Calendar of Events

The Retropolitan Craft Fair pops up at The Mill and Mine on Sunday, May 6, 10:00AM-5:00PM.
The Retropolitan Craft Fair is a hand selected indie-craft marketplace featuring the South East’s finest talents in contemporary craft and design while also incorporating upcycled goods with a funky, vintage inspired, and fabulously quirky vibe. Our fair brings creators out of their studios to celebrate all things artsy, crafted, and most importantly retropolitan. Each vendor is chosen exclusively after a juried event. They are then curated based on one-of-a-kind products, creativity, and retropolitan swagger

Sunday, May 6, 10:00AM-5:00PM at The Mill and Mine, , 227 W. Depot Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. www.http://retropolitancraft.com.

Bikes & Blooms: Dogwood Arts Partners with DreamBikes on Family-Friendly Guided Bike Rides

Discover new routes on the family-friendly bike ride through scenic neighborhoods and on local greenways. Rides are approximately eight miles long and are geared to help you learn how to do your own road rides. Riders must wear helmets and have a basic understanding of on-road riding. Riders should wear comfortable clothing and bring any water or snacks you might need. Free & no pre-registration is required. Ages 8+ recommended.

Where: Suttree Landing Park, 701 Langford Ave, 37920
Leaving from Suttree Landing Park, we’ll see some of the most beautiful parts of South Knoxville from the seat of a bicycle. Riders will enjoy views of the Tennessee River, the colorful gardens along Island Home Boulevard, and the forested greenway to Ijams Nature Center before returning to Suttree Landing. Led by Preston Flaherty.

For more information on Dogwood Arts, visit www.dogwoodarts.com or call (865) 637-4561.

The Retropolitan Craft Fair is a hand selected indie-craft marketplace featuring the South East’s finest talents in contemporary craft and design while also incorporating upcycled goods with a funky, vintage inspired, and fabulously quirky vibe. Our fair brings creators out of their studios to celebrate all things artsy, crafted, and most importantly retropolitan. Each vendor is chosen exclusively after a juried event. They are then curated based on one-of-a-kind products, creativity, and retropolitan swagger

Sunday, May 6, 10:00AM-5:00PM
The Mill and Mine, 227 W. Depot Ave. Knoxville, TN 37919
retropolitancraft.com

Join the UT Gardens, Knoxville and the East Tennessee Hosta Society on Sunday, May 6, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the Plantapalooza and Hosta Plant Sale. Our theme this year is 'Color for Every Season' and we will have plants to fill your garden with color all-year long. From coral-stemmed dogwoods to dark purple weeping mimosas to winter-hardy lantana and violet-blue garden phlox, we will have a splash of color for every garden space. Our professional horticulture staff and volunteers will be available to answer questions as you shop.

UT Gardens, Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-7151, http://utgardens.tennessee.edu

The Sundress Reading Series is excited to welcome Chris Barton, Gwen E. Kirby, and Pamela Schoenewaldt to the May installment of our reading series! The event will take place 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 6, at Hexagon Brewing Co., located at 1002 Dutch Valley Dr. STE 101, Knoxville, TN 37918. The Sundress Reading Series is free and open to the public.

Chris Barton's work has appeared in Hobart, Entropy, Word Riot, Funhouse,
Potluck Mag, and elsewhere. He was the winner of the 2013 undergraduate creative
writing award from the University of Tennessee. He currently works at two cafes,
helps with his roommate's monthly open mic poetry event, & lives in a blue house
with three cats in Knoxville, TN.

Gwen E. Kirby's stories appear in One Story, Guernica, Mississippi Review, Ninth
Letter, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Guest editor Aimee Bender selected
her story “Shit Cassandra Saw . . .” for Best Small Fictions 2018 and her story
“Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories” won the 2017
DISQUIET Literary Prize for Fiction. She received her MFA from Johns Hopkins
University and her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Starting in the fall, she
will be the 2018-2019 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Pamela Schoenewaldt is a historical novelist and a USA Today Bestseller whose
work has been translated into four languages. She was short-listed for the Langum
Prize in American Historical Fiction. Her short stories have won international
awards. She was the UT Library’s Writer in Residence and is in the East Tennessee
Writers Hall of Fame. Her one-act play in Italian, Espresso Con Mia Madre, was
performed in Naples, Italy. She taught writing at the University of Maryland
European Division, and UT. She lives in Knoxville with her husband, Maurizio
Conti, a physicist, and dog Jesse, a philosopher. Her most recently completed novel
is set against the backdrop of the 1919 Knoxville Race Riot.

The Sundress Reading Series is an award-winning literary reading series held monthly at 2 p.m. at Hexagon Brewing Co., 1002 Dutch Valley Dr. STE 101, Knoxville, TN 37918.

Sundress Academy for the Arts: 195 Tobby Hollow Ln, Knoxville, TN 37931, 865-560-6106, www.sundresspublications.com/safta

Hosted by Douglas J Aveda Institute Catwalk For Water Fashion Show at Relix, 1208 N Central St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

The Douglas J Aveda Institute's Catwalk For Water Fashion Show will be Sunday, May 6th at 7 PM (doors open at 6 PM for cocktail hour and silent auction) at Relix Variety Theatre, and the concept will be Recycled Couture. Knoxville stylists and Douglas J Aveda Institute students will blend fashion and sustainability, as they showcase recycled and re-purposed materials through hair, makeup and wardrobe styling. This event will feature guest artist Adam Pernell Deal, a special performance, silent auction, appetizers and music!

