Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) welcomes the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Link...) to our site.

Table by Ted Lott: from Arrowmont's the Artists-in-Residence Annual Exhibition in the Atrium and Foyer Gallery through May 17.

Located in Gatlinburg, it is a cultural center to the region, Arrowmont’s one and two week workshops taught by top professionals in their field, attract students from across the United States and abroad. Visit the Arrowmont page on Art Museum Touring.com to see a list of their other current and upcoming exhibitions.

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Sherrie

The Knoxville Museum of Art exhibition Video Art/3 Visions closes May 4. It presents three independent video works that demonstrate the range of expressive and technical possibilities within this thriving art medium. (Link...)

In Going Places Sitting Down (2004), Hiraki Sawa

Jenny Perlin, Peter Sarkisian, and Hiraki Sawa are acknowledged masters of electronic media who approach their materials in distinctly different ways with dramatically different results. Perlin focuses on the effects of sound and editing, Sarkisian on the physical effect of video footage projected onto three-dimensional forms, and Sawa on subtle, poetic imagery linked to childhood and domestic environments. Video Art/3 Visions represents the first time Perlin’s and Sarkisian’s work has been shown in Tennessee.

It is an intriguing show. Hurry and see it before it closes.

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Sherrie

The Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee joined Art Museum Touring.com today (Link...). Their upcoming exhibition, starting May 17, is "Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands"

They join the Fayetteville Museum of Art from Fayetteville, NC who joined yesterday. (Link...)

The Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville opens its "2008 Members Exhibit" The opening reception on Friday, May 2, from 5-9pm, is free and open to the public, and complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served. A First Friday event.

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Sherrie

I had given my neighbor a cutting from a lavender azalea bush I have a couple of years ago. Doug sent me this picture.

Share your plants!

Sherrie

The University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery will host 3 MFA thesis exhibitions from April 18-24, 2008. On view will be works by the following Master of Fine Arts candidates:

Barron Hall, Sculpture: Now
Preston Proffitt, Media Arts: Welcome to the Illusion
Sarah Shebaro, Printmaking: Samples, Loops, Remixes

Visit the Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

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Sherrie

The University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery will host 3 MFA thesis exhibitions from April 18-24, 2008. On view will be works by the following Master of Fine Arts candidates:

Barron Hall, Sculpture: Now
Preston Proffitt, Media Arts: Welcome to the Illusion
Sarah Shebaro, Printmaking: Samples, Loops, Remixes

Petroleum Confession: Oil on My Hands, Julie Camarata (from 1st MFA thesis exhibition - current photos not available yet)

There will be a preview reception for the 3 exhibits on April 18, 6-9 PM. For additional information, visit the UT Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The Ewing Gallery is located at 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus and is open free to the public Monday, 10:00-8; Tuesday-Friday, 10-5; Sunday, 1-4.

The Dogwood Art Exhibition closes today at the Emporium Center (Link...) located in downtown Knoxville.

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Sherrie

An exhibition featuring artworks by Alexandre Renoir and his ancestor, renowned French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, will open at the Tennessee State Museum on April 15. The exhibit, entitled Strokes of Genius: The Works of Pierre-Auguste & Alexandre Renoir — Art from Private Collections will include not only Alexandre Renoir’s work, and that of his great-grandfather, but seldom seen artwork from the private collections of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and friends. This includes Impressionist work from the great artists of that period — Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Jean-Fran Raffaelli. See the Tennessee State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...

Alexandre will return to Nashville on June 6, where he will be on hand for the final weekend of the Strokes of Genius exhibition, and a walking tour for museum visitors, as well as a workshop for children.

Selected works of the exhibit and works of Alexandre Renoir will be offered for purchase in a private offering on the evening of June 7 and afternoon of June 8.

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Sherrie

“Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep” (closing April 13), introduces viewers to parallel, complementary worlds of environmentally focused cut-paper art. Visit the University Art Gallery Sewanee page on Art Museum Touring.com. This link takes you directly to their page (Link...).

