Events

A 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.

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.

This annual exhibition presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art is designed to gather the best student work grades 6-12 from a 32-county region and have their artworks displayed in a professional art museum environment.

Drawn from the multifaceted 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 sixteen 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. Among the artists included are Kwang-Yun Chun, Dinq Q. Le, Jun Kaneko, Hung Liu, Takashi Murakami, Do Ho Suh, and Barbara Takenaga.

This exhibition celebrates the creative achievements of contemporary women artists from the U.S. and abroad as represented in the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga.

This exhibition, a special edition of the installation "Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond", celebrates the creative achievements of contemporary women artists from the U.S. and abroad as represented in the Knoxville Museum of Art.

Working primarily between the mediums of sculpture and painting, noted contemporary artist Radcliffe Bailey (born 1968) incorporates found objects and photographs into richly layered and textured compositions that address history, ancestry, migration, and collective memory.

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 […]

This exhibition celebrates the history of Landfall Press, one of America’s leading printmaking workshops. 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. The featured selection of approximately 40 prints represents the broad spectrum of distinguished artists who have collaborated with Landfall, and the dynamic range of innovative printmaking approaches for which the legendary workshop is known.

Tennessee's first statewide contemporary art event with a core-theme of "RE-PAIR". The KMA's Triennial presentation will feature a thought-provoking selection of objects created by a diverse, intergenerational slate of 12 international, national, and local artists.

Courtney Egan’s projection-based sculptural installations mix botanical themes with shards of technology.

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. "This body of work began by filming […]