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SUMMARY:Making at the Museum: Autumn Lights (Ages 9-11)
DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall break for a one-day workshop where children 9-11 years old will learn to create beautiful\, functional ceramics inspired by an Appalachian autumn! In this engaging morning session\, students will dive into the art of hand-building\, crafting unique pieces like votive holders and trinket dishes. Taking inspiration from the shapes and textures of the season\, we will create votive holders that add some cheery light as the days get shorter. \nMembers $40 | Non-Members $50 \n  \nPURCHASE TICKETS
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/making-at-the-museum-autumn-lights-pm/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Making at the Museum: Autumn Lights (Ages 9-11)
DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall break for a one-day workshop where children 9-11 years old will learn to create beautiful\, functional ceramics inspired by an Appalachian autumn! In this engaging morning session\, students will dive into the art of hand-building\, crafting unique pieces like votive holders and trinket dishes. Taking inspiration from the shapes and textures of the season\, we will create votive holders that add some cheery light as the days get shorter. \nMembers $40 | Non-Members $50 \n  \nPURCHASE TICKETS
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/making-at-the-museum-autumn-lights-am/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Making at the Museum: Leaf Peepers (Ages 6-8)
DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall break for a one-day workshop where children 6-8 years old will learn to create beautiful\, functional ceramics inspired by the vibrant colors and textures of an Appalachian autumn! In this engaging afternoon session\, students will dive into the art of hand-building\, crafting unique pieces like votive holders and trinket dishes. Using the symbols of the season\, we will design dishes perfect for showcasing small treats or your favorite acorn collection. \nMembers $40 | Non-Members $50 \n  \nPURCHASE TICKETS
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/making-at-the-museum-leaf-peepers-pm/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Making at the Museum: Leaf Peepers (Ages 6-8)
DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall break for a one-day workshop where children 6-8 years old will learn to create beautiful\, functional ceramics inspired by the vibrant colors and textures of an Appalachian autumn! In this engaging morning session\, students will dive into the art of hand-building\, crafting unique pieces like votive holders and trinket dishes. Using the symbols of the season\, we will design dishes perfect for showcasing small treats or your favorite acorn collection. \nMembers $40 | Non-Members $50 \n  \nPURCHASE TICKETS
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/making-at-the-museum-leaf-peepers-am/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Hola Hora Latina presents Frutos Latinos 2024
DESCRIPTION:This Frutos Latinos exhibit was selected from works displayed during September’s First Friday event at Casa HoLa. Local Latino/Latinx artists were invited to submit artworks to be displayed that celebrate their cultures and traditions and gallery visitors voted for their favorite artist in person. \nEsta exhibición de Frutos Latinos fue seleccionada de las obras exhibidas durante el evento del primer viernes de septiembre en Casa HoLa. Se invitó a los artistas latinos/latinx locales a presentar obras de arte que celebraran sus culturas y tradiciones y los visitantes de la galería votaron por sus artistas favoritos en persona. \nFeatured artists/Artistas destacados: Alberto Palma\, Aliya Alewine\, Alyssa Naudin\, Daniel Ricardo Wornicov\, David Enriquez\, Denis Berríos\, Enrique\, Héctor Saldivar\, Juan Alberto Tomas\, Jürgen Dopatka\, Juliana Irizarry\, Iván Soto\, Ormach\, Polo Francisco\, Rafael Casco\, Rama Devi\, Salvador Lopez-Leon & Susana Esrequis. \nFor more information email enrique.cruz@holafestival.org or visit holahoralatina.org/hola-festival/ \nABOUT HOLA HORA LATINA—\nHoLa Hora Latina is the home of the HoLa Festival\, TN’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating Latin American and Hispanic Heritage Month\, and the Casa HoLa Art Gallery and Artisan Shop at the Emporium for the Arts\, located at 100 South Gay Street\, Suite 112 on the bottom floor. Our mission is to promote unity in the community by creating bridges between the Hispanic /LatinX communities and the community at large through art\, culture\, education\, and leadership. Many thanks to our HoLa Festival 2022 sponsors. This celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month would not be possible without your very generous support. We are so grateful that you join us to celebrate and share the beauty and diversity of Hispanic and Latin American cultures with our East Tennessee communities. Muchas gracias a los patrocinadores del Festival HoLa 2022. La celebración del Mes de la Herencia Hispana no habría sido posible sin su apoyo generoso. Agradecemos mucho que se unan con nosotros para celebrar y compartir la belleza y diversidad de las culturas hispanas y latinas con las comunidades del Este de Tennessee. \nThis project [is being][was] supported in whole or in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/hola-hora-latina-presents-frutos-latinos-2024/
CATEGORIES:Kramer Education Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T193000
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SUMMARY:Finding Higher Ground with Jack Neely and Stephen Wicks
DESCRIPTION:Knoxville History Project executive director and historian Jack Neely and KMA curator Stephen Wicks will discuss the KMA’s recently expanded cornerstone exhibition Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee\, its genesis\, and some of the twists and turns in the ongoing effort over the past century to establish a thriving art scene in Knoxville. \nHigher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee is an ongoing exhibition exploring the rich and diverse art history of the region. Now featured in the KMA’s newly renovated street-level galleries\, the exhibition is accompanied by a nearly 300-page catalog edited by Stephen Wicks and Jack Neely with Associate Editors David Butler and Clark Gillespie\, featuring essays by Stephen Wicks\, Jack Neely\, Robert Booker\, and Susan Knowles. \nJoin us for light refreshments and a cash bar at 5:30 pm\, the lecture begins at 6:00 pm. Free and open to the public! \nFinding Higher Ground is a new series of educational programming and events that will explore the winding narrative featured in the KMA’s permanent exhibition.\nIMAGE HEADER: Lloyd Branson (Union County\, Tennessee 1853-1925 Knoxville)\, Ellen McClung Berry [DETAIL]\, 1920\, oil on canvas\, 59 5/8 x 47 1/2 inches\, Knoxville Museum of Art\, 1999 gift of Dr. and Mrs. Aubra Branson
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/finding-higher-ground-with-jack-neely-and-stephen-wicks/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240823T210000
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SUMMARY:Jo Sandman / TRACES Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:6:00-7:00 PM / MEMBERS ONLY HOUR\n6:15 PM / CURATOR TALK WITH ALICE SEBRELL\n(Curator of TRACES and Director of Preservation of Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center)\n7:30 PM /  REMARKS BY STEVEN MATIJCIO\, STEPHEN WICKS\, & ALICE SEBRELL\n8:00 PM / SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY RUBENS GHENOV\nSUMMER REFRESHMENTS / INCLUDING A SIGNATURE COCKTAIL \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION / For more than seventy years\, Jo Sandman fearlessly explored an interdisciplinary mix of painting\, drawing\, experimental sculpture\, installation\, and photography. TRACES offers viewers a rare opportunity to experience the evolution of the artist’s journey over multiple decades. Jo Sandman/TRACES is on view at the Knoxville Museum of Art through November 10\, 2024. \nABOUT ALICE SEBRELL / Alice Sebrell is the Director of Preservation for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville\, NC. She earned her MFA in Photography from The Savannah College of Art and Design and her BFA from the University of Delaware. Sebrell has written and spoken about Black Mountain College for multiple publications and gatherings and has curated many exhibitions during her time at the museum. \nJo Sandman / TRACES is organized by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, Asheville\, NC.\nIMAGE HEADER: Jo Sandman (1931 Boston; lives and works in Boston)\, Untitled\, 1952\, oil on canvas\, 39.75 x 31.5 inches. [DETAIL]
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/jo-sandman-traces-opening-reception/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Openings,Special Events
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SUMMARY:Jo Sandman / TRACES
