Calvin Chappelle
Untitled - Bird
Transfer and acrylic on canvas

‘Staff Influxion’ closes this Sunday, August 24 at the UT Ewing Gallery. Visit the Ewing page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). This exhibition features the work of UT staff members past and present who are actively involved in artmaking.

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Sherrie

Ridley Howard
Untitled, 2007
Oil on canvas
5 x 7.5 inches,
courtesy of private collection (New York)

The exhibition, Size Matters: XS – Recent Small-Scale Paintings, closes Sunday August 24, 2008, at rhe Knoxville Museum of Art. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

The exhibition includes 42 works by some of America’s most important painters including Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Justin Allen, and Francis Alÿs.

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Sherrie

Doug is an artist with a camera and in the garden. Just look at those peppers and his tomatoes are to die for! It may have rubbed off on our web site. Art Museum Touring.com reached the 1 million pages viewed milestone on 8-13 after only 10-1/2 months of starting. Now if we had as much fertilizer from sponsors, ads, or investors we would be on a roll (to the bank). Sorry for all the cheezy allusions. I just couldn't resist. It is better than singing the 1930's song "Brother Can You Spare a Dime." We have added over 10 new museums this past month and half. Not really joking about wanting ads, sponsors, or investors. We need to hire, but that takes money.

Sherrie

ANCIENT BRONZES OF THE ASIAN GRASSLANDS closes Sunday at the McClung Museum. Visit the McClung page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands is a traveling collection of steppe art from the collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, curated by Trudy Kawami, Ph.D. The exhibit has on display works illustrating the decorations and equipment of the ancient steppe dwellers.

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Sherrie

Blount Mansion Visitors Center will host an Art exhibit entitled Dog Show by Sally Ham Govan, August 1-31. Visit the Blount Mansion page on Art Museum Touring.com for details (Link...). Friday, August 1 from 5pm to 8pm, BlountMansion will host a reception for artist Sally Ham Govan. Live music by Barrelhouse.

For those quilt lovers,remember today is the silent auction of Georgia Bailey quilts at the Emporium! (Link...).

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Sherrie

Ode to a Summer Garden
Georgia Bailey (1922-2008)
quilt

The Arts & Culture Alliance presents "Legacy: The Quilts of Georgia Bailey", a new exhibition celebrating 40 creative quilts by Georgia Bailey (1922-2008). The quilts will be displayed for sale at a silent auction at the Emporium Center on August 1. Visit the Emporium page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...), or the Events page (Link...) for details.

The quilts will be on exhibition Aug. 1 - 29 at the Emporium Center.

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Sherrie

Knoxville Museum of Art

The Knoxville Museum of Art invites children and parents to celebrate summer at Family Fun Day on Saturday, July 26 from 11am to 3pm. All events at Family Fun Day are free thanks to the generous sponsorship of Anderson News, LLC, First Tennessee Bank and Regal Entertainment Group/Regal Foundation. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

Children of all ages have the opportunity to create art at one of the many art-making booths inspired by the current exhibits. Families can tap their feet to one of the many musical and entertainment acts that are performing all day, as well as listen to the gallery talks given by the docent guides.

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Sherrie

Flowers In Morning
Mary Ann Valvoda
Loudon, TN

The 2008 Tennessee Watercolor Society Biennial Exhibition is closing Friday at the Emporium Center in Downtown Knoxville. Visit the Emporium page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The 31st statewide juried exhibition showcases representational and experimental paintings in watermedia by some of the most prominent artists from across the state. Sixty paintings from over 200 entries were selected for the exhibit by the juror, internationally known artist Cheng-Khee Chee, including 17 artists from the East Tennessee area.

Go see the show before its gone!

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Sherrie

Celery Chair with Carrots, Peppers, and Snow Pea
Craig Nutt
lacquer on carved wood, leather
From: LEGS & LEAVES opening July 13

LEGS & LEAVES and A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll open at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville Sunday July 13-Aug. 31. Visit the TN State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and see their opening activities on the Events page (Link...). LEGS & LEAVES: Creations from the Cumberland Furniture Guild, features furniture that is fun and attractive as well as functional. A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll & A Pinch of Country is an exhibition of the work of noted photographer Nancy Lee Andrews.

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Sherrie

Necklace
Linda McLaughlin
Category - Metal

The Cumberland Valley Tennessee Association of Craft Artists opens Friday, July 11, their juried exhibition at the Metro Parks’ Centennial Art Center gallery in Nashville. Visit the Centennial Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and view info about the opening reception on the Events page (Link...). It is a juried, group exhibit by twenty-nine members of the CV-TACA on display July 11 through July 31. The Centennial Art Center has just recently joined Art Museum Touring.com.

In Knoxville, the Blount Mansion (Link...) has the artists reception Friday for their current exhibition Unfound, a two man show featuring the works of Calvin Chappelle and Ryan Kelley that started on July 1. the Events page (Link...) will let you know the time if you are interested in going.