Cut paper work, Ernst Oppliger

Organized and curated by Sewanee art professor Julie Püttgen, this exhibition showcases five artists from the Swiss Scherenschnitt (“scissor cutting”) tradition together with six contemporary artists working in North America. Drawing from traditional papercutting techniques, these artists create silhouettes, dioramas, stencils, paper lacework, pop-up drawings, and complex symmetrical designs. The resulting narratives present striking contrasts and similarities – from Ernst Oppliger’s profound environmental love affair with Swiss pastoral life, to Humberto Duque’s absurdist figures in dismembered landscapes; from Lane Twitchell’s dense Apocalyptic cities, to Ueli Hofer’s mythical Edens.

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Sherrie

Civil War Living History Weekend at Ramsey House Plantation, April 19-20. Experience exciting battles as well as life in Civil War encampments. More photos from Ramsey House Plantation on their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

There will also be demonstrations of weaponry, Civil War medicine, leather goods, and artwork; book signing by authors such as Ron Jones, Dr. Charles Faulkner and Robert Pelton; and a period fashion show by United Daughters of the Confederacy at 1:00 on Saturday. Hours are Saturday 10:00 to 5:00; Sunday 10:00 to 3:00. Skirmishes at 2:00 each day. Admission $5 per person; family rate of $12. Historic home tours discounted during event.

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Sherrie

The Museum's Annual Benefit Auctions will be held on Wednesday, April 23; Thursday, April 24; and Friday, April 25. The SILENT AUCTION will be held from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on Friday in the Newsstand on the 2nd floor of the Executive Inn Convention Center. Different items including fabrics, notions, textile items and quilts will be available each day! Auction details on the National Quilt Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

For the third consecutive year, the Museum will be selling Artcards for Acquisitions! Artcards ranging from bright hues to muted tones in a variety of appliqué, embroidery and assorted designs have been created and donated by quilters from all over the world. These 4" x 6" cards will be sold in the Museum Shop. Proceeds will go to the Acquisitions Fund to help obtain new quilts for the permanent collection.

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Sherrie

The University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery will host 3 MFA thesis exhibitions from April 4-10, 2008. On view will be works by the following Master of Fine Arts candidates who are enrolled in the painting program:

1. Petroleum Confession: Oil on My Hands, Julie Camarata
2. Caprice, Stephanie Mustric
3. A Tropical Depression, Amy Reidel

Caprice, Stephanie Mustric

You can see other pictures from this exhibition on the Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The Ewing Gallery is located at 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus and is open free to the public Monday, 10:00-8; Tuesday-Friday, 10-5; Sunday, 1-4

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Sherrie

An exhibition, organized by the Tennessee State Museum, celebrating the history, industry, and community spirit of towns throughout the state opens
April 7, at Legislative Plaza in the War Memorial Building.

Visitors can examine the past through everyday artifacts such as postcards, patent medicine bottles, and white oak baskets associated with great Tennessee towns. The exhibit will showcase the history of local communities, as well as the museum’s vast collections which document the state’s storied past. It is free and open to the public through May 1, 2008. Visit the Tennessee State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)for more info and other pictures from this and their upcoming Renoir exhibition.

A program from the 1951 Cotton Bowl where the University of Tennessee football team captured the national championship.

A variety of everyday artifacts from 25 representative communities from around the state were selected to provide visitors with glimpses of Tennessee’s heritage.

“The State Museum collects artifacts from communities all across the state. These holdings contain an abundance of crafts, military collectibles, household items, childhood toys, business artifacts, sports memorabilia, and other objects that comprise the material culture and heritage of our state,” according to Miranda Fraley, the museum’s manager of curatorial interpretive planning.

The unique past and cultural significance of each featured community will be presented through historical banners and selected artifacts.

