Calendar of Events

Kiwanis Got Talent! Dinner and Talent Show featuring members and Friends of Kiwanis Club of Northside Knoxville. Thursday, October 26, 6:00-8:00PM at The Foundry,
747 Worlds Fair Park Drive.

This event is a fundraiser to benefit the service projects of the Kiwanis Club of Northside Knoxville. $45 per person. For information and reservations contact Terry Weber, terry@wordplayers.org or 865 208 7470.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 5:30PM
McCarty Auditorium. Art + Architecture Building. UT Campus

Jorge Lucero is a Mexican-American artist who currently serves as Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art + Design at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sometimes he serves as the Chair of that program. Lucero received his Master degree and PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and his undergraduate degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to moving into higher education Lucero happily taught art and art history at the Chicago Public School, Northside College Prep. As part of his lifelong work to test the material and conceptual pliability of “school” Lucero participates in and around the academy in every manner possible.

UT School of Art: 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, https://art.utk.edu/

Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Bijou Theatre

Join Knox Heritage & AIA East Tennessee the evening before the conference for cocktails and a presentation by George Smart, HAIA, founder & CEO of USModernist® at the historic Bijou Theatre. USModernist® is the world's largest nonprofit educational archive dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Modernist residential design. 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. With many of America's mid-century Modernist architects and their original clients no longer living; their houses have been sold several times; and the local real estate community would just as soon market teardowns as find new, caring owners. Despite many Modernist houses aging over the 50-year mark, city councils and preservation groups have a hard time considering Modernist houses to be historic - because 50 years later many still look like the future. With bulldozers continuing to destroy mid-century Modernist houses, these livable works of art continue to be threatened by rising land prices and disinterested heirs. Not to fear! George will educate attendees on how documenting, preserving, and promoting residential Modernist design benefits the architecture and construction industries. To read in more detail about this presentation, visit https://bit.ly/octoberdesignfeed.

This event will feature a cash bar and free small bites. This event is free and open to the public, but we do ask that you register to attend. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aia-east-tennessee-design-feed-with-george-smart-haia-tickets-686674651367

Chameleous is performing their Halloween Show at the Old City Performing Arts Center on October 26, 2023. Doors open at 7 pm, with an opening performance from Maggie Tharp at 7:30 pm. Don’t miss this concert and costume contest, with a $50 gift card to Brother Wolf for the winner. Tickets are $10 in advance, and $15 at the door and can be purchased here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/chameleous-halloween-show-tickets-148227

Old City Performing Arts Center, 111 State Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Join Knoxville Community Media to meet & collaborate with other nonprofits and explore how KCM can broaden your reach through our public access, media training, workshops and programs. Interested nonprofits may call KCM at 865-215-8848 for more info.

Central Cinema, 1205 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: info@centralcinemaknox.com, 865-951-2447, https://centralcinema865.com

Art and Architecture Building, McCarty Auditorium, room 109

This talk features a visual narrative showing how “art making” helped Dr. Avery survive and thrive as a psychiatrist/artist while working with refugees in Somalia and South Texas and during a twenty-year period when he helped people living with AIDS. The lecture also explores how clinical art actions can blur the boundaries between art and medicine and expand the visual medical humanities. Dr. Avery believes and will try to show how art can save lives.

For fifty years, Eric Avery has worked as an artist/physician. After majoring in art at the University of Arizona, he received his MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, as well as psychiatry training from the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. His prints explore such issues as human rights and social responses to disease (HIV, Emerging Infectious, and Zoonotic Diseases). As part of one of his exhibitions, Avery set up an HIV clinic at the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University. His work has been shown internationally, and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the ARTS Medica Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT), and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, among many others (www.Docart.com).

One Health + Humanities Days is a three-day series of events showcasing the Critical role that arts and humanities play in understanding and exploring sustainability and global wellbeing, including human, animal, plan, and environmental health. Events will take place October 25-27, 2023, on and around the UT Knoxville campus.
https://www.facebook.com/events/959535971812292
These events are free to attend and open to students, faculty, and the public.