DESCRIPTION: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” at BMC that prompted Jo Sandman to decide to follow the path of an artist. She went on to develop and maintain a studio practice exploring painting\, drawing\, experimental sculpture\, installation\, ad photography for more than seventy years. TRACES  represent a survey of her career that attests to the artist’s restless curiosity expressed through her experimentation with a wide variety of imagery\, materials\, and processes. \nEXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS:\nJo Sandman/TRACES Opening Reception I Friday\, August 23\, 6:00-9:00 pm\nSecond Sunday Docent Tour I Sunday\, September 8\, 2:00-3:00 pm\nSecond Sunday Art Activity I Sunday\, September 8\, 1:00-4:00 pm\nFamily Day I Saturday\, September 21\, 11:00 am-3:00 pm\nSecond Sunday Docent Tour I Sunday\, October 13\, 2:00-3:00 pm\nSecond Sunday Art Activity I Sunday\, October 13\, 1:00-4:00 pm\nCocktails & Conversation with Amy Boone-McCreesh I Wednesday\, October 30\, 5:30-7:30 pm\nInterpretations in Dance and Art I Sunday\, November 3\, 3:00-4:00 pm\nCocktails & Conversation with Katherine French I Thursday\, November 7\, 5:30-7:30 pm\nSecond Sunday Docent Tour I Sunday\, November 10\, 2:00-3:00 pm\n \nABOUT JO SANDMAN—\nJo Sandman was not only a witness to the historically important experimentation that shaped mid to late 20th century art\, but also an active participant. A student of both Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell\, she was in residence at Black Mountain College with Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly and later worked for Walter Gropius. Trained as a painter\, she went on to create innovative drawings\, photography\, experimental sculpture and installation works\, which were exhibited widely and are now in permanent museum collections\, including that of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, the DeYoung/San Fransisco Museum of Fine Arts\, and numerous others. Significant awards include fellowships from the Massachusetts Arts Council and the Bunting Institute at Harvard\, as well as grants from the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. Over the course of a long career\, she exhibited widely and was recently featured in retrospectives at the Black Mountain College Museum and the Provincetown Art Museum; a two person exhibition Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman/Without Limits at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; and numerous group exhibitions\, including Women in Abstraction at the Addison Gallery of American Art.\nJo Sandman/TRACES is organized by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center\, Asheville\, NC.\nIMAGE HEADER: Jo Sandman (1931 Boston; lives and works in Boston)\, Light Memory #4\, 2006\, toned gelatin silver print\, image 5.75 x 9.5 inches\, sheet 16 x 20 inches.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/jo-sandman-traces/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T160000
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SUMMARY:Summer Art Academy 2024
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2024 SUMMER ART ACADEMY BROCHURE  \nThe Knoxville Museum of Art’s Summer Art Academy offers quality educational opportunities that will ignite your child’s imagination through drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, and more! Summer Art Academy will continue to offer classes and workshops for ages 3-17. Workshops will be held in Bailey Hall\, the Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Education Center\, and Martin Studio. \nIncreased pricing for Summer Art Academy to be announced! Partial and full scholarships will continue to be offered for students demonstrating financial need. These scholarships are available on a first come\, first served; as monies allow.  Thanks to the help of our generous sponsors\, scholarships cover 100% of expenses for students in need\, except for transportation. We believe in the importance of art education for all children\, please take advantage of this fantastic opportunity! \nFor more information\, call (865) 525-6101 ext. 241 or e-mail education@knoxart.org. \nREGISTER ONLINE \n\nPRESENTING SPONSOR:Publix Super Markets Charities \nLEAD SPONSORS:Emerson Automation Solutions • L’Amour du Vin Fund-A-Cause \nADDITIONAL SPONSORS:Michael Mervis • Axle Logistics • City of Knoxville • Knox County Health Department • Knox County Government • The Guild of the KMA • American Alliance of Museums • Tennessee Arts Commission • National Endowment of the Arts • Arts & Culture Alliance \nThis project is supported in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance\, and by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/summer-art-academy-2024/
CATEGORIES:Families,Special Events,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T100000
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SUMMARY:Tools As Art: Work & Play
DESCRIPTION: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 showcased works illustrate how artists manipulate their subjects to forge entirely novel forms. Some artists manipulate scale\, material\, and function to wondrous effect. Others treat tools as a stand-in for the self\, often assigning them human attributes and honoring their simple efficiency and sheer elegance. The exhibition also features artists who embrace tools as a hallmark of civilization or use tools for humor and social commentary. \nABOUT THE HECHINGER COLLECTION—\nJohn W. Hechinger (1920-2004) was a fifth-generation Washingtonian and a highly respected civic and business leader who was most often associated with the chain of do-it-yourself stores that carried his family name. Once ubiquitous in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States\, the Hechinger Company was founded by John’s father in 1911 and exemplified a twentieth-century success story: the transformation of a neighborhood hardware store into an expansive chain of home-improvement centers. \nLesser known to the public is that John and his wife June were lifelong philanthropists and art enthusiasts\, assembling an impressive collection of artwork that honors the beauty of common tools where form and function are inextricably linked. When Hechinger moved into new corporate headquarters in 1978\, he found the building efficient yet sterile: “It struck me that the endless repetition of corridors and cubicles was boring and seemed to rebuke the fantasies that a hardware store inspires. For anyone whose passion is to work with his or her hands\, a good hardware store is a spur to the imagination.” \nAs Hechinger discovered early on\, the collection’s narrow focus struck a rich and diverse vein. Although artists have depicted tools in their art since ancient times\, it was during the modern era that tools gained widespread popularity. The collection features more than 250 regional and international artists. Their paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, prints\, photographs\, and folk art span a wide range of styles and themes\, and like a time-capsule\, the collection traces a sweeping arc of technological progress and labor shifts all the way to the digital age. \nTools as Art: Work & Play is organized from the Hechinger Collection and toured by International Arts & Artists\, Washington\, D.C.IMAGE HEADER: Claes Oldenburg\, KnifeShip\, 1986\, oil paint on saw\, 30.5″ X 36.25″ X 2\,” © Claes Oldenburg. \n\n 
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T170000
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SUMMARY:Carmen Winant A Brand New End: Survival and its Pictures
DESCRIPTION: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 of domestic violence. \nEXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS:Opening Reception and Gallery Talk with Carmen Winant | Friday\, January 26\, 5:30-7:30pmClothesline Project with YWCA Knoxville & the Tennessee Valley | January 26-April 14Second Sunday Docent Tour | Sunday\, February 11\, 2-3pmSecond Sunday Art Activity | Sunday\, February 11\, 1-4pmAn Afternoon to Honor Voices of Courage | Sunday\, February 18\, 1-4pmSecond Sunday Docent Tour | Sunday\, March 10\, 2-3pmSecond Sunday Art Activity | Sunday\, March 10\, 1-4pmFamily Day | Saturday\, March 16\, 11am-3pmDine & Discover with Bobbie Crews | Thursday\, April 11\, 12-1pmSecond Sunday Docent Tour | Sunday\, April 14\, 2-3pmSecond Sunday Art Activity | Sunday\, April 14\, 1-4pm \nABOUT CARMEN WINANT—\nCarmen Winant is an artist whose work utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt. Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York\, NY\, The Minneapolis Institute of Art\, Minneapolis\, MN\, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Sandvika\, Norway. Winant is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography (2019) and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2018). Winant holds a B.A. from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and an M.F.A. and M.A. from California College of the Arts. She is the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University. carmenwinant.com \nTHE PRINT CENTER—\nFor more than a century\, The Print Center has encouraged the growth and understanding of photography and printmaking as vital contemporary arts through exhibitions\, publications and educational programs. The Print Center has an international voice and a strong sense of local purpose. Free and open to the public\, it presents changing exhibitions\, which highlight established and emerging\, local\, national and international contemporary artists. It mounts one of the oldest art competitions in the country and the Gallery Store offers the largest selection of contemporary prints and photographs available for sale in Philadelphia\, as well as being available online. printcenter.org \nWOMEN IN TRANSITION (WIT)—\nFounded in 1971\, Philadelphia-based WIT’s mission is to empower people to move forward in their lives free of domestic violence and substance abuse. helpwomen.org \nNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (NCADV)-—\nFounded in 7978\, Denver-based NCADV’s mission is to lead\, mobilize\, and raise their voices to support efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence such as patriarchy\, privilege\, racism\, sexism\, and classism. They are dedicated to supporting survivors and holding offenders accountable and supporting advocates. ncadv.org \n IMAGE HEADER: Carmen Winant (Born 1983\, San Franciso\, California\, lives and works in Columbus\, Ohio)\, Women’s blueprint for survival 2\, 2022\, sun-bleached construction paper\, painter’s tape\, inkjet prints\, 47 1/2″ x 36.” Courtesy of the Artist and The Print Center\, commissioned by The Print Center. \n\n  \n \n \nThis project is supported in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance\, and by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/carmen-winant-a-brand-new-end-survival-and-its-pictures/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231124T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T170000
