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

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...)

Support Your Local Galleries and Museums! They are economic engines for your community.

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

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 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

Wonderful.

Since when has sidewalk maintenance been considered a priority in this area? I suspect the vast majority of Knoxville pedestrians are much more troubled by the inadequacies of the sidewalk system than they are by a few pieces of art displayed thereon.

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

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

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...).

Support your local museums and galleries!

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.

Support your local galleries and artists!

Sherrie

The City of Knoxville's public art task force has forwarded its report to Mayor Haslam. It can be viewed at

Link...

Thanks, Bill Lyons

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

The Knoxville Museum of Art opens a new exhibition today (Feb.22-May 4), Video Art/3 Visions.

It presents three independent video works that demonstrate the range of expressive and technical possibilities within this thriving art medium. 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. You can see more work from this exhibiton and others that are going at the KMA by visiting their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

Sherrie

Every Sunday the Customs House Museum in Clarksville has volunteers come in to run their large model train collection. Sounds like great fun for kids (of all ages)who love trains!

For the art lovers they have three, or four exhibitions currently on display,

• You can see the Second Biennial Tennessee Arts & Craft Juried Exhibition showcasing TN visual and craft artisans together (ends April 11, 2008).
• "Without Intent or Scheme..." An exhibit of instrument and song by beloved Clarksvillian Tom Malone (through February).
• The Lucy Dunwody Boehm Porcelain Collection: One of the Southeast’s largest collections of Boehm porcelain featuring flowers and birds.
• Plus other artwork including the newest addition to the Customs House Museum permanent collection, The Porter Children, by William S. Shackelford a Tennessee artist.

If you were already planning on going up to Paducah to see the exhibitions at the Quilt Museum, Clarksville is right off highway 25. Customs House Museum in in downtown Clarksville. Build some extra time to visit this Tennessee Museum. Art and trains. That would be worth the trip all by itself. What more could you ask for?

You can see pictures from their current exhibitions on the Customs House page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Support your local museums! They are economic engines for your communities.

Sherrie

The Memphis Pink Palace family of museums is looking for a Collections Manager. Ron Brister, Collections Manager for 37 years, has retired. An opportunity like this comes along once in a lifetime.

Picture of Mars from the "Roving Mars" by Walt Disney Pictures at the IMAX Theater at the Pink Palace.

Find out more about the job on the Pink Palace Museum page, at the bottom, on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The Pink Palace Museum current exhibition is "Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics" (Bodine Exhibit Hall) through April 27. You can see a couple of the fabulous Burton Callicott Murals commissioned by the WPA on The Pink Palace Mansion page. Both the musem and the mansion have pages on the Art Museum Touring.com (mansion on the page preceding the Pink Palace Museum).

Sherrie

The UT Ewing Gallery '2008 Artist-In-Residence Biennial' ends this Sunday, Feburary 10, 2008. On view are the current works ofJessica Dickinson, Wallace Whitney, Jeff Gauntt, and Munro Galloway. These New York City-based painters have each served as resident artists with the UT School of Art since Fall, 2006.

'Green River, installation view'by Munro Galloway, Artist in Residence, Spring 2008.

The Artist-in-Residence Program in the UT School of Art brings practicing artists from major cultural centers into daily contact with students who, early in their formal art studies, are developing their own perceptions, skills, and theories on art making.

See more pictures from the exhibition on the UT Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The Ewing Gallery is located at 1715 Volunteer Boulevard on the UT campus and is open free to the public Monday, 10-8; Tuesday-Friday, 10-5; and Sunday, 1-4. For more information, please call 974-3200 or visit Link... .

-Sherrie

Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú will deliver the inaugural address for the Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín exhibition (El Toro y el Condor pictured) and national tour in Benton Chapel at Thursday February 7, at 7 p.m. on the Vanderbilt University campus.

Reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. This landmark exhibition at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and Sarratt Gallery 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). To see other pieces from the exhbition go to the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

-Sherrie

This is a gem of an exhibition from the permanent collection of the Oak Ridge Art Center. There are pieces done by major artists that are in museums around the world. The exhibition closes Sunday at 4:00 PM, January 13. The only thing bad about the show was that it was too short. In case you don't know, the majority of the items in the collections had been collected by Mary and Alden Gomez and was purchased and contributed by Jack D. Walls in 1978. There are benefactors who have added to the collection.

This show has some of the strength in the prints collection: a beautiful print by Matisse, Odalisque; the Richard Lindner print, Portrait 11A; the Victor Vasarely print Unknown; the wonderful print by Rufio Tamayo, Dream Figure; and the two Karel Appel prints, la hune/paris and Epreuved' Artiste. The paintings are strong and varied in style and school.

The Matisse photo of the Odalisque can be seen in the Oak Ridge Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

It is well worth the trip to see the exhibition if you haven't seen it! But, you need to hurry!

-Sherrie

This last Friday, I had my opening at Abode on Market Square. I was pleasantly surprised to see a news camera there, and got a little face time on the 11 o'clock news. That's always wacky.

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