KnoxvilleFirstFriday.com listings for August, 2010
A note from your host-
If you don’t see a listing, I couldn’t find it when I updated this for this month. Sadly, only a handful of people send me the info for the artist on display each month, so there’s a lot of places listed here without the full information. I’m a one man show, and can only dedicated so much time a month to do these updates. If you see a place listed here without any information, and you find they have someone on display this month, mention to the venue that they need to contact me every month with the artist’s name and other info. I can only do so much.
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. Not sure what to expect on First Friday? Here’s a little sample from Knoxville Tourism & Sports
A new gallery has opened- Red Line Gallery!
The arts here have grown a little more- Red Line Gallery in Farragut has opened recently, it’s located at 11519 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37934 - 865.288.0277 Red Line Gallery Website
I stopped in and met Natalie and looked around, it’s a beautiful gallery, well lit, and it’s filled with some great art. They’re not hosting openings for first Friday yet, but wanted to let you know they’re open, and to welcome to them to the ever growing art scene here in Knoxville.
A new venue!
Regal Cinema Art Downtown West 8 has joined First Friday, their listing information is below- stop in and welcome them to First Friday!
On with this month’s openings!
501 Arthur
501 Arthur St., Knoxville (865) 951- 2523 Website
8 Shooters Studio
1201 Central Street, Knoxville (865) 545-4408 Website
A1 Lab Arts
201 Randolph Street (Old City) Knoxville Website
Abode
15 Market Square Knoxville (865) 523-5090 Website
Art Gallery of Knoxville / Copy Shop
317 Gay Street Knoxville (865) 595- 4401 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 and Art
29 Market Square Knoxville (865) 673-6711 Website
“Simple Subjects” by Starr Cline will be on view at Home Bliss at 29 Market Square during the month of August. A reception for the artist will be held at Home Bliss during downtown Knoxville’s First Friday event, August 6, from 5pm-9pm. Artist’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
Coffee and Chocolate
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 688-9244
Community Television of Knoxville
808 State Street Knoxville (865) 215-4350 Website
CTV’s August 2010 First Friday event will feature the Knoxville Writers’ Guild, a local non-profit organization dedicated to promoting writing and creativity in the Knoxville community through education, public events and workshops to help writers create and share their work. Join us as Knoxville Writers’ Guild members read their poetry and stories and answer questions about their work. 5-7pm.
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
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring oils and acrylics by the South Knoxville Senior (SKS) Painters from August 11-27, 2010 in the Balcony at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville.
The SKS Painters started out at the newly opened South Knoxville Senior Center in October 2007 when Mary Harris volunteered to teach a painting class. Harris, a Knox County native and Powell High graduate, is a self-taught artist who taught oil painting for sixteen years at Vance-Granville Community College in Louisburg, NC. What started out with just one senior citizen has now expanded to an overflowing class and the creation of the “SKS” Painters. While most had never painted before, each had a strong desire and a wish to learn to paint when they retired. With growing fellowship, the class meets every Wednesday for the lessons in putting paint to canvas, etc. Although they are working with different media and different applications on varied surfaces, the class mostly paints in acrylics. Several of the SKS Painters have now experienced the pleasure of having their work not only appreciated but also purchased, and several artists have been commissioned by individuals to paint landscapes, portraits, and historical sites. Along with learning to paint, they have applied their life-learned skills in marketing, social networking, woodworking, photography and computer technology in their art endeavors. These artists have developed their own style and favorite things to paint.
Ewing Gallery
1715 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville (865) 974-3200 Website
Fluorescent Gallery
627 N. Central Knoxville (865) 522-1752 Website
Gallery 1010
113 South Gay Street Knoxville Website
Hanson Gallery
5607 Kingston Pike Knoxville p (865) 584-6097 Web Site
Indigo
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 525-8788 Website
Ironwood Studios
119 Jennings Avenue Knoxville (865) 405-0777 Website
Julie Apple Handbags
121 Gay Street Knoxville (865) 235-1252 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
Knox ivi
17 Market Square, Knoxville Website (17 Market Square is located directly beneath The Chamber of Commerce.)
Knoxville Visitor Center
301 Gay Street Knoxville (800) 727-8045 Website
UT student Katy Smith will have her artwork on display from 6:30pm-8pm.
Lox Salon
127 S Central Knoxville Website
Maplehurst Inn
800 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville (865) 803-6215
Midtown Arts Center
513 Cooper Street between downtown Knoxville and downtown north. (865) 406-7885
Morelock Music
403 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 766-5192 Website
Old City Java
109 S. Central Avenue Knoxville (865) 523-9817 Website
Organized Play
221 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville (865) 521-0690 Website (Organized play is in the former spot of the Deka Bakari gallery.)