100% of the proceeds from this event to go the Tennessee Clean Water Network
https://www.facebook.com/events/1649100701826094/

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center will hold its annual Plant Sale starting Saturday, May 5, and running for about 2 weeks during shop hours.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Dogwood Arts presents a spring open studio tour with Melanie Wood. Local artist Melanie Wood will open her studio at 100 Craigland Court in Knoxville, Tennessee on May 5th from 10am-5pm and 6th 2pm-5pm. Melanie will showcase over 60 oil paintings that she has created throughout the year. Her work ranges from floral abstractions to foreign cityscapes; each painting as a unique perspective and a strong sense of color design.

“As an eternal optimist, my joy for living infuses every painting with a vibrant, impressionistic style. Painting is the result of my lifelong journey into self-discovery and translating the delights I encounter, both commonplace and extraordinary, into a personal vision for others to enjoy. Working exclusively in oils, I strive to capture on canvas the energy and spontaneity that drive my love for each new day and fuel my imagination, whether it be violet haze over the Tennessee Smoky Mountains, the fields of Provence or courtyards of Sienna, poppies along a garden walk, or a red vase overflowing with sunflowers. I often incorporate abstract qualities throughout the paintings, invoking a dreamlike quality.”

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

The opening reception on Thursday, May 3 from 5:30-7:30pm is free and open to the public.

The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, featuring more than 40 paintings from the extensive holdings of the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Scenic Impressions examines the influence of the Impressionist movement on art created in and about the American South. Artists represented in the exhibition include Kate Freeman Clark, Elliott Daingerfield, Gilbert Gaul, Alfred Hutty, Rudolph Ingerle, Willie Betty Newman, Alice Huger Smith, William Posey Silva, and Catherine Wiley, many of whom exhibited their work in Knoxville in the early twentieth century. The exhibition enables KMA viewers to appreciate the accomplishments of East Tennessee Impressionists such as Catherine Wiley within the larger context of her peers from around the Southeast.

Scenic Impressions is organized by the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina. The Johnson Collection is one of the premier collections of Southern painting in the country. Scenic Impressions underscores the Johnsons’ commitment to illuminating the rich cultural history of the American South and advancing scholarship in the field.

“The artists in Scenic Impressions were inspired by the beauty and variety of Southeastern landforms, especially along the extensive coastline and in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina,” said KMA Executive Director David Butler. “The vision of these painters stimulated a new appreciation of the Appalachian landscape that eventually led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. They showed us how to value what’s in our own backyard. The Johnson Collection has done us all a tremendous service by gathering so many first-rate examples of this rich and creative period.”

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

An artistic exploration of water & environment
EXHIBITION: MAY 4TH – MAY 30, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY MAY 4TH, 5:00-8:30 PM

Modern Studio is pleased to announce Just Add Water, a collaborative art exhibition exploring water and the environment. The Just Add Water exhibition references the plants, people, animals, forests, and water crafts that require water to fully inhabit this world. The show features paintings and prints, and the opening reception includes dazzling parade-size fish puppets and hip-hop sound recordings highlighting our connection to water and the environment.

Knoxville-based collaborating artists include Betsy Hobkirk, Hawa Ware, Jennifer Willard, Martha Robbins, Suzanne Wedekind, and members of the Cattywampus Puppet Council. Fish puppets designed by Cattywampus and students at West Hills Elementary School.

Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-323-2425, www.modernstudio.org

Knoxville Children’s Theatre will present 14 live performances of the popular coming-of-age story, “Anne Of Green Gables.” This beloved tale of how an unwanted orphan makes her way in Avonlea, Nova Scotia has been adapted for film, television, and the stage.

The live stage play will be performed May 4 through 20:
Fri., May 4 at 7 PM, Sat., May 5 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sun., May 6 at 3 PM
Thurs., May 10 at 7 PM, Fri., May 11 at 7 PM, Sat., May 12 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sun., May 13 at 3 PM,
Thurs., May 17 at 7 PM, Fri., May 18 at 7 PM, Sat., May 19 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sun., May 20 at 3 PM.

All the tragedies and triumphs that mark Anne's coming-of-age are here: her friendship with Diana, her feuds with Gilbert, her adoration of Matthew, the mistaken wine bottle, the cake disaster, the broken leg, and ultimately, the saving of Green Gables. Lucy Maud Montgomery’s book has sold more than 50 million copies and is read around the world in over 35 languages.

The play is performed by 24 talented young actors, from ages 9 to 16. Averi Waller, a 13-year-old veteran of over a dozen KCT plays, plays Anne. Two teens from south Knoxville, Charlotte Stark and Boone Sommers, play the Cuthberts, and Bella Patterson and Logan Bell play Anne’s stalwart friends, Diana and Gilbert.

Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-208-3677, www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

Art Source 2018 is a contemporary art exhibition that highlights the artistic endeavors of Knox County Schools Art Educators. Hosted in partnership with the UT Downtown Gallery, the show will be on display to the public from May 4th through May 18th. Opening reception Friday, May 4, from 5:00-9:00PM. Awards ceremony at 6:30.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: W-F 11-6, Sa 10-3. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown