Calendar of Events

October is Architecture Month in Knoxville! Every year in Knoxville, AIA East Tennessee and partnered organizations host [Knoxville] By Design to highlight the significance of architecture and how design shapes our stories, lives, and communities. The event coincides with National Architecture Week and World Architecture Month, both celebrated in October. For information about events: including schedules, speakers, and registration details, you can find it here on the official [Knoxville] By Design website! https://www.knoxbydesign.org/#2023kbdevents

Art Salon with First Friday Gallery Opening - Friday, October 6, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Robin Easter Design
Join us for the First Friday gallery opening celebrating the vast range of original works of art created by architects and related professionals in East Tennessee. Art Salon has been a staple event for [Knoxville] By Design since the beginning and was envisioned to celebrate and showcase the vast range of original works of art created by architects, designers, emerging professionals, students, and allied professionals in the East Tennessee Region.

SIGHTS AND STORIES – Architectural Walking Tour - Saturday, October 7 10:00 am to Noon
Registration and more information coming soon!

DESIGN SLAM - Wednesday, October 18, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Printshop Beer Co.
Design SLAM! Knoxville is a fast-paced, live competition focused on design thinking, urban design, and presentation. Each year, the event pits teams of Knoxville area designers against one another to solve a local design challenge.

KNOX BRICKS AND BREWS - Thursday, October 19, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm @ Hi-Wire Brewing
Join us for a one-night-only pop-up Brick Bar. Drink, chat, and play with LEGO in a fun, no-pressure atmosphere. For those that like a little competition, LEGO builds can be entered for judging in one of several fun categories for a nominal entry fee.

KNOX BRICKS AND BLOCKS - Saturday, October 21, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm @ L&N STEM Academy
We invite kids, ages 5-18, to work with architects and designers to create an architectural design for the future! (Project specifics coming soon!) Participants will be paired with a local design professional to walk through the programming phase to come up with their own design.

TRIVIA NIGHT - Tuesday, October 24, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm @ Printshop Beer Co.
Join us for a fun night of trivia with trivia master, Brad Overton and put your pop-culture and regional architectural and design knowledge to the test.

Lecture: George Smart, HAIA - Thursday, October 26th, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm @ Bijou Theatre
Join AIA East Tennessee & Knox Heritage for cocktails, conversation, and a presentation by George Smart, HAIA, founder & CEO of USModernist®, the world’s largest nonprofit educational archive dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Modernist residential design. In this discussion, George Smart will explore the basic principles of Modernist design, why it’s important to our communities, and what participants can do about preservation, starting tomorrow. To read in more detail about this presentation, visit bit.ly/octoberdesignfeed.

Modernism Home Tour - Saturday, October 28, 10:00 AM – 4:00 pm - Start @ Mid Mod Collective
More info and ticket sales coming soon!

Opens Fri Oct 6, 5-9 PM
Nature Beauty and Sublime

"When we refer to beauty, we refer to a very ambiguous aesthetic term; that is, the theme of beauty is subjective. Since each era's concept of beauty changes, it evolves, and there are other intimate and inherent factors to space and time. However, when we talk about the sublime, we refer to something more intrinsic. In my artistic proposal, I try to make a fusion between feminine beauty and its environment — in addition to its relationship with the nature of our environment, seeking that state of reflection where the viewer can have a conscious vision of how beauty depends on how we perceive the cosmos of nature.

This exhibition came to represent a synthesis of a creative process that began a few years ago where the faces, figures, elements of nature, and architectural structures of Honduras are implicit. Evoking the colonial identity and the exuberance of our Latin American spaces, I also incorporate the landscape that blends with the environment of the work.

Regarding the formal dimension of my work, it is symmetrical and asymmetrical compositions that seek the balance of being in its environment ranging from faces with neat finishes that go beyond denotative representation and seek to find that point of balance between the beautiful and sublime of our land Latin America."

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

Join us on Friday, October 6th for the #FirstFriday Opening Reception of 'Engaged in the Critical Art of Looking' by Althea Murphy-Price! Regular Gallery Hours: M-F | 9AM-5PM

Inspired by the social implication of beauty and its relationship to female identity, women and culture. Topics of real and false, decoration, and imitation are explored in two and three dimensional working methods, using traditional and non-conventional approaches to printmaking, and sculpture.

Althea Murphy-Price began her studies in Fine Art at Spelman College before receiving her Master of Arts in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and later studying at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University where she earned her Master of Fine Arts. Her artwork has been shown widely throughout the country as well as international cities in Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden. Her writings and work have been featured in such publications as Art Papers Magazine, CAA Reviews, Contemporary Impressions Journal, Art in Print, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process., and Printmakers Today.