Regal Cinema Downtown West 8
Regal Cinema Downtown West 8 #103 1640 Downtown West Blvd. Knoxville (865) 693-6327
We are going to be hosting our first First Friday event, featuring artist Rachel Shoemaker.
View artwork and register to win free movie passes from 5PM -- 8PM
Remedy Coffee
125 W. Jackson Ave. Knoxville Website
The Fortunate Traveler
119 S. Central Street Bldg. 2, (In the Old City beside the Crown and Goose) Knoxville (865) 474-1098 Website
The Gathering Place at Regas
318 North Gay Street, Knoxville (865)637-3427 Website
Tomato Head
12 Market Square, Knoxville -- (865) 637-4067 Website
Various photographs by Zachary Jones will be on view at the downtown Knoxville Tomato Head Restaurant from August 7th through September 3rd, 2010. He will exhibit at the Maryville Tomato Head from September 5th through October 2nd, 2010.
Description: A small collection of film and digital prints of things I have found interesting and/or ascetically pleasing.
Statement: I’m not sure I consider myself to be an artist, therefore I like this quote by Edgar Degas: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Unarmed Merchants
129 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 549-5769 Website
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
URBhana is proud to have local painter Alison Oakes show her work for our August 6th First Friday. 6pm-9:00pm
Join us for wine, food, stunning artwork and beautiful Kirtan music from M.K. Anand. Admission is free.
” My paintings are about the nature of beauty. They are contradictions of beauty, a dichotomy of seduction and repulsion, natural and artificial, exposed and covered. I intend for the images I paint to both seduce and unsettle viewers.” Artist’s website.
UT Downtown Gallery
106 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 673-0802 WebSite
Vagabondia
27 Market Square Knoxville (865) 525-4842 Website
Yee- Haw Industries
413 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 522-1812 Website
KnoxvilleFirstFriday.com listings for July, 2010
A note from your host-
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. Not sure what to expect on First Friday? Here’s a little sample from Knoxville Tourism & Sports --
On with this month’s openings!
501 Arthur
501 Arthur St., Knoxville (865) 951- 2523 Website
8 Shooters Studio
1201 Central Street, Knoxville (865) 545-4408 Website
A1 Lab Arts
201 Randolph Street (Old City) Knoxville Website
Abode
15 Market Square Knoxville (865) 523-5090 Website
Art Gallery of Knoxville / Copy Shop
317 Gay Street Knoxville (865) 595- 4401 Website
Art Market Gallery
422 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 525-5265 Website
June 29-July 31, Art Market Gallery of Knoxville will spotlight the work of the following member artists: paintings by Sandra Abraham and Four for Fiber, a group exhibit featuring the works of Pat Delashmit, Elaine Fronczek, Harriet Howell and Carol Pritcher.
The gallery will host a First Friday Reception for the Featured Artists on July 2 from 5:30-9 p.m. with light refreshments and live music performed by Wes Lunsford, playing jazz and blues.
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 and Art
29 Market Square Knoxville (865) 673-6711 Website
Recent works by Alan Finch will be on view at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, for the month of July. A reception will be held for the artist during downtown Knoxville’s First Friday, July 2nd, from 5-9pm. For more information, please contact the artist at alanfinch@comcast.net
Biography
Visual Artist and independent curator, Alan Finch, has shown sculpture, mixed media, painting, video, and photography in numerous local, regional and national juried shows and invitationals.
He is the founder of Group W and Kaleidoscope. His photography was recently included in ArtScapes at the KMA, Arts in the Airport, and Through the Lens at the Oak Ridge Art Center.
His current digital photography focuses on the abstract in nature.
Finding the beautiful and strange hidden in plain sight is what these photographs are about.
The photographs exhibited here were taken at Saint Joseph Peninsula in Florida, Honey Creek Trail in the Big South Fork, and Norris Dam State Park this year.
Artist Statement
I try to capture a rhythm of light that is a reflection corresponding to the color contrasts that come about by finding composition in minute settings.
The use of pigment before the image is captured adds a depth to the organic space that becomes abstract and at times painterly.
Whatever the medium, ideally, a transformation occurs and reveals something unnoticed before in the artwork. I find working in wilderness and natural areas the most condusive to this process, where the mobility of nature is reflected in the photograph.
A process that is primal and integral to nature itself.
