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SUMMARY:A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists
DESCRIPTION: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 seminal work\, The Souls of Black Folk. \nCurated by Jabari Owens-Bailey\, the exhibition features work by Anthony Amoako-Attah\, Radcliffe Bailey\, Layo Bright\, Crystal Z. Campbell\, Chris Day\, Cheryl Derricotte\, Alejandro Guzman\, Mildred Howard\, Jason McDonald\, Parfums de Vigny\, Ebony G. Patterson\, Pellatt & Green\, Related Tactics\, Salviati and Company\, Joyce J. Scott\, Shikeith\, Therman Statom\, Renée Stout\, Barbara Earl Thomas\, Hank Willis Thomas\, Leo Tecosky\, Kara Walker\, Fred Wilson. \nEXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS:\nA Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists Opening Reception I Friday\, February 6\, 2026\, 5:30-8:30 pm \n \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of Truist Bank\, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass\, Ms. Mary Hale Corkran\, Ms. Alexandra Rosen and Mr. Donald Cooney\, Ms. Vicki S. Kinser and Mr. John Jarnagin\, Mr. and Mrs. Jan Peters\, June and Rob Heller and Harry Boston. \nImage: Chris Day (British\, born 1968)\, Strange Fruit\, 2018. Blown and sculpted glass with steel\, hessian cord and reclaimed electrical wire. Courtesy of the artist and Vessel Gallery\, London. Photo by Simon Bruntnell.\nOrganized by Museum of Glass\, Tacoma\, Washington.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/a-two-way-mirror/
CATEGORIES:Current,Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Wayne White: Revenge of the Knoxville Girl
DESCRIPTION:Wayne White: Revenge of the Knoxville Girl Wayne White is a multi-faceted artist\, illustrator\, and musician who has charted a kaleidoscopic path through multiple frontiers of art and culture. From early life in Chattanooga and Emmy award-winning work as Art Director for Pee Wee’s Playhouse\, to orchestrating music videos for Peter Gabriel and The Smashing Pumpkins\, White traverses the pop culture landscape. The Revenge of the Knoxville Girl is an eclectic survey show that convenes an array of White’s Word Paintings\, sketchbooks\, small sculpture\, and papier-mâché heads. It will also feature a monumentally scaled pair of puppets that provide a stage for the beleaguered Knoxville Girl of murder ballad notoriety to return and stand triumphant. This show is presented in collaboration with the Big Ears Festival and is part of the 2026 edition of the Tennessee Triennial. Artist Bio: Wayne White is an American artist\, art director\, illustrator\, & puppeteer. Born and raised in Chattanooga\, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film\, television\, and the fine art world. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University\, Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye\, New York Times\, Raw Magazine\, and the Village Voice. In 1986\, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse\, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife\, Mimi Pond\, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station\, Beakman’s World\, Riders In The Sky\, and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry\, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight\, Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Big Time.’ Since 2000\, Wayne has shown his paintings\, sculptures and installations in over 40 exhibitions worldwide. His work was chronicled in the Todd Oldham designed 2009 monograph\, “Maybe Now I’ll Get The Respect I So Rightfully Deserve”. In 2012\, he was the subject of the documentary “Beauty is Embarrassing” His children\, Woodrow and Lulu\, are both working artists. Mimi and Wayne live in LA and make art every day. \nEXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS: \nGiant Puppet Workshop \nMusic for Seniors Songwriting Workshop \nLabyrinth Screening at Central Cinema \nCocktails & Conversation with Rachel Milford \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of: Aslan Foundation\, Ashley Capps & Dr. Maria Birgit Clark\, Susan & Jay Bush\, Marga & Jay McBride\, Jacque and Cliff Hawks\, Caesar Stair IV and Cecilia Stair\, Dr. Marilyn Kallet and Dr. Louis Gross\, Downtown Knoxville Alliance and WDVX \nThis project is also made possible by The Aslan Foundation.  \n  \nIn Partnership with:       
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/wayne-white/
CATEGORIES:Current,Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260525
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SUMMARY:Knoxville Collects: Susana Navarro
DESCRIPTION:Knoxville Collects: Susana Navarro \nKramer Education Center \nApril 3 through May 24\, 2026 \nReception May 17\, 12-2pm \n  \nThe 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 individuals who help make Knoxville unique. \n  \nThis inaugural presentation of Knoxville Collects features the collection of Susana Navarro\, a Knoxville-based collector and entrepreneur whose perspective is shaped by her upbringing in Mexico City\, and by a family of women who embody resilience and leadership. Trained as an engineer\, she co-founded Navarro Research and Engineering in 1993\, which works in nuclear\, environmental\, and clean energy fields across the United States. Navarro built her collection in a very personal manner\, marrying art historical research with works that reflect her experiences and ambitions for the world; what she had seen\, and what she hoped to see in the future. \n  \nRather than organizing works by movement or chronology\, Navarro brings together modern Latin American and French Post-Impressionist paintings in close proximity\, allowing them to speak across difference. Through this selection\, visitors are offered a window into Navarro’s life\, her way of seeing\, and the objects that accompany her. \n  \nImage: Diego Rivera Vendedor de Maiz 1944
