Knoxville First Friday Listings for August, 2008

There are numerous businesses that participate in the monthly First Friday Art Walk. This is a listing of the places that participate, along with the featured artists. If there are additions or corrections, please use the contact form to get in touch with me.

Please be careful!!!!!!!!!
The city of Knoxville has changed the direction of some streets around Market Square- streets that were previously one way are now two way, so please, make it a habit to look BOTH ways while driving, and especially before crossing a street.

Further details, and maps of the changes, are available here.

Also, the 100 block of Gay street will be shut down at the end of summer, however, the sidewalks will remain OPEN, so PLEASE, frequent the businesses in the area during this time of transition. Some details on the plans are here.

A1 Lab Arts

Featuring:

• Olga Rader - Full Moon and Woman

A solo exhibit, August 1through the 8th.
First Friday reception runs from 5:40- 9:00 pm

Abode

Featuring:
Unknown

Art Gallery of Knoxville / Copy Shop

Featuring:
Unknown

Art Market Gallery

Featuring:

• Carol La Budde
• Morgan Fitch

The Gallery will host a First Friday Reception for the featured artists with music by guitarist Ben Bannister.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm & Sunday 1-5pm

Birdhouse

Featuring:
WEAR-WOLF: by Craig Branum & Ben Fox-McCord
Opening reception 7 - 10 pm

Bliss

Featuring:
Unknown

Bliss Home

Featuring:

• Mary Julian

Recent works by Mary Julian will be on view from August 1st through September 4th, 2008.
The reception for the artist will be held First Friday from 5-9pm.

Blount Mansion

Featuring:
Sally Ham Goven - Dog Show
Running August 1-31
Wine and hors d’oeuvres, as well as live music on First Friday’s opening.

Coffee and Chocolate

Featuring:
Unknown

Deka Bakari Gallery

Featuring:

• Ben & Kathy Babbs
• Heather Harrison
• Douglas Hubbard
• Jamie Presley

Featuring:

• Legacy: The Quilts of Georgia Bailey - A new exhibition celebrating 40 creative quilts by Georgia Bailey (1922-2008).

Bailey was born in 1922 in Morganton, NC and remembered spending many summers at her grandmother’s house in North Carolina to quilt with the family. Bailey completed 116 quilts from 1981-2006. Some of her methods included: strip piecing to create quilts, appliqué and reverse appliqué method, drawing, embroidery, beading, coloring, spray paint, transfer iron-on method, and more. She most enjoyed working with color ideas, and many of her quilts depict butterflies and birds.

A reception and silent auction held on Friday, August 1, from 5:00-9:00 PM, is free and open to the public and features complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Bidding ends at 8:00 PM. “Legacy: The Quilts of Georgia Bailey” is on exhibit August 1-29.

Ewing Gallery

Featuring:
Unknown

Fluorescent Gallery

Featuring:
Unknown

Gallery 1010

Featuring:
Unknown

Indigo

Featuring:
Unknown

Ironwood Studios

Featuring:
Unknown

Knoxville Museum of Art

Featuring:
Unknown

Knoxville Visitors Center

Visitor’s Center, Knoxville Tourism and Sports, 6-8pm

• Book Signing with Martha Rose Woodward, author of Knoxville’s Sunsphere: Biography of a Landmark

• Performance by Mike Benjamin, pianist for 20 years and bassoonist with the Knoxville Symphony, Oak Ridge Symphony and The Symphony of theMountains in Kingsport, TN.

Also, a World’s Fair Exhibition and Sale of vintage and new World’s Fair Merchandise.

Old City Java

Featuring:
Unknown

The Basement Gallery

Featuring:

• Judith Baumann
• Deborah Adams Doering
• D. Dominick Lombardi
• T Michael Martin
• Robert Rainey
• Virginia Samsel

The exhibition continues Aug. 1st - Sept. 7th with a Closing Reception on Sept. 5th.

Opening Receptions for de.pic.tion
Curated by T. Michael Martin

De.pic.tion includes artists working with self portraiture and portraiture in a contemporary/non-traditional way… some works are more symbolic and hieroglyphic than an actual literal interpretation or image of themselves.

Gallery hours: Thursday & Friday 6-9pm, Saturday & Sunday3-7pm

Three Flights Up Gallery

Featuring:
They’ve moved! They’re now at 800 Tyson Street, the sign on the building says “P. Smith Signs & Displays”, on the corner of Tyson and Stone. The phone number is still 256-8361.

September’s show will be Bobbie Crews, Shirley Brown and Carl Gombert.

Unarmed Merchants

Featuring:

• Ocean Starr Cline
• Chuck Ellis

• Starr Cline is a self taught artist who comes from a do-it-yourself minded family inspiring her to explore many mediums and challenge herself to explore many artistic options. This First Friday she brings us her beautiful tapestry art that she frames herself with a colorful rustic touch.

• Chuck Ellis’s father was a carpenter, but he had little interest in woodworking until a few years ago when he was in an art gallery in southwest Texas and saw a man turn a mesquite bowl. For Christmas he was given a lathe and some pen kits, from there he was hooked. Chuck Brings us his hand turned pens and pepper mills, bowels and more.

Also on display:

This will be a catered event with food and wine starting around 5pm and will run through 9pm.

UT Downtown Gallery

Featuring:
Unknown

Vagabondia

Featuring:
Unknown

World Grotto

Featuring:
Poetry Slam, 6-9pm
Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash, 10pm
All door proceeds to benefit Thompson Cancer Survival Center & the Buddys Race Against Cancer. The night will be a tribute to the music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead featuring local bands Grandpa’s Stash, GaNaSiTa, the Prophecy of Bob, and Jescoe.
There will be door prizes and vendors.

Yee-Haw Industries

Featuring:

• FALL SUPER SIDEWALK SALE

• New plywood cuts by SEAN STAR WARS

• BJORN LIE skirts back by popular demand

SALE continues Saturday and Sunday after First Friday.