Listing info:
There’s a lot of artists and venues thinking I’m catching their listing info on their blog, on their facebook postings, etc. Don’t count on me seeing them. To get your listing onto this website, you MUST use either the contact form, or send an email to the address set up specifically for the listings. You can find further info on how to get this done at this LINK It is the ONLY way you’ll get a listing put up on the site. Since I’m doing this without charging anyone for doing it, please make this easier for me by submitting your listings via email or the contact form. All the info gets sent into a special folder so that I don’t miss it in the ton of daily email I get.
Don’t see a listing?
If you don’t see a listing, I couldn’t find it when I updated this for this month. Check here sometime on First Friday, a lot of places don’t send me updates until the last minute, so pop in here before you head out for the latest updates. You’ll find their phone number and links to their web site in the listing below, so you can check to see if they’ve got more recent info on their own site.
On with this month’s openings!
2 Many Pixels
130 W. Jackson Avenue, Suite 201 Knoxville Website
501 Arthur
501 Arthur St., Knoxville (865) 951- 2523 Website
A1 Lab Arts
Center for Creative Minds, at 23 Emory Place Knoxville Website
Art Market Gallery
422 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 525-5265 Website
Belleze Salon and Spa
6209 Kingston Pike Knoxville (865) 558-8424 Website
Birdhouse Laboratories
800 N. 4th Ave Knoxville Website
Bliss
24 Market Square, Knoxville (865) 329 8868 Website
Bliss Home
29 Market Square Knoxville (865) 673-6711 Website
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7th, 2013 6pm to 9pm
Bliss Home is pleased to present Knoxville artist, Kate Moore, for June’s First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, June 7th from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary Steamboat Sandwiches will be provided and Kate’s art will be featured for the whole month of June.
Starting with a simple love for crayons, Kate Moore decided from a young age she needed to build her life around art. Kate grew into an artist by exploring different mediums, and dabbling in painting and drawing, until she found her own voice as an artist in graphic design. From custom wedding invitations to small business branding, Kate has spent the last five years perfecting her graphic design skills at her studio, Kate Moore Creative, located on the 100 block of Gay Street.
Kate strives to create a balance between the digital and artistic sides of graphic design. Kate’s June exhibit illustrates this balance by showing how these two ideas go hand in hand. Design is art and art is design. You can see more of her work on the Kate’s website
Blount Mansion
200 W Hill Ave Knoxville (865) 525-2375 Website
Casa Hora @ The Emporium
100 S. Gay Street, Suite 109, Knoxville (865) 335-3358 Website
Cocoa Moon Fusion Grill/Koi
19 Market Square Knoxville (865) 521 3888
Coffee and Chocolate
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 688-9244 Website
Community Television of Knoxville
808 State Street Knoxville (865) 215-4350 Website
Creativity Center
13 Emory Place, Knoxville Website
Downtown Grind
418 S. Gay Street , Knoxville (865) 524-4747
East Tennessee Historical Society
601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville (865) 216-8824 Website
East Tennessee Community Design Center & Knoxville Downtown Design Studio
500 S. Gay Street Knoxville Mobile (865) 603-3988 Office (865) 525-9945 Website
Emporium Center for Arts & Culture / Arts and Culture Alliance / The Balcony Gallery
100 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 523-7543 Website
Ewing Gallery
1715 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville (865) 974-3200 Website
Ironwood Studios
119 Jennings Avenue Knoxville (865) 405-0777 Website
John Black Photography
501 Union Ave. Knoxville (865) 522-1715 Website
Kate Moore Creative / Jennie Andrews Photography
123 S Gay Suite B Knoxville (865) 951-8416 Kate Moore Website Jennie Andrews Website
Knoxville Arts and Fine Crafts Center
1127B Broadway Ave. Knoxville (865) 523-1401
Knoxville Museum of Art
1060 World’s Fair Park Knoxville (865) 525-6101 Website
Knoxville Visitor Center
301 Gay Street Knoxville (800) 727-8045 Website
Lox Salon
103 W. Jackson Knoxville Website
Maplehurst Inn
800 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville (865) 803-6215 Website
Morelock Music
411 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 766-5192 Website
Old City Java
109 S. Central Avenue Knoxville (865) 523-9817 Website
Oodles Uncorked
18 Market Square Knoxville (865) 521-0600 Website
Organized Play
131 South Central Street Knoxville (865) 521-0690 Website
Preservation Pub
28 Market Square Knoxville (865) 524-2224 Website
Rala
323 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 525-7888 Website
Regal Downtown West 8
1640 Downtown West Blvd. Knoxville (865) 693-6327
Remedy Coffee
125 W. Jackson Ave. Knoxville Website
Rita’s Italian Ice
26 Market Square Southwest, Knoxville
Rococo Boutique
