Knoxville First Friday

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

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

Vintage Cowboy Boot Trunk Show

Jessica “Camilla” O’Neal was raised in the Wilds of Wyoming. Her evenings were spent performing on stage at her families live theatre. While performing all over the world Camilla would always wore a pair of 1940 custom made cowboy boots handed down to her by her Grandmother. This pair of boots came to be the topic of many conversations between Camilla and the people in the audience. Camilla is a true cowboy boot connoisseur and is capturing the spirit of the wild west one pair of boots at a time! Each pair has a past rich in history and a story to tell of their own. Every good Cowboy/Cowgirl should own at least one pair of vintage cowboy boots!

Cool CorC

CoolCorC is a family owned business that specializes in utilizing cork and its natural attributes. Josh and Jess Wright, two architects, head CoolCorC and its product development. Cork is naturally biodegradable, hypoallergenic, waterproof, stain resistant and highly insulating. What started with cork cup sleeves (similar to paper ones found at many coffee shops) has since expanded to everyday accessories including journals, purses and more. Josh and Jess continue to investigate innovative ways of exposing corks attributes and natural beauty. They currently reside in Knoxville, TN where all of their new products are handmade.

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

An exhibit of mixed media by Erika Smith will be on view at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, during the month of June. A reception for the artist will be held at Bliss Home during Knoxville’s First Friday festivites, June 4th, from 5-9 pm.

Her mixed media collage style has been largely self-taught and inspired by the world around her. She sees the appeal of not only the typical sense of beauty, but the life and splendor in decay as well. One man’s trash is Erika’s treasure, as she can be found rooting through the discarded to incorporate antique photos and paint with broken glass, rusty nails, cast away doll parts, and a myriad of elements that seem unnatural but work so well together with Erika’s touch.

For more information, please contact the artist at erika.smith@rocketmail.com

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

June 4th, 2010 at CTV:
The All Original Playwright Workshop is a company of writers, actors and directors whose sole purpose is to develop new and original material for plays, film, and television. Then AOPW regularly presents portions of their developed works to an invited audience at the final workshop. Our June First Friday event will feature “Writes of Passage” -- one of these performances.

Lisa Soland, award-winning published playwright will be present to discuss her work.

Downtown Grind

418 S. Gay Street , Knoxville (865) 524-4747

East Tennessee Historical Society

601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville (865) 216-8824  Website

Come celebrate “First Friday” at the Museum of East Tennessee History on Friday, June 4, from 5:00-8:00 pm. Well known local artist Amy Campbell’s collection of paintings called “What’s for Supper?” will be the featured display of the evening. The collection features the restaurants landmarks and early restaurateurs of Knoxville, including images of Harold’s, Helma’s, Kerns Bread, S & W Cafeteria, Vic & Bill’s, JFG, The Varsity, the Roman Room, and more. A total of 12 paintings will be for sale along with prints and postcards of the paintings. Prints of Amy’s historic portraits of Sam Houston, Isaac Anderson, Will McTeer and others are available in the ETHS museum shop.

First Friday guests are also invited to tour the new feature exhibition at the Museum of East Tennessee History, Vanishing Appalachia: Photographs by Don Dudenbostel, Field Recordings by Tom Jester, as well as the signature exhibition Voices of the Land. Guests will also enjoy refreshments provided by Club Leconte.

The “First Friday” evening is free and open to the public. The East Tennessee History Center is located at 601 S. Gay Street, across from the Tennessee Theatre.

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 Balcony Gallery

Arts & Culture Alliance Presents “Art Awakenings”

(05/13/2010/Knoxville) – The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled “Art Awakenings”, featuring works by Shawn Kincaid, Dina Loukota, Wes Loukota, and Rufus S. Morgan, MD. The exhibition is coordinated by Shawn Kincaid and Dina Loukota, who first met in 2005 at an Arrowmont class. The two artists have since supported and encouraged each other in their art and taken many classes together. The idea for this exhibition title emerged because these artists spend so much time at their jobs and teaching classes that they rarely have time for their own work. “This is truly an ‘art awakening’ for us because it is our first full exhibition,” says Kincaid. The exhibition will be displayed in the Balcony at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from June 4-25, 2010, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on June 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM.

Shawn Lorraine Kincaid is an art teacher at Tate’s School of Discovery in Knoxville and is proud to be a native sixth generation East Tennessean. “I believe my deep cultural and family heritage helps inspire my love for the natural areas of this beautiful region in which we live,” she says. Kincaid predominately paints landscapes, many created from the back porch of her farm in LaFollette. She received a BS in Education from the University of Tennessee with a concentration and certification in Art for K-12. Kincaid also has many hours of workshops and classes above her degree requirements and has recently started working with pastels from several classes with Paul deMarrais, Bonnie Dolan, and Susan Oglivie. “I use soft pastels in an Impressionistic style over a textured acrylic underpainting. The colors I choose are bright and vibrant and vary from the traditional colors.” Kincaid often takes her own digital photographs of the surrounding area and manipulates the colors through PhotoShop until reaching a pleasing vibrancy and distortion of color.

