Appalachian Ballet Company – The Nutcracker
The Appalachian Ballet Company is presenting its 50th Anniversary production of The Nutcracker. The wildly popular Tchaikovsky ballet will be presented on two weekends in Knoxville and Maryville: December 4 and 5 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and December 10 and 11 at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. The evening performances are accompanied with live music by The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. The evening performances of December 4 and 10 will feature the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in the pit.
The Appalachian Ballet Company is under the artistic direction of Amy Morton Vaughn. The Sugarplum Fairy will be danced by Kylie Morton Berry, and guest artist James La Russa will dance role of Drosselmeyer.
Venue mask and bag policies will be in effect.
Knoxville Civic Auditorium
Saturday, December 4, 7:00 PM
Sunday, December 5, 3:00 PM
Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville)
Friday, December 10, 7:00 PM
Saturday, December 11, 3:00 PM
Tickets on sale at appalachianballet.org. For additional information telephone865.982.8463.
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UT Downtown Gallery — “Beyond Costume”
The UT Downtown Gallery is offering an exhibition “Beyond Costume” by former UT Theatre Costume Designer Marianne Custer and Clarence Brown Theatre Head Draper, Kyle Schellinger.
“In this exhibit, two artists blur the line between costume craft and art. Their work is born in theatre practice and emerges as sculpture. The impulse to make hats transforms leather into sculptural expressions from nature. The impulse to make historical gowns becomes a sculptural exploration of material and scale.”
Exhibition opens on Friday, December 3, with a reception 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Exhibition continues through January 8.
Regular gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday 11am – 6pm; Saturdays from 10am – 3pm.
UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay Street – Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown
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Theatre
Clarence Brown Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Thru December 17, Sold out)
Knoxville Children’s Theatre: Annie Jr. (Thru December 19, Tickets/Information)
Theatre Knoxville Downtown: A Doublewide, Texas Christmas (Thru December 19, Info)
Flying Anvil Theatre: Scrooge in Rouge (December 8 – 31, Tickets/Info)
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Arts & Culture Alliance Annual Members Show
The Arts & Culture Alliance is presenting its 2021 Members Show, the largest annual exhibition of local artists in the Greater Knoxville area. The wide-ranging show of work completed in the last two years encompasses a variety of media: oils, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, photography, fine craft, sculpture, ceramics, and fiber.
The 2021 Members Show will be on display throughout the Emporium Center from December 3 – 23, 2021. The opening reception is on Friday, December 3 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm
The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville
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Bennett Gallery: “Culinary Excess” by Denise Sanabria
Bennett is presenting “Culinary Excess,” an exhibition of new works by Denise Stewart-Sanabria. The show opens on December 3 and runs thru December 30.
Sanabria is a Knoxville-based painter and mixed-media visual artist. Her hyper-realistic paintings draw upon imagery from art history, particularly the Baroque and Rococo periods. Her themes of memory, excess, gluttony, and the human figure are present in many of the works in her oeuvre.
Bennett Gallery, 5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville,
Hours: M-Sa 10-5:30. Information: 865-584-6791
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Nief Norf: Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night in Knoxville
Unsilent Night is an outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. Highly recommended.
Saturday, December 4, 2021, starting at 7:00PM
Meeting Location in Downtown Knoxville- Corner of S Gay St and W Summit Hill Dr (Cradle of Country Music Park)
https://www.niefnorf.org/2019-21/2019/12/6/phil-klines-unsilent-night-in-knoxville-2021
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Knoxville Museum of Art: 2021 East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents the 16th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition will be in place at the museum until Sunday, January 9, 2022. The exhibition showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education.
For more information on the exhibition and the winning pieces: https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/etrsae-2021/
Museum hours at KMA, 1050 World’S Fair Park:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Closed on 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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