Photos developed from film and handwritten notes passed in class take on a new life in the mixed media exhibit “what abides here” at Pellissippi State Community College. The solo exhibition of artist Anna Halliwell Gianferante is on display in the Bagwell Center for Media and Art Gallery on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus through Nov. 17. Admission to the gallery is free, and it is open to the public weekdays 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

A public reception with the artist will be held 3 - 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Bagwell Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville.

The “what abides here” collection of mixed media works “meets at the junction of memory, photography, truth, glitches and loss,” said Gianferante, an Oak Ridge native who is now a full-time Art instructor at Pellissippi State. This body of work began with Gianferante’s master’s thesis, “Forget Me Not (Really)” for Savannah College of Art and Design. Gianferante sanded, erased and painted on personal photographs that depict moments with people and places no longer in her life. Gianaferante said the art creates separation between the figures and the viewer, just as the subjects of the photographs are now separated from the artist. Gianferante added to the exhibit with a collection of redacted notes she received in school as a teenager. The blank spaces serve as lapses in memory, she explained, while also abstracting the stories to make them unrecognizable. The final pieces of the exhibit showcase a different way of manipulating old photographs using artificial intelligence. Gianferante first erased parts of her original photos using AI and then printed them as cyanotypes to mimic the earliest processes of photography. By harnessing the sun to expose light onto fabric painted with light-sensitive chemicals, each print is unique based on both the weather and the time of exposure. “Some are so unrecognizable that the title is all that seems to be left of the original subject – pushing boundaries of memory and personal truth,” Gianferante said.

Gianferante earned her Master of Fine Arts in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design and her Master of Science in teacher education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has taught Art courses for more than 11 years in both K-12 public schools and higher education institutions. To request accommodations for any campus event, call 865.694.6411 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.

Pellissippi State | 865.694.6638 | marketing@pstcc.edu | www.pstcc.edu
10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37933

One Health + Humanities Days is a three-day series of events showcasing the critical role that arts and humanities play in understanding and exploring sustainability and global wellbeing, including human, animal, plant, and environmental health. One Health + Humanities Days is a partnership between the UT Humanities Center and the UT One Health Initiative.
https://humanitiescenter.utk.edu/programs/one-health-humanities-days/

• Mortality as an Object of Team Research: A SPARKS Event
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist David Haskell Lecture + Book Signing: “Sounds Wild + Broken: Learning From the Beginnings of Sound”
• 300 Years of Surgery: Marin Marais and a Musical Perspective on the Medical Humanities
• Environmental Change and the Decline of an Ancient City: The Case of Lixus, Northern Morocco (interactive exhibit in Hodges Library)
• Equine Health and Medicine: Historical & Literary Perspectives
• Black Maternal Health Community Think-Tank
• Climate Change, Language Change: Creating a Vocabulary of Healing Through Theatre Games (by invitation only)
• Lecture by Eric Avery, MD: “Art as (my) Medicine”
• Environmental Change and the Decline of an Ancient City: The Case of Lixus, Northern Morocco (interactive exhibit in Hodges Library)
• Lecture by Helene Sinnreich: “Public Health in Nazi Ghettos”
• Centering the Marginalized: Mitigating mental health issues while enhancing retention initiatives at PWIs
• Embodied Cinema: Affect, Dance, and Speculative Wellness
• Environmental Change and the Decline of an Ancient City: The Case of Lixus, Northern Morocco (interactive exhibit in Hodges Library)

October 15, 2023-Jan 30, 2024: Print Exhibition in UT Printmaking Showcase Gallery

Embrace the eerie excitement of Spooky Season with Ijams' spooktacular Hallo-Week! Prepare for illuminating night hikes, spine-tingling scary stories, and monster-themed workshops.