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SUMMARY:East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2023
DESCRIPTION: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 juried exhibition and to have their artworks displayed in a professional art museum environment. \nPublic\, private\, and home schools grade 6–12 in 32 East Tennessee counties were invited to submit up to 15 artworks per teacher. Categories for the competition include ceramic\, drawing\, digital imagery/video production\, mixed media\, painting\, computer graphics\, sculpture\, photography\, and printmaking. Each participating school is represented by one work of art. \nThe Best-in-Show winner receives a Purchase Award of $500\, and the artwork becomes a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson\, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection. The Best-in-Middle School winner receives $250. If you are a NAEA/TAEA member and the teacher of the student who is selected as this year’s Best-in-Show and Best in Middle School\, you will receive a $100 Art Educator Award from the Knoxville Museum of Art. Each student in the exhibition receives a certificate of participation and the “Best” in each of the 10 categories. The winners receive a cash award and a museum family membership. \nIMAGE HEADER: Best in Show\, Eli Olsen\, 12th Grade\, Art Incarnate\, Recycled Art Textbooks\, Christian Academy of Knoxville\, Hope Wampler\, Art Teacher\nThe 18th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition is presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/etrsae-2023/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Jane Cassidy Drink Up the Moon
DESCRIPTION:Drink Up The Moon celebrates how life can be better lived when we are in tune with the world around us. In this exhibition\, a two-channel video installation captures the magic and mysticism of sunlight on choppy seas\, rambling on the seashore\, and deeply listening to our environment. \n\n“This body of work began by filming my winter Atlantic swims at Salt hill Beach in Galway\, on the west coast ofIreland. This creative habit changed how I experienced my time in the frigid water and kept me cycling to the sea\, even during a blizzard. The luscious slow-motion video captures glistening light\, the sensation of waves crashing\, and the aggression of hailstones on open water. “You never regret the swim\,” is a mantra I was once given and this project is indebted to those wise words.In tandem with my swims\, I began studying our moon\, filming its phases and finding an embodied connection with it. The more I paid attention to our magnetic satellite\, the more I heard birdsong when I usually slept\, and the more in tune I was with the cycle of my body and the tides that drew me to the sea. I filmed the moon rising behind mountains and shining across beaches\, from my city doorstep and camping on cliff tops. By tracking the moon\,I found a stronger connection to myself\, my ancestors and my environment and I encourage us all to explore this connection and keep looking up.” —Jane Cassidy \n\nABOUT JANE CASSIDY—\nJane Cassidy (b. Galway\, Ireland\, 1984) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator living in Galway City on the west coast of Ireland. Cassidy’s main interests lie in immersive audiovisual environments\, multi-sensory work\, and synesthesia\, most often used to interpret the mysticism of nature. Her exhibition Drink Up the Moon celebrates how life can be better lived when we are in tune with the world around us. www.janecassidy.net \n\nIMAGE HEADER: Jane Cassidy (Galway\, Ireland 1983; lives and works in Galway)\, Drink up the Moon\, 2022\, video\, stereo sound\, 7-minute loop\, plays as a 2-channel video with You Never Regret the Swim\, 2022. \n \nThis project is supported in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance\, and by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/jane-cassidy/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Courtney Egan: Eco Tone with Natori Green
DESCRIPTION:Eco Tone is a show of Egan’s artwork from 2020 to present\, including new pieces made in collaboration with another New Orleans artist\, Natori Green. Courtney Egan’s projection-based sculptural installations deliver an experience that is both pleasing and disconcerting. The ethereal projections – converging on walls\, floors and sculptural elements – are inspired by the growing frequency of human exposure to nature via computers or television. Egan creates stunning yet “subtly impossible\, hybrid tableaus\,” which envelop the viewer in a conversation between memory of the natural world and a new experience with a plant or flower. She explains the fundamental irony of the experience\, stating\, “We get closer and farther away from the natural world simultaneously when we experience it through a technological lens.” www.courtneyegan.net \n\nABOUT COURTNEY EGAN—\nCourtney Egan’s projection-based sculptural installations mix botanical themes with shards of technology.  Strongly inspired by the profusion of flora in New Orleans where she has lived and worked since 1991\, Courtney’s artworks ask broad questions about how human life and the plant world co-evolve. \nShe began presenting nature-themed projected artworks in 2010 with her solo show\, “Field Recordings\,” at Heriard-Cimino Gallery in New Orleans\, and she currently shows her projection-based work at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. Recent solo shows include “Extinct in the Wild” at Arthur Roger Gallery\, “Virtual Idylls” at the Ogden Museum of Art\, and “Superflora” at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Gallery in Austin\, TX.  Her work has been featured in Sculpture magazine\, Country Roads magazine\, OxfordAmerican.com\, PelicanBomb.com\, and Artforum.com. \nCourtney also shows artworks in light festivals such as Napa Lighted and Luna Fete and has shown short films in festivals\, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Black Maria Film Festival. She was an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute and at Louisiana Artworks in New Orleans.  She is a founding member of the New Orleans-based visual arts collective Antenna. Courtney holds an M.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art.  She has taught art and media in elementary\, secondary\, and college classrooms since 1991. www.courtneyegan.net \nABOUT NATORI GREEN—\nNatori Green (b. New Orleans\, 1992) is a mixed-media visual artist whose works span paintings\, video installation\, photography\, fashion\, and textile design. Green’s artwork explores the concepts of race and gender with reflective surfaces\, natural hairstyles\, urban landscapes\, and Louisiana native plants. When she is not painting\, Green creates ready-to-wear\, handmade garments and knitwear pieces\, particularly mother-daughter ensembles. She has an affinity for natural dyeing techniques\, machine knitting\, and the practice of garment construction and tailoring. www.natorigreen.com \n\nTHANK YOU TO OUR PRESENTING SPONSORS \n            \n\nThis project is supported\, in whole or in part\, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/courtney-egan-eco-tone-with-natori-green/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural Tennessee Triennial is a unified multi-site\, multi-city exhibition that promotes contemporary visual art as a tool to foster constructive dialogue across communities\, the state\, the country\, and internationally. The 2023 theme and core concept of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial is “RE-PAIR\,” set forth by Consulting Curator María Magdalena Campos-Pons as the guiding curatorial concept for all exhibiting venues participating in the Tennessee Triennial. \n\n\n\nResponding to the Triennial RE-PAIR theme about art designed “To heal\, suture\, and recompose fractured bodies”\, “re-pair\, patch\, rebuild spirits\, bodies\, cities\, political institutions\, economic relationships\,” the Knoxville Museum of Art presents works emphasizing the transformative power of art to propose new solutions to recent global discord. \n\n\n\nThe KMA’s Triennial presentation features a thought-provoking selection of objects created by a diverse\, intergenerational slate of 13 international artists from across the U.S.: Willie Cole\, Bessie Harvey\, Lonnie Holley\, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn\, Kahlil Robert Irving\, Suzanne Jackson\, Mary Laube\, Annabeth Marks\, Rosemary Mayer\, Althea Murphy-Price\, Betye Saar\, and Faith Wilding. \n\n\n\nThe exhibited works address a broad range of conceptual concerns ranging from the intersection of the personal and the political\, to environmental\, cultural\, and spiritual. They express artists’ deep interest in material as a means of interpreting and amplifying these concerns. They are touched and pressed\, deconstructed\, constructed and made anew. They embody histories that sensitively embrace contradiction and complication\, and that challenge diverse audiences to look both forward and backwards towards “new sites of encounters with yet undefined edges\, borders and territories” in search of RE-PAIR. \n\n\n\nA major statewide contemporary art event organized by Tri-Star Arts. Consulting Curator: María Magdalena Campos-Pons. \n\n\n\n\n\n2023 Theme – RE-PAIR \nRecent Press in ARTnews \n2023 VENUES \nWESTMemphis Brooks Museum of Art\, Memphis River Parks Partnership\, Tone Memphis\, UrbanArt Commission \nMIDDLECheekwood\, Engine for Art\, Democracy and Justice\, Fisk University Galleries\, Frist Art Museum\, Parthenon Museum\, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery \nEASTBig Ears Festival\, Hunter Museum of American Art\, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\, Stove Works\, Tri-Star Arts at Candoro Marble Building \n  \n\n 