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Sherrie

Four awards have been presented to local artists as part of the Dogwood Arts Festival 2008 Fine Arts Show. The Best of Show award of $500 was awarded to Melynda Moore Whetsel of Knoxville. You can see a list of all the award winners on the Emporium Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

An awards ceremony and public reception will take place on Friday, April 4, from 5-9pm at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville as part of First Friday activities and will feature complimentary hors d?oeuvres catered by The Lunchbox. The show will be on exhibit April 4-18.

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Sherrie

The Museum of Appalachia will end it "Thank You Tennessee Month" Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM. You can see pictures from the Museum of Appalachia on their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

It’s a way to thank state residents for supporting the Museum through the years; to introduce the Museum to those who haven’t been here before; and to fulfill the Museum’s mission of passing the Appalachian heritage to the next generation.

“Many folks tell us they visited the Museum years ago,” said Elaine Meyer, executive director. “Now we’d like them to come back—and bring their children and grandchildren to share the experience and learn more about their Appalachian heritage.”

For a great family time, music, and chicken and dumplings, this is the place to go!

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Sherrie

The Knoxville Museum of Art offers a big exhibition of small works with its Size Matters: XS – Recent Small-Scale Paintings from March 28 – August 24, 2008.

The exhibition includes 42 works by some of America’s most important painters including Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Justin Allen, and Francis Alÿs.

Ridley Howard, Untitled, 2007, Oil on canvas, 5 x 7.5 inches

The KMA is having a curator's discussion of this exhibition on April 2. You visit the Events page, or the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)for more details and to see other work currently on exhibit.

Lana Wilson, 4 Legged Teapot, 1993

Selections from Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts on Exhibit in KMA Community Gallery closes Sunday. The works exhibited were chosen from Arrowmont’s permanent collection which includes examples by some of the nation’s finest craft artists working in wood, metal, ceramic, glass, and other media.

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Sherrie

Illumination: Works of Vibrant Imagination, a new exhibition featuring the works of Katie Gamble, Jessica Gregory, and Zophia Kneiss. It closes today at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9-5. You can see other work from the exhibition on the Emporium page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

"Emma Rides a Flying Pig" by Jessica Gregory

Gamble's impressionistic oils and Gregory's colorful acrylics, coupled with Kneiss' metal art, create an elaborate garden on the first floor of the Emporium through which visitors can wander. The artists hope to inspire imagination and personal interpretation of works in everyone who views the exhibit.

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Sherrie

Concept / Execution, The University of Tennessee’s 61st Annual Student Art Competition, at the Ewing Gallery closes today at 5:00 PM. March 27.

It is one of the oldest student competitions in the United States, the exhibit features juried artworks in all media. You can see other photos from this exhibition on the Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The Ewing Gallery is located in the Art and Architecture Building at 1715 Volunteer Boulevard on The University of Tennessee campus and is open free to the public Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM.

Sherrie

School Block Challenge exhibition closes Monday, March 24 at the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, The National Quilt Museum, in Paducah, KY.

Around the Block
by Amber Nix, Sarah Specter
and Rosie Pritchard of West Chester, OH

An astounding 133 blocks from 32 schools in seven states were entered in the Museum of the American Quilter's Society's annual School Block Challenge, a national competition for students in grades K - 12

An exhibition of all quilt blocks will be on exhibit through March 24. A narrative about each block's design and development submitted by the students is also being exhibited. You can see other quilts that are on display at the museum by visiting the National Quilt Museum's page on Art Museum Tourinb.com (Link...).

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Sherrie

I want to show you a neat picture from India about the Chaturshringi Temple in Pune, India in an exhibition in the Francis Land House in Virginia Beach, VA.

Chaturshringi Temple in Pune, India. The Hindu temple was built for the goddess Chaturshringi. Within the temple grounds there are three smaller temples dedicated to the goddess Durga in various forms.

The exhibition was about the Samgam World Center of the World Assocoation Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in Pune, India. The picture were shot by a lifelong Girl Scout, Kaylen Hopkins . The Girl Scout Museum of Tanasi Council (Link...) has a sari and several other Guide uniforms also. The sari was donated by Oak Ridge Senior Troop 69 after the graduating seniors went to the Sangam World Center.

