Calendar of Events

Dogwood Arts is on a mission to Keep Knoxville Blooming––one tree at a time. Through our annual Bazillion Blooms program, disease-resistant dogwood trees are on sale now at dogwoodarts.com or by phone at (865) 637-4561 through November 18th . These 2’ – 4’ bare-root trees are available for $25 each or five for $100. Tree pick-up day and community-wide tree planting date is set for Saturday, December 7th.

Planting trees is a simple and effective way to clean our air, reduce stress, and conserve the environment. We encourage everyone to ‘dig-in’ and make a lasting difference by planting trees during the fall gardening season. Trees planted in the fall have time to develop strong root systems over the winter months before the challenges of the drying summer heat.

The Bazillion Blooms program began in 2009 with a mission to revitalize tree plantings along our historic Dogwood Trails and throughout the region. Last year, Dogwood Arts reached our goal of adding 10,000 dogwood trees to East Tennessee’s landscape in just 10 years through the Bazillion Blooms program, ensuring our region’s spring beauty will continue well into the future. Larger blooming trees, flowering shrubs, bulbs, and perennials are available at these participating Garden Centers: Ellenburg Landscaping & Nursery, Mayo Garden Centers, Northshore Nursery, Stanley’s Greenhouse & Wilson Fine Gardens.

Trees ordered from Dogwood Arts must be picked up on Saturday, December 7th, from 9AM-12PM at the UT Gardens off Neyland Drive. Trees will not be distributed at a later time or date.

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

UT Humanities Center Eighth Annual Distinguished Lecture Series
History of Manichaean Art in China

Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
Free and open to the public.
There will be a book signing following the lecture.

The recent discovery of Chinese Manichaean silk paintings shook up Manichaean studies during the past decade. This small but well-preserved corpus consists of six complete and three fragmentary silk hanging scrolls, eight of which are housed in various Japanese collections and one in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. While the visual language of these paintings reflects the norms of late medieval Chinese religious art (best known from Buddhist and Taoist images), their unique iconography and doctrinal content positively confirms their Manichaean identification. Professor Gulácsi will explore the pre-Chinese antecedents of these paintings, fragments of which survive from the Uygur Era of Manichaean history (755/762 – ca. 1024 CE), preserved today in the Asian Art Museum of Berlin.

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi is professor of art history, Asian studies, and comparative religious studies at Northern Arizona University. She is a historian of religious art, specializing in the contextualized art historical study of pan-Asiatic religions that adapted their arts to a variety of cultures as they spread throughout the continent. Her research has been supported by the National Humanities Center, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scholarship, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and most recently the Getty Foundation (2019).

Because only speakers with exception records of publication and research activity are eligible to receive a nomination as a visiting scholar, the program brings to campus some of the most cutting-edge and prolific intellectuals in the humanities today. Public parking is available by the stadium for our off-campus visitors.
https://uthumanitiesctr.utk.edu/public/visiting.php

Thu • Oct 03 • 8:00 PM

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Goodwill Industries Annual Fashion Show is an event the community anticipates each year as it is Knoxville’s longest running fashion event.

It will come alive at the Hilton Downtown Knoxville on October 3rd with doors opening at 5:30pm, Dinner & Show time is 6:00pm, and Shop opens at 7:30pm. The show will feature fashionable looks inspired by four local fashion personalities. The styles are distinct, fierce, timeless and elegant so you can find what fits your lifestyle. Fashion has become much of a tech product due to the many social media outlets at our fingertips and the explosion of influencers as media moguls.

Secondhand clothing is showing up in everyday office wear, streetwear and evening wear. Besides the incentive of saving money, thrifting has also become trendy. The thrill is the challenge of finding something unique that everybody else isn’t going to wear. This year’s Fashion Show will explode with many ideas on the runway with models wearing pieces of clothing found in Goodwill stores.

Tickets for the event include a full-course dinner, access to the fashion show and shopping at the sale after the show. Individual tickets are $50 each with table seating for 10 people. Purchase tickets by calling the Goodwill Marketing Department at 865-588-8567 or www.goodwillknoxville.org/fashionshow.

Fashion with a purpose - Proceeds from this event help support Goodwill Industries-Knoxville, Inc’s. mission of providing job training services and employment opportunities for people with barriers to employment in East Tennessee.

Sponsors for the event include: Regal Entertainment Group, WBIR-TV-Channel 10, B97.5, Knox News, Designsensory, Brown & Brown Insurance of Tennessee, Scott Brown Media Group, Carleana’s Hair Fashions, Tennessee School of Beauty, and Lance King Photography.

At the Hilton-Downtown Knoxville, 501 W Church Ave.
Goodwill Industries-Knoxville: 865-588-8567, www.gwiktn.org

Free and open to the public, $2 donation suggested
At Central United Methodist Church, 201 3rd Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917

Winners of the 2019 Knoxville Writers’ Guild contests have been selected.

Short Fiction, first place: Calvin Beam, for "A Short History of Dwarves."
Runner-up: Jessica P. Morgan, for "No Retreat."

Poetry, first Place: Anna Laura Reeve, for "Children of Asylum Seekers."
Runner-up: KB Ballentine, for "Blown Like Seed."

Young Writers Prize, first Place: Loralai Stevenson, for "Harmony Faye."
Runner-up: Ruth Heniese, for "She's A Poem."

Another category, Creative Nonfiction, did not receive enough entries to award a prize.