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Sherrie

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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Sherrie

Two Links in a Long Chain
Jerry Taliaferro
From Women of a New Tribe exhibtion

The exhibition Women of a New Tribe closes Sunday July 6 at the KMA. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). It is a striking photography exhibition honoring African-American women, their strength, beauty, and their role in American culture. In 2004, sixteen women from Knoxville and the surrounding area were selected from community nominations and photographed by artist Jerry Taliaferro to join the Women of a New Tribe. This exhibition organized by the Literacy Imperative features fourteen of these portraits.

Just a reminder, the KMA is charging no admission through December 31 as part of a special promotion.

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Sherrie

Anvil Shoot yes that little tiny thing towards the top of the picture is the anvil, not a big bird!

4th of July Activities!
The Museum of Appalachia's July 4 Celebration & Anvil Shoot is a truly nostalgic, old-fashioned, and family-oriented way to celebrate Independence Day and to experience summertime in Old Appalachia. Visit the Museum of Appalachia page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and the Events page (Link...) for more information about all their 4th of July activities.

The dramatic anvil shoot is the highlight of the July 4 event. Several times during the day, excitement builds as crowds gather to watch as gunpowder is packed under the anvil and ignited. With a loud boom, the hunk of iron bursts from a cloud of smoke, catapulting as high as the treetops some 125 feet into the air. The earth literally shakes, and the deafening boom, it is said, can be heard as far away as 15 miles.

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Sherrie

Unfound exhibition

Blount Mansion Visitors Center-July 1-30. Unfound, a two man show featuring the works of Calvin Chappelle and Ryan Kelley. Visit the Blount Mansion page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). There will be an opening reception for the artists with live music by Stonetree, check the Events page for time and details (Link...).

Blount Mansion known as the Birthplace of Tennessee is nestled in the center of Downtown Knoxville's government district.

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Sherrie

The Young Husband: First Marketing
Painting
Lilly Martin Spencer

The exhibition of Lilly Martin Spencer Women’s Work closes Sunday at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga. Visit the Hunter page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...), also see their summer events on our Events page (Link...). This show examines the work of Lilly Martin Spencer. Spencer was one of the few women in 19th century America who earned her living as an artist. Today scholars of American art study her paintings to learn more about the dynamics of domestic life in the mid 19th century.

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Sherrie

Waterfall at Stone Fort, TN
Rod Shean
digitally enhanced photograph

The Centennial Art Center show of three Nashville area photographers - Joe Fizer, Randy Muir and Rod Shean - ends June 27 at Metro Parks' Centennial Art Center gallery. Visit the Centennial Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). They have just recently joined Art Museum Touring.com.

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Sherrie

Watercolor by
Tony Kampwerth

The Tony Kampwerth exhibition at Blount Mansion in the center of Downtown Knoxville's government district closes, Sunday, June 29. The show features watercolor landscapes from the Smoky Mountains to the coast of Maine plus portraits of the people of East Tennessee.

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Sherrie

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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Sherrie

Gideon Barnett
From his Pile series

The ETSU Galleries is hosting this afternoon, Monday June 23, a meet the artists reception from their current Thinking Big exhibition. Visit the Slocumb Galleries' page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...), or the Events page for reception info (Link...). Thinking Big two solo photography shows by Gideon Barnett and Erik Schubert,runs through June 27.

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Sherrie

Biscuit Recipe
Tom is the family biscuit maker and this is the basic White Lily biscuit recipe on the back of the White Lily black label sack with his changes. For some reason, White Lily leaves out baking soda for buttermilk biscuits. It is a must.

The Frist opens Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 in the Ingram Gallery and Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery and Education Gallery. Visit the Frist page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Sentinel 1951
Adolph Gottlieb
Digital image print on paper 23" x 23"
From: Color as Field
Courtesy of the Artist

The Color as Field exemplifies in the work of Joseph Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, the paintings featured in this exhibition constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field will encompass approximately 40 large-scale canvases.

Shades of Gray will present the works of four Southeastern artists. Each artist employs a limited palette of black, white and gray in exploring ambiguous relationships between figure and ground, as well as reality and the imagination.

Both exhibitions run until Sept. 21, 2008

In addition, a third exhibition is on display in the Upper-Level Galleries Tiffany by Design: The Neustadt Collection Aug. 24, 2008.

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Sherrie

The Painters of the American Eight which opened March 7 will close this Sunday, March 15 at the Cheekwood Art Museum in Nashville. Visit the Cheekwood page on Art Museum Touring.com for more information about this and other exhibitions (Link...).

William Glackens (1870-1938)
Bellport Regatta, 1913
oil on canvas

This exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the group’s famous 1908 exhibition at Macbeth Galleries in New York, the exhibition includes representative work by all members of the original Eight: Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan.

Cheekwood, also, has a "Tales and Tunes" series running this summer with activities for the kids and music for the adults. Visit the Events page (Link...) for their schedule.

