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March 2007
Photos from Arts Advocacy Day, March 13
This year, we were joined by four senators and three representatives as well as the largest Knox County delegation in many years! Thanks to all who traveled to Nashville for this important day: A1LabArts, Actors Co-op, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Arts & Culture Alliance, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Circle Modern Dance, Community School of the Arts, East Tennessee Community Design Center, East Tennessee Technology Access Center, The Joy of Music Youth Music School, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville Opera, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge Civic Music Assocation, Tennessee Children's Dance Ensemble, and Tennessee Mountain Writers.
Senator Jamie Woodson (Chairman of the Education Committee)
Members of the Knox County delegation
Senator Tim Burchett and Representative Bill Dunn
Liza Zenni with the delegation
Tennessee Arts Commissioner Molly Pratt
Representative Parkey Strader
Senators Jamie Woodson and Randy McNally (Chairman of the Finance Committee)
Senator Raymond Finney
[updated 03/14/07]
Photos from First Friday
Many thanks to all who joined us for the opening reception of "Life Journeys: The Works of Genie Even and Judi Gaston".
A beautiful evening for a First Friday!
Examining Judi Gaston's fabric art.
Genie Even's watercolors and Judi Gaston's fabric art.
Genie Even talks with visitors.
Enjoying the reception (Judi Gaston's purses in the foreground).
[updated 03/05/07]
March 2 -
First Friday - Downtown
When: Friday, March 2, 5-9pm
Where: the Market Square District & other downtown areas
In conjunction with the popular First Friday downtown gallery and shopping tour, KAT will operate a trolley route to connect downtown visitors with the galleries and shops along Gay Street, Market Square and the Old City. The First Friday trolley will travel down Gay Street and through the Old City every 5-7 minutes from 5-9pm.
The First Friday trolley is Fare-Free!
To catch it, just watch for the sign on the front of the trolley that says "First Fridays."
Arts & Culture Alliance
Opening reception. The Arts & Culture Alliance presents “Life Journeys: The Works of Genie Even and Judi Gaston”, a new exhibition on display March 2 – 31 at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s Emporium Center. Even’s watercolors and Gaston’s fabric art were recognized award winners at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition of 2006 to which more than 150 works of art were submitted. Join us for complimentary hors d’oeuvres on Friday, March 2, 5-9pm. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance, (865) 523-7543, or visit our website at www.knoxalliance.com.
Gallery Lofts
Open House. Come tour these stunning 3-story lofts, which boast private penthouses and rooftop terraces. Remaining lofts feature impressive finishes such as oversized slate tile showers, exquisite kitchens, soaring ceilings, and unique architectural details. Various two and three bedroom floorplans are now available -- priced from $299,000.
Please contact Kimberly Dixon Hamilton at 588.5535 for additional information or visit the Gallery Lofts website, www.GalleryLoftsKnoxville.com. The Gallery Lofts are above Mast General Store at 402 S. Gay St. The open house is from 5p until 7p.
UT Downtown Gallery
The UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions - Shelter: A Mixed-Media Installation and Confluence both opening and reception on First Friday.
Fearing an imminent American led military attack following the events of 9/11, thousands of Afghans fled areas governed by the Taliban and set up camps in northern Afghanistan
and along the borders of Pakistan. Throughout the Afghan War, many inhabitants of these camps suffered and died from lack of water, food, and medicine. Images of camps for both refugees and Internally Displaced People from different areas of the world have become a disturbing symbol of human tragedy. Shelter consists of a tent-like wood structure with a pebbled floor, a patchwork of 200 transferred photographic images, and a pile of used clothing from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Resembling the form of a Muslim tomb, this mixed-media installation aims to depict the brutality of a refugee camp. The artists, Turkish born Tulu Bayar and Chinese born Xiaoze Xie, invite viewers to project themselves into this environment, to displace the comforts of their own domestic world, and compels them to consider the plight of so many people who have no shelter. Confluence, by Tulu Bayar, is a video projection aiming to depict not just a simple dialogue between still images and video, but a reflection on the current arguments about the
Islamic headscarf in Western cultures. Both video channels are presented in slow motion –one quarter of real time- emphasizing particular mimicry and gestures of the subject while presenting past and present on the same platform. The work is intended to create a narration from a series of moments as opposed to a series of actions.
Art Gallery of Knoxville
Artwork by UTK professor Jered Sprecher. The eclectic aesthetic of Jered Sprecher's paintings and drawings flicker between states of recognition, they are a haptic document of everything and nothing. This event will run until 11p.
Abode
Local Jewelry designer and fabricator Mary Cottrell will be in-store for the premier of her latest collection. Stop by, meet Mary ,and check out her unique and limited-run pieces. As always, the wine is on the house and the home goods are on you.
Vagabondia
Vagabondia Hat Trunk Show & Reception. Vagabondia is pleased to welcome Patricia Frankum, a classically-trained milliner and Rossini Festival regular March 2nd-4th. Opening Reception is Friday, March 2nd from 5:30-8:30 with food by LaCosta. Ladies can meet with Pat to commission that special personalized Easter or Derby Hat!!!! Please call 525-4842 for more information.
Three Flights Up Gallery
Three Flights Up Gallery invites you to an evening of art, food and music. The 12 featured artists this month are currently pursuing licensure in arts eduction at the University of Tennesee, and work in a variety of media, including ceramics, photography, drawing, and painting.
Tomato Head
Tomato Head will feature a special First Friday meal and pair it with our wine sale, including bottles of wine reduced to $12.
World Grotto
Dishwater Blonde will perform.
Downtown Grill & Brewery
The Brewery will extend their happy hour until 10:00. FREE popcorn in the bar.
