Above: Jackson Avenue ramps nearing completion as iconic pavers are restored
At the Emporium Center for First Friday, December 4 —
The Arts & Culture Alliance opens its 2020 Members Show, an annual exhibition of local artists in the Greater Knoxville area. The show is a mix of two- and three-dimensional works created within the last two years in a wide variety of media.
The First Friday reception is from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Regular gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM. The Emporium will be closed December 24, 2020 – January 3, 2021 for the holidays.
Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street
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Next door at the UT Downtown Gallery, Beauford Delaney: Transcending Race + Time
The UT Downtown Gallery is presenting a selection of paintings and drawings on loan from the Estate of Beauford Delaney. This exhibition of 21 works includes 4 oil on canvas paintings, abstract watercolors, pastel portraits, and 3 self portraits. Some of these pieces have never been exhibited publicly.
First Friday opening December 4, 5 PM-8 PM.
Events and exhibitions at the UT Downtown Gallery are free and open to the public.
UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay Street
Regular gallery hours are Wednesday – Friday 11am – 6pm and Saturdays from 10am – 3pm. The UT Downtown Gallery will be closed December 24, 25, 26, 31, and January 1.
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At the Knoxville Museum of Art — Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond and the museum’s permanent collection, Higher Ground : A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee
A selection from the KMA’s growing collection of recent works by emerging and established artists currently working in East Tennessee and beyond.
Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’S Fair Park
https://knoxart.org
Monday/Tuesday — Closed
Wednesday – Sunday — 1 PM to 5 PM
Closed—New Year’S Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’S Eve.
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Opening Friday, December 4, at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre — The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Based on the classic novel by Barbara Robinson, “…in this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-probably the most inventively awful kids in history!”
The play will be performed December 4th through December 20th, Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 1 PM and 5 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM and 6 PM. Tickets will be limited to 65 attendees for each performance and groups/families will be distanced from each other. Masks will be required for entry.
Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. (off Central)
Tickets
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At the Bijou Theatre on Friday, December 4: The Bad Plus
As part of the Sites & Sounds From Big Ears series:
The Bad Plus — Reid Anderson (bass), Orrin Evans (piano), Dave King (drums) — traveled to our historic theatre in October 2020 to record a pair of concerts for Big Ears Festival’s ‘Sites & Sounds’ streaming initiative. On Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm, Big Ears streams the second show; it’s a looser and deeper set — a performance that draws closer to the essence of this storied trio.
Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com, www.ticketmaster.com
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And…beginning Friday, December 4 and continuing thru the 25th…
Clarence Brown Theatre is offering an on-demand streaming of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory read by Carol Mayo Jenkins.