Art Museum Touring.com has several pictures relating to Kaylen's trip to Sangam and the Francis Land exhibition by the Colonial Coast Girl Scout Council. This link will take you directly to the pages on the site: Link...

Sherrie

Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín closes Wednesday the 20th at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

This landmark exhibition presents the work of one of the most highly regarded Latin American artists of the twentieth century, Ecuadorian painter and graphic artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999). You can see more work from this exhibition on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The first exhibit of its kind in the United States in more than fifty years, and the first scheduled stop on the Vanderbilt-organized national tour the exhibition covers each of Guayasamín’s major periods—his early paintings that reflect the plight of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, his more mature work that addresses human suffering in the context of war and injustice, and, finally, the paintings of his last period that embody the artist’s search for reconciliation after a life of fighting injustices.

His work reminds me of Goya's and of course Picasso's Guernica.

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Sherrie

New Photography from the KMA Collection

Christine Patterson
(American, born 1961)
Swinging Bridge, 1994

Hand-colored photograph on paper
12 5/8 x 18 7/8 inches

Most of the photographs in this selection were acquired in the last five years largely through the efforts of the museum’s Collectors Circle and other donors. The works on view illustrate some of the ways in which artists have transformed photography into a vital contemporary art medium marked by innovation and experimentation. Photography has often been referred to as ‘painting with light.’

Visit the Knoxville Museum of Art page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)to see what is currently on exhibit at the KMA.

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Sherrie

Concept/Execution, The University of Tennessee’s 61st Annual Student Art Competition, will be on view at the Ewing Gallery from March 11-27, 2008. One of the oldest student competitions in the United States, the exhibit will feature juried artworks in all media.

Graduate student award winner Jacob Stanley with his
piece, 'Edward Weismann Tipping A Chair Back'

You can see other work from the current exhibition on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

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Sherrie

The Museum of Appalachia has designated March as “Thank You Tennessee Month,” offering special discounts and activities for Tennessee residents. It’s a way to thank state residents for supporting the Museum through the years; to introduce the Museum to those who haven’t been here before; and to fulfill the Museum’s mission of passing the Appalachian heritage to the next generation. Details available on the Museum of Appalachia page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Each weekend in March, special demonstrations will vary. Visitors could watch a quilting or carving demonstration, view the old-time sawmill in operation, watch a blacksmith at work, or take part in an old-fashioned spelling bee (call for demonstrations on specific days).

The Museum’s “porch musicians” will begin the 2008 season on March 1, playing traditional tunes on weekends in March and daily through the remainder of the year.

Visitors can experience “springtime in Old Appalachia:” purple martins nesting in gourd houses, the earthy smell of freshly turned gardens, the bleating of young lambs and goats playing in the fields, and the little ducklings, turkeys, guineas, and chicks chasing their mothers. Across the open meadow, strains of old-time music mingle with the fragrance of spring flowers.

Sherrie

Memphis born and bred Cary Fowler is in charge of the “Doomsday Vault” seed bank in Svalbard, Norway. The Vault, which opened last week, will store seeds from every country on earth, and from every variety of food crop.

He will be in Memphis at the Pink Palace Museum, Monday, March 10, 2008, for a free public lecture entitled, “Seed Banks and Polar Bears: The Quest to Save Agriculture’s Past and Our Future.” This is one of a series of free public lectures in connection with our new exhibit, “Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics.” More details are available on the Pink Palace Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Fowler grew up in Memphis, graduated from White Station High School and spent his summers on his grandmother’s farm near Madison, Tennessee. That is where his interest in agriculture began. Fowler is the Executive Director Global Crop Diversity Trust based in Rome.

This is a tremendous opportunity to learn more about this fantastic project to protect one of the world's most basic resources, food, and perhaps our species. If you can, you should make an effort to go to this lecture and reception to meet Fowler. The importance of the seed bank makes all the political squabbling pale in comparison. It would be a nice break!

