring festival, and mini-Oktoberfest all in one!
This Event is Rain-or-Shine!

More information at http://www.schulzbraubrewing.com/maifest/

Artist: Holly Whisenant

This student exhibit at Gallery 1010 will be on display in the downtown Emporium Building for two days only. "Historical Figures" celebrates the important story each individual contributes this global experience we call life. It will include gestural plein air sketches, photo recreations, and some letterpress elements. The exhibiting artist draws inspiration from Hung Liu, Danny Lyon, and Brandon Stanton. "Historical Figures" opens on Friday, May 12, 2023, from 5-7 pm; there will also be viewing hours on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from 10 am-1 pm.

Artist Contact: (901) 598-1764 or hreed3@vols.utk.edu

Gallery 1010, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 114, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: https://gallery1010.utk.edu/

Halls Branch: Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13, 10-5

Friends of the Knox County Public Library: 865-215-8775 or www.knoxfriends.org/

When: May 8-June 4 (Downtown) | June 6-July 5 (West Knox)

Don’t miss a personal collection of Market Square Farmers’ Market photos featuring vendors, shoppers, happenings, and memories over the past 20 years, taken by local photographers Holly Rainey and Shawn Poynter.
https://www.instagram.com/holly__rainey/
http://www.poynterphotoco.com/

Enjoy a meal at Tomato Head to view and purchase these beautiful, framed prints - perfect for the MSFM super fan.

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

May 8 – June 15, 2023 the Knoxville Museum of Art will be closed for gallery renovations. We will reopen June 16, 2023 with a projection-based sculptural installation by artist Courtney Egan, up through August 27. Followed by Jane Cassidy’s audio-visual installation Drink Up the Moon September 1-November 12, 2023.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tu-Sa 10-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org. Admission and parking are free.

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

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/