Welcome to the 18th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The ETRSAE showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for students to participate in a […]
Artist Carmen Winant's large-scale collages and installations illuminate the often-invisible experiences of women, as well as feminist strategies for survival, revolt, and self-determination. She explores these themes through objects drawn from and inspired by the archives of Women in Transition (WIT) and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). This exhibition includes depictions and descriptions […]
Featuring a selection of more than fifty works from the Hechinger Collection, Work & Play celebrates the transformation of common industrial objects into extraordinary works of art. By tapping into their metaphoric potential, the exhibition explores tools as icons of labor, labor as a component of creativity, and creativity as a form of play. The […]
After a life-changing summer at Black Mountain College, Boston-based artist Jo Sandman decided to devote her life to art. At BMC during that pivotal summer of 1951, she studied painting with Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn drawing with Joseph Fiori, photography with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind; anthropology and French. It was this "galvanizing experience" […]
Welcome to the 19th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The ETRSAE showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for students to participate in a […]
Electricity for All examines the complex relationship between technology, information, and power through the historical framework of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a key New Deal initiative from the 1930s that introduced electricity to the Tennessee River Valley. The featured artists provide diverse perspectives on the social implications of technological advances, questioning the histories that were […]
This exhibition excavates the unheralded legacy of Alfred and Jane West Clauss, who, in 1939, created the first modern deed-restricted subdivision in America-known colloquially in Knoxville as "Little Switzerland." In the process, the Clausses laid the groundwork for what we now recognize as regional modernism. Through original artifacts—including photographs, drawings, posters, furniture, graphic maps, home […]
Labor is more than work; it is an act of care. It binds people not just through toil, but through collective action. On the factory floor, at the loom, along the picket line—these are spaces where effort meets empathy, where shared struggle becomes a living record, a force, a song. This exhibition brings together the […]
Welcome to the 20th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The ETRSAE showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for students to participate in a […]
A Two-Way Mirror features works in glass by international contemporary Black artists who use this material to explore social, cultural, gender, and racial identity. Due to its reflectivity and translucence, glass is an especially effective medium to examine notions of identity as in the theory of double consciousness presented by W.E.B. Du Bois in his […]
Knoxville Collects: Susana Navarro Kramer Education Center April 3 through May 24, 2026 Reception May 17, 12-2pm The Knoxville Museum of Art will celebrate the many interests and idiosyncrasies inhabiting the collections that live within our city. From icons of art history to eccentric compilations of kitsch, this series offers snapshots of the many […]
