Calendar of Events

Saturday, December 14, 2024

The WordPlayers: Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!

Category: Comedy, Kids, family and Theatre

The WordPlayers presents a holiday season kick-off for the entire family: Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! The WordPlayers is excited to present one of the most exciting holiday shows you and your family will ever see! Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! plays December 13 at 7:30 pm and December 14 and 15 at 2:30 pm at the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Rd, Knoxville. Tickets may be purchased online at https://wordplayers.org/tickets/ or at the door. Adults: $18, Youth (13-18): $12, Children (12 and under): $8. Group Rate: $2 off each ticket of 10 or more purchased in advance. For more information, please call 865-539-2490.

Junie B. Jones, a First Grader, is super-excited about the upcoming Holiday Singalong and Secret Santa gift exchange at her school. Too bad tattletale May keeps ruining all of Junie B.’s fun. So, when Junie B. draws May’s name for Secret Santa, she comes up with the perfect plan to teach her nemesis a lesson! But will the Christmas spirit of peace and goodwill interfere before she can give you-know-who what she deserves? A hilarious and endearing tale based on the best-selling book series by Barbara Park and written by Allison Gregory.

The WordPlayers is a 501(c) 3 faith-based theatre organization dedicated to providing high-quality productions for the Knoxville community.

Kern's Food Hall: Magical Weekend!

  • December 13, 2024 — December 15, 2024

Category: Festivals, special events, Kids, family and Meetup

Join Us For a

December 13th | Live Music | The Mix Messengers Jazz | 6 - 9 PM
December 14th | Winter Market & Meet Santa | 9 AM - 4 PM
December 15th | Santa, Live Music, Cookies, & Crafts | 1 - 8 PM

https://kernsfoodhall.com/events/

Mabry-Hazen House: Candlelight

Category: Festivals, special events, History, heritage and Kids, family

Candlelight Christmas Tours at Mabry Hazen House on Friday, December 13 from 6 pm to 9 pm, and Saturday, December 14 from 5 pm to 8 pm. Tours will be offered every thirty minutes.

See the historic house all lit by candlelight and decorated in a festive mix of historic and modern styles by our docents! Learn about the advent of Victorian Christmas in all its glory, join in classic Victorian parlor games, and celebrate the season with us.

Mabry-Hazen House’s holiday exhibit titled "Holiday Greetings: A Century of Christmas Cards” will return! Nearly 100 years of holiday cards addressed to the Hazen family will be on display for visitors to learn about this sentimental holiday tradition. Reproductions of Christmas cards from the collection will be available for sale.

Tickets at: https://www.simpletix.com/e/candlelight-christmas-tours-tickets-193984

Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37915. Information: 865-522-8661, www.mabryhazen.com

Broadway Studios and Gallery: Nature's Enchantment Holiday Market

  • December 13, 2024 — December 14, 2024

Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Festivals, special events, Fine Crafts and Free event

Friday, December 13 5-9 PM
Saturday, December 14 10 AM - 5 PM

Along with our resident artists and open studios, we will be hosting these guest artists:

Karen Noggle - Leather belts, pouches, vases, sculpture
Ellen Robinette - Canvas flat trees and puppets
Tina Rosling - Functional pottery
Mary Neitling - Upcycled clothing and accessories

Door Prizes and Refreshments!

Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 Broadway St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-556-8676, www.BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com and www.facebook.com/broadwaystudiosandgallery/

Homberg Holiday Art Market and Open House

  • December 13, 2024 — December 14, 2024

Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event

LISA KURTZ: lkhighlandpottery@gmail.com
CYNTHIA TIPTON: ctiptonart@icloud.com

Featuring art for gift giving for sale by 6 local artists, hor d’oeuvres & holiday cheer! Free and Open to the Public

Local Artists participating: Lisa Kurtz, Shannon Davis Brock, Sheila Rauen, Cynthia Yeager, Cynthia Tipton and Betsy Heerdt

Dates: Friday, December 13th from 1-8pm and Saturday, December 14th from 11am-4pm

Location: 5410 Homberg Drive, Suite 9, Knoxville, TN 37919 (across the parking lot from the Southern Market)

Art for Sale: pottery, paintings, prints, jewelry, fiber art, sculpture by 6 local artists

Lighthouse Youth Theatre: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

  • December 12, 2024 — December 14, 2024

Category: Kids, family, Music and Theatre

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids–probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem–and the fun–when the Herdmans collide head-on with the story of Christmas!