2 Market Square, Knoxville (865) 971-1006 Website
Salon Visage
11 Market Square Knoxville (865) 694-4000
Technology Cooperative
130 W. Jackson Ave. Suite 101 Knoxville Website
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and sound @ East Tennessee History Center
601 South Gay Street Knoxville Contact: Bradley Reeves, Louisa Trott (865-215-8856) Website
Tennessee Valley Bikes
214 W. Magnolia, Knoxville Website
The Tree and Vine
439 Union Avenue • Off Market Square • Knoxville (865) 985.0524 Website
Tomato Head
12 Market Square, Knoxville – (865) 637-4067 Website
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
Wing Zone
2121 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville (684-5477) Website
Listing info:
There’s a lot of artists and venues thinking I’m catching their listing info on their blog, on their facebook postings, etc. Don’t count on me seeing them. To get your listing onto this website, you MUST use either the contact form, or send an email to the address set up specifically for the listings. You can find further info on how to get this done at this LINK It is the ONLY way you’ll get a listing put up on the site. Since I’m doing this without charging anyone for doing it, please make this easier for me by submitting your listings via email or the contact form. All the info gets sent into a special folder so that I don’t miss it in the ton of daily email I get.
Don’t see a listing?
If you don’t see a listing, I couldn’t find it when I updated this for this month. Check here sometime on First Friday, a lot of places don’t send me updates until the last minute, so pop in here before you head out for the latest updates. You’ll find their phone number and links to their web site in the listing below, so you can check to see if they’ve got more recent info on their own site.
On with this month’s openings!
2 Many Pixels
130 W. Jackson Avenue, Suite 201 Knoxville Website
Opening is from 6pm to 9:30pm. “2 Many Pixels” photo gallery is proud to present a collection of photographs by young artist Jake Wheeler. The work (more than 50 large format images) depicts urban decay and the distress of individuals coping with adversity. The images are mounted on reclaimed plywood, emphasizing a sense of deterioration.
The photographs are all for sale, gallery archival prints, signed and numbered by the artists. The photos will remain on the walls through the months of May and June. The gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm and after hours or weekends by appointment.
501 Arthur
501 Arthur St., Knoxville (865) 951- 2523 Website
A1 Lab Arts
Center for Creative Minds, at 23 Emory Place Knoxville Website
Art Market Gallery
422 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 525-5265 Website
The Art Market Gallery of Knoxville will present an exhibit of recent works by two featured artists for May. Animal artist Victoria Simmons is displaying recent paintings with a focus on bird themes, and furniture-maker Stan Fronczek will show his carefully crafted furniture. Both are Knoxville residents.
Victoria Simmons’ award-winning animal paintings, juried into regional and national shows, are in private collections throughout the United States and abroad, among them commissioned works for actress Andie MacDowell. Displaying her work at the Tennessee Valley Hunt opening meet also has become a fall tradition. For the past three years, this lifelong birdwatcher and recipient of two artist grants has concentrated on painting birds.
“I have spent most of my life creating images from nature,” Simmons says. “After more than 50 years of creating art, the natural world continues to call out to me, and animals still speak to my soul.”
Stan Fronczek is a contemporary-furniture designer who creates his works using both domestic and exotic types of wood, and with painstaking attention to fine craftsmanship. Through the years the scope of his unique works has included cabinets, rockers, tables, benches, mirrors and fun accessories.
His primary inspiration is drawn from Mid-Century and Asian styles that share his vision as well as those prized elements of clean, crisp line. The success of a completed work by Fronczek then rests with his adhering to an imperative of the principles of design: “It’s extremely important that balance and proportion of materials make the finished piece of furniture speak for itself,” he explains.
A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, May 3, with complimentary refreshments and live music by Sunshine Station, a folk and bluegrass band. Many member artists will be on hand to meet and mingle with visitors.
Belleze Salon and Spa
6209 Kingston Pike Knoxville (865) 558-8424 Website
Birdhouse Laboratories
800 N. 4th Ave Knoxville Website
Bliss
24 Market Square, Knoxville (865) 329 8868 Website
Bliss Home
29 Market Square Knoxville (865) 673-6711 Website
Bliss Home is pleased to present Knoxville artist, Jill Sanders, for May’s First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, May 3rd from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary snacks will be provided and Jill’s art will remain for the month of May.