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
Coffee and Chocolate
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 688-9244
Community Television of Knoxville
808 State Street Knoxville (865) 215-4350 Website
Join us for our next “First Friday” event at CTV on July 2 (5 pm -- 7 pm) to listen and watch story teller Tommy Oaks tell some tales. He was the first person in the world (as far as we know) to receive a Master’s Degree in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. He also holds a Doctorate from the University of Tennessee. A Minister and Storyteller, Tommy spends most of his time traveling and telling.
Downtown Grind
418 S. Gay Street , Knoxville (865) 524-4747
East Tennessee Historical Society
601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville (865) 216-8824 Website
First Friday at the East Tennessee History Center -- July 2, 2010 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The East Tennessee Historical Society is proud to announce a new partnership with Club LeConte to present First Friday events in downtown Knoxville at the East Tennessee History Center located at 601 S. Gay St. On Friday, July 2, 2010, the History Center will be open to the public from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. with refreshments provided by Club LeConte and free tours of the Museum of East Tennessee History available to visitors. Guests will have the opportunity to visit the Museum’s signature exhibition, Voices of the Land – The People of East Tennessee and the current feature exhibition, Vanishing Appalachia, which has now been extended through October 3, 2010.
At 6:30 p.m. on July 2, a special presentation will be given for the First Friday visitors by the Vanishing Appalachia photographer Don Dudenbostel and field recordist Tom Jester. Dudenbostel and Jester will share the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories they encountered along the way while working on the Vanishing Appalachia project and they will explain why Jester sometimes asked, “Dudenbostel, what have you got me into now?” The presentation is free and open to the pubic.
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
Arts & Culture Alliance Presents “A Celebration of Color: New Works by Larry S. Cole”
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present “A Celebration of Color”, an exhibition featuring new oils, acrylics, and watercolors by Larry S. Cole. Cole’s eclectic works range from realism to the abstract and reflect the use of an intensely colorful palette. The exhibition will be displayed at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from July 2-30, 2010, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM.
Larry S. Cole is a Knoxville native who has had a life-long interest in painting. Although primarily self-taught, he studied art at the University of Tennessee and was influenced by the works of Andrew Wyeth and local artists Carl Sublett and Xavier Ironside. “Artists want observers’ senses to be drawn to their works, and they employ various techniques to create that connection,” says Cole. “I try to develop that relationship primarily through color. Light falling on a face or landscape continually transforms the mood of that subject as the light’s intensity strengthens and wanes. I try to capture those colors in a way that invites the observer into an emotional bond with the subject.” Cole’s painting subjects range from interesting people he meets to settings in Greece, Italy, the Eastern U.S. seacoast, and his native South. “I feel a sense of adventure with each new work I undertake,” says Cole. “Starting a painting is like embarking on an exciting voyage, one in which I always make new discoveries. I agree with Pablo Picasso who said, ‘Art washes from the soul, the dust of everyday life’.”
In addition to the works displayed in his gallery, Cole also paints commissioned works for private and corporate collectors. In the last year, he has begun participating in regional exhibitions and competitions. His painting “April Showers” was selected as a finalist in the 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival Limited Edition Print competition. He was a juried participant in the 2009 Artsclamation! (Fort Sanders Foundation benefit and exhibition), and Artsclamation! subsequently chose his works for their 2010 and 2011 benefit calendars. For more information, visit Cole’s studio at The Gallery House, 4016 Sutherland Avenue, in Knoxville. Artist Website
“A Celebration of Color” will be on display from July 2-30, 2010 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM. The Emporium Center is located at 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM -- 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, July 3, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed on Monday, July 5.
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled “Forms and Figures”, featuring work by seven artists:
Alan Finch (Knoxville, TN) – Finch is a visual artist and independent curator whose current digital photography focuses on the abstract in nature. www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/photographers/?inc=details&id=116603
Kathy Frankford (Morristown, TN) -- Frankford is a visual artist with landscape and natural happenings as the focus of her photography series. http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kathy-frankford.html
Carl Hill (Knoxville, TN) – Hill is a landscape/nature/travel photographer whose current panoramic photography emphasizes the forms and structures of the horizon.
Scott Lee (Knoxville, TN) – Lee is a film director/producer/artist and photographer. His “Dirty Bride Series” is a photographic conceptual set that includes six images of a woman dressed in a bridal gown. www.35degreesnorth.com
Ross Mol (Clinton, TN) – Mol’s main interest in photography is getting “the shot” with as little editing as possible.
Carole Usdan (Florida/North Carolina) – Carol is a fine arts photographer using a photographic dialogue to describe the ubiquitous push and pull among solitude, alienation and intimacy. www.usdanphoto.com
Dennis Usdan (Florida/North Carolina) – Dennis is a fine arts photographer and retired lawyer focusing on the clarification of observed details. www.usdanphoto.com
“Forms and Figures” will be on display in the Balcony at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from July 2-30, 2010. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM. The Emporium Center is located at 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM -- 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, July 3, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed on Monday, July 5. For more information, call (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.
