Calendar of Events

LATRICE ROYALE, LIFE GOES ON TOUR at the Bijou Theatre on Sunday, May 28, at 7:30PM.

This show is for 18+.

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, https://knoxbijou.org/

Join in some yoga fun for Self Care Sundays with Hope Irwin!
May 28, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Give yourself all the self-love you deserve! Ijams is partnering with Hope Irwin to bring you a weekly yoga class on Sundays from 1-2 pm. Release all the stress from the past week and get centered for the week ahead. The location of this class will vary each week. You'll see different parts of Ijams, so this class may be indoors or outdoors! In the case of inclement weather, the class will be indoors. Classes will target flexibility, strength, and balance using variations of Vinyasa, Hatha, and Power flows. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Classes are $10 for adults and $5 for kids 5-12. Please bring a yoga mat with you.

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

Join The Big Camera for an in-depth look at different cyanotype techniques to explore beyond the blue!
May 28, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Join The Big Camera to explore beyond the blue! Cyanotypes can be toned to deep rich browns, and you'll learn to print your own negatives, layer negatives with natural material. You'll make a 100% cotton throw pillow cover as well as print on fabric flags and various papers, and you'll create a Cyanotype journal cover. This workshop is $100 per person and all materials are included. Ijams and A1LabArts Members get a discount for these workshops (membership will be verified before class). Tickets must be purchased ahead of time for these classes. No walk-up tickets will be available. This workshop is for teens 13 years old and up, and each person attending must purchase their own ticket.

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

SUNDAY AT 2 PM – 6 PM
At SouthSide Garage

The Old Sevier Sunday Market is shifting locations right next door to SouthSide Garage! Enjoy the beer garden ambiance while checking out over 30 vendors. PLUS DJ Captain Ed will be spinning his vinyl, of course! Leashed dogs welcomed, and family friendly!
Stay tuned for the vendor lineup!

https://www.facebook.com/events/808076383601304/

This family-friendly event occurs at a rustic outdoor festival site located in Harriman, about 30 miles west of Turkey Creek. All are invited to escape to the pirate haven of Port Royal, Jamaica, circa 1674.

The Tennessee Pirate Fest is planned for May 20-21, 27-28-29, 2023, from 11a-6p ET, at 550 Fiske Road. The festival will include eight acres of outdoor family-friendly stage entertainment, interactive costumed street characters, quality vendors, and a variety of games and activities.

For more information, please visit the pirate and medieval website www.TMFAIRE.com and sign up for updates. Like and follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TennesseeMedievalFaire/ or contact DarkhorseLLC@comcast.net.

Our ode to creativity, this exhibition reprises a challenge from a few years ago and asks artists to take items of
our choosing (we will provide the objects) and make an original composition including them!

At Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tu-F 9-5, Sa-M 1-4. Information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.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.

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/

A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned from 5:30 pm - 9 pm, May 5th, with complimentary refreshments and music.

Artist Julie Fawn Boisseau-Craig works in glass and porcelain primarily but utilizes metals and wood as necessary to create her sculptural pieces. Julie designs and creates many functional and wearable works at Wild Pony Studio, her personal studio in Rockford, Tennessee and does hot shop glass works at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, North Carolina. She has shown nationally and participated in many workshops and demonstrations. Her work directly responds to the contradictions of life. Julie received her Master of Fine Arts degree in December of 2012, after which, she taught at Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College in North Carolina. Julie is currently the President of the East Chapter of Tennessee Craft. Vice-President on the board of the Art Market Gallery as well as an exhibiting artist. Julie also concentrates on her studio work, art shows across the country and teaching workshops.

Nelson Ziegler is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston and Northwestern Academy of Watercolor. He is an award-winning painter and woodturner, both regionally and nationally. He was chosen The Great Smoky Mountain Spring Wildlife Pilgrimage Artist of the Year in 2016. He is a member of the National Watercolor Society, the Oil Painters of America, the Northshore Art Association, and the American Association of Woodturners. Nelson’s works are a part of Gatlinburg’s Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts permanent collection, as well as in many private and corporate collections throughout the country.

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