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
2 Many Pixels photo gallery is proud to present “What She Saw”, a beautiful mosaic of images by 3 young women and Knoxville photographers: Shelby Gordon, Erika Smith and Rachel Vykukal. This exhibit is an exploration of the female sensitivity and its transcription through the photographic medium.
The photographs are all for sale, gallery archival prints, signed and numbered by the artists.
Hope to see you all for the opening on Friday night, April 5th., 6pm to 9:30pm.
The photos will remain on the walls through the month of April.
The gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm and after hours or weekends by appointment or chance
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 two exhibits in April: a show of recent works by painter/printmaker Gay Davis Bryant and wood-turner Janis Proffitt, both of Knoxville, and the annual Members Silent Auction, which is a Dogwood Arts Festival Featured Event.
Gay Bryant has worked as a studio artist for the last 20 years and teaches regionally. A retired community college professor, her works depict nature, architecture, and events of everyday life. While celebrating traditional skills and craftsmanship, Gay brings the viewer into familiar scenes of East Tennessee’s rich landscape through use of relief-printmaking techniques such as woodcuts, linoleum block and composite materials, and in her watercolor and acrylic paintings. The featured body of work for this show is called “Gatherings.”
Woodworking has been in Janis Proffitt’s family for several generations, dating to Sevier County’s first settlers. Janis grew up helping and honing newly learned skills in her father’s woodshop, and later teaching herself pyrography (wood burning) which she incorporated into her wood-turnings. Featured on WBIR’s “The Heartland Series,” her work blends traditional Appalachia turning with contemporary design. She has worked as a fulltime craft artist with her sister for more than 20 years in their Dad’s old woodshop in the mountains of Pittman-Center.
A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, April 5, with complimentary refreshments and live folk and “new grass” music on guitar and ukelele by Molly Rochelson. The reception also opens bidding on a large variety of works by gallery artists and artisans for the annual Members Silent Auction, which will run April 5 – 28.
Belleze Salon and Spa
6209 Kingston Pike Knoxville (865) 558-8424 Website
Birdhouse Laboratories
800 N. 4th Ave Knoxville Website
Progressive artist Roger Gregg will be displaying month-long at the Birdhouse,April 5th, starting with a First Friday event, at 5:00pm until 10:30pm, and immediately followed by FIRST FRIDAY MIDNIGHT from 10:30pm until 1:00 am.
Paintings of the Lyrical Abstraction style, assemblage, and abstract photography will be featured, and information on the emergent philosophy of Arts, called “Theorism”.
Bliss Home
29 Market Square Knoxville (865) 673-6711 Website
Bliss Home is pleased to present Nature’s Splash of Colors, an exhibit by international award winning photographer Dennis Sabo. Nature’s Splash of Colors is an interpretation of the “growing interest and concern for our environmental impact and fragile ecosystems”. Each photo is taken of natural, common subjects which are refined into an interpretive collage of color, motion and textures.
Dennis Sabo hails from Loudon, Tennessee where he specializes in contemporary fine art abstract, landscape and seascape photography. Dennis’ photography has been featured in a variety of books and magazines, like Blue Planet, Living Southern Style and Ocean Conservancy.
Join Bliss Home for an abstract take on nature’s beauty!
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
This month we will be featuring our latest student artwork, including origami, drawings, and paintings! 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, April 5, from 5:00-9:00 p.m. as we celebrate a new exhibition and regional artists at the Emporium Center.
Dogwood Arts Festival Regional Fine Arts Exhibition
April 5-26, 2013
The finest progressive artists of our region are showcasing their work in the Dogwood Arts Festival Regional Fine Art Exhibition on display throughout the Emporium.
This dynamic, annual exhibition of fine art encompasses all styles and genres and features 86 works by 69 emerging and established artists from seven states. Selected works were chosen from nearly 500 submissions by juror David J. Reyes for exhibition.
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, April 6, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
For additional information on the Emporium, call (865) 523-7543 or visit www.theemporiumcenter.com
Friday, April 5, 7:00-9:00 PM in the Black Box at the Emporium
Jam Session hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends
Friday, April 5 – Art on the Block
Artists, musicians, neighbors, fun – you can find it all on the 100 Block of Gay Street in Knoxville!
Enjoy artists in action and live music on the sidewalks. From 6:00-7:30 PM, aerial dancers will perform in the Emporium courtyard; from 7:30-10:00 PM, drummers, dancers, hoopers, fire spinners and other street performers will perform in Summitt Hill Park. More information here.
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
Rhythm & Blooms FREE Concert on Mkt Sq!
8pm Charles Walker & the Dynamites/
6pm Flowtribe/ 5pm Aftah Party
8pm FREE in the Speakeasy:
Sidecar Symposium
(vaudevillian Speakeasean)
10pm Big-Time Funk Night in the Smokeasy:
Soulfinger / Deep Green
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
We are doing a competition between the local high schools to promote a high school artist. The winner will be featured as our First Friday artist and get their work displayed at the boutique.
Salon Visage
11 Market Square Knoxville (865) 694-4000
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
Brandon Rogers will be on view at the downtown Knoxville Tomato Head on Market Square from April 6th through May 3rd, 2013. The artist will exhibit at the West Knoxville Gallery location on May 5th through May 31st, 2013
Sloane Baker Tillman will be on view at The Gallery Tomato Head from April 7th through May 4th, 2013.
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
First Friday, 5-9PM
Sponsored by EarthFest 2013 and in promotion of this year’s event on April 20 at Pellissippi State Community College’s Hardin Valley Campus.