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Sherrie

The Netherland Inn in Kingsport will host a public showing of selected pieces from King College’s Neal and Alice Caldwell Art Collection will allow visitors to get up close and personal with works by some of the world’s greatest artists. Visit the Netherlands Inn page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and/or the Events page (Link...) for more information.

Matisse

The Fall of Icarus

King College’s Neal and Alice Caldwell Art Collection

More than 30 works of art by masters such as Rembrandt, Corot, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Whistler, Marsh, Chagall and Matisse, just to name a few, will highlight the public showing to be held on Saturday, June 7, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday, June 8, from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. at the Netherland Inn in Kingsport, Tenn. Entry is $10 for adults and free for children 18 and under with a paying adult. Proceeds will benefit the historic 1818 Netherland Inn.

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Sherrie

Knoxville Museum of Art invites you to participate in the third annual Artists on Location: Knoxville Paint-Out and Sale to be held June 7 and 8, 2008. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) or our Events page (Link...) for details.

Melanie Wood
At UT Gardens

This gives you an opportunity to watch the artists as they paint. The artwork created Saturday will available for sale Sunday. Sounds like it will be a fun weekend complete with a picnic lunch on Sunday.

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Sherrie

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present the 2008 Tennessee Watercolor Society Biennial Exhibition, the 31st statewide juried exhibition showcasing representational and experimental paintings in watermedia by some of the most prominent artists from across the state. Visit the Emporium Center on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Nelson Ziegler
Watercolor

Sixty paintings from over 200 entries were selected for the exhibit by the juror, internationally known artist Cheng-Khee Chee, including 17 artists from the East Tennessee area. The Exhibition 2008 Co-chairs are Harriet Howell of Rutledge and Kay Yazdi of Oak Ridge.

An opening reception for the public will take place as part of First Friday activities downtown on June 6, and award reception on June 7.

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Sherrie

For any of you that read and enjoyed the story of "Fay, Izzy and the Klan", while attending the GS ice cream social, I was given a photo of the of GS "Mohicans" Troop 8, St. John's Episcopal Church 1924-1926. In the photo you can see the girl, Elizabeth "Izzy" Ijams, that became the woman who faced down the Klan. The picture and story are on the Girl Scout section, Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts - GS Stories (Link...) on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Sherrie

Blount Mansion Visitors Center opens a special exhibition June 2, "Watercolors by Tony Kampwerth". Watercolor landscapes from the Smoky Mountains to the coast of Maine plus portraits of the people of East Tennessee. Visit the Blount Mansion page (Link...) on Art Museum Touring.com.

Tony Kampwerth
Watercolor

The exhibition runs from June 2 through 29. Friday June 6, Blount Mansion will host a reception with live music for artist Tony Kampwerth. Check out the Events page for details (Link...).

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Sherrie

The Knoxville Museum of Art new photography exhibition, Women of a New Tribe features 14 local women photographed by artist Jerry Taliaferro in the Community Gallery now through July 6. Visit the KMA page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Jerry Taliaferro
Two Links of a Long Chain, 2004,
photo of Juanita and Kimberly Cannon

Women of a New Tribe is a striking photography exhibition honoring African-American women, their strength, beauty, and their role in American culture. In 2004, sixteen women from Knoxville and the surrounding area were selected from community nominations and photographed by artist Jerry Taliaferro to join the Women of a New Tribe. This exhibition organized by the Literacy Imperative features fourteen of these portraits. The Literacy Imperative is not just a place for books, but also includes visual literacy. In addition to promoting literacy for underserved communities, they also promote seeing the world from different perspectives so that all may appreciate it in a new way.

Check out the Events page (Link...) to see the dates and times for KMA's upcoming "Paint Out".

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Sherrie

Gideon Barnett
From his Pile series

The ETSU Slocumb Galleries is pleased to present Thinking Big, two solo photography shows by Gideon Barnett and Erik Schubert from June 2 to June 27, 2008, reception on Monday, June 23. (Link...) The galleries are located in Ball Hall on East Tennessee State University's main campus. Visit the Slocumb page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Gideon Barnett, a Tennessee native currently pursuing his MFA at University of California at Riverside, is displaying work from his Pile series. Erik Schubert, currently living in Boston Massachusetts, is interested in how our business-centered society shapes our visual world. His body of work, How to Win Friends and Influence People, takes its title from the classic book by Dale Carnegie, which was a resource in his childhood home's reading collection.

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Sherrie

Ramsey House Plantation

East Tennessee’s most important cultural heritage sites are partnering to provide the Statehood Day Heritage Festival on Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1 (Ramsey House Saturday only! (Link...)). The sites include places of historical significance in the exciting journey of Tennessee becoming the 16th state in 1796. They include Ft.Loudoun, the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, James White Fort, Marble Springs, Ramsey House, Mabry-Hazen House and the BlountMansion. (Link...).

Blount Mansion

Visit the Events (Link...) pages on Art Museum Touring.com or the museums' pages for details.

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Sherrie