Events for July 19, 2017

• Art & Lunch: African Americans and the New Deal Art Projects
  [ July 19, 2017; 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm. 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Wednesday, July 19th, 12:15 PM Geraldine Braume Turner Auditorium Executive Director Jim Zimmer will talk about how government-sponsored art projects established during the Great Depression provided opportunities for African American artists of the period. In his slide presentation, he will make reference to artists included in The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works [...]
• Appalachian Wednesdays at the Powers’ Family’s Log House
  [ June 28, 2017; July 5, 2017; July 12, 2017; July 19, 2017; July 26, 2017; ] June 14 – July 26 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. and 2:00 –   3:15 p.m. Visit Ms. Sue at the Powers’ family log house to get better acquainted with our East Tennessee heritage. Make a button whizzer toy, listen to some bluegrass pickin’, make a woven fish, build a craft stick log house – and more!    July  5: Make [...]
• This Is My Story
  [ June 7, 2017 to October 15, 2017. ] Women writers representing multiple decades share their thoughts of who they are on May 14, 2017 (Mother’s Day). Their writings are suspended on cloth, hung “clothesline style” in the gallery.  The eleven female writers featured represent all ages, from their twenties to their seventies. Participants include: Julie-Anna Carlisle, Mitzi Cross, Beverly Fisher, Lee Gray, Ellen Kanervo, [...]
• Eric Buechel: The Familiar
  [ June 1, 2017 to July 30, 2017. ] Eric Buechel grew up in a rural northern area of New Jersey, just west of Manhattan and attended the DuCret School of Art in Plainfield, New Jersey. He then transferred to Broward College in South Florida and earned a degree in fine art. Since moving to Tennessee in 2002, Buechel has expanded his artistic endeavors [...]
• The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper
  [ May 9, 2017 to August 1, 2017. ] This exhibition is one of the most comprehensive traveling exhibitions ever organized featuring works on paper by African-American artists from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The 70 works in the exhibition include drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum cuts and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, [...]
• Forward March
  [ March 7, 2017 to July 30, 2017. ] This exhibit showcases maps, documents, dioramas, flags, and photos from several wars, featuring objects from the collection of Dr. John Olson. In the Kimbrough Gallery
• Reading Appalachia: Voices from Children’s Literature
  [ March 23, 2017 to August 13, 2017. ] This groundbreaking exhibition of Appalachian children’s literature examines seminal titles published since the 1800's. Come explore our region’s literary heritage and see how children’s literature tells the story of Appalachia. This is a traveling exhibit from East Tennessee Historical Society and Knox County Public Library. Perhaps more than any other region, Appalachia has captured our nation’s [...]