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/knoxville-collects-susanna-navarro/
CATEGORIES:Current,Exhibitions,Special Events
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Lester
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Lester | June 12 – August 30\, 2026 \nThe KMA actively seeks to present responsive art installations across the city of Knoxville as a means of broadening the visibility of the work\, as well as the potential audience. Locating work outside of the museum helps expand the impact and reach of our program and contribute to a more holistic cultural ecology in the city and region. \nFor this project\, we are partnering with the newly restored Eugenia Williams House\, which is located on a 24-acre campus overlooking the Tennessee River. In the first of a series of installations at the House\, the KMA has invited Dutch artist Gabriel Lester to present a reimagined version of his 2011 installation Melancholia in Arcadia. This haunting work was first displayed in Istanbul as a dedication to Lester’s dear friend\, Huseyin Bahri Alptekin\, who passed away in 2007. The title of the work is identical to a series of photographs Huseyin shot in Odessa\, showing curtains blowing softly within domestic spaces. These images inspired an installation of stiffened lace curtains\, frozen in time and space\, which refers to the gesture of opening the windows to set free the soul of the deceased\, as well as the idea of a spirit occupying a room\, mysteriously lifting the curtain to reveal its presence.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/gabriel-lester/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming
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SUMMARY:No-Man’s Land
DESCRIPTION:No-Man’s Land | August 13 – November 8\, 2026 \nInspired by the visionary work of Kentucky coal-miner-turned-evangelist Harrison Mayes after he experienced a life-changing epiphany\, No-Man’s-Land explores genres\, beings\, and geographies that exceed singular definition. Born in Tennessee in 1898\, Mayes’ placed concrete beacons across the country\, with plans for them to reach outer space\, and beyond. He installed these markers in so-called “no-man’s-land”—narrow\, ambiguous strips of land between state and private property where no one authority could claim jurisdiction. \nThis exhibition looks to artists who work in similarly uncharted territory. Bringing together contemporary practices that move through the borderlands between bodies\, spiritual traditions\, cultures\, countries\, and planets\, No-Man’s-Land considers how art inhabits and transforms these thresholds\, envisioning new ways of being in the spaces between.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/no-mans-land/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T100000
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SUMMARY:Hai-Wen Lin
DESCRIPTION:Hai-Wen Lin | October 2026 through February 2027 \nIn this forthcoming exhibition\, Taiwanese-American artist Hai-Wen Lin fashions garments as kites: creating sculptures that move between the body and the environment. Made with the intimacy of clothing and the logic of flight\, the works draw on visual traditions from Buddhist jiasha robes to Appalachian quilts\, becoming a practice of “tending”—a way\, as the artist says “to clothe the wind.” With delicacy and desire\, these works also care for bodies and landscapes that shift as constantly as the seasons. Moving between field and sky\, Lin’s work asks how we carry one another forward and what it means to belong—to the living\, the land\, and the cycles that tie them together.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/hai-wen-lin/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming
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SUMMARY:Kevin Beasley
DESCRIPTION:The Appalachian Mountains\, which govern the winding highway traveled by artist Kevin Beasley during the development of his recent work\, can be described as “fold mountains” – created from two or more of the Earth’s tectonic plates pushing together. At these intersecting shores\, rock and debris are compressed into and within each other\, shedding individuality to forge a shared landscape. \nAkin to the convergent layers of geography and people that have formed this region\, Beasley’s work binds together disparate elements to re-fashion our understanding of place\, material\, and memory. This is a tapestry-like arena where history lives more concurrently than sequentially\, with traces and traumas floating within the fog of time. \nDrawing on his roots in the Southeast\, Kevin Beasley’s exhibition will navigate the multi-layered terrain of this region. Using textiles such as raw cotton and weathered clothing\, Beasley transforms familiar materials into landscapes both intimate and expansive\, connecting the region’s complex sociopolitical identity within his own childhood experiences.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/kevin-beasley/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming
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