First-place winners will read from their works, and cash prizes from Celtic Cat Publishing, Knoxville Walking Tours, and Testprep, Inc., will be awarded to both first- and second-place winners. After the awards, John and Candee Reaves will give a tribute to founding guild member and past president Jeanne MacDonald, who passed away this summer.

https://knoxvillewritersguild.org/

Please join us for an Artist Lecture on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:30pm in room 109 of the A+A Building

The UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present False Calm, an installation by Sam Vernon. Sam Vernon earned her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2015 and her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009. Her installations combine xeroxed drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptural components in an exploration of personal narrative and identity. She uses installation and performance to honor the past while revising historical memory. Sam lives in Oakland, CA and teaches printmaking as an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA).

First Friday Reception: October 4, 5-9pm, UT Downtown Gallery

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

Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 8 PM – 9 PM
Brickyard Bar & BBQ
4928 Homberg Dr., Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Get a mid-week laugh fix at Brickyard Bar & BBQ, Knoxville friends - Mark Viola is BACK in town for a one night show on Thursday, October 3rd at 8pm! Doors/seating at 7:30pm.

Also featuring giggles with Debby Johnson and Alexis Clayton. $5 at the door supports the local comedy community.
21 & up recommended.
https://www.facebook.com/events/690509471433331/

The world premiere of the CBT-commissioned “People Where They Are” will be performed in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Carousel Theatre October 2 – 20, 2019. Written specifically for the current UT Theatre MFA actors by Anthony Clarvoe and directed by Calvin MacLean, the play dramatizes the famous Highlander Center’s expansion into the Civil Rights movement, and more. Several ancillary events will accompany this production.

In 1932, Myles Horton, Don West, Jim Dombrowski and others founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. They focused first on organizing unemployed and working people, and by the late 1930s Highlander was serving as the de-facto CIO education center for the region, training union organizers and leaders in 11 southern states. During this period, Highlander also fought segregation in the labor movement, holding its first integrated workshop in 1944. Highlander’s commitment to ending segregation made it a critically important incubator of the Civil Rights movement. Workshops and training sessions at Highlander helped lay the groundwork for many of the movement’s most important initiatives, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the Citizenship Schools, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1961, after years of red-baiting and several government investigations, the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander’s charter and seized its land and buildings. The school reopened the next day as the Highlander Research and Education Center. From 1961-1971, it was based in Knoxville, and in 1972 it moved to its current location near New Market, Tennessee.

According to Clarvoe, all the actions depicted in the play actually happened and all the characters are based on actual people. But the timeline of events has been rearranged and telescoped and the named characters are amalgams of several different historical figures.

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Go shop one of our 29 stores and get crafty! It is time to think about making your own Goodwill Crafted Costume for a chance to win 2 Tickets to the Breakout Games and 4 Tickets to Zoo Knoxville. There are 3 ways to enter either via email, tag us on Instagram, or post to our Facebook Page. We can’t wait to see your Goodwill Crafted Costumes! All entries must be received by November 2, 2019.

https://www.gwiktn.org/events/2019/goodwill-costume-contest

Goodwill Industries-Knoxville: 865-588-8567, www.gwiktn.org

Science in Motion: The Photographic Studies of Eadweard Muybridge, Berenice Abbott and Harold Edgerton

Photography itself was born out of a passionate engagement between art and science.

“…there needs to be a friendly interpreter between science and the layman. I believe that photography can be this spokesman, as no other form of expression can be; for photography, the art of our time, the mechanical scientific medium which matches the pace and character of our era, is attuned to the function. There is an essential unity between photography, science’s child, and science, the parent.”
—Berenice Abbott, Photography and Science, 1939

Photography’s pioneers, Josef Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, were inventors, scientists and mathematicians. The results of their intellectual endeavors dramatically affected the art form and forged a reciprocal relationship between art and science in photography that has continued to this day.

This exhibition of thirty-six photographs offers a rich and extensive view of the scientific studies done by three of photography’s greats—Eadweard Muybridge, Berenice Abbott and Harold Edgerton. Each of these artists invented devices to study and represent aspects of light and motion scientifically and photographically. Their works not only illustrate scientific phenomena clearly and elegantly but also reveal the artists’ individual artistic sensibilities.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Photography by Jane Reeves and sculpture by Jessica Courtney, artists who serve as K-12 art teachers in Southern Indiana, are featured in the newest exhibit at Pellissippi State Community College.

Reception with the artists 3-5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, in the Gallery. Free and open to the public.

"Our visual arts teachers in K-12 education are on the front lines introducing our children to a better understanding of our immense visual culture," said Pellissippi State Associate Professor Herb Rieth, who knows both artists and invited them to show their work at the college. "K-12 arts and design teachers work long hours, with ever-diminishing resources, to bring their knowledge and talent to very diverse populations. They are often underrepresented in showing their work because they frequently do not have time to work on their own artistic output. Pellissippi State's Visual Art faculty value the work these individuals do in the community and want others to see their powerful work."

Reeves has chosen to exhibit a body of work exploring family and questioning home as a refuge. The collection has been in juried exhibitions in San Diego; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Louisville, Kentucky. These pieces are among the sculpture Jessica Courtney has on display at Pellissippi State, artifacts of successes and failures in her studio practice. Courtney has been working in precious metals since 2007 and began exploring the capabilities of 3D rapid prototyping in 2009.

Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 9 AM - 9 PM. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

New and recent artwork in a variety of media by our current C-N Art Department faculty members: Amy Jo Adamovich, Lisa Flanary, Heather Hartman Folks, Julie Rabun, Stephanie Harris Trevor and David Underwood.

Opening reception: Thu Sep 12, 3-5 PM
Homecoming reception: Sat Oct 26, 10 AM - 2 PM

Closed for Fall Break, Oct 17-20

Omega Gallery at Carson-Newman University, Warren Art Building, corner of Branner & S. College Streets, Jefferson City, TN 37760. Gallery hours: M-F 8-4. Information: 865-471-4985, www.cn.edu