Dina (Bernardina) Loukota paints animals, many scenes from Italy, and local landscapes. As an artist, her inspirations and influences come from her travels across Italy and from animals. “Each painting is a visual history of a particular moment of time, place and emotion that I record through my art,” she says. Although she is a classically-trained artist with experience in oils, she prefers to use pastels and/or charcoal pencils. Her methodology changes depending on the subject matter and how she is feeling at that moment. She takes her own digital photographs and usually paints from them. Loukota has attended various local pastel classes with Bonnie Dolan (Arrowmont), Louise Farley (Fountain City Art Center) and Paul deMarrais (Fountain City Art Center).

Wes Loukota has been a woodworker for many years and will display bowls, platters, wall hangings, vases, and sculptures. He has turned for seven years, taken turning classes at Woodcraft and Arrowmont, and attended the American Association of Woodturners National Symposium several times with items on display in the Instant Gallery. He is a juried member of the East Tennessee Woodworker’s Guild, The Foothills Craft Guild, The Appalachian Arts Craft Center, and the Smoky Mountain Woodturners.

Dr. Rufus Samuel Morgan, a self-taught painter, was born in 1920 and grew up in Chattanooga. He served during WWII, and while stationed in Italy he received his only formal training in art: a drawing class he paid for with food pilfered from the barracks. Upon his return to the United States, he attended medical school with the aid of the GI Bill. In 1949, he and his wife moved to Pikeville, TN, where Dr. Morgan practiced medicine until 1975. They then moved to Signal Mountain where Dr. Morgan continued to practice in the ER at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga and began focusing more on his painting. Although he has traveled all over the world, he has been a lifelong resident of Tennessee and an avid outdoorsman. In his paintings he seeks to capture the beauty of Tennessee and the Sequatchie Valley, through both a remembered past and an observed present. Dr. Morgan is also a photographer, and often creates paintings based on photographs.

@ Emporium Center

The Arts & Culture Alliance presents “Anomaly”, an art event showcasing Southern LGBTIQ artists and celebrating the human community at the Emporium Center. “Anomaly” features four established artists working in the South: Ethan Bach, S. Beth Bishop, Jessica Gregory, and coordinator Zophia Kneiss, as well as a diverse selection of local talent and emerging artists curated by Denise Stewart-Sanabria. “Anomaly” will display sculptures, paintings, and poetry from June 4-25 as well as video-media art at the opening reception on First Friday, June 4, 5:00-9:00 PM.

“Anomaly” coincides with the nation’s Pride celebration and invites local LGBTIQ organizations to network and be artistically involved within the community. “This diverse event serves to foster a dialogue informed by the awareness that all people have common and individual struggles, no matter how they outwardly identify,” says show coordinator Zophia Kneiss. “It also seeks to depict art as a triumph of human expression as well as the power of speaking openly about one’s identity.” There’s an after show afterparty will at the Urban starting at 9pm!

Ethan Bach’s work is about taking journeys and opening one’s own mind. He strives to push the boundaries of visual art practices by integrating his documentary background with time-based, interactive installations, single-channel video, and new technologies. Website

S. Beth Bishop’s poems use hybrid forms to explore the concepts of home, gender, class, divinity, science/mathematics, and the (false) division of the self into body, mind, heart, and soul. They strive to work against all manifestations of institutionalized injustice by deconstructing common generalizations and marginalizations of individual and small-group expressions, geographic and political regions, and philosophical concepts.

Jessica Gregory’s work acknowledges we each have our own experiences and what really matters is how viewers interpret the work for themselves or how it makes them feel. She creates both realistic and abstract works of art, sometimes a combination of the two, reaching toward experiencing the many things in our lives we can’t see, like sound, energy, dreams, and feelings. Website

Zophia Kneiss strives to stay positively connected to her community, both locally and globally, and this endeavor mirrors what she sees in the world and also allows her to define “community” in her own ways. Her passion for organic shapes and inspiration from the natural world lend themselves to engineering and building structurally sound sculptures that exhibit natural motion. Steel is, of course, both a natural and an industrially made material. So, while her work borrows from the organic, it also remains in dialogue with the industrial.  Website

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

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

The Tomato Head

12 Market Square, Knoxville -- (865) 637-4067 Website

“Nature in Color” and exhibit of acrylic paintings by Julie Bernal will be on view at the Knoxville Tomato Head restaurant from June 5th through July 2nd, 2010.

Bio and statement:

Julie Bernal grew up in Bristol, Connecticut where she became interested in art at a young age. Bernal moved to  Knoxville, Tennessee as a teenager and studied fine art in high school. She later continued

her education with a degree in graphic arts. Bernal is a graphic designer at Moxley Carmichael, a premier public relations firm in downtown Knoxville. She spends her free time focusing on creating fine

art. Her other passions include interior design and traveling.

Bernal’s collection, Nature in Color, consists of modern acrylic paintings. They were inspired by her love for design by using shapes, patterns and colors found in nature. Bernal also has other collections

which include realistic landscape paintings, charcoal portrait drawings and digital photography of architecture.

I wake up every day ready to create. I use my art as a way to capture specific moments and feelings. It is the best way for me to keep a journal of my life. Website

Unarmed Merchants

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

URBhana

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

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