Jill pulls on her experience as a wood printmaker and graphic designer to create art that features richly colored patterns and natural materials. Jill describes her art as ‘narrative scenes with objects and figures, richly layered with patterns and embellished with bits of typography’. Jill is often inspired by her dreams and the places she has seen, which gives her art ‘rich sensibility’.
Blount Mansion
200 W Hill Ave Knoxville (865) 525-2375 Website
Casa Hora @ The Emporium
100 S. Gay Street, Suite 109, Knoxville (865) 335-3358 Website
Cocoa Moon Fusion Grill/Koi
19 Market Square Knoxville (865) 521 3888
Coffee and Chocolate
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 688-9244 Website
Community Television of Knoxville
808 State Street Knoxville (865) 215-4350 Website
Creativity Center
13 Emory Place, Knoxville Website
This month we will be featuring our newest student artwork, including printmaking, sculpture, and drawings! Join us from 5:30 to 7:30 for a free art activity and snacks!
Downtown Grind
418 S. Gay Street , Knoxville (865) 524-4747
East Tennessee Historical Society
601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville (865) 216-8824 Website
East Tennessee Community Design Center & Knoxville Downtown Design Studio
500 S. Gay Street Knoxville Mobile (865) 603-3988 Office (865) 525-9945 Website
Emporium Center for Arts & Culture / Arts and Culture Alliance / The Balcony Gallery
100 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 523-7543 Website
Please join us on First Friday, May 3, from 5:00-9:00 p.m. as we celebrate new exhibitions and regional artists at the Emporium Center.
Recent Works by Coral Grace Turner and Marilyn Avery TurnerMay 3-31, 2013 in the Balcony
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring needlepoint pillows by Coral Grace Turner and monoprint/chine collés by Marilyn Avery Turner.
Coral Grace Turner received a Master of Fine Art in Fibers from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Coral will display a series of new needlepoint pillows in which she utilizes images of hands creating animal shadow puppets. www.coralgraceturner.com
Originally from New York City, Marilyn Avery Turner received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1966. She taught art classes for more than 20 years in a variety of settings and has been involved with The Art Market Gallery in Knoxville since its inception 30 years ago. Marilyn uses drawings and statuary from early Mexican cultures to reflect her abiding attraction to the country where she spent an impressionable part of her childhood.
Wroclaw Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art Exhibition
May 3-31, 2013 in the Emporium
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring contemporary Polish printmaking and media art at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from May 3-31, 2013. Artists in the exhibition include professors, tutors and students with the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on May 3 from 5:00-9:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Students from the University of Tennessee Print Club will demonstrate screenprinting and relief printing during the May 3 reception.
The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of printmaking techniques (mezzotint, etching, dry-point, linocut, screenprint, lithograph, digital print) and sources of inspiration employed by the professors and tutors of the Printmaking Department. Additionally, festival, theatrical and social posters by tutors and students of the Graphic Designing Department are represented plus media art from the Media Art Department. The Wroclaw Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art Exhibition is a part of a Celebration of Polish Culture and the First Polish Constitution.
Clay Sculptures by Pamela Brown Broockman
May 3-31, 2013 in the display case
Pamela Brown Broockman is a native of Kentucky with roots in Tennessee where she has resided for the past 21 years. She is a freelance artist working mostly in oil and acrylics. For the past couple of years she has experimented with polymer clay; combining her love of nature and fantasy art to create a menagerie of unique mermaid and faerie sculptures. Her “Mermaid in a Bottle” creations are distinctly unique in that the mermaids are displayed in a special liquid to enhance their nautical-fantasy appeal.
Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends in the Black Box at the Emporium
7:00-9:00 PM:
Vance Thompson, director of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, coordinates this jazz jam session. At the April session, ten different musicians came and sat in — from (local saxophone great) Will Boyd to high school students. “It’s really important to have young musicians play with more experienced musicians,” says Vance. “I really want this to be a true jam session.”
Ewing Gallery
1715 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville (865) 974-3200 Website
Gallery 133
Come over to Sanders place on 514 w Jackson avenue just down the road from the Emporium and Gay Street!! It will be a Fantabulous time with this beautiful NEW space and amazing artists of all sorts! Music, Poetry, WINE, and tremendous Artwork from the Gallery 133 crew! You know how much fun we always have so come down and be a part of an exceedingly original Knoxville!!
