Welcome to the 20th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The ETRSAE showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for students to participate in a […]

A Two-Way Mirror features works in glass by international contemporary Black artists who through 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 […]

In collaboration with the recently re-opened and restored Eugenia Williams House, the KMA presents a site-specific installation by renowned Dutch artist Gabriel Lester titled Melancholia in Arcadia. With curtains billowing into a room, frozen uncannily in time, this work refers to the gesture of opening windows to set free the soul of the deceased, as well as […]