La Costa
La Costa's will feature $2 beers, $3 premium margaritas and half price bottles of wine.
Preservation Pub
The Viberslaps will perform.
bliss Home
Knoxville Postcard Slide show. A slide show presentation focusing on the history and change of downtown Knoxville and surrounding area will be shown throughout the evening. Many of the postcards depict structures that are no longer standing or early building/streets that have been modified throughout the years. Several current photographs will contrast the marked difference of these past scene. The postcards are from the personal collections of Michael Haynes, Mark Heinz and Scott Schimmel.
This highly successful First Friday event, now downtown-wide, began in October of 2003. On the first Friday of every month
the Market Square District, Gay St including the 100-Block and Old City merchants offer something special for all downtown
residents and visitors. Promotions include artist receptions, gallery openings, special food and drink offerings and more.
contact Scott Schimmel 256-2469 for further details Scott Schimmel 865.256.2469 http://www.shopinbliss.com
[updated 02/22/07]
Arts Advocacy Day
Please join the Arts & Culture Alliance in Nashville on Tuesday, March 13 for Legislative Arts Day 2007. The day will begin two blocks from Legislative Plaza at the Nashville Public Library, which has graciously agreed to partner with Tennesseans for the Arts by hosting the Legislative Briefing. The library also invites those interested to come early for a tour that highlights its public art and Robert A.M. Stern’s spectacular design between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
At 12:15 p.m., we will all gather in the Library’s Auditorium for a statewide legislative briefing by Rich Boyd, Executive Director of the Tennessee Arts Commission, Jim Brooks, Board President of Tennesseans for the Arts (TFTA), and Molly Pratt, TFTA Consultant for Government and Community Relations. From 1:00-3:00 p.m., delegations from across the state will visit with their legislative representatives. As is our practice in years past, we from Greater Knoxville will gather in Senator Jamie Woodson’s Conference Room on the 3rd Floor of the War Memorial Building to receive our Senate and State Representatives in an open house format.
The most remarkable event of Legislative Arts Day 2007 is the reception celebrating the Governor’s Awards in the Arts, taking place at the newly completed Schermerhorn Symphony Center beginning at 5:00 p.m.
All arts advocates are encouraged to make a point of inviting their representatives to attend this reception as well as the awards ceremony that will follow at 7:00 p.m. The evening’s events create an ideal opportunity for you to socialize with your representatives in a casual atmosphere and to salute the extraordinary artists from across the state being honored that night.
Governor Bredesen and his wife, Andrea Conte, will also be in attendance at the reception and awards ceremony. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of your time at the reception to approach the Governor, introduce yourself, and briefly tell him how important the arts have been in your life and how much you appreciate the Governor’s support of the Arts Commission.
Click here to download the registration form and submit it with your registration fee of $10 (for TFTA members) or $15 (for TFTA non-members) to TFTA as soon as possible.
Note: the registration fee for 2007 is half the price of 2006 because you are responsible for your own lunch this year. A TFTA group luncheon is not included in this year’s agenda.
[updated 02/21/07]
Arts & Culture Alliance Presents “Life Journeys: The Works of Genie Even and Judi Gaston”
The Arts & Culture Alliance presents “Life Journeys: The Works of Genie Even and Judi Gaston”, a new exhibition on display March 2 – 31 at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s Emporium Center. Even’s watercolors and Gaston’s fabric art were recognized award winners at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition of 2006 to which more than 150 works of art were submitted.
Genie Even is a native Californian whose interest in art began in elementary school and continued throughout high school and college. She graduated from Scripps College, Claremont, CA., where she studied with Millard Sheets, Albert Stewart, Jean Goodwin Ames, and Henry Lee McFee. Art played a secondary role for many years as Genie raised four children, taught school, and sailed a charter sailboat in the Caribbean. In the early nineties she returned to California and gave art her full focus. She has had the opportunity to work with many talented watercolorists, including Cheng Khee Chee, Lian Quan Zhen, Karen Frey, Jane Hofstetter, Arne Westerman, Don Andrews, and Alex Powers. Her medium of choice for the past ten years has been transparent watercolor. She holds signature memberships in both Watercolor West and the California Watercolor Association. In her native state of California her work has won several awards, including a "Best of Show", both at the Palm Springs Desert Museum and at the Pleasanton Art League, Pleasanton, CA. Her painting, "White Eggplant" is in the permanent collection of the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA.
"Sunlit Grapes" by Genie Even
As a child, artist Judi Gaston poured over books with photographs of exotic lands. She now seizes every opportunity to visit faraway places, and her travels have taken her to Kenya, India, Peru, the Amazon Basin, China, Australia, and Samoa. In studying the various contributions clothing of different cultures has made to the art of weaving, she incorporates the various intricacies and blends them in new, distinctive forms. “There is an excitement in creating unique clothing because it generates interest and thus communication between people,” she says. A self-taught fiber artist, she weaves a wearable fashion series as well as designs a recycled wearable art series. She strives to create quality and harmony in color, texture, and design; to create both tactile and visual surfaces that reflect her artistic concepts as well as the states of the individual and their personality; and to create new designs appealing to both the senses and the intellect. “The field of fiber art is a constant source of artistic stimulation.” Upcoming shows include the Ariel Gallery in Asheville.
"Recycle" series by Judi Gaston
The opening reception on Friday, March 2, from 5-9pm, is free and open to the public, and complimentary hors d’oeuvres are served. “Life Journeys: The Works of Genie Even and Judi Gaston” is on exhibit March 2 – 31 at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday 11-3. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance, (865) 523-7543.
[updated 02/13/07]
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