Art by Gallery 133 Artists
Music by Alexia Pantanizopoulos and Très Daugherty
Poetry by Black Atticus and Lane Shuler and Courageous!
Here’s the performance schedule:
600-700 — Alexia and Très
700-730 — Black Atticus
730-800 — Alexia and Très
800-830 — Lane Shuler & Courageous!
Ironwood Studios
119 Jennings Avenue Knoxville (865) 405-0777 Website
John Black Photography
501 Union Ave. Knoxville (865) 522-1715 Website
Kate Moore Creative / Jennie Andrews Photography
123 S Gay Suite B Knoxville (865) 951-8416 Kate Moore Website Jennie Andrews Website
Knoxville Arts and Fine Crafts Center
1127B Broadway Ave. Knoxville (865) 523-1401
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center
17 Market Square, Ste. 101 Knoxville (865) 282-4322 Website
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) is open! We had our ribbon cutting and grand opening April 5, 2013, and will be hosting KEC’s First Friday Fanfare event each month, KEC’s First Friday Fanfare is tailored toward entrepreneurs, people interested in starting and growing their own business, and folks that support growing local businesses. Our goal is that each program will contain a healthy helping of education that is useful for entrepreneurs, highlighting our entrepreneur rock stars, social opportunities, community and cultural information, and entertainment.
Our schedule for this Friday, May 3 is:
3:00 p.m. “How Do You Know You Are In Business” Workshop
3:30 p.m. Entrepreneur Spotlight: Hit the indoor KEC putting green with Brett Burdick of Brex Golf. Try out the innovative putter that he has developed.
4:00 p.m. KEC Social/Cultural/Community Hour. Enjoy an educational, informative and entertaining tour of Market Square with Laura Stills of Knoxville Walking Tours.
4:30 p.m. Happy Hour at KEC. Munchies and beer for all!
5:30 p.m. Head out and enjoy all of the First Friday festivities in downtown Knoxville–great dining, local artists, diverse shopping, and fabulous entertainment for the whole crew.
Knoxville Museum of Art
1060 World’s Fair Park Knoxville (865) 525-6101 Website
Knoxville Visitor Center
301 Gay Street Knoxville (800) 727-8045 Website
Lox Salon
103 W. Jackson Knoxville Website
Maplehurst Inn
800 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville (865) 803-6215 Website
Morelock Music
411 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 766-5192 Website
Old City Java
109 S. Central Avenue Knoxville (865) 523-9817 Website
Oodles Uncorked
18 Market Square Knoxville (865) 521-0600 Website
Organized Play
131 South Central Street Knoxville (865) 521-0690 Website
Preservation Pub
28 Market Square Knoxville (865) 524-2224 Website
Funky Catsterz Fine Art Exhibit
By Mandy Stoller
https://www.facebook.com/FunkyCatsterz
20% of ALL sales will be donated to Redeeming Hope Ministries:
Jon Eaton
Joey English
Kelley McRae
Channing & Quinn
Rala
323 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 525-7888 Website
Regal Downtown West 8
1640 Downtown West Blvd. Knoxville (865) 693-6327
Remedy Coffee
125 W. Jackson Ave. Knoxville Website
Rita’s Italian Ice
26 Market Square Southwest, Knoxville
Rococo Boutique
2 Market Square, Knoxville (865) 971-1006 Website
Salon Visage
11 Market Square Knoxville (865) 694-4000
Technology Cooperative
130 W. Jackson Ave. Suite 101 Knoxville Website
We are holding a bazaar for the next First Friday (May 3rd) to encourage local artists who have handmade wares to come and set up in there and sell.
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and sound @ East Tennessee History Center
601 South Gay Street Knoxville Contact: Bradley Reeves, Louisa Trott (865-215-8856) Website
Tennessee Valley Bikes
214 W. Magnolia, Knoxville Website
The Tree and Vine
439 Union Avenue • Off Market Square • Knoxville (865) 985.0524 Website
Tomato Head
12 Market Square, Knoxville – (865) 637-4067 Website
Everything Connects: Recent paintings by Jessica Payne will be on view at the downtown Knoxville Tomato Head on Market Square from May 4th through May 31st.
Inspired by color and nature, my latest large and vibrant paintings use extensive layering, leaving portals to previous layers which connect the landscapes of the familiar to the infinite. www.JessicaPayneArt.com
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
Wing Zone
2121 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville (684-5477) Website