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/tennessee-triennial-re-pair/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking
DESCRIPTION:Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the country’s most renowned printers-publishers. Landfall Press’s history is marked by groundbreaking collaboration with a host of distinguished international artists. Some of the featured artists are leading printmakers while others work primarily in other media\, but became interested in collaborating with master printers in order to realize their ideas in print-based works.As a result\, participating artists discovered new creative avenues within the vast array of printmaking techniques offered by Landfall Press.The artists\, in turn\, contributed to the collaborative process new ideas and expressive possibilities from other media that have helped reshape and invigorate printmaking. \nCulled from the holdings at Landfall Press\, the featured selection of 50 prints represents the creative achievements of more than 40 distinguished international artists who have collaborated with Landfall since it opened in 1970\, and emphasizes the dynamic range of innovative printmaking approaches for which the legendary workshop is known. Traditional notions of prints as small flat sheets are challenged by featured works taking the form of LP-format prints by Terry Allen\, clustered intaglios by Pat Steir\, and mixed media compositions by Christo that are enhanced by the addition of three-dimensional objects mimicking his monumental architectural wrappings. Other key artists represented in the exhibition include Judy Chicago\, Sol Lewitt\, Jiha Moon\, Nicky Nodjoumi\, Claes Oldenburg\, Ed Paschke\, Martin Puryear\, Nusra Qureshi\, Pat Steir\, Kara Walker\, and William T. Wiley.Together the selected works comprise an inspiring statement about the wealth of experimentation and range of innovation within the world of contemporary printmaking\, and the central role of Landfall Press in its exciting evolution. \nMany of the works featured in Five Decades of Printmaking are lithographs\, created through a process based on the principle that oil and water repel each other. In the most traditional form of lithography\, invented in 1796\, the artist draws on a slab of limestone with a greasy crayon. During the printing process\, the printer wets the stone and then applies oily ink. The non-image areas absorb the water while the image areas created with the greasy crayon attract the ink. A piece of paper is placed over the stone\, and then run through a printing press under high pressure\, creating an impression\, or copy\, of the image on the stone. This process is repeated to produce multiple prints. In color lithography\, the printer uses a separate stone for each color\, running the same piece of paper through the press several times to create the final\, full-color image. Today\, lithographers can print from zinc or aluminum plates rather than stones.Instead of working directly on the printing surface\, artists can draw an image on a thin plastic sheet and transfer their image onto a sensitized plate through a photographic process. \nThe Knoxville Museum of Art is one of a handful of national museum venues selected to host this groundbreaking show on the strength of its extensive print holdings and its proximity to and partnership with the University of Tennessee School of Art’s top-ranked printmaking program\, and close ties to major print collectors and Landfall patrons Helen and Russell Novak\, of Chicago\, who gifted the KMA 38 contemporary prints that were featured in the KMA-organized 2018 exhibition Press Ahead: Contemporary Prints Gifted by Helen and Russell Novak. \n\n  \nABOUT LANDFALL PRESS —\nFounded in 1970 by Jack H. Lemon\, Landfall Press played a key role in expanding the geography of the American postwar print renaissance. In the late 1950s and 1960s\, new printmaking workshops\, including Universal Limited Art Editions\, Tamarind Lithography Workshop\, and Gemini G.E.L.\, opened on the East and West Coasts. Jack Lemon helped bring this printmaking revival to the Midwest. He learned lithography at the Kansas City Art Institute\, then later established and directed lithography workshops there in 1965 and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1968. He opened Landfall Press in Chicago\, effectively creating a new hub for printmaking that attracted artists from around the country. \nLandfall Press is known for its commitment to innovation and exacting technical standards. It specializes in lithography but has also produced etchings\, woodcuts\, books\, and multiples that have often redefined what a print can be. As a publisher\, Lemon has collaborated with a diverse range of international artists\, introducing many of them to the process of printmaking. Landfall operated out of Chicago for thirty-five years and\, in 2004\, relocated to Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, where it continues to serve new generations. \nIn recognition of Landfall Press’s monumental contributions to international printmaking\, the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1992 acquired the Landfall Press Archive\, which consists of impressions of Landfall’s publications and the objects and materials that went into making the completed prints. In 1996\, the Museum organized a traveling exhibition and produced a catalogue in honor of Landfall’s twenty-fifth anniversary. The Art Institute of Chicago presented its own celebration of the milestone in 1995\, and\, in 1997\, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press. \nThe works in the exhibition are on loan from Jack H. Lemon. \n\nThis project is supported\, in whole or in part\, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/landfall-press-five-decades-of-printmaking/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2022
DESCRIPTION: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 juried exhibition and to have their artworks displayed in a professional art museum environment.  We are so delighted by the quality of the artworks\, the dedication of the teachers\, and the commitment of the museum staff to establish a museum/school tradition for our community. \nPublic\, private\, and home schools grades 6–12 in 32 East Tennessee counties were invited to submit up to 15 artworks per teacher. Categories for the competition include ceramic\, drawing\, digital imagery/video production\, mixed media\, painting\, computer graphics\, sculpture\, photography\, and printmaking. Each participating school is represented by one work of art. \nThe Best-in-Show winner receives a Purchase Award of $500\, and the artwork becomes a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson\, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection.  The Best-in-Middle School winner receives $250.  The teachers of the winning student will receive $100.  Each student in the exhibition receives a certificate of participation and the “Best” in each of the 10 categories the winners receive a museum family membership. \nIMAGE HEADER: Best in Show\, Magnolia Evans\, 12th Grade\, Paranoid\, Painting-Oil Paint and Wood Panel\, Farragut High School\, Angela McCarter\, Art Teacher\nThe 17th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition is presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/etrsae-2022/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Radcliffe Bailey: Passages
