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The Design Center Presents the 100 Block of Gay Street
Knoxville Community Development Corporation volunteers
Treats from Magpies
Gregg White with Nama Sushi Bar
Liza Zenni and City Mayor Bill Haslam
The Emporium Center Gallery in action!
Congratulations to the East Tennessee Community Design Center for the success of its 100 Block of Gay Street event on Thursday, June 16, at the Emporium Center for Arts & Culture! More than 250 people attended this very successful event, including City Mayor Bill Haslam, City Council members Joe Hultquist and Bob Becker, County Commissioner Mary Lou Horner, numerous city employees, and area architects and graphic designers. Nama Sushi Bar, Magpies, and Harold's Deli provided excellent treats. Many thanks to the healthy corps of volunteers from the Knoxville Community Development Corporation!
[updated 06/17/05]
Kuumba Youth Theatre Festival, June 10
From 10am-3pm, African American Appalachian Arts' Kuumba Festival hosted activities for children at the Emporium Center, including writing, poetry, drama, improvisation, West African dance and drum, and Chinese and African martial arts workshops. For more information, visit www.kuumbafest.org or call 865-546-9705.
[updated 06/10/05]
Three Local Artists Place Artwork in Knoxville’s Federal Courthouse
The judges of the federal courthouse in Knoxville wanted to add a few pieces of artwork to their downtown building on Market Street, so they called upon the Arts & Culture Alliance for guidance. The Alliance circulated an announcement among its nearly 250 individual members who hail from all areas of East Tennessee and create art in a wide variety of mediums. Knoxville artists Mike Berry, Nelson Velazquez, and Richard Whitson offered paintings to the courthouse on a loan basis for several months, and four colorful paintings now hang on the fourth floor of the courthouse.
Through the Arts & Culture Alliance, the judges also commissioned Knoxville-based Bobbie Crews to create a mural for the US District Courthouse. The mural depicts a naturalization ceremony surrounded by the three buildings that, at one time, served as federal courthouses in Knoxville. The mural will be finished in July.
[updated 06/09/05]
Vigil – Multimedia Art Installation Opening July 1
Vigil, a new photo and video installation by Mignon and Wolf Naegeli and featuring sound art by Seva, honors the courage and dedication of the international peace network Women in Black. Women in Black is a contemporary cross-cultural phenomenon consisting of more than 150 groups of women who are committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism, and other forms of violence. Vigil is on display at the Emporium Center for Arts & Culture, downtown Knoxville, from July 1-27.
The installation offers a compassionate look through the eyes and lenses of Swiss-born photo and video artist Mignon Naegeli. For more than two years, Naegeli observed Christian, Muslim, and Jewish women, as well as women from other spiritual traditions and backgrounds as they held weekly vigils, rain or shine. The video component of Vigil is simultaneously much more and much less than a documentary. Vigil includes a ten-minute video, video stills, black & white portraits, and large digital compositions of color and black & white images and photographs. Video stills from Vigil can be downloaded at: http://naegeli.net/Vigil/vigil_videostills.html.
An opening reception will be held July 1, 5-8pm. Vigil is the first solo exhibition in the Emporium Center Gallery.
[updated 06/07/05]
Opening reception photos
Thank you to our performers: Wood, Wind & Wire, Circle Modern Dance, and Go! Contemporary Dance Works! Hundreds of people came by for the opening reception at the Emporium Center. The Alliance member show is on exhibit through the month of June.
Dance improvisations
Wood, Wind & Wire
Go! Contemporary Dance Works
[updated 06/06/05]
Picnic for the Performing Arts
The Alliance hosted Knoxville's first biennial Performing Arts Community Event by showcasing Knoxville’s lesser-known treasures – it’s colorful performing arts organizations – at the Picnic for the Performing Arts on June 2. All members of the media were invited to visit the newly renovated Emporium Center for Arts & Culture, a hub of arts and cultural activities in downtown Knoxville, to celebrate Knoxville’s performing arts! The Alliance's member organizations that are performing arts groups were available to share their upcoming seasons, give media the inside scoop on organizational news and performers, and more! All attendees received hors d’oeuvres and a gift bag filled with goodies from participating organizations.
WBIR does a live feed of the event!
Appalachian Ballet Company shows off their collection of tutus!
Smoky Mountain Harmony's quartet "4 Grand" performs!
Cumberland County Playhouse
Circle Modern Dance
Molly Kincaid, Paige Travis, and Joy Riddle (Metro Pulse)
Actor's Co-op
Thank you to our sponsors, who included:
Back Yard Burger
Lenny’s Sub Shop
Mayfield’s
Bob’s Package Store
Media attendants included:
Dino Cartwright - WVLT-TV (Volunteer TV)
Brian Conley - Metro Pulse
Nisha Cox - Halls Shopper News
Sherry Francis - Fountain City Focus
Glenda Gideon - WVLT-TV (Volunteer TV)
Mike Hammond - WIVK 107.7FM & Newstalk 99FM/AM 990
Chandra Harris (and photographer) - Knoxville News Sentinel
Molly Kincaid - Metro Pulse
Ann Lloyd - WUOT 91.9FM
Marisa Lykins - WOEZ 88FM/ Love 89.1FM
Shirley Nash-Pitts - WVLT-TV (Volunteer TV)
Joy Riddle - Metro Pulse
Julie Small - WVLT-TV (Volunteer TV)
Lindsey Stewart - Halls Shopper News
Paige Travis - Metro Pulse
Leslie Tucker - Farragut Press Enterprise
David Wells - WOEZ 88FM/ Love 89.1FM
John Wright - Knoxville Magazine & Metro Pulse
Beth Haynes - WBIR (doing a live feed!)
Performing Arts Groups included:
Actor's Co-op
Appalachian Ballet Company
Broadway in Knoxville
Carpetbag Theatre
Circle Modern Dance
Cumberland County Playhouse
Go! Contemporary Dance Works
Knoxville Children's Choir
Knoxville Choral Society
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Oak Ridge Community Playhouse
Performing Arts & Lecture Series
Smokyland Sound Chorus
Smoky Mountain Harmony
Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble
Clarence Brown Theatre/UT Department of Theater
The WordPlayers
[updated 06/03/05]
Arts & Culture Alliance presents Member Show
The Arts & Culture Alliance presents its annual Member Show at the Emporium Center, showcasing a fresh mix of two- and three-dimensional work from all individual member artists of the Alliance. The show runs during the month of June and encompasses a wide variety of media, such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, pencils, pen and ink, charcoal, Japanese ink painting, calligraphy, collage, mixed media, airbrush, computer graphics, photography, fine crafts, quilting, quilt art, silk painting, beadwork, iron sculpture, paper sculpture, bronze sculpture, stone sculpture, clay, enamels, glass, wood-carving, ceramics, jewelry, pottery, corn shuck dolls, hand-woven garments, tapestry, stained glass, metal, and more!
The opening reception on Friday, June 3, from 5-9pm, features two performing arts members of the Alliance: Wood, Wind & Wire, performing "roots nouveau music" on hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitar, and bowed psaltery; and Go! Contemporary Dance Works, performing aggressive, unusual, and innovative choreography that brings athleticism to dance and dance to athleticism. The reception is open to the public, and complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres are served.
Thank you to Krishna Adams, Registrar at the Knoxville Museum of Art, for helping with the aesthetic design of the show! The Alliance Member Show is on exhibit June 3-27 at the Emporium Center for Arts & Culture, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri, 9-5pm. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance, (865) 523-7543.
[updated 06/01/05]
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