Ewing Gallery
1715 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville (865) 974-3200 Website
Fluorescent Gallery
627 N. Central Knoxville (865) 522-1752 Website
Gallery 1010
113 South Gay Street Knoxville Website
Gypsy Hands Healing Arts Center
701 North Central Avenue, Knoxville (865) 522-5829 Website
Mixed Media artwork by Heather Finney. Artist’s website
Hanson Gallery
5607 Kingston Pike Knoxville p (865) 584-6097 Web Site
Indigo
327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 525-8788 Website
Ironwood Studios
119 Jennings Avenue Knoxville (865) 405-0777 Website
Julie Apple Handbags
121 Gay Street Knoxville (865) 235-1252 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
Knox ivi
17 Market Square, Knoxville Website (17 Market Square is located directly beneath The Chamber of Commerce.)
Knoxville Visitor Center
301 Gay Street Knoxville (800) 727-8045 Website
Uniquely Kid’s Friday
On the 3rd Friday of each month from 11:30am -- 1:00pm the Knoxville Visitor Center will host UNIQUELY KID’S FRIDAY! (July 16th ~ 11:30-1:00pm)
Uniquely Kid’s Friday will include coloring pages, games, visits from “Spherit” AND with the purchase of an adult beverage, you will receive a kids beverage FREE!
Upcoming Uniquely Fridays
July 2nd -- Sherri Underwood with her handmade baskets from 10am-2pm
July 9th -- Darlene Bakos promoting the American Quilter’s Society
Ferd’s First Friday at the Knoxville Visitor Center -- July 2 , 2010
Enjoy Ferd’s First Friday with live, on-air performances from top secret special guests from 6:30pm-8:00pm on the Knoxville Visitor Center Performance stage!
Sherri Underwood will also be joining us to display and sell her handmade baskets from 6:30pm-8pm.
Free two-hour visitor parking located next door to the Knoxville Visitor Center (301 S. Gay Street)
Lox Salon
127 S Central Knoxville Website
Maplehurst Inn
800 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville (865) 803-6215
Midtown Arts Center
513 Cooper Street between downtown Knoxville and downtown north. (865) 406-7885
Morelock Music
403 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 766-5192 Website
Old City Java
109 S. Central Avenue Knoxville (865) 523-9817 Website
Organized Play
221 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville (865) 521-0690 Website (Organized play is in the former spot of the Deka Bakari gallery.)
Remedy Coffee
125 W. Jackson Ave. Knoxville Website
The Fortunate Traveler
119 S. Central Street Bldg. 2, (In the Old City beside the Crown and Goose) Knoxville (865) 474-1098 Website
The Gathering Place at Regas
318 North Gay Street, Knoxville (865)637-3427 Website
Artists on display for First Friday:Terri Adkinson, George Allen, Bruce Busey, Julie Carroll, Dawn Hawkins, Tom McDaniel, David Pease, Lisa Wade, Christopher Yeatts, Miranda Yeatts, Terrie Boruff Yeatts
The Tomato Head
12 Market Square, Knoxville -- (865) 637-4067 Website
Recent works by Jarrod Justice will be on view at the downtown Knoxville Tomato Head Restaurant on Market Square from July 3rd through August 6th and at the Maryville location from August 8 through September 4th.
For more information, please contact the artist at paintings@jarrodjustice.com or visit his website.
July’s First Friday will be the final day for viewing,”Nature in Color,” an exhibit of paintings by Knoxville-based artist, Julie Bernal. Stop in and take a gander as part of your First Friday experience. On Saturday, July 3rd, Bernal’s exhibit will move to the Maryville location of The Tomato Head and a new show, recent works by Jarrod Justice, will be on display in Knoxville through August 6th.
Holiday Hours -- The Tomato Head will be closed on Sunday, July 4, to celebrate the holiday.
Unarmed Merchants
129 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 549-5769 Website
URBhana
115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381 Website
This Friday, URBhana will be celebrating the anniversary of our Grand Opening! Back by popular demand, the band Radio Harvest will provide the music for the evening, while artist Thomas Bell will be displaying some of his work.
This will certainly be a party you won’t want to miss, so be sure to swing by and check it out! We are so excited to be celebrating our first year of business, and we want you to come join the fun!
UT Downtown Gallery
106 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 673-0802 WebSite
Vagabondia
27 Market Square Knoxville (865) 525-4842 Website
Yee- Haw Industries
413 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 522-1812 Website