DESCRIPTION:“I’ve always felt like the only way I can heal myself is to go back through memory\, learn from memory.” -Radcliffe Bailey \nAncestral memory and cultural identity represent core themes fueling the artistic practice of Atlanta-based Radcliffe Bailey (born 1968). Bridging continents and cultural contexts\, the artist’s compelling narratives interweave individual experience and personal history within the collective trajectory of the African diaspora. Using an intuitive and labor-intensive approach\, he combines found objects\, painted motifs\, and photographic imagery to create engaging compositions inspired by the Middle Passage\, the Great Migration\, and other key stages in the history of his ancestors. Featuring nearly 30 recent works\, Radcliffe Bailey: Passages reflects the artist’s ongoing artistic meditation on these difficult journeys\, and their reverberations in present times. \nBailey’s creative drive finds full expression in a variety of forms\, including installations\, sculptures\, paintings\, works on paper\, and combinations thereof.  Many of his works represent a thoughtful conglomeration of new and salvaged materials and imagery made possible by the artist’s command of various construction methods and studio techniques. Surface treatments range from distressed metal or wood to coatings of sparkling black sand\, rust\, and other substances applied to historically charged found objects. The artist typically develops multiple compositions at any given time\, giving shape to larger interconnected narratives along the way. Each work gradually unfolds to reveal underlying elements\, textural nuances\, and thematic interconnections. References to travel\, displacement\, and crossing boundaries are especially prominent. Door of No Return (2019) presents a life-sized collaged photograph of the infamous threshold at Senegal’s Gorée Island through which ancestral Africans stepped off home soil for the final time before boarding slave ships. This luminous doorway stands in stark contrast to its glittering black backdrop\, which conjures visions of Caribbean black sand beaches and sea navigation by night. Windward Coast – West Coast Slave Trade (2009-2018) takes the form of roiling waves of piano keys out of which a glitter covered human head emerges. While alluding to traumatic passages by sea during which countless slaves perished\, the installation’s material components call attention to music as a limitless arena of innovation and accomplishment for descendants of survivors and as a vehicle through which their ancestors’ voices persist. Comprised of a single oar within a tall bottle\, the glass sculpture Stir (2016) is a poetic meditation on travel by water whose title signals broader concepts of inspiration and provocation. Palmyra\, VA (2021) and Coles (2021) feature sections of miniature train track mounted to sculptural objects as a tribute to the Underground Railroad and to Bailey’s train engineer father. The tracks’ vertical orientation also suggests ladders promising access to new opportunities\, higher ground\, and spiritual deliverance. In recent mixed media paintings Charleston (2021) and En Route (2021)\, Bailey pairs shipping tarpaulins with blocks of tabby concrete\, an early building material used in the coastal South produced largely by slave laborers. Hard-edged and puddled color shapes are intermingled with text and imagery pulled from antique maps\, family trees\, travel logs\, and Haitian vévé spiritual diagrams used to navigate journeys both physical and spiritual. Reminiscent of quilts\, the patchwork structure of paint and collage serves to reinforce prevailing themes of geographical displacement\, lost lineages\, and shattered histories. \nThe selection featured in Passages reflects the broad scope of Radcliffe Bailey’s studio practice\, and the multiple levels on which the artist’s works convey meaning. His hybrid creations offer diverse points of entry into compelling narratives that are personal yet far-reaching. Evocative and physically complex\, they appear as if talismans\, shrines\, reliquaries\, guideposts\, and portals offering direction and prompting reflection. Open-ended and wide-ranging\, they remain enigmatic despite the presence of layered imagery implying a variety of possible interpretations. Each stands as a testament to the persistence of identity and memory\, and as an enduring message whose affirmative spirit promises to transcend the painful legacy of cultural erasure. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\n \nBorn 1968 in Bridgeton\, New Jersey\, Radcliffe Bailey was raised in Atlanta\, where he lives and works today. Forthcoming public art installations include work commissioned by the City of Atlanta\, as part of the Renew Atlanta Public Art Program; the Freedom Cornerstone\, commissioned by the City of Greensboro\, North Carolina; and a commission by Philadelphia Contemporary. Recent solo exhibitions include Ascents and Echoes and Travelogue at Jack Shainman Gallery\, New York; Pensive\, SCAD Museum of Art\, Savannah\, which travelled to the Gibbes Museum of Art\, Charleston; Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works\, Contemporary Arts Center\, New Orleans; and Memory as Medicine at the High Museum of Art\, Atlanta. Bailey’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York; the Smithsonian Institution\, Washington\, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art\, Kansas City\, Missouri; the Denver Art Museum; and the High Museum of Art\, among many others. \nRadcliffe Bailey: Passages is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art in conjunction with Jack Shainman Gallery\, New York.\n \n\nThank you to our sponsors! \n \n \nArts & Culture Alliance\nNational Endowment for the Arts\nTennessee Arts Commission\nCity of Knoxville\nKnox County \nThis project is supported\, in whole or in part\, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/radcliffe-bailey-passages/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Currents: Women Artists from the KMA Collection
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition\, a special edition of the KMA’s permanent installation Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond\, pays tribute to contemporary women artists represented in the collection of the Knoxville Museum of Art. This show and Women Artists: Highlights from the Hunter Museum of American Art (one floor up) document what two important Tennessee cultural organizations are doing to support and empower women artists. \nLike the Hunter\, the KMA has actively sought to acquire outstanding works by women\, who have long lagged behind their male counterparts when it comes to museum-level recognition. The selection on view reflects the broad technical and aesthetic range found in contemporary art by women. A mixed media painting on wooden sections by Alison Moritsugu conveys a monumental landscape\, expansive yet incomplete.  Nancy Rubins elevates graphite drawing into a large sculptural construction apparently shaped by violent forces. British artist Marilène Oliver constructs provocative portraits of her family in the form of acrylic sheets imprinted with digital medical scans.  Patty Chang uses water and mirrors to transform her own image taken in a Belgian church into a complex photographic work fragmented by harsh angles and provocative reflections. In her video Joan of Arc\, Alex McQuilkin responds to Maria Falconetti’s memorable lead role in the legendary 1928 French silent film by Carl Dreyer\, and to the film’s themes of adolescent desire\, faith\, and suffering. These and other selected works call overdue attention to women’s significant role in reshaping the contemporary art landscape. \nThe artists featured in this exhibition are Patty Chang\, Janet Fish\, Marcia Goldenstein\, Michelle Grabner\, EJ Hauser\, Julie Heffernan\, Jean Hess\, Kate Katomski\, Karen LaMonte\, Pam Longobardi\, Lauren Luloff\, Alex McQuilkin\, Alison Mortisugu\, Althea Murphy-Price\, Marilène Oliver\, Amy Pleasant\, Sumi Putman\, Nancy Rubins\, Tommie Rush\, Denise Stewart-Sanabria\, Jemima Stehli\, and Toots Zynsky. \nOrganized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. \nPresenting Sponsor \nThe Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation \nMasters Sponsor\nThe Guild of the KMA \nSustaining Sponsors\nPandy Anderson\nMarty Begalla\nMary Ellen Brewington & Nell Kedrow\nMolly Joy\nVicki Kinser\nAlexandra Rosen \nBenefactor Sponsors\nMary Hale Corkran\nAllison Lederer\nBrenda Madigan\nTownes Osborn\nHei Park\nKMA in honor of Barbara Apking and Karen Mann \nPatron Sponsors\nMardel Fehrenbach\nLane Hays\nSherri Lee in memory of Sarah Stowers and Glady Faires\nSheena McCall\nGeri Muse in memory of Amanda Muse Neuhoff\nNancy Sharp Voith & Kenneth A. Stark in honor of my artist sister\, M J Sharp \nFriends \nSandi Burdick in memory of Adelia Armstrong Lutz\nBarbara M. Cook\nJudy Doyle in memory of Lynn Irwin\nSusan French\nDana Headden\nCathy Hill in honor of Barbara Bernstein \n\nThis project (was/is) supported\, in whole or in part\, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/currents-women-artists-from-the-kma-collection/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Women Artists: Highlights from the Hunter Museum of American Art