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

Join us this fall for three days of equality, community, activism, and pride!
https://www.knoxpride.com/pride-fest-2023

Townsend Artisan Guild is hosting an art event at the Townsend Visitors Center in Townsend, TN on October 6, 7, 8. The event will feature the work of 17 local artists who are juried members of the Guild.
The event includes demonstrations of art all three days. All artwork will be for sale.

Townsend Artisan Guild is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote interest in and appreciation of the arts through community activities, exhibits, classes, festivals and workshops.

Dates: October 6, 7, 8
Times: Friday and Saturday 9am - 5pm. Sunday 9am - 3:30 pm.
Location: Townsend Visitors Center, 7906 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Townsend, TN.
www.townsendartisanguild.org
email: townsendartisanguild@gmail.com
FB: Townsend Artisan Guild

Hours: Friday 5-9 PM, Saturday 10 AM - 1 PM
Parker Greene and Lydia Messer

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

Friday, October 6 from 4 - 7pm
Preview Sale for Members and UT Employees
Not a member? Join at the sale! Members enjoy a 10% discount on all purchases (both days).

Saturday, October 7 from 9am - 2pm
Public Sale
Shop from a diverse selection of plants including regionally native species, assorted trees, shrubs, conifers, perennial flowers and foliage plants, as well as fall veggies. Gardens staff and Master Gardeners will be on hand to help customers with plant suggestions and general garden advice. All proceeds benefit the UT Gardens.
Plant availability list will be available soon on our website and social media.

UT Gardens, Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-7151, https://utgardens.tennessee.edu/

TWO DAY FALL FINE ART, ANTIQUES, AND JEWELRY AUCTION

We invite you to bid in our Two-Day Fall Auction on Friday, October 6th 2023 at 4 PM EST (lots 1-186), and Saturday, October 7th at 9 AM EST (lots 187-810). This auction will take place at our Knoxville, Tennessee headquarters. In-person bidding plus phone, absentee, and internet bidding will be available. Over 800+ lots of fine art, antiques, and jewelry from the Tennessee estates of Naomi Judd, Jo Ann Cline Yates of Lookout Mountain, the collection of Ronnie Steine of Nashville, and deaccessioned objects from the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis.

Case Auctions provides direct online bidding at the same low buyers premium as phone and absentee bidding! Create an account to start bidding with us today! https://auction.caseantiques.com/

Case Auctions
TN #7344 - TN #6045
caseauctions.com
Knoxville: (865) 558-3033

Thermal Label Warehouse/Shaw Family Pops Series
Friday, October 6, 2023, at 8:00 p.m.
Tennessee Theatre

Crooner Tony DeSare and powerhouse singer Capathia Jenkins join the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for a tribute to Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and more. An evening of swingin’ standards, including “The Lady is a Tramp,” “Love is Here to Stay,” and “Come Fly with Me.”

Information/tickets: 865-291-3310 or https://knoxvillesymphony.com

Grab your favorite blanket or lawn chair and join the fun. Doors open at 7 pm and movies begin at dark (~8:30-9:00 pm; movie start times are not exact). Food trucks and the Ijams beer garden will have tasty meals, snacks, and beverages for purchase. NO COOLERS AND NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL PLEASE. Dogs are allowed, but must be on leash at all times. These events are on the Ijams Visitor Center lawn. In case of inclement weather, a rain plan will be posted on the event page on the Ijams Calendar of Events and social media outlets. Tickets are $10 per person or $36 for a family four-pack. (Special ticket pricing of $15 per person for Terror in the Woods includes the haunted trail from FrightWorks.) Space is limited per screening. Purchasing tickets ahead of time is highly recommended. Walk-up tickets may not be available.

Lineup
Oct. 6 - Sleepy Hollow (R)

https://www.ijams.org/movies-under-the-stars

OCTOBER'S FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT WITH THREE FEATURED ARTISTS!
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Jessie Van der Laan, Kelly Hider, Lynne Marinelli Ghenov

These three talented artists will be displaying their work together at Able Trade for Gallery Night along with our members.

Able Trade, 203 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: https://weareabletrade.com/ or www.instagram.com/abletradeknox/

This year promises to be the biggest and best Parade Knox Pride Fest has ever seen and Knox Pride cordially invites you to be a part of the celebration! 2023 PrideFest Theme is “Celebrate. Pride. Protest.” so this year’s event is more than just a parade, it is a MARCH FOR EQUALITY. With hundreds of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills introduced across the country this year alone, we want to take this moment to remind everyone that we are here, worthy of love and equality, and we’re not going anywhere.

The parade will start promptly at 7:00 pm; details TBA
https://www.knoxpride.com/pride-fest/parade