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Exhibition Tours
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee
Stephen Wicks, KMA’s Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, and other local artists, historians and curators, offer an insider’s perspective on the exhibition.
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Public Talks and Lectures
Glenn Adamson, The End of the Line: Art at the Margins of Industry
2010 Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art
April 6, 2010 Watch Video
Uncertain Terrain: Selections from the KMA Collection
Stephen Wicks, KMA Curator, walks through Uncertain Terrain: Selections from the KMA Collection
April 16, 2010 Watch Video
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave
Anne Wilson talks at the Knoxville Museum of Art about the exhibition Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave.
January 23, 2010 Watch Video
Marilyn Kushner
Marilyn Kushner, curator and head of the department of prints, photographs and architectural collections at the New York Historical Society, discussing the art of Devorah Sperber.
November 18, 2009 Watch Video
Anton Vidokle
Anton Vidokle talks about Exhibition as School at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Presented in collaboration with A.S.A.P. - The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
October 22, 2009 Watch Video
Linda Weintraub
Linda Weintraub is the author of Avant-Guardians: Texlets in Ecology and Art (2006 – ongoing), In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists (2003), and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1995).
September 24, 2009 Watch Video
Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock is a sculptor who builds "large semi-architectural projects which deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer ..."
September 10, 2009 Watch Video
Public Art in Knoxville
Public Art Panel Discussion at the Knoxville Museum of Art with artist Alice Aycock and the
Public Art Task Force with
David Butler, Jason Brown,
Liza Zenni,
and Norman Magden.
September 10, 2009 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Mark Banker
Mark Banker presents a discussion titled "Viewing the TVA / Kingston Coal Ash Spill from Higher Ground or Why East Tennesseans Are Appalachians All" at the Knoxville Museum of Art
August 5, 2009 Watch Video
Conserving a Culture:
Post-Katrina New Orleans
Nationally-recognized painting conservator Richard White and Ogden Museum Curator David Houston present a talk titled Conserving a Culture: Post-Katrina New Orleans at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
February 1, 2009 Watch Video
Tobi Kahn: Art as Transformation: Thinking Visually
Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose work has been shown in over 40 solo exhibitions and over 60 museum and groups shows ...
January 25, 2009 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Steve Cotham on artist Catherine Wiley
Steve Cotham is the manager of the McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center.
November 5, 2008 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Frederick Moffatt
Frederick Moffatt discuss the history of art in Knoxville, and explore how the development of Knoxville’s art communities changed in relation to Knoxville’s growth.
October 8, 2008 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Jack Neely
Jack Neely discuss the history of art in Knoxville, and explore how the development of Knoxville’s art communities changed in relation to Knoxville’s growth.
October 8, 2008 Watch Video
iPod Video Downloads
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Higher Ground Exhibition Tour
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee is a new permanent installation celebrating the art and artists of Knoxville and the surrounding region.
The fascinating and complex story of our area’s rich artistic heritage and its connections to the larger currents of American art are largely unknown, and certainly underappreciated. Highlights of the new installation include important works by Catherine Wiley and Lloyd Branson, pioneering artists who introduced Knoxville audiences to Art Nouveau, Impressionism, and other international art movements of their day; Joseph and Beauford Delaney, two of America’s most significant African-American artists; and works from the 1950s and 1960s by the Knoxville Seven, a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee who transformed and energized the area’s artistic climate.
Art from more recent decades includes mixed-media objects by visionary sculptor Bessie Harvey along with a selection of works by leading area artists whose creations represent the quality and diversity of art-making in the region today.
Stephen Wicks, KMA’s Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, and other local artists, historians and curators, offer an insider’s perspective on the exhibition and comment on the artistic and historical importance of many of the featured artists and their works.