DESCRIPTION:Since 2000\, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga has prioritized the acquisition of works by women artists from around the United States\, who have long lagged behind their male counterparts when it comes to museum-level recognition. Between 2008 and 2018\, works by women constituted just 11 percent of acquisitions and 14 percent of exhibitions at 26 major American museums. Women Artists: Highlights from the Hunter Museum of American Art celebrates work by contemporary American female artists. This exhibit and Currents: Women Artists from the KMA Collection (one floor down) document what two important Tennessee cultural organizations are doing to support and empower women artists. \nThe road to recognition for women’s creative achievements has been long and difficult. The passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 may have guaranteed the right to vote for all women\, but equity in practice took many more years—especially for women of color. The women’s rights movement began gaining strength in the 1960s\, alongside those of civil rights and gay liberation movements. An outgrowth of this was the feminist art movement\, encouraging women artists to rewrite a male-dominated art historical narrative by using unorthodox art materials\, offering alternative exhibition venues\, questioning political and social stereotypes\, and often shunning conventional ideas of beauty. Each artist in this exhibition follows in the footsteps of these pioneers\, bringing previously unheard voices into the mainstream. Highlights include an installation by Lesley Dill featuring floor-to-ceiling banners and hand embroidered text\, a silhouette pop-up book by Kara Walker examining the history of American race relations\, a textile by Vadis Turner questioning inherited gender roles\, and a mixed media installation by Beverly Semmes inspired by composer John Cage’s minimalist music. \nThe artists featured in this exhibition are Elizabeth Catlett\, Lesley Dill \, Lin Emery\, Clementine Hunter\, Julie Moos\, Catharine Newell\, Sisavanh Phouthavong\, Faith Ringgold\, Alison Saar\, Surabhi Saraf\, Miriam Schapiro\, Beverly Semmes\, Lorna Simpson\, Vadis Turner\, Kara Elizabeth Walker\, and Carrie Mae Weems. \nOrganized by the Hunter Museum of American Art\, Chattanooga.\n \nPresenting Sponsor \nThe Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation \nMasters Sponsor\nThe Guild of the KMA \nSustaining Sponsors\nPandy Anderson\nMarty Begalla\nMary Ellen Brewington & Nell Kedrow\nMolly Joy\nVicki Kinser\nAlexandra Rosen \nBenefactor Sponsors\nMary Hale Corkran\nAllison Lederer\nBrenda Madigan\nTownes Osborn\nHei Park\nKMA in honor of Barbara Apking and Karen Mann \nPatron Sponsors\nMardel Fehrenbach\nLane Hays\nSherri Lee in memory of Sarah Stowers and Glady Faires\nSheena McCall\nGeri Muse in memory of Amanda Muse Neuhoff\nNancy Sharp Voith & Kenneth A. Stark in honor of my artist sister\, M J Sharp \nFriends \nSandi Burdick in memory of Adelia Armstrong Lutz\nBarbara M. Cook\nJudy Doyle in memory of Lynn Irwin\nSusan French\nDana Headden\nCathy Hill in honor of Barbara Bernstein \n\nThis project (was/is) supported\, in whole or in part\, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/women-artists-highlights-from-the-hunter-museum-of-american-art/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Drawn from the exceptional and diverse collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation\, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan\, playful\, and subtly subversive characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The exhibition highlights the work of fifteen artists of Asian heritage who draw on a rich array of motifs\, techniques\, and cultural motivations to construct diverse “Asias” in a modern global context. \nOrganized by the Palmer Museum of Art in conjunction with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation\, the exhibition is divided into three thematic sections. “Exuberant Forms” features work that has the potential to reshape conventional views of abstract art—its composition\, palette\, materiality as well as its cultural implications\, expanding and complicating the canonical narrative of abstraction. “Moving Stories” brings together powerful prints and mixed-media works that reflect on the experiences of migration\, both within Asia and beyond. The artists in this section map their own diasporic trajectories\, literally and metaphorically\, and the art compels the viewer to move and to respond to the shifting socio-political realities of time and place. “Asias Reinvented” highlights two- and three-dimensional works that transform styles and techniques of traditional Asian arts in alignment with the vibes of the contemporary and the cosmopolitan. Combined\, the works in Global Asias suggest the plurality and fluidity of “Asia” as a cultural construct and creative practice. The exhibition is guest curated by Chang Tan\, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Penn State. \nSupport for the exhibition and related educational and outreach programs has been made possible by a grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. \n \nAdditional support provided by
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/global-asias-contemporary-asian-and-asian-american-art-from-the-collections-of-jordan-d-schnitzer-and-his-family-foundation/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2021
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the 16th 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 juried exhibition and to have their artworks displayed in a professional art museum environment. \nPublic\, private\, and home schools grades 6–12 in 32 East Tennessee counties were invited to submit up to 15 artworks per teacher. Categories for the competition include ceramic\, drawing\, digital imagery/video production\, mixed media\, painting\, computer graphics\, sculpture\, photography\, and printmaking. Each participating school is represented by one work of art. \nThe Best-in-Show winner receives a Purchase Award of $500\, and the artwork becomes a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson\, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection.  The Best-in-Middle School winner receives $250.  The teachers of the winning student will receive $100.  Each student in the exhibition receives a certificate of participation and the “Best” in each of the 10 categories the winners receive a museum family membership. \nIMAGE HEADER: Best in Show\, Lily Asbury\, 11th Grade\, The Days We’ll Look Back On and Smile\, acrylic paint\, Cocke County High School\, Myra Amason\, Art Teacher\nThe 16th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition is presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/etrsae-2021/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum
DESCRIPTION:Featuring nearly 70 works by more than 30 international artists\, Under Construction explores the growth and impact of the collage technique from the 1950s to the present. It explores not only classic collages by Romare Bearden (1911-1988)\, but the technique’s role in inspiring artists and other forms of art during recent decades. Collage\, in which materials from different sources are cut\, torn\, and layered to create new meanings and narratives\, experienced a renaissance after World War II thanks in large part to Bearden. Complementing more than a dozen works by Bearden are examples by Radcliffe Bailey\, Sam Gilliam\, Kojo Griffin\, Robert A. Nelson\, Man Ray\, Kristina Rogers\, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.\, Howardena Pindell\, Robert Rauschenberg\, and James Rosenquist. Organized by the Mint Museum\, Charlotte\, North Carolina. \nPRESENTING SPONSOR\n \nLEADERS\nLexus of Knoxville\nAlexandra Rosen & Donald Cooney \nADDITIONAL\nHei & Stanley Park\nThe City of Knoxville\nTennessee Arts Commission
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/under-construction-collage-from-the-mint-museum/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210521T130000
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SUMMARY:A View of the City: Knoxville
DESCRIPTION:Click here for Gallery Guide \nA View of the City features more than 20 paintings and works on paper of Knoxville and vicinity by artists from East Tennessee and beyond representing the city and outlying areas during and after the 1940s.  This diverse selection offers a complex and compelling portrait of our area over the course of a vital period in its development. \nJoseph Delaney (Knoxville 1904-1991 Knoxville) Vine and Central\, Knoxville\, Tennessee\, 1940 Oil\, pastel\, and charcoal on canvas\, 30 x 24 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2018 purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle\, Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve\, Nancy and Charlie Wagner\, and Richard Jansen  \nHenri Cartier-Bresson (Chanteloup-en-Brie\, France 1908-2004 Céreste\, France) Knoxville\, Tennessee\, 1947 Gelatin silver print\, 12 x 16 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2019 purchase with funds provided by June and Rob Heller\, Jim Martin\, James L. Clayton\, Hei Park\, John Cotham\, Jayne and Myron Ely\, Dorothy and Caesar Stair\, Ebbie Sandberg\, John Trotter\, KMA Guild\, Mardel Fehrenbach\, Kitsy and Louis Hartley\, Sylvia and Jan Peters\, Mary Rayson\, Alexandra Rosen\, John Z.C. Thomas\, and Lisa Carroll  \nCharles Griffin Farr (Birmingham\, Alabama 1908-1997 San Francisco) Street in Knoxville\, 1947 Oil on canvas\, 24 x 30 inches Timothy Farr Davis  \nPRESENTING SPONSOR\nThe Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation \nLEADER SPONSOR\nUBS Financial Services \nADDITIONAL SPONSORS\nBrewington Family\nAmanda and Jason Hall\nApril and Stephen Harris\nNancy and Stephen Land\nCarole and Bob Martin\nPetrone-Speight Family\nDebbie and Ron Watkins
