Knoxville First Friday

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.

Be Careful!!!!!!!!!
The city of Knoxville has changed the direction of some streets around Market Square, so 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.

• A1 Lab Arts

Featuring:
Victoria Rene Lenne
Paul Judson Dodez

• Abode

Featuring:
Abode is featuring the Projector Screen Collection of Ashley Addair. The principle requirement for a projector screen is a high degree of reflectivity. On a globe with more questions than answers, screens become a fitting canvas for asking. In the projector series, painter Ashley Addair treats the disruption of equilibrium that occurs when we ask questions and the new information won’t conform to established patterns or explanations. Stop by and meet the artist. As always, the wine is on the house and the home goods are on you. See you Friday!

• Art Gallery of Knoxville / Copy Shop

Featuring:
Unknown

• Art Market Gallery

Featuring:
Brenda Mills
Steve Bach

• Bliss

Featuring:
Unknown

• Bliss Home
  

Featuring:
Bliss will feature the work Stacey Fletcher Reynolds, who says: “My work is a process of layering; layering thoughts, memories, and ideas with sensual materials. A painting is a surface struggling between what we do not see and that which is seen directly. It is the love of mark making and materials that motivate the paintings. My obsession to make a surplus of marks creates form that becomes an abstraction of the idea. They seem abstract at first glance to the viewer, but have some sense of childhood imagery disguised among the colorful layers. The work is fresh with vibrant lively colors, layered with metaphors of myself and others contrasted with the chaotic approach of an energetic mark.”

• Blount Mansion

Featuring:
Tony Kampwerth

• Coffee and Chocolate

Featuring:
Unknown

• Deka Bakari Gallery

Featuring:
Unknown

• Emporium Center for Arts & Culture

Featuring:
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present the 2008 Tennessee Watercolor Society Biennial Exhibition, the 31st statewide juried exhibition showcasing representational and experimental paintings in water media by some of the most prominent artists from across the state. Sixty paintings from over 200 entries were selected for the exhibit by the juror, internationally known artist Cheng-Khee Chee, including 17 artists from the East Tennessee area. The selected entries are original works in water-based media and completed during the past three years. The Exhibition 2008 Co-chairs are Harriet Howell of Rutledge and Kay Yazdi of Oak Ridge.

The opening reception on Friday, June 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM, is free and open to the public and features complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Most works are for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition on July 25. You are also invited to attend an Awards Ceremony and Reception on Saturday, June 7, from 1:30-4:00 PM.

• Ewing Gallery

Featuring:
Downtown Gallery: ‘Image Tracks’ Carl Sublett 1919-2008
June 6, 2008 – June 27, 2008
Reception: June 6, 5-9PM

• Fluorescent Gallery

Featuring:
Unknown

• Gallery 1010

Featuring:
Unknown

• Host Clothing

Featuring:
Unknown

• Indigo

Featuring:
Unknown

• Ironwood Studios

Featuring:
Unknown

• Knoxville Museum of Art

Featuring:
Unknown

• Old City Java

Featuring:
Unknown

• The Basement Gallery

Featuring:
“Salmagundi”
June 6th – 22nd
Opening Reception Friday, June 6th 6-10PM

5 artists working in various mediums mixed together in a exciting group show!
Michael Giles
Ben Katz
Ken McBroom
Marc Rodriguez
Cody SwAgG

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a salad dish originating in the early 17th century England comprising cooked meats, seafood, vegetables, fruit, leaves, nuts and flowers and dressed with oil,vinegar and spices. The term does not refer to a single recipe but describes the grand presentation of a plated salad comprising many different and disparate ingredients.

• Three Flights Up Gallery

Featuring:
Bill Lee
Lisa Line
Beth Meadows
Christopher Mitchell
Michael Peters
Jill Sanders
Jennifer Simpson
Daniel Smith
Mandy Vorenberg

• Unarmed Merchants

Featuring:
Unarmed Merchant’s First Friday Event features ceramic artists Christal Yost and Brandt Womack. While working with the same medium these two artist convey a very different approach to show the diversity of clay. Christal Yost will present us with her elegant ceramic sculptures entitled “TORSO-Vessel of the Heart” while Brandt Womack shows us a fun side of functional ceramics. Also on display are the works by Elaine Carpenter, Calvin Chappelle, Wes Rader, and Caleb Wilson, as well as the regular faire of functional art from around the world, featuring special pieces from Tennessee artisans.

This event will be held from 6pm-10p and will be catered with food and wine.

• UT Downtown Gallery

Featuring:
‘Image Tracks’ Carl Sublett 1919-2008

• Vagabondia

Featuring:
Unknown

• Versus

Featuring:
Unknown

• World Grotto

Featuring:
Hip Hop Dance with DJ Von
Friday, May 2nd, starts 9pm

• Yee- Haw Industries

Featuring:
Unknown

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