Knoxville First Friday

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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.

This year, the first Friday fell on New Year’s Day, so it’s been shuffled off to January 8th.

Here’s hoping 2010 is a great year for everyone. Happy New Year!

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

Abode will be featuring the first annual “Dress Your Nest” Winter Sale! Come take advantage of great savings on rugs, select furniture pieces, popular home accessories and of course holiday items (to get you into the spirit for next year – while buying at a bargain price!). You don’t want to miss this!

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

“Chimera Concepts” by Amy Lee

An exploration of the subconscious revealed through contemporary digital media and traditional fiber art techniques will be on view at Bliss Home at 29 Market Square in downtown Knoxville during the months of January and February, 2010. A reception will be held for the artist was held on actual First Friday, Jan. 1st, but will be on view during the rescheduled Jan. 8th First Friday events.

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

Community Television will be closed January 1st and will not be participating in First Friday

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

National Juried Exhibition of 2009

Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony, January 8, 5:00-9:00 PM

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present its National Juried Exhibition of 2009, a new exhibition featuring selected artwork from 46 artists in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, and North Carolina. The National Juried Exhibition provides a forum for local artists to compete on a national scale and display their highest quality work. The selected art features both traditional and non-traditional work and will be exhibited at the Emporium Center through January 29. A brief awards ceremony will take place at 6:00 PM in which $1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded!

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365: AIGA Annual Design Competition

Opening Reception, January 8, 5:00-9:00 PM

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present the AIGA Knoxville exhibition 365: AIGA Annual Design Competition in the Balcony at the Emporium Center. AIGA’s suite of competitions is widely recognized as the most discerning statement on design excellence today, extending a legacy that began more than 90 years ago. Through the competitions, AIGA creates an authoritative chronicle of outstanding design solutions, each demonstrating the process of designing, the role of the designer, and the value of design. The selections in AIGA’s annual competition represent the best work across all disciplines of communication design and strategy and were chosen by a distinguished jury of design peers. They become part of the AIGA Design Archives, a searchable visual database of exemplary design. They are exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York and offered as a traveling exhibition for display across the country. http://knoxville.aiga.org.

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Both exhibitions will be on display through January 29 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, January 9, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

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

The Artist Reception/Celebration of the New Year will be Saturday, January 16 from 1-3 pm. Chriss Hardy paints with oil on canvas, and focuses especially on scenes of people being active in everyday local contemporary life. This collection includes a series of downtown Knoxville Farmers Market paintings.

Indigo

327 Union Avenue Knoxville (865) 525-8788  Website

Ironwood Studios

119 Jennings Avenue Knoxville (865) 405-0777  Website

Julie Apple Handbags

130 West Jackson Ave 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

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

Ryan Blair, Betty Bullen, Bob Stevenson, Rosemary Floyd, Terrie Boruff Yeatts, Isaac Privett, Alice Carroll, Katy Smith

Unarmed Merchants

129 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 549-5769  Website

URBhana

115 S. Gay Street (865) 525-7381  Website

Circle Modern Dance presents a series of workshops with Angela Hill, a former Knoxvillian and now Sydney, Australia based performer, award winning choreographer and teacher. After three years of living, studying and working in Sydney, Angela and her partner Andre Hayter are back in Knoxville for a visit. As the creative partnership AH Squared they will present an interactive installation for “First Friday” January 8th at URBhana on the 100 Block of Gay Street. The video tracking system known as “Little SIS” works as a social interaction system, encouraging movement and changing spatial relationships as participants movements are tracked and translated into sounds. This is a free event.

Artists Tess Gray will have her artwork on display for this night and the month of January.

UT Downtown Gallery

106 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 673-0802  WebSite

Vagabondia

27 Market Square Knoxville (865) 525-4842   Website

World Grotto

Market Square, Knoxville   Website

Yee- Haw Industries

413 S. Gay Street Knoxville (865) 522-1812  Website

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