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/a-view-of-the-city-knoxville/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Undercurrents:  Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:For Currents Gallery Guide\, click here \nMore than 20 paintings and works on paper representing the exciting growth in the KMA’s contemporary collection through museum purchases and donations from artists and collectors far and wide. \nKatherine Bernhardt (Clayton\, Missouri 1975; lives and works in Brooklyn) Nicki Minaj\, 2010 Acrylic on canvas\, 48 x 36 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2019 gift of Elin and Michael Nierenberg  \nJosh Smith (Okinawa\, Japan 1976; lives and works in New York) Untitled\, 2010 Oil on canvas\, 30 x 24 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2019 gift of Elin and Michael Nierenberg  \nJered Sprecher (Lincoln Nebraska 1976; lives and works in Knoxville) Technology of Dirt\, 2018 Oil on linen\, 47 x 40 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2020 bequest of Daniel F. McGehee  \nDenise Stewart-Sanabria (Worcester\, Massachusetts 1956; lives and works in Knoxville) 18th Century French Pastoral Toile Culture Shock\, 2016 Oil on canvas\, 36 x 72 inches Knoxville Museum of Art\, 2017 purchase with funds provided by anonymous friends and Stuart Worden  \nPRESENTING SPONSOR\nThe Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation \nLEADER SPONSOR\nUBS Financial Services \nADDITIONAL SPONSORS\nBrewington Family\nAmanda and Jason Hall\nApril and Stephen Harris\nNancy and Stephen Land\nCarole and Bob Martin\nPetrone-Speight Family\nDebbie and Ron Watkins
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/undercurrents-recent-acquisitions-of-contemporary-art/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:A Lasting Imprint: Rendering Rhythm and Motion in the Art of Black Mountain College
DESCRIPTION:Click here for Gallery Guide\n  \nA Lasting Imprint: Rendering Rhythm and Motion in the Art of Black Mountain College \nMovement and music—both time-based activities—can be difficult to express in static media such as painting\, drawing\, and photography\, yet many artists feel called to explore them. Movement serves as inspiration—either to capture it or to create it in entirely different media. Similarly\, music is driven by rhythm\, patterns\, and variations that are enticing departures for visual artists. In few places did movement\, music\, visual arts\, and myriad other disciplines intermingle to such impact as they did at Black Mountain College\, an experiment in higher education in the mountains of Western North Carolina that existed from 1933 to 1957. For many artists\, their introduction to interdisciplinarity at the college resulted in a continued curiosity around those ideas throughout their careers. The works here\, selected from the Asheville Art Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection of works\, highlight approaches to rendering a lasting imprint of the ephemeral. \nArtists such as Barbara Morgan and Clemens Kalischer are concerned with the motion of the human form\, evoking a sense of elongated or contracted muscles\, or of limbs moving through space. Others\, like Lorna Blaine Halper or Sewell Silman\, approach the challenge through abstraction\, foregoing representation yet communicating an atmosphere of dynamic change. Marianne Preger-Simon’s drawings of her fellow dancers at Black Mountain College from summer 1953 are not only portraits but also a dance of pencil on paper\, created in the spirit of BMC professor Josef Albers’s line studies as she simultaneously worked with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Each of these artists ultimately reflects on the temporal nature of movement and music. \nJosef Albers\, Formulation: Articultion Foliol\, Folder 14\, 1972. Screenprint on paper\, 15 x 40 inches\, Black Mountain College Collection Gift of Josef and Anni Albers Foundation  \nSponsored By:\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				for sponsoring free admission during April 2021.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/a-lasting-imprint-rendering-rhythm-and-motion-in-the-art-of-black-mountain-college/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2020
DESCRIPTION:This collaborative project with the East Tennessee Art Education Association is designed to gather the best student work grades 6-12 from a 32-county region; award winners are eligible for $1\,000\,000 in scholarships to national art schools.  Organized by the KMA. \n \n  \nClick here for a Virtual Gallery of the Student Art Exhibition\n  \n2020 “Best of” Winners\nBest in Show \nLily Asbury\, 11th Grade \nThe Days We’ll Look Back On and Smile \nAcrylic Paint \nCocke County High School \nMyra Amason\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Ceramic \nAvery Flatford\, 11th Grade \nMr. Tentacles \nClay Raku Fired \nFarragut High School \nWendie Love\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Computer Graphic \nKendall Livingston\, 10th Grade \nUnder rated \nPrint \nMaryville High School \nDr. Jeanie Parker\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Drawing \nImelia Markus-Brock\, 9th Grade \nEye Spy \nCharcoal \nOak Ridge High School \nGisela Schrock\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Mixed Media \nRainee Mitchell\, 10th Grade \nBeautiful Mind \nCardboard\, Glue\, Ink\, Magazine\, Paint \nOak Ridge High School \nJoseph Moseley\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest In Painting \nAurora Baez\, 8th Grade \nOrchids \nAcrylic Paint \nBearden Middle School \nKimberly Bishop\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Printmaking \nTristan Howard\, 7th Grade \nAtlantic Puffin \nLinoleum Block Print \nThe McCallie School \nSuzanne Mortimer\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Sculpture \nBrian Barbo\, 12th Grade \nIngrain \nWood\, Metal and Found Objects \nHardin Valley Academy \nBenjamin Eng\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Show-Middle School \nBella Zigrossi\, 8th Grade \nCarnival \nWool Roving Picks on Styrofoam Form \nSaint Joseph School \nGae Sharp\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest in Video Production \nLewis Walton\, 12th Grade \nLOVE \nVideo Production \nWest High School \nKat Furnari\, Art Teacher \n  \nBest Photography \nKayleigh Brownlee\, 8th Grade \nMy Creation in the Leaves \nChromebook and Origami \nBearden Middle School \nKimberly Bishop\, Art Teacher \n  \n  \n  \nExhibition Resources:\nStudent Art Poster 2020 \n2020 Student Art Exhibition Overview \nEast Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition Entry Form \nStudent Art Exhibition PDF \n  \n 
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/etrsae-2020/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T100000
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SUMMARY:Homegrown
DESCRIPTION:Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann \nHomegrown\, 2020 \nPlant fibers (including forestry waste and invasive plant species) and biobased binder \n10 x 10 x 6 feet \n  \nHomegrown imagines architectural applications for Tennessee’s native and nonnative plant species. Four walls composed of various invasives (including bamboos and tree species) and forestry waste form an exterior room. \n  \nThe room’s walls are constructed using a novel pneumatic forming system developed by the designers. Using a hybrid workflow\, the installation was modeled digitally and then constructed physically using a single reusable inflatable mold. The resultant surfaces\, each unique in geometry\, are alternately thin and dense or thick and porous\, allowing light to filter through the structure. The exterior is flat and angular\, reflecting conventional architectural production\, while the interior is undulating\, suggesting possibilities for further customization and the creation of integrated\, sculpted furniture. In a nod to traditional American framing\, the panels are faced in pine needles and rest on a base of dimensional lumber. \n  \nFunded by the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design through the Tennessee Architecture Fellowship. \n  \n  \nArtists: \nKatie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann are artists and designers whose work critiques conventional building practices\, which face new lifecycle questions and overextended supply chains amid the current environmental crisis. Such work explores how digital tools can help reconcile the intentions of the designer with the irregularity of natural materials and processes to reframe authorship. MacDonald and Schumann are Assistant Professors of Architecture at the University of Virginia and Cofounders of After Architecture\, a practice named to convey the built environment’s impact on cultures and ecologies. Recent projects include an installation at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 and a memorial in Washington D.C. Their installation at the Knoxville Museum of Art\, Homegrown\, is the culmination of the Tennessee Architecture Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s College of Architecture + Design\, which they jointly held from 2019-2020. \nExhibition will be in the KMA South Garden. \nMore information about After Architecture here \nhttps://after-architecture.com/ \n  \n \n 
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/homegrown/
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SUMMARY:Sculptural Objects from the KMA Collection