Artwork by Cynthia Markert and Wendy Williams. In addition, photographs of nature taken by West Valley Middle School students and rain barrels painted by Hardin Valley Academy students will be available to purchase.
Music by Thomas Smith and Amanda Kinney from “An Atlas to Follow”, new and upcoming band from Birmingham, AL, Knoxville, TN, and Sylva NC. Their song “Be Kind to Boston” is a finalist in the 2012 International Songwriting Competition. Music will be from 6:30-8PM.
Free refreshments including adult beverages for those over 21.
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
2 Many Pixels photo gallery is proud to present “What She Saw”, a beautiful mosaic of images by 3 young women and Knoxville photographers. This exhibit is an exploration of the female sensitivity and its transcription through the photographic medium. The photographs are all for sale, gallery archival prints, signed and numbered by the artists.
Hope to see you all for the opening on Friday night, March 1st, 6pm to 9:30pm.
The photos will remain on the walls throughout the months of March and April.
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
Bliss Home is pleased to present In the Style of, a project by West High School’s photography class. Lead by teacher Kat Furnari, each student began the semester constructing their own pinhole camera, then were given the freedom to explore a photography style and research a photographer of their choosing. Each student’s research inspired magnificent prints which will be shown at Bliss Home for March’s First Friday.
Kat Furnari received her Bachelors in Media Arts and Masters in Education from the University of Tennessee. Kat has taught traditional black and white film processes in her Photography class at West High School for seven years. In the Style of is an art show debut for her students.
Meet Kat, and her class of talented photographers, at Bliss Home for March’s First Friday!
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
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
March Brushstrokes: Tennessee Artists Association Juried Show
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring original art by over 40 Tennessee artists including oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, photography, and mixed media. Founded in 1974, The Tennessee Artists Association (TAA) is a civic organization of fine artists with 62 current members. TAA encourages each individual artist to grow and develop through fellowship with other artists, educational programs, opportunities to exhibit and sell art, and to serve the community through classes. TAA hosts an exhibition of new artwork every three months at the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce on Market Square and at the University of Phoenix campus on Sherrill Boulevard. Membership in TAA is open to anyone eighteen years and older who is a resident of the state of Tennessee. Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 6500 Northshore Drive, which include a business meeting, a program, and a time of fellowship and refreshments. Guests are welcome to attend.
“Body Language” Exhibition
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring drawings of the human figure by nearly 25 local artists. The juried exhibition includes charcoal, pastels, pencils, inks, watercolors, oil paints, digital imaging on computer tablets, clay, and more and is coordinated by the Knoxville Monday Night Life Drawing Group. The exhibition includes artwork created directly from life-drawing sessions that occur each week in the Emporium’s Annex. The life-drawing models pose from five to 60 minutes or longer, providing for a variance in the exhibition from gestural drawings to more developed works. The Knoxville Monday Night Life Drawing Group started informally in late 2005 by Clark Stewart, a retired UT Art Professor.
The group now meets in the Emporium’s Annex on Monday nights from 6:30-9:30 PM where artist Bobbie Crews continues to host weekly life-drawing sessions. Artists work side by side on short gestural sketches to warm up and then work into the longer evening poses enabling them to create more finished works of art. The poses are timed, and the models are very professional.
Gourd Assemblages by Olive B. “Lolly” Durant
The challenge of fitting things together and engineering a “good fit” is what sparks my imagination. I build, assemble, create, visualize, organize and problem solve situations as they arise. My inspirations come intuitively as I begin to put together an assemblage. I am fascinated by the intricacies of nature: color, form, texture, line, shape and the binding of the spider’s silken threads. The binding of objects entwines my thoughts, as my hands strive to create compositions that attract the eye and cause the viewer to pause, contemplate and then move on with a refreshed feeling.
Works by Antuco Chicaiza in Casa HoLa, Suite 109
Antuco Chicaiza’s paintings poetically document his life: his family and friends, his travels and relocations, and his cultural identities and political beliefs. Like a layered visual diary, his works gather evidence of the events and forces that have effected him deeply. Chicaiza’s early charcoal drawings and paintings drew upon his childhood memories of the lives of Indians in Ecuador. These works were representational in style and emphasized both social injustice and the peoples’ strength and pride. Later, his work described his own journey, reflecting in his words, “any injustice or prejudices I was affected by.” Chicaiza’s subjects range from the challenges and rewards of family, to cultural heritage, to social and political issues. In his most recent work, photographs have been melded with painted passages and advertising images with a free-floating, collage-like approach. Hosted by HoLa Hora Latina. For more information: www.antucochicaiza.com.
Ewing Gallery
1715 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville (865) 974-3200 Website
Gallery at Main Street - First Baptist Church of Knoxville
510 W. Main Street Knoxville (865) 546-9661 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 / WDVX
301 Gay Street Knoxville (800) 727-8045 Website
Stop in First Fridays for LIVE music- First Friday in March we’ll be featuring performances by Black Cadillacs and Swampcandy
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
Maddie Lane, a local artist and photographer will be opening tonight, from 6:30-9:00 and we will have snacks/cookies.
Salon Visage
11 Market Square Knoxville (865) 694-4000
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
Sloane Baker Tillman, legally blind artist painting from a wheelchair. Exhibition Title- “Visions from the blind”
Expressionist Art – Acrylic on Canvas. 20% donated to Human Animal Bond in Tennessee – HABIT
“Visions from the Blind” an exhibit of paintings by Sloane Baker Tillman will be on view at the Market Square Tomato Head Restaurant from March 2nd, 2013 through April 5th.
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
Wing Zone
2121 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville (684-5477) Website