Arts & Culture Alliance: Arts Build Communities Grants for 2022-23

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville has announced Arts Build Communities (ABC) grants for local art projects in the 2022-23 season. Twenty-three non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations located within five East Tennessee counties were awarded $500 – $3,500 each for…

Friday Arts Miscellany: Money, Murals, and Music

Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville to Receive $150,000 NEA Grant Paris Woodhull Begins Work on New Strong Alley Mural Sunday: UT Symphony Chamber Orchestra Concert Sunday: UT Music, Piano Trios by Bulgarian Composers •    •    • …

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Carpetbag Theatre, Movies Under the Stars at Ijams, et al.

Benefiting from the success of the Covid-19 vaccinations, the Knoxville visual arts and performance scene is not only re-opening, but feels like the metaphorical coiled spring ready to throw its full energy into a new season. Organizations like Knoxville Symphony…

First Friday, March 5: New Exhibitions at the Emporium Center

BY ALAN SHERROD   It is an inescapable, but often painful truth that hard times are reflected in the arts that we produce. In the last year, our existence has been a churning maelstrom of  quiet sobs and heated anguish,…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: June 30, 2020

It has been three and a half months since our last Miscellany, the absence reflecting the lack of substantial art and music news to report. Unfortunately, the pandemic is not over and the necessary vigilance in keeping ourselves and others…

Knoxville Photo 2020 Opens at the Emporium Center on July 3

The Arts & Culture Alliance and the Emporium Center opened their Summer Member Show last Friday and is continuing the re-opening process on July 3 with the 8th annual Knoxville Photo juried exhibition. The show, viewable from Friday, July 3…

Emporium Center Re-Opens With Summer Members Show

Time itself has seemed to expand and contract over the last 12 weeks of sheltering in place, but there are signs that past and future precautions will continue the return to some degree of normalcy. To that end, the Arts…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 11, 2020

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Thursday Arts Miscellany: Art/Design Openings and Shows

Above: Frank Stella (Malden, Massachusetts, 1936; lives and works in New York), Shards II, 1982. Acrylic and oil stick on etched, cut and assembled aluminum, 40x45x6 inches, Knoxville Museum of Art, gift of June and Rob Heller, 2014. © 2019 Frank…

Art Openings at the Emporium and Knoxville Museum of Art

Here are a few of the art exhibit openings in downtown available soon. (Others? Contact me via contact form) Arts & Culture Alliance 2015 Members Show The 2015 Members Show is a mix of two and three-dimensional works created in the last…

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