Submitted by sherrie on Tue, 2008/07/08 - 12:42am.
Strips and Strings, 2005
Mary Lee Bendolph
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond opens Thursday, July 10 at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members—her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter Essie B. Pettway, and her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph—are presented alongside complex and evocative found object sculptures by noted African American self-taught artist Thornton Dial and visionary “yard art” artist Lonnie Holley. Both of these Alabama-based artists have been influenced by the quilts and the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend.
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Submitted by sherrie on Mon, 2008/06/23 - 11:55pm.
On Firday, June 27, The Knoxville Museum of Art will open Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, a new permanent installation of works from its collection celebrating the art and artists of Knoxville and the surrounding region. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).
William Posey Silva, Magic Pool, c. 1915 (Cheekwood)
The fascinating and complex story of our area’s rich artistic heritage and its connections to the larger currents of American art are largely unknown, and certainly underappreciated.
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