Sherrie

Three local artists, Katie Gamble, Jessica Gregory, and Zophia Kneiss, open a new exhibition titled "Illumination: Works of Vibrant Imagination" at the Emporium Center on March 7. The exhibition runs through March 28.

Night On The Town by Katie Gamble

Members of the entire Knoxville community are encouraged to attend the opening reception on Friday, March 7, at the Emporium Center for Arts & Culture from 5:00-9:00 p.m. Admission is free and complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served. "Illumination: Works of Vibrant Imagination" is on exhibit. You can see more photos from this upcoming exhibition on the Emporium page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

As part of the First Friday events, all the downtown and Old City galleries are going to open late. Take the time to visit them and check out the Knoxville art scene.

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Sherrie

David Houston, Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans will present a public slide talk titled After the Storm; a Post Apocalyptic View of New Orleans Culture on Wednesday, March 5, 7 PM, in room 109 of the Art and Architecture Building. Houston is the juror for the upcoming "Concept/Execution", The University of Tennessee’s 61st Annual Student Art Competition, which will be on view at the UT Ewing Gallery from March 11-27, 2008. For more information about Mr. Houston and the upcoming exhibition at the Ewing visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Sherrie

Since this is National Girl Scout Month, we thought this was a good story to share with everyone. There is a real Knoxville connection. "Izzie" was Elizabeth Ijams the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Harry Ijams. She was a member of Mohican Troop 8 by 1923. There were one-day camps weekly at the Bird Preserve at the Harry Ijams house. This became Ijams Nature Center. Mrs. Harry Ijams joined the first Girl Scout Council in Knoxville in 1923. In Jan. 1930 Elizabeth Ijams, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Harry Ijams, was hired as director of Knoxville council and later director in Nashville and then on to National. Mrs. W.E. Ijams was very active in GS, Her father, Col. Townsend, donated property of a GS camp in the Smokeys. After the gov. wanted the land for the national park, this camp became Camp Tremont.

The Scholastic Art Awards of 2008 closes Friday, Feb. 29TH currently on exhibit at the Emporium Center located in downtown Knoxville at 100 S. Gay Street. Exhibit hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. This is an exhibition of regional student artwork (grades 7-12).

Miriam by Gold Key Winner Elizabeth Mauldin.

Works receiving a Gold Key at the regional level are forwarded to New York for national adjudication and evaluated by professional panelists chosen from the art, literary, and education fields. From a field of more than 50,000 national entries in 2007, 7,000 works of art were eligible for national adjudication, and 1,500 students received national honors. Tennessee students received a total of 27 awards.

You can see other work from the Scholastic Art Awards of 2008 on their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Sherrie

I have been passing this story along since it is such a hoot! It has gotten such a reaction that we thought we would share it with everyone. It comes from the book The Girl Scouts Triumph,

I picked it up several years ago. As a fiction story, it is totally implausible. It just turned out to be true and has a direct connection to Knoxville's Girl Scout Museum of the Tanasi Council. For those of you that haven't read it yet, the story gives you a snapshot of the WWI era. It could never happen now. Everyone would be locked up! Childrens Protective Services would put all the kids in foster care!

This link, Link..., will take you directly to the page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) where the story is located.

Sherrie

The Knoxville Museum of Art presents selections from the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in its Community Gallery through March 30, 2008.

Photo: Lana Wilson, 4 Legged Teapot, 1993

The works exhibited were chosen from Arrowmont’s permanent collection which includes examples by some of the nation’s finest craft artists working in wood, metal, ceramic, glass, and other media. All the artists represented in the exhibition have taught classes at Arrowmont. The school is an internationally known visual arts complex located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which serves as a cultural and educational center for visitors and students of all ages and backgrounds.

You can see other work from the Arromont exhibition and other shows at the KMA by visiting their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Sherrie