Show Dates: Dec. 12-14, 2024
https://www.lytknox.com/2024-season

Maker Exchange: Upcoming Events

  • December 10, 2024 — December 20, 2024

Category: Culinary arts, food, Exhibitions, visual art, Free event, Meetup and Music

Connect with Knoxville’s maker community! Come back often for our ever-changing schedule of maker presentations, performances, markets and meet-ups. https://www.makerexchangeknox.com/happenings/

December 10, 9:30AM - 3:30PM Artist in Action – Valerie Pearce
December 10, 12:00PM - 8:00PM Artist in Action – Brian Melton
December 10, 3:30PM - 7:00PM Artist in Action – Deana Fulton
December 10, 5:00PM - 11:00PM Tavern Notes: Live Music at Maker Exchange (5:00-11:00 PM) Willow Osborne, Jesse Blue Eads, & Cody Bauer
December 11, 10:00AM - 3:00PM Artist in Action – Brian Melton
December 11, 5:00PM - 7:00PM Tavern Notes: Live Music at Maker Exchange (5:00-7:00 PM) Fiddles and Flatpicks
December 13, 5:00PM - 7:00PM Tavern Notes: Live Music at Maker Exchange (5:00-7:00 PM) Holiday Carolers
December 20, 5:00PM - 7:00PM Tavern Notes: Live Music at Maker Exchange (5:00-7:00 PM) Holiday Carolers

CURATED BY DOGWOOD ARTS AT WORLD’S FAIR PARK
710 Clinch Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902
General · Makers: 865-637-4561
Tavern: 865-934-2983
Coffee Shop: 865-934-2985
Event Space · Sales: 865-934-2963
info@makerexchangeknox.com

TVUUC Gallery: Yvonne Dalschen & Debby Hall

  • December 8, 2024 — February 5, 2025

Category: Exhibitions, visual art and Free event

Reception Dec 13, 6-7:30 PM with artist's talks at 6:30 PM
Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Free and open to the public

Yvonne Dalschen
After living for over 20 years in the “Secret City” of the Manhattan Project, I never learned how to stop worrying and love the bomb. I am surrounded by fences and signs, atomic nostalgia, selective amnesia and heritage tourism, and I sometimes seem to be the only one bothered by this. “Ghosts of the Manhattan Project” started during the clean-up of K-25. This uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge was the largest building in the world when built in 1944. My work is an ongoing exploration of the landscapes and archives of the atomic age, layering histories with observations into photographic palimpsests. I picture the invisible and the unthinkable, collecting the choices and promises made, the stories told, the stories forgotten and the fears that haunt us at night.

Yvonne Dalschen is a German photographer living in Oak Ridge, TN. She is interested in history of place, cultural landscapes and digital experimentation. She earned an MA in Comparative Literature from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a Photography Certificate from the University of Tennessee. Her images haven been exhibited nationally and internationally from Oak Ridge to Sydney, Australia, recently at the Knoxville Museum of Art, The Bascom Center and UGA’s Circle Gallery.

Debby Hall
“The Joy of Color” features paintings reflecting the artistry in nature through color and the spontaneity of alcohol inks and watercolors. Whether painting abstracts or more realistic mountains, flowers, landscapes or birds, Hall hopes her paintings bring people joy and a greater connection to the beauty around us.

Debby Hall is a self-taught artist whose paintings were juried into the Oak Ridge Art Center’s Open Show (September 2023) and the “Arts in the Airport” Spring 2024 show, where she received the Award of Merit. She exhibits often through Knoxville’s Arts & Culture Alliance and the St. Lucie Culture Alliance. She donates net proceeds from art sales to a non-profit charity, Saving Grace in Uganda, that rescues young homeless street children and gives them medical care, food, education, housing and hope in a country with virtually no social services. For more information visit her website, https://artforsavinggrace.com

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Gallery hours: M-Th 9:30-4:30, Su 9-1. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org

Appalachian Ballet Company: The Nutcracker

Category: Dance, movement, Kids, family and Music

Join the Appalachian Ballet Company and Clara on a magical journey to the Land of the Sweets. Principal Artists, Laura Morton La Russa and James La Russa will be taking the stage as Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier, as well as welcoming back guest artists, Aaron Smyth and Alexandre Gonzaga. This production features live music by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for all public performances conducted by ABC’s Music Director, Mr. James Fellenbaum.