Attend the 1st Annual Scare Fair at Mead's Quarry on Saturday, October 28, featuring creepy creations from local artists, delectable delights from the G.I Taco food truck, a lively beer garden, and soul-stirring music. Then immerse yourself in the thrill of the Enchanted Forest.

Don't miss out on this ghoulishly good time! Explore our jam-packed Hallo-Week calendar of events, and secure your spot in the fun-filled festivities now!

10/24 • A Night of Haunted Tales with Smoky Mountain Storytellers
10/25 • Ijams After Dark: Hallo-week at Ijams
10/26 • Family Owl Prowl: Hallo-week at Ijams
10/28 • Monsters Made with Love
10/28 • Ijams Scare Fair at Mead's Quarry: Hallo-Week at Ijams
10/28 • Ijams Enchanted Forest: Hallo-week at Ijams
10/29 • Family Pumpkin Carving: Hallo-week at Ijams
10/29 • Self Care Sunday Yoga with Hope Irwin
10/29 • DIY Door Broom Workshop

https://www.ijams.org/calendar-of-events

A national exhibition examining the nation’s past responses to mental health and current approaches to care will be on display at UT Libraries this fall. The National Library of Medicine’s Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health exhibit will be in the Jack E. Reese Galleria on the first floor of Hodges Library.

The traveling exhibit provides a historical overview of how mental health policies have evolved from custodial forms of treatment such as commitments to asylums and mass incarcerations to more inclusive approaches aimed at protecting the rights of those with mental health conditions. The exhibit also highlights how physicians, advocates, families, and government agencies have contributed to shaping mental health policies.

UT Libraries’ goal for hosting the traveling exhibition is to spark conversations surrounding mental health and effective coping strategies among UT students, faculty, staff, and community members.

A book display featuring related reads on mental health will be viewable on the second floor of Hodges Library.

UT Libraries was selected as a location for the traveling exhibition through the efforts of librarians Melanie Dixson, Niki Cobb, Calantha Tillotson, and Paris Whalon.

https://volumes.lib.utk.edu/news/ut-libraries-to-host-national-exhibit-on-mental-health-care-and-custody/

On Friday October 20th the “Pinta”, a Replica of a Portuguese Caravel used by Columbus and many early explorers will open as a “floating museum” for dockside educational tours. The Ship will be docked at Calhoun’s on the River, 400 Neyland Dr, Knoxville, TN 37902 until her departure October 30th.

In 2005, the Pinta was Launched in Brazil after 3 years of Construction. The Ship was built by 8th Generation Portuguese Shipwrights using the same methods and hand tools that were used to build the original in the 15th Century. The Pinta was the first Ship to sight land on the famous voyage of discovery on October 12th, 1492.
Historians consider the “Caravel” the space shuttle of the 15th Century and was used as early as the 13th Century and into the 16th Century. The Caravel was mainly used as a typical trading vessel along the Mediterranean and African Coast before being used for Transatlantic Voyages to open up new trading routes all over the World.

The general public is invited to step back in time & explore the Pinta for self guided tours from the 20th-29th October from 9:00a-5:00p daily. No reservations are necessary. Tickets are purchased at the Ship and prices are $8.00 for Adults, $7.00 for Seniors/Military (65+), and $6.00 for Children (5 - 16). Children 4 and under are Free.
Teachers or organizations wishing to schedule a 30 minute guided tour with a crew member during the weekdays should go to www.ninapinta.org/tour/html. Group tours require a minimum of 15 people. Please call 251-293-4193 or email ninapintatour@gmail.com for any inquires.

https://www.facebook.com/events/3424875451097220/

The Moors
By Jen Silverman
The Lab Theatre
October 18 – November 5, 2023

Wait. What? An anthropomorphic Mastiff. A catfished governess. Two forlorn sisters on bleak English Moors yearning for love in a manor where every room looks the same. This is a new play the likes of which you have not seen before. It’s a dark, funny, genre-bending trip the New York Times calls, “the reason we go to the theater.” Try it!

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information/tickets: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com