DESCRIPTION:This special display inaugurates the KMA’s newly renovated Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Education Center\, a multi-purpose space named in honor of the KMA’s first director of education. We are taking advantage of current COVID-19 restrictions on large gatherings to use this event and classroom space to display a diverse selection of sculptural works\, many small in scale\, from the KMA collection. Some were acquired years ago and have been displayed many times\, while others have rarely been shown or were recently acquired. Figurative works by Tennessee artists Bessie Harvey\, Richard Jolley\, and Red Grooms explore human life in all its struggles\, timeless beauty\, and satirical moments. Small objects by Henry Moore and John Himmelfarb reflect contrasting approaches to bronze. John Jordan\, Jen McCurdy\, and Brad Sells each explore the vessel as a sculptural form from distinct vantage points. Together\, this selection reflects a broad cross-section of modern and contemporary art from East Tennessee and beyond as expressed in a variety of materials and techniques. \nSculptural Objects Gallery Guide
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/sculptural-objects-from-the-kma-collection/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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SUMMARY:Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door
DESCRIPTION:The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door February 7-October 25\, 2020.  This exhibition of 50+ paintings\, works on paper\, and unpublished archival material examines the 38-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris) and writer James Baldwin (New York 1924-1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence\, France) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped one another’s creative output and worldview.  Through the Unusual Door seeks to identify and disentangle the skein of influences that grew over and around a rich\, complex lifetime relationship with a selection of Delaney’s works that reflect the powerful presence of Baldwin in Delaney’s life.  The exhibition draws from the KMA’s extensive Delaney holdings\, public and private collections around the country\, and rarely displayed papers held by the Delaney estate. KMA curator Stephen Wicks is organizing the exhibition\, which is accompanied by a color-illustrated catalogue published by the University of Tennessee Press.    Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door is made possible by generous underwriting from the Henry Luce Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art\, and the Art Dealers Association of America Foundation. \nThe Knoxville Museum of Art celebrates the rich and diverse visual culture of East Tennessee.  The museum is proud to hold the world’s largest public collection of work by Knoxville native Beauford Delaney\, who overcame poverty\, racial discrimination\, and mental illness to achieve international renown. The young Delaney’s precocious talent was recognized by Lloyd Branson\, Knoxville’s first full-time professional artist\, who mentored Beauford and his brother Joseph. By 1929\, Beauford Delaney had settled in New York where he attracted a distinguished circle of cultural luminaries that included Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Miller\, but it was the much younger James Baldwin who had the most significant impact on the artist. Baldwin found in Delaney a father figure\, muse\, and model of perseverance as a gay man of color. Delaney found in Baldwin a powerful intellectual and spiritual anchor who inspired some of his finest works. Encouraged by Baldwin\, Delaney left New York in 1953 and settled in Paris\, where he lived until his death in 1979 and where artist and writer continued their long and mutually beneficial relationship. Through the Unusual Door presents the story of Baldwin and Delaney in a way that inspires reconsideration of their life circumstances and raises important questions about the nature of the racial and sexual identity barriers they faced. \nThe exhibition title Through the Unusual Door comes from a passage in Baldwin’s volume of collected essays The Price of the Ticket (1985) describing the author’s reaction to his initial encounter with Delaney in the doorway of the artist’s Greenwich Village studio: “Lord\, I was to hear Beauford sing\, later\, and for many years\, open the unusual door… I walked through that door into Beauford’s colors.” This first meeting encapsulates Delaney’s transformational effect on Baldwin’s view of himself and the world he lived in\, and set the tone for the painter’s role in the author’s life as a father figure and mentor. Baldwin\, in turn\, inspired Delaney with his fearless social conscience and commitment to civil rights causes. They helped each other to move beyond the pain and oppression imposed on them by the world. \nWhile no other figure in Beauford Delaney’s extensive social orbit approaches James Baldwin in the extent and duration of influence\, none of the major exhibitions of Delaney’s work have explored in any depth the creative exchange between the two.  Previous scholarship has almost exclusively emphasized the artist’s stylistic evolution from the 1940s to the 1960s as a function of his move from New York to Paris and/or his worsening mental health. Through the Unusual Door posits the idea that this profound stylistic change was in part inspired by the intellectual and personal relationship between Delaney and Baldwin. Ordinary daily observations–reflections in puddles in the streets of Greenwich village or the quality of light filtered through the window of Delaney’s studio in the Paris suburb of Clamart–sparked extraordinary creative exchanges between the two. The exhibition incorporates previously unpublished archival materials and artworks that promise to extend the understanding of Delaney’s aesthetic agenda and range and reveal the extent of his ties to Baldwin. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a color-illustrated catalogue\, published by the University of Tennessee Press\, documenting this groundbreaking gathering of images. The slate of essayists includes Mary Campbell\, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee\, whose research currently focuses on James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney within the context of the civil rights movement; Glenn Ligon\, an internationally acclaimed New York-based artist with intimate knowledge of Baldwin’s writings\, Delaney’s art\, and American history and society; Levi Prombaum\, a curatorial assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum who did his doctoral research at University College London on Delaney’s portraits of James Baldwin; and Stephen Wicks\, the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator\, who has guided the KMA’s curatorial department for over 25 years and was instrumental in building the world’s largest and most comprehensive public collection of Beauford Delaney’s art at the KMA. \nAcquiring and showing the work of Knoxville native Beauford Delaney has been a longstanding institutional priority for the Knoxville Museum of Art. In the summer of 2017 the museum organized Gathering Light: Works by Beauford Delaney from the KMA Collection\, the first-ever showing of its own holdings. Gathering Light kicked off a multi-year\, community-wide initiative to honor the legacy of Beauford and his brother\, Joseph\, under the rubric of the Delaney Project\, a consortium of organizations and individuals dedicated to making the Delaney brothers better known in their hometown. The KMA\, The Knoxville (TN) Chapter of The Links\, Incorporated\, the East Tennessee Historical Society\, Beck Cultural Exchange Center\,  Marble City Opera\, and the University of Tennessee Humanities Center are just a few of the organizations involved in presenting the Delaney brothers to the local community and to the world.  The KMA expects Through the Unusual Door to make a significant contribution to Delaney scholarship\, raise the museum’s institutional profile nationally\, promote the artist’s legacy in his hometown\, and enhance Knoxville’s standing as a center for Beauford Delaney studies. \nAll images © Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley\, Esquire\, Court Appointed Administrator \nGallery Guide and Time Line\n\nClick here to enlarge the Delaney Gallery Guide \n  \n\nClick here to enlarge the timeline \nExhibition Links\nTo purchase a catalog of  Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door\, please contact The University of Tennessee Press at 1-800-621-2736 or utpress.org. \nFor a digital version of the catalog\, please click here. \n \nFour-part series of Through the Unusual Door \nBelow is an in-depth journey into the heart of the KMA’s current exhibition Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door. While the museum has been closed the KMA and Community Television (CTV) partnered in producing a four-part virtual tour of this special exhibition led by curator Stephen Wicks that is now available for viewing. \nEpisode One\, Portraits and New York \n\nEpisode Two\, Clamart\, The Lure of Music \n\nEpisode Three\, The Call of Civil Rights\, Transnationalism \n\nEpisode Four\, St.-Paul-de-Vence\, Archival Items \n\n  \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \n  \nCocktails & Conversation\n\nA virtual lecture with UT Associate Professor of American Art History Mary Campbell \n\nAn exploration of the works related to Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks in the exhibition Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door.\nProfessor Campbell entertains the idea of Parks as a type of self-portrait of Delaney and a way for him to express his inner thoughts. \nClick below for a list of collaborative events by Knoxville organizations for the Delaney Project:\nThe Delaney Project List of Collaborative Events \n  \n 
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-through-the-unusual-door/
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