At Knoxville Civic Auditorium
Saturday, December 7th 2024 Evening Performance 7pm
Sunday, December 8th 2024 Matinee Performance 3pm

At Clayton Center for the Arts
Friday, December 13th 2024 Evening Performance 7pm
Saturday, December 14th 2024 Matinee Performance 3pm

https://www.appalachianballet.org/tickets

Art Market Gallery: Featuring Claire Bodnaruk and Allen Monsarrat

Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event

First Friday Reception: December 6th, 5:30 - 9 pm
December Featured Artists

Claire Bodnaruk, Glass
A Native Tennessean, Claire Bodnaruk has lived in Australia, Florida, Minnesota and Chicago, before returning to her home state of Tennessee in 2019. Following a career in advertising, film & video production, she explored different creative outlets while raising her two daughters. Claire has been working in glass for over 20 years. Her journey in glass began with becoming proficient in metal fabrication, incorporating colorful glass into unique jewelry. During travels to London, France and Italy, she was inspired by the beautiful Venetian and stained glass art that led to exploring glass on a larger scale. Learning from recognized glass artists across the United States in glass blowing to glass fusing, Claire’s current focus is in kiln formed glass, the manipulation of shaping glass in a kiln with heat and gravity. The process to produce one piece may involve several firings with many hours in the cycle, multiple techniques and manipulations, and cold working for a quality finish. Her work is both functional and nonfunctional glass art.

Allen Monsarrat, Painting
Allen’s art education began with three years training in architecture, but finished with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in pottery at the Memphis College of Art. His first art career was as a studio potter in Friendsville, Tn for 25 years. That was followed by careers in decorative wall finishes, faux painting, cabinetry finishing and the occasional mural project. It was studying “trompe l’oiel” (fool the eye) imagery with French master craftsman Michel Nadai that nurtured his interest in creating representational art. “Creating a painting is always an exciting journey. I am never certain whether a painting will be as successful as I have envisioned it in my mind. I am more than a decade into developing my representational painting skills. I have honed my methodology into a procedure of how I develop a painting by breaking it into manageable steps. First choosing a subject with personal meaning based on my travels or a subject close to home here in East Tennessee. But the image must be a strong composition and contain a range of tonal values from darks to lights. This is worked out by doing an under painting by using only one color to establish a range of values. At this point I can concentrate on colors and brush application. Brush application refers to how apparent or not are the actual brush strokes. Slowly edging away from my original tendency toward photorealism, some of my new work has a more painterly feel to it. Yet, like a photograph, it retains a great deal of detail.
I have always been a student of art. The continuing passion I have for art is that I will never stop learning.”

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

Awaken Coffee: Featuring Hannah Doss and Laura Woodson

  • December 6, 2024 — December 29, 2024

Category: Culinary arts, food, Exhibitions, visual art and Free event

Friday, December 6 from 6-8 Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception for Hannah Doss and Laura Woodson.

Hannah’s latest body of work reflects a renewed journey of learning and discovery, inspired by a fascination with resin techniques she encountered in a recent class. Hannah’s art predominantly explores wildlife, nature, and portraiture, inviting viewers to pause and savor the intricate beauty of life's small details.

In Laura’s recent work she has navigated her bold use of color with fine line drawings. She uses coffee filters as the foundation of her work and experiments with how color is affected by water. This process creates a watercolor effect that never creates the same pattern twice. Once she has created her vivid backgrounds, she creates fine line drawings of flowers to re-envision the nature we see in real life. She works to evoke joy in each new piece she produces.

Please join us for some amazing art and of course great coffee!

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Open daily. Information: 865-951-0427, www.instagram.com/awaken_coffee or www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/

RED Gallery: if only in my dreams … Melissa N. Everett

  • December 6, 2024 — December 28, 2024

Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Fine Crafts and Free event

RED Gallery is proud to announce the opening of if only in my dreams … by Melissa N. Everett

A collection of quilts, sculptural pieces, soft mixed with rigid, color used to nurture and encourage you to "be a wildflower”.

"As a mother, I wish I could provide solace and refuge for you all. Instead, we must connect to our inner children and play in our communities. Let’s escape to our dreams—find comfort in our imaginations. As a female artist, woman, and caregiver in a society that undervalues my contributions, this is my expression of hope. These artworks are pieces of pretend worlds I create to escape, to connect to my younger self. When the roles of domesticity seem to dominate my daily life, I visit these worlds to remind myself of all my layers.”

The show will open on First Friday, December 6, 5 - 9pm and will run through the month of December.
RED Gallery, 131 W Jackson Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902
robin@robineaster.